Our Programs > East Palo Alto Initiatives
PVF has a long history of helping to foster partnerships to address critical needs in East Palo Alto, and has initiated many creative programs that have a positive impact on the lives of low-income youth and families in East Palo Alto.
PVF's School Clinics Program fostered partnerships between school principals and Stanford Medical School professors, and provided seed money to place Stanford medical personnel and bilingual mental health counselors at East Palo Alto High School and Hoover Middle School. An East Palo Alto Initiative with funding from the David & Lucile Packard Foundation.
East Palo Alto Social Venture Fellowship provides fellowships for two Stanford University undergraduates working on projects to benefit the East Palo Alto community. An East Palo Alto Initiative with funding from the David & Lucile Packard Foundation.
Stanford Student Philanthropy Program funds a course, co-taught by PVF Executive Director Bill Somerville, which teaches creative grantmaking to Stanford University students, who in turn make grants to innovative educational and social service programs serving East Palo Alto. This program is supported by the Sand Hill Foundation.
Directors' Discretionary Grants - providing discretionary funding to outstanding nonprofit directors and school principals, to help initiate new programs and to allow critical needs to be addressed as they arise, given in 2006-2007 to organizations such as Community Legal Services, EPA Police Department, Girls to Women, Ravenswood City School District, St. Samuel Church youth violence initiative and Plugged In.
