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Finance Manager

Public Advocates is hiring a Finance Manager to help steward the resources that power our civil rights work across California. This hybrid San Francisco role is a key position on our operations team—managing day-to-day accounting, payroll, grant budgeting and reporting for our $6.7M budget, and serving as liaison to our external accounting firm. If you're a nonprofit finance professional ready to take the next step, we want to hear from you. Salary: $90,000–$105,000. Priority deadline: June 12, 2026

Press Statement: California Can’t Lead the World While Leaving Workers Behind

California is sitting on $16 billion in surplus revenues. Working families are still being left behind. Public Advocates' response to Governor Newsom's May Revision calls for the same bold investment in housing, transit, and school facilities that the governor delivered for community schools—before he leaves office

Statement: Public Advocates Stands with Workers and Communities Fighting For a Just California on May Day

California is the fourth-largest economy in the world. The people who built it are being pushed out of it. This May Day, Public Advocates stands with every worker, tenant, and community fighting back

Press Release: Appeals Court Rules for Students: California Districts Must Do the Hard Work to Fill Teacher Vacancies

For years, students at West Contra Costa Unified's highest-poverty schools showed up to classrooms led by rotating substitutes — while the district kept dozens of credentialed teachers in non-teaching roles and claimed a shortage made compliance impossible. Today, a California appellate court said: not good enough. The first-ever ruling enforcing the Williams guarantee just landed — and every district in the state is on notice.

Press Release: Lawsuit Moves to Freeze Billions in K12 School Facility Funds Until Discriminatory System Fixed

California's school facilities funding system sends more state dollars to wealthy districts while students in low-wealth communities learn in crumbling, dangerous schools. Public Advocates and Morrison Foerster filed a preliminary injunction to freeze over $3 billion in Proposition 2 funds until the courts can ensure the money reaches the districts that need it most.

Jed D’Abravanel

Jed specializes in affordable housing, real estate, HUD regulatory, and nonprofit law. Jed has experience representing developers in transactions utilizing various HUD programs and the ...

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Finance Manager

Press Statement: California Can’t Lead the World While Leaving Workers Behind

Statement: Public Advocates Stands with Workers and Communities Fighting For a Just California on May Day

Press Release: Appeals Court Rules for Students: California Districts Must Do the Hard Work to Fill Teacher Vacancies

Press Release: Lawsuit Moves to Freeze Billions in K12 School Facility Funds Until Discriminatory System Fixed

Jed D’Abravanel

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