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 in 2008-2009 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.