2024-2025 Teacher Resource Grants
Applications for most teacher grant programs are now being accepted!
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The Jackie Speier Foundation for Women and Children
Helping Women and Children Thrive in San Mateo County
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PVF Progress
Progress is PVF’s newsletter for our donors and colleagues, describing new initiatives and customized programs created with donors to match their giving interests.
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Corporate Philanthropy
PVF has been blazing new trails with companies to embed community giving into their DNA.
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Our Mission

To engage creative donors and community partners in grassroots philanthropy via radical collaboration.

From partnering with Facebook to fund nonprofits to an awards program for innovative ideas, our community initiatives benefit from our grassroots giving expertise.

In an effort to address inequalities in public education and build future generations of strong leaders, PVF provides small but critically needed grants to individual classrooms.

PVF is known for creating customized giving opportunities, in which we match a donor’s giving interest with an innovative program that we have either designed or identified for the donor.

Faces of PVF

Young girls on the Coastside connect with their heritage through A.L.A.S.'s Folklorico dance classes, thanks to a grant from PVF.
The PVF-run Grace Scholarship Program helps Zimbabwean students attend college in the U.S.
Volunteers built a playground in one day at Cesar Chavez Academy, a K-8 school in East Palo Alto that PVF has provided a variety of grants to.
PVF's Science Grant Program helped one teacher bring an insect lab to her classroom.
Bay Area Inspire Award grantee, Christian Martinez, is helping to build stronger relationships between families and teachers at Epic Middle School in Oakland.
Top and bottom banner photo credit: Martin Klimek

“We believe – start small, think big, act quickly. This is what PVF does.”  

 

– Bill Somerville, PVF’s Founder and President