“I’m so grateful to the Foundation and their donors, who sponsor important programs like MVLA Scholars, the Civic Academy, and the Fondo de Solidaridad. These programs make a real difference in the daily lives of the local Latino community. As a high school counselor, I will continue to pay it forward and sow the...
Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation Increasing community vibrancy through the arts. Your donation to LAMV-CF helps us continue our ongoing support for arts in the community. Arts Los Altos Terrible Adult Chamber Orchestra (TACO) Los Altos Stage Company Los Altos History Museum Community Women’s Chorus Recent installations by Arts Los Altos throughout downtown...
Last week’s Community Conversations continues to sit with me: what I heard, what remained unsaid, and where hope might be seen. The discussion, an extension of our original K-shaped Recovery conversation, covered tremendous ground and, at the same time, barely scratched the surface of addressing the vast disparity of immediate needs of our community...
Gender Disparities in the Pandemic: Childcare & Eldercare It’s hard to imagine that the pandemic has been with us for two years. Images that stood out in the early days, like evening claps of thanks for frontline workers, have receded into some vague time shift. What hasn’t, though, are the challenges of caring for...
At Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation, we are watching the images from the recent tornado destruction in Midwest. My mother and grandmother live in the small town of Dawson Springs, Kentucky, where 75% of the city has vanished due to this deadly storm. Thankfully, they both are unharmed, and their homes are untouched...
Season’s Greetings from LAMV-CF’s E3 Youth Philanthropy program There are two ways to make wishes come true this season for Kids in Custody and a vulnerable Mountain View family. We have a “BHAG” — A Big Hairy Audacious Goal — to spread the word and see every item purchased by Sunday, December 19th at...
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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...
