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When Wall Street Overrides Your Giving, Your Local Community Foundation Will Not
Three of the largest corporate donor-advised fund (DAF) platforms in the country: Fidelity Charitable, Vanguard Charitable, and DAFgiving360 (the charitable arm of Charles Schwab), have blocked their account holders from directing grants to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Their justification: a federal indictment filed by the Department of Justice. The SPLC has spent more…
Read MoreYou Asked. Your Neighbors Answered.
LAMVCF’s Live Where You Work Challenge Puts a $25,000 Bet Behind a Community-Born Solution to the Local Housing Crisis What does it take to help a nurse, a teacher, or a longtime essential worker stay in the community they call home? The Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation (LAMVCF) didn’t presume to know the answer.…
Read MoreMeet the Live Where You Work Challenge Finalists
Every year, the people who teach our kids, care for our neighbors, and keep our community running face a harder and harder question: can I still afford to live here? When the people who teach our kids, care for our neighbors, and keep our community running can no longer afford to live here, we all…
Read MoreCommunity Needs Report
Our Community. Our Challenges. What the numbers say about housing, health, and the people we serve. Silicon Valley is one of the wealthiest places on earth. But for many of our neighbors, that wealth feels invisible. This report uses data from the 2026 Silicon Valley Index to show what life really looks like for working…
Read MoreMeet the Judges Behind the Live Where You Work Challenge
The Live Where You Work Challenge is guided by a panel of leaders who bring deep experience across housing, public service, healthcare, philanthropy, and community development. Together, they will review submissions and select an idea with the potential to strengthen connection, expand opportunity, and help more people live closer to where they work. Emily Ann…
Read MorePassport Equity Fund Helps Local Youth and Families Access U.S. Passports
The Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation (LAMVCF), in partnership with Santa Clara County Supervisor Margaret Abe-Koga, has launched the Passport Equity Fund to ensure that people in our community can obtain a U.S. passport regardless of family income or immigration status. The Passport Equity Fund helps cover passport application and renewal fees and supports…
Read MoreIf Not Community Foundations, Then Who?
None of this is easy. Convening is messy. Partnerships require patience. Civic work demands diplomacy and persistence. But here’s the real question: If not community foundations, then who? Who else operates at the intersection of philanthropy, public leadership, and grassroots action with independence and long-term commitment? Who else can convene across sectors without a political…
Read MoreLive Where You Work Challenge
Sparking local ideas for a more connected, inclusive community Across our region, more people are finding it difficult to live near where they work. As distances grow, we lose more than time. We lose the everyday moments that make us feel like a community. Long drives strain families, limit opportunity, and make it harder to…
Read MoreWhy Living Where We Work Matters
One of the biggest challenges Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Mountain View face isn’t just the cost of housing, it’s the growing distance between the people who make this community work and the place itself. That distance may seem like a personal inconvenience, but it has real consequences for all of us. If your…
Read MoreHope’s Corner Holiday Toy Drive
Drop off donations at the LAMVCF community house or through the link below. Learn more >
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