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Year-End Giving Guide

In our 2022 Year-End Giving Guide we highlight nonprofits aligned with our communities’ highest needs and our strategic priorities, such as early childhood development, financial stability, housing and safety-net services. These trusted nonprofits are advancing equity in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, and we encourage you to give generously.

Community Impact

Racial Equity & Social Justice

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion spans multiple initiatives.

Addressing systemic disparities is preeminent among our core strategic priorities, and it is the unifying goal of our key funding initiatives. All of our work is centered on building equity and transforming systems to create a Silicon Valley where everyone can thrive.

Housing

SVCF believes having a place to live is a human right.

Our goal is to invest in strategies that will create communities in which everyone has a place to live.

Emergency Response / COVID-19

As a community foundation, SVCF is uniquely positioned to meet the ongoing needs of our local communities and take on unexpected challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic.

SVCF is leading multiple efforts with our Bay Area philanthropic, government and corporate partners to assist those who have been most deeply affected, including communities of color and immigrants.

Advancing Financial Stability

Silicon Valley’s endemic and growing income inequality is at the root of many of the biggest challenges we face as a region.

We are at the epicenter of the economic equity gap that exists along racial lines.

Community Partnerships

We launch and participate in initiatives and cross-sector solutions that multiply our reach and impact.

Most of these targeted initiatives are three to six years in length. We occasionally take on shorter, high-impact projects.

Early Childhood Development

Silicon Valley is one of the wealthiest regions in the nation, but inequities deeply rooted in long-standing systems of racial injustice stack the deck against many of our youngest children, particularly those who are Black and/or Latinx, low-income, have undocumented status and/or special needs.

Who We Are

Name: Silicon Valley Community Foundation
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People working together for the greater good is where transformation happens

Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a hands-on collaborator, catalyst and connector.

Our partners are philanthropists, community and movement-leaders, businesses and leaders in local and state government. We help harness and mobilize the incredible resources, expertise and skills of our Silicon Valley community to deliver systemic changes that will create an equitable, economically secure and vibrant future for all.

Key Issues

Catalyzing community power to create a better Silicon Valley

Key Issues

Housing

SVCF supports policies that ensure low-income, very low-income and extremely low-income community members have places to call home.

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Early Childhood Development

SVCF works to dismantle systemic barriers and give all children and their families access to the care, education and resources they need to flourish.

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Advancing Financial Stability

SVCF advocates for equitable policy reforms and sustainable income strategies for low-income people and communities of color.

Key Issues