Friday, November 7, 2014
Organization | Area served | Purpose | Amount |
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Able Works | San Mateo | To support the LiveAble Women project, which seeks to bring economic self-sufficiency to young single mothers in East Palo Alto. | $20,000 |
AnewAmerica Community Corporation | Santa Clara | To support free income tax preparation linked to asset-building services for microbusinesses and low-income entrepreneurs in San Jose. | $10,000 |
Asian Inc. | Both | To support the Your Money, Your Bank, Your Credit program, providing finacial education and asset-building strategies to low-income Asian and Latino families and individuals. | $20,000 |
Building Skills Partnership | Both | To support free tax preparation and retirement planning services for low-income building maintenance workers across San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. | $10,000 |
Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County | Santa Clara | To support the Manage Your Assets program, which increases financial knowledge and asset-building skills of low-income Santa Clara County families. | $40,000 |
City of South San Francisco/Project Read | San Mateo | To support Project Read - North San Mateo County to increase financial knowledge and facilitate behavior change in adult literacy students. | $40,000 |
Community Financial Resources | Both | To support the continued expansion and refinement of the Building Financial Capability, Savings and Credit program, in partnership with numerous San Mateo and Santa Clara county nonprofits. | $40,000 |
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto | San Mateo | To support continued expansion of the Secure Future$ program in collaboration with Nuestra Casa and Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center. | $60,000 |
Family Supportive Housing, Inc. | Santa Clara | To support the Family Financial Literacy Program, which serves low-income families in supportive housing to facilitate behavior change and achieve greater economic security. | $25,000 |
GLOW Foundation | Both | To support the College Financial Literacy Partnership, which promotes financial literacy learning among high-school and college students. | $30,000 |
HIP Housing | San Mateo | To support the Wealth Building Through Self Sufficiency Program, which serves low-income and homeless families. | $25,000 |
InnVision Shelter Network | Both | To support the expansion of the Smart Money Program at nine shelters throughout the Peninsula and South Bay. | $25,000 |
JobTrain, Inc. | San Mateo | To expand a collaboration between JobTrain, Mission SF Community Financial Center and Tax-Aid to provide financial education, asset-building services and free tax preparation to low-income families and individuals. | $40,000 |
MyPath | Both | To support the replication of the MyPath: Credit model at YearUp San Jose, focused on enhancing young people's employment and educational prospects. | $25,000 |
Neighborhood Housing Services Silicon Valley | Both | To support a financial capability program that tracks and scores improvements in spending, saving and borrowing behaviors of clients living in affordable housing. | $35,000 |
Opportunity Fund Northern California | Both | To support financial coaching for low-income clients and connection to asset-building programs and services, in partnerships with numerous asset-building, housing and safety net services providers across the region. | $40,000 |
Philanthropy New York, Inc./Bay Area Asset Funders Network | Both | To support the Bay Area Asset Funders Network, a regional network of the Asset Funders Network that mobilizes philanthropic engagement in asset-building. | $10,000 |
Puente de la Costa Sur | San Mateo | To support the Tax Preparation for Agricultural Workers program, which serves low-income families and immigrants on the south San Mateo County coast. | $10,000 |
Sacred Heart Community Service | Santa Clara | To support the Asset Building for Independence program among low-income families in San Jose and surrounding communities. | $40,000 |
Samaritan House | San Mateo | To support the integration of bilingual financial education and financial coaching for low-income families in San Mateo County. | $40,000 |
Self Help Economic Development, Inc. | Santa Clara | To support the Community Trust Prospera microbranch in San Jose, and its development and delivery of responsible and affordable financial products for low- and moderate-income residents. | $30,000 |
Tax-Aid | Both | To support free tax preparation and financial coaching services at five tax sites across San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. | $25,000 |
Tides Center/Pacifica Resource Center | San Mateo | To support the coordination of asset-building strategies and free tax preparation into core safety-net services on the northern San Mateo County coast. | $40,000 |
Tower Foundation of San Jose State University | Santa Clara | To support the second year of CommUniverCity's Money Matters/Maneje Su Dinero financial literacy program for low-income families in East San Jose. | $30,000 |
Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action | Both | To support financial education and financial coaching of new immigrants throughout Silicon Valley. | $20,000 |
Trust for Conservation and Fiscal Innovation/Kitchen Table Advisors | San Mateo | To support low-income-owned sustainable small farms through in-depth, one-to-one business advising and financial coaching for farmers on the San Mateo County coast. | $10,000 |
United Way of the Bay Area | San Mateo | To develop and launch a new SparkPoint Center at Cañada College that integrates asset-building, benefits enrollment and job training into a community college setting. | $40,000 |
United Way Silicon Valley | Santa Clara | To support a 12-month financial education and counseling program focused on facilitating personal finance behavior change among low-income individuals and families throughout Santa Clara County. | $40,000 |
West Valley Community Services of Santa Clara County, Inc. | Santa Clara | To support West Valley Community Services of Santa Clara County's BEAM program, which integrates four major components of benefits assistance, employment services, asset-building and money management into a safety-net services provider. | $20,000 |
Total | $840,000 |