Our Programs > East Palo Alto Initiatives
PVF has a long history of helping to foster partnerships to address critical needs in East Palo Alto, and has initiated many creative programs that have a positive impact on the lives of low-income youth and families in East Palo Alto.
PVF's School Clinics Program fostered partnerships between school principals and Stanford Medical School professors, and provided seed money to place Stanford medical personnel and bilingual mental health counselors at East Palo Alto High School and Hoover Middle School.
East Palo Alto Social Venture Fellowship provides fellowships for two Stanford University undergraduates working on projects to benefit the East Palo Alto community. An East Palo Alto Initiative with funding from the David & Lucile Packard Foundation.
East Palo Alto Youth Court given seed money to start a Youth Court in East Palo Alto, utilizing a peer court operating on a restorative justice model, as an alternative to the juvenile justice system.
After School Programs at Woodside High School and Sequoia High School to serve youth from East Palo Alto.
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 EPA.net, East Palo Alto Boxing Club, Community Legal Services, EPA Police Department, EPA Youth Court, Girls to Women, Project K.E.Y.S., Ravenswood City School District, and St. Samuel Church youth violence initiative.
Strength. Speed. Discipline. Fun! Eighth-grade girls at Willow Oaks School in Menlo Park, California, train to run the 5K E-Race Racism Run; new running shoes and race registration for the girls' after-school running club was supported by a grant from PVF's East Palo Alto Initiative, funded by the David & Lucile Packard Foundation.