Philanthropy Now Podcast: Student Support is Critical to College Completion
Over the last decade, government funding for higher education has decreased by more than $9 billion dollars. The rising costs of a college education have primarily fallen on students and their familie...
22 Jan 202022min
Philanthropy Now Podcast: Why We Need to Think About Housing Differently, with author Alex Schafran
Scholar, teacher and activist Alex Schafran tells a powerful story of "the suburbanization of poverty, the failures of regional planning, urban sprawl, NIMBYism and political fragmentation between mid...
8 Jan 202021min
Twenty Years of Community Impact
Vice President of Community Impact, Manuel Santamaria, has worked at Silicon Valley Community Foundation for more than 20 years, joining SVCF's predecessor, the Peninsula Community Foundation, in 1999...
18 Dec 201920min
Collaboration is key to tackling Silicon Valley's challenges
In this podcast episode, Silicon Valley Community Foundation is pleased to feature a conversation between SVCF board member Wade Loo and Nicole Taylor, our president and CEO. Wade has been a board me...
4 Dec 201929min
Addressing California's retirement crisis
This past July, the State of California rolled out a new program called CalSavers – an affordable retirement savings program for workers who do not have access to a retirement benefit through their em...
20 Nov 201924min
Interrogating Gender Assumptions with Riki Wilchins
Riki Wilchins is a leading author, activist and gender theorist as well as the founder of the first national transgender advocacy group, GenderPAC. Her work has been instrumental in bringing transgend...
6 Nov 201917min
Improving Equity Through Immigration Legal Services
SVCF recently provided a grant to support the Silicon Valley Pro Bono Immigration Network (SVPBIN), a project housed within the Tahirih Justice Center that aims to increase access to no cost, cultural...
23 Okt 201925min
From the Governor's Office - Kathleen Kelly Janus talks innovation and partnership
This past June, Governor Newsom named Kathleen Kelly Janus as his senior advisor on Social Innovation. This new position in the Office of the Governor elevates the role of philanthropic and nonprofit ...
9 Okt 201916min
