The Jackie Speier Foundation
Helping Women and Children Thrive in San Mateo County
The Jackie Speier Foundation for Women and Children will address poverty, lack of housing and childcare, and domestic violence.
In addition to more traditional foundation activities, the Jackie Speier Foundation plans to launch an innovation incubator in the future. This is a “moon shot” challenge in attempting to solve some of the most difficult human issues we have in San Mateo County.
San Mateo County’s challenge is connecting our tremendous local creativity and wealth with our substantial local needs, hidden in plain sight. Solutions, if successful, can be introduced across the nation and on a global level. Solving problems in our own backyard can benefit not only San Mateo County but the world.
The Jackie Speier Foundation is initiating a series of summits and community feedback sessions in order to shape grantmaking for maximum impact. As we are currently in this period of strategic planning, we are not yet at the funding stage. Check back here for updates on this process, as we will be communicating what is learned. You may share ideas by writing to us here: jackiespeierfoundation@gmail.com.
For inquiries, please send an email to jackiespeierfoundation@gmail.com
How to Donate
To donate by check:
Send your check donation made payable to Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, with “Jackie Speier Foundation” in the check memo line, to:
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
1222 Preservation Park Way
Oakland CA 94612-1201
PVF will provide donors with a tax receipt letter for donations of $250 or more.
To donate by stock or wire transfer:
Contact: Dawn Hawk, Chief Operating Officer, Philanthropic Ventures Foundation | 510-645-1890 | dhawk@venturesfoundation.org
To donate from a Donor Advised Fund:
Find Philanthropic Ventures Foundation in the list of nonprofits with your DAF host (Fidelity, Schwab, Vanguard, community foundation, etc.). PVF’s Tax ID number is 94-3136771. Add the further designation to support “Jackie Speier Foundation”.
News and Media
Former Bay Area congresswoman launches foundation to help pull women, children out of poverty – ABC7 News
Speier announces local foundation focused on fighting poverty in San Mateo County – San Mateo Daily Journal
About
Jackie Speier
Relationships are currency. Jackie Speier has forged thousands of relationships in both the private and public sectors for over 50 years. She has represented San Mateo County as a County Supervisor, a member of the State Assembly, a State Senator and a Congresswoman. She was also a technology Vice President at Electronic Arts. There are very few people who know San Mateo County as well as Jackie Speier. During her career she has delivered hundreds of millions of dollars of state and federal funding to San Mateo County. She has taken on some of the most difficult and controversial problems and she has done so with tenacity and courage. Women and children have benefited from her work in areas such as funding and legislation in pediatric cancer research, creation of the breast cancer postage stamp to fund breast cancer research, sexual assault prevention legislation, suicide prevention legislation, enforcement of child support orders, child abuse prevention, and financial privacy. Jackie also created the Professional and Business Women’s Conference (PBWC) which has become among the largest in the nation and has educated tens of thousands of women. Jackie is a mother of two children, a wife and a best selling author of two books: She was named one of the fifty most fearless women in the world by Newsweek and one of the most influential members in the US House by Politico magazine. She resides in Hillsborough, California with her husband Barry and their dog Emma.