Before taking over the Human Rights Commission in 2016, Davis was Collective Impact’s executive director from 2011 to 2016. At the time, Chiu said she was also employed by the San Francisco public defender’s office.
Though she left Collective Impact before starting at HRC, Davis continued to sign official documents on behalf of the nonprofit through February 2017, according to the city attorney’s office.
Court filings said that she is still a signatory on Collective Impact’s bank account and that the nonprofit has a corporate credit card in her name to this day.
Chiu also alleges that over a period of five years, Davis and Spingola — who have lived together since 2016 — signed six grant agreements topping $6 million on behalf of the Human Rights Commission and Collective Impact, respectively. During that time, neither disclosed their relationship.
Around the same time, Collective Impact is accused of paying more than $19,000 in graduate school tuition for Davis’ son, $18,400 to support her personal work, including marketing a personal book and podcast, and thousands more to treat her to luxury accommodations and flights.
To pay for a trip Davis and Spingola took to a Martha’s Vineyard conference where she was a keynote speaker, the nonprofit falsely billed expenses to an Educational Pathways grant awarded to Collective Impact through the city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, according to the city attorney’s office. The terms of the grant expressly barred spending on conferences and travel.








