Ways to Give > Designated Funds

In the spirit of expanding philanthropy and promoting outstanding charitable work, PVF serves as the depository for projects that do not yet have their tax-exempt status but are eager to commence their charitable work.

An example is the Generosity in Action Designated Fund, dedicated to supporting travelers’ enthusiasm to give back to needy villages and people in third world countries, in areas where they travel. Through a close working relationship with local tour operators and guides, projects are monitored to insure completion. Travelers’ donations pay for materials and engineering oversight; the village often provides the labor. Travelers donating via The Generosity in Action Designated Fund have helped to stock school science laboratories, support a women's sewing collective, and build entire schools, libraries, wells, playgrounds, even a basketball court, in small, remote villages from Burma and India, to Peru, Niger, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.

PVF’s Designated Funds allows multiple donors to receive a tax deduction for contributing to a single charitable program.  A Designated Fund provides donors with flexibility, enabling them to target support for innovative ideas. PVF manages the fund and prepares financial reports for the program leaders.

⇒ PVF's Designated Funds include:

Catholic Worker House Provides assistance to the poor through housing, food and education programs in Redwood City, San Bruno and Half Moon Bay.

Compassionate Chefs Cafe Works with the Gandhi Ashram in New Delhi, India and the Tenderloin After School Program in San Francisco to uplift the lives of children and provide them with resources to become members of the global village.

Day Worker Center of Mountain View Provides a setting that connects workers and employers with dignity and compassion, and empowers workers through fair employment, education and job skills training.

Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC)  Aids low-income immigrant students in their pursuit of a US college education.  Read more about scholarship recipients here.

Generosity in Action Supports educational and health projects in communities identified by travelers to developing countries.

Ice911 A charitable project whose mission is to help to preserve polar and glacial ice by creating, testing and utilizing technology, namely ecologically friendly floating materials, to keep the ocean cool, thereby slowing down the melt of polar and glacial ice, to help preserve polar habitat and ice and to reduce the further repercussions of environmental harms that could result from the melt.

Menlo Park VA Veterans' Support Fund is a charitable project whose mission is to provide services to the veterans who are residents at the Menlo Park Veterans Affairs facility above and beyond those which are available with the VA's limited resources.

RestoringVision.org Provides reading glasses and sunglasses to groups going to developing countries worldwide.

SIRUM a charitable initiative that connects pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers and nursing facilities that have surplus medicine with community and government health clinics in need, via an online platform. SIRUM’s aim is in providing a scalable opportunity to redistribute the $6 billion in medicine wasted each year in the U.S., with a long-term goal of global impact for to uninsured and under-insured patients.

Take Home Book Program Promotes preschool and first-grade literacy in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Women of Color Action Network Supports and inspires professional women of color to advance in their careers.
Well project - Burma