The E3 Youth Philanthropy Program connects local high school students to help them realize their vision for social change. E3 Youth Philanthropy educates, engages, and empowers local youth to create positive change in their local communities. E3 is a managed program of Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation. Through E3, participants have the opportunity to: Make grants...
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Thank you to all who could join us for our recent Community Conversation on the pandemic and its impact on women, mental health, and gender disparities. We had a fascinating discussion and the evening could easily have gone much longer. Our panelists – Dr . Nirmaljit Dhami, Dr. Sandra Escobar, and Riley Simonsen –...
I’ve been looking ahead to our upcoming Community Conversation with a personal sense of both anxiety and anticipation. Mental health and wellbeing are deeply personal subjects to me. In my lifetime, mental health challenges led to the suicides of one aunt and my grandmother (both on my dad’s side). My younger sister passed away...
October 9, 2021, is a special day for Donor Advised Fund holders like you. It is the last day to apply for an opportunity to give matching grants to the nonprofits you support. Join the #HalfMyDAF movement and supercharge your donations. Some LAMV-CF DAF owners have already participated, and we want to make sure...
For the second time in its history, the Foundation has decided to change its name. When the Foundation was established thirty years ago, we were known as Los Altos Tomorrow. The name changed in 1995 to Los Altos Community Foundation because the use of “tomorrow” was not considered sufficiently descriptive of the Foundation’s purpose....
Like everyone, we at Los Altos Community Foundation are watching the images from the California Wildfires, Hurricane Ida, and Afghanistan. We are tracking these humanitarian situations and will update this page as more information arrives. As you look to donate to local relief efforts in California and Louisiana, we encourage you to connect with...
As I reflect on the last 12 months, I see a year of many changes and challenges coupled with significant accomplishments and activities. No one would have imagined how the pandemic and economic recession would affect our local communities, the Foundation, or our work. I believe we matured as an engaged local funder and...
Since the pandemic began, there's been lots of speculation about how our economy - and communities - will emerge from it. Economists describe the various 'recovery curves' that have existed for some time. As we move from pandemic relief efforts to rebuilding, a new curve has entered into this economic lexicon that we should...
Webinar: What Does a K-Shaped Recovery Mean for Our Community? Panelist Maria has been a driving force behind the success of the Day Worker Center of Mountain View for nearly two decades. She joined the Center as a house cleaner in 1999 and began organizing the workers on the street when its original...
