Our Programs > Oakland Initiatives
PVF's ability to respond to local community needs is supported by donors' unrestricted gifts.
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 to organizations such as C.E.O. Women, East Bay Asian Youth Center, McClymonds High School, The Mosaic Project, Oaktown Jazz Workshops, Pardee Home Museum, Prescott-Joseph Center for Community Enhancement, Purple Silk Music Education, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, Street Level Health Project, The Unity Council and Wardrobe for Opportunity.
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Hispanic women in Oakland’s Fruitvale District explore self-image vs. beauty in the media during an A Ti Mujer workshop, funded with a PVF Discretionary Grant.