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Shelley Bradford Bell

Shelley is a successful community organizer representing community organizations, residents, and developers to City Agencies.  She provides organizational development and strategic leadership planning to Non-profit organizations, and has served as interim director for organizations during a time of executive leadership transition.

She has created and executed public relations and promotions campaigns for a long list of corporations since 1983, specializing in public relations for small businesses, corporate community relations programs, incentive, and executive travel services and nonprofit management services.

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Political Appointments

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1999-2002 served as Vice President of the San Francisco Commission on the Environment. Appointed by Mayor Willie Brown.

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2002-2006, appointed to 4-year term on the San Francisco Planning Commission, by Mayor Willie Brown.  She served as Commission President from 2002-2004

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Past and Present Clients (partial list)

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Coca Cola, Bank of the Orient, Bank of America, Lucky Stores (now Albertsons), Colossal Graphics, Wells Fargo Bank, Union Bank, World Connect, Visit-SF, Visit Puerto Rico, Alliance Française of San Francisco, Blue Lion Films, Jim Yager Media, Booker T. Washington CSC, Global Travel Media, and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Internationally, Shelley has worked with arts organizations in Paris and Africa.  She designs programs which build global connections between communities relative to cultural heritage and the arts, health and environmental justice, and economic development.

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Non-Profit Service

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Shelley continues to serve on numerous non-profit boards.  Currently she is on the board of Wells International Foundation, and The Knights of Saint Francis.

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Former board positions include President of Infusion One; President of Florence Crittenton Services, Co-Chair of the Bay Area Black Journalists Association, Board Member of the YWCA of San Francisco and Marin, Chair of the Structural Committee of the Bayview Neighborhood Jobs Initiative Welfare-to-Work Committee, and a member of the board of the Bethel A.M.E. Economic Development Corporation.

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Awards and Recognitions

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The Outstanding Community Service Award from San Francisco Village Project; Distinguished Community Service Award from the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Committee; Community Service Award from the San Francisco Housing Development Corporation; Maida Springer-Kemp Award from the A. Phillip Randolph Institute; Joint California State Recognition from Assemblywoman Carole Migden and State Senator John Burton; Local Hero Award from KQED Television for community service;  Bay Area Black Journalists Association, member of the year; Visionary Award from Spotlight Magazine/Noir Records, Trendsetter Award from the Women's Foundation; Community Leader Award for Bay Area Black Journalists Co-chair services from Black Women Organized for Political Action.

In addition, Shelley has received numerous certificates of recognition from former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Jr., the late Mayor Edwin Lee, and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for her service and commitment to community.