Upcoming Meetings & Events
March 12 A Conversation with Paul Shoemaker, Founder of Social Venture Partners: Leveraging the social venture philanthropy model to close the achievement gap in our education system
Announcements & Other Events
Congratulations our first grantees from SV2 Affinity Groups and to all group members for setting a high bar for the quality of the Affinity Group experience!
- Silicon Valley Children's Fund was awarded $50,000 by the Self-Reliance Affinity Group for their Middle School Foster Youth Program. Thanks to Lance Fors and Lisa Sonsini for heading that group!
- Center for Resource Solutions has been awarded $50,000 by the Environment Affinity Group to enable them to ensure that California's climate change policies incorporate individual actions taken by forward-thinking corporations and individuals. Mark Parnes, Arthur Keller and Marianna Grossman Keller provided tremendous leadership for this group.
- IDEX (International Development Exchange) has been awarded $30,000 by the International Affinity Group to engage rural impoverished Indian and Mexican women in solutions to their own local economic development challenges.
- Unitus was awarded $20,000 by the International Affinity Group to assist their work in fighting global poverty through microfinance. Thanks to Toni Cupal, Lorene Arey, and Hayley Ditzler for leading the International effort !
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