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    Monthly Archive for: "December, 2013"
    Where’s James? Meeting with an Advocate for Sexually-Exploited Youth
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    By Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
    In Where's James
    Posted December 23, 2013

    Where’s James? Meeting with an Advocate for Sexually-Exploited Youth

    Every day, some of the Bay Area’s most vulnerable youth are sexually exploited for other people’s profit. They are bought and sold, beaten, drugged, hustled, molested, and raped. [...]

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    Downtown Streets Team: Working to Tackle Homelessness in the Bay Area
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    By Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
    In grantmaking, grassroots, non-profit
    Posted December 16, 2013

    Downtown Streets Team: Working to Tackle Homelessness in the Bay Area

    Despite the ever-increasing wealth of Silicon Valley, poverty and homelessness continue to plague many living in the Bay Area.  One group working to tackle this is Downtown Streets Team, an [...]

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    Girls Robotics Club Brings Out Leaders and Confidence
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    By Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
    In After School Program
    Posted December 6, 2013

    Girls Robotics Club Brings Out Leaders and Confidence

    Emma never thought she was a leader. She was constantly overshadowed by louder, more outgoing girls during and after school. So it was a surprise when Ms. Keller, her afterschool robotics club [...]

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