NEWS COVERAGE

Featured below are select articles and stories featuring Silicon Valley Community Foundation leadership, programs, partners and impact.

2008

Doing Good at a Distance (pdf)
Town & Country - June 2008

African American Philanthropy
Carnegie Reporter – Spring 2008

Silicon Valley Community Foundation Builds on its Vision
San José Mercury News – May 13, 2008

Foundation awards $182 million in grants
Palo Alto Weekly – April 21, 2008

Town Crier Holiday Fund 8-year total tops $1 million
Los Altos Town Crier – March 12, 2008

State of the Valley Conference - Getting Ready for the Big One
KQED Public Radio – March 13, 2008

State of the Valley Conference - Keynote Presentation -- Globalization and Silicon Valley: Where Do We Go From Here?
KQED Public Radio – March 6, 2008

Jefferson Award Presented to Catalino Tapia, Seed money fulfills
dream of helping kids
San Francisco Chronicle – March 2, 2008

State of the Valley Conference
KTEH Public Television – February 29, 2008

Silicon Valley Continues On Economic Comeback
Wall Street Journal - February 19, 2008

Silicon Valley Losing Middle Wage Jobs
New York Times – February 19, 2008

Silicon Valley Index Warns of Impact as Mid-Wage Jobs Decline
San José Mercury News – February 19, 2008

Report: Midwage Jobs Vanish in Silicon Valley
San Francisco Chronicle – February 19, 2008

Silicon Valley Gaining Jobs, Losing Middle Class
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal – February 19, 2008

Valley economy: Unofficial indicators show it's cooling - a bit
San José Mercury News – January 27, 2008

Bay Area Biz: Movers and Shakers
San Francisco Chronicle – January 14, 2008

2007

Community foundation merger has (mostly) smooth Year 1
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal – December 14

Fisher: Single mom saves in age of big spender
San Jose Mercury News – December 5

Merger of Two Successful Funds Creates Philanthropy Powerhouse
The Chronicle of Philanthropy – November 1, 2007

Silicon Valley Community Foundation Making Impact (includes video)
ABC-7 News – October 11

Report: 3 out of 4 valley firms give locally
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal – October 9

Open Forum: It’s Time for New Ways to Give
San Francisco Chronicle – October 9

Nonprofits holding their breath
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal - August 31

15 Minutes with Emmett Carson (PDF)
Stanford Social Innovation Review – Summer 2007
SSIR managing editor Eric Nee met with Emmett Carson, CEO and president, to discuss his bold plans for the newly merged Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Bay Area CFO of the Year Awards (PDF)
San Francisco Business Times – June 8, 2007
CFO Vera Bennett is the Community Service Finalist for the Bay Area CFO of the Year Awards, presented by San Francisco Business Times and Larkin Street Youth Services.

Joining Communities Across the Nation to Take Action Against Climate Change (PDF)
Acterra - EcoAdvocate - Spring 2007

Nonprofit Sells Silicon Valley Office to Tishman Speyer for $55 Million
Commercial Real Estate Direct, Newtown, PA – May 9, 2007
Originally accepted by donation from Sobrato Development Co. through the Real Estate Trust, Silicon Valley Community Foundation sells Mountain View office building to Tishman Speyer.

Weekly Holiday Fund tops $3 million mark
Palo Alto Weekly, CA – May 1, 2007
600 community members donated to the Palo Alto Weekly’s Holiday Fund which is managed by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Innovative Preschool stresses English
San Mateo Daily Journal – April 9, 2007
Family literacy programs thrive as adult schools partner with preschools through Raising A Reader®.

REIT buys Santa Clara Tech Center complex for $70 million
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal – April 6, 2007
Silicon Valley Community Foundation owns two of the three Tech Center buildings and is recipient of Sobrato’s donation.

Report Reveals Hard Lessons about Philanthropy
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation – April 3, 2007
Neighborhood Improvement Initiative Report released.

Spaces and Places: Parcel along I-880 sold to Opus West
San José Mercury News – April 3, 2007
Sobrato Development donates millions of dollars worth of real estate to the community foundation.

CEO Emmett Carson Unifies Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the Communities It Serves (PDF 3mb)
San José Magazine – April 2007
CEO and president Emmett Carson is featured in San Jose Magazine’s April SV Profile.

Youth empowerment: Summit warns, empowers youth to avoid street crime
San José Mercury News – March 11, 2007

Hundreds attend Youth Summit
Palo Alto Daily News, CA – March 11, 2007
The Goin’ Smart youth summit, with funding from Silicon Valley Community Foundation, was successfully attended by hundreds of East Palo Alto youth.

CEO shares vision for troubled E. Palo Alto (PDF 70k)
San José Mercury News - February 4, 2007
San José Mercury News editorial highlights Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s commitment to supporting change in East Palo Alto.

Marchers deliver message to gangs
San Mateo Daily Journal – February 4, 2007

Residents march, rally for peace
Palo Alto Daily News, CA – February 4, 2007
A peace march and rally supported by the community foundation successfully unifies East Palo Alto residents.

Spotlight: Billion Dollar Man (PDF 8.5mb)
Valley Life Quarterly, CA – Winter 2007 edition
Community foundation CEO and president Emmett Carson is interviewed on his vision for Silicon Valley’s philanthropic future in this issue of Silicon Valley/San José Business Journal’s magazine.

Asian Immigrants in California Politics: Silicon Valley Mayors (audio)
The California Report Magazine, CA – January 26, 2007
In this special report on Asian immigrants in state politics, Scott Shafer looks at how five cities in Santa Clara County have elected Asian mayors, all of them immigrants. The story features a recent event hosted for the new community foundation by four local Asian-American organizations.

Charitable Giving (mp3 - 42mb)
The Pete Wilson Show, KGO Newstalk 810 – January 19, 2007
Emmett D. Carson, Ph.D. CEO and president of Silicon Valley Community Foundation discusses giving strategies and giving wisely with KGO’s Pete Wilson and callers.

Charitable Instinct Lacking (PDF)
San José Mercury News editorial – January 1, 2007
The Mercury News challenges the new Silicon Valley Community Foundation to encourage more philanthropy in the region.

2007 Social Capitalist Awards
Fast Company Magazine, CA – Dec/Jan 2006 issue
Raising A Reader receives 2007 Social Capitalist Award from Fast Company magazine for second year in a row.

2006

Charitable Giving (Windows Media - 7.5mb)
KTVU Channel 2 News at 6 – December 26, 2006

Bay Area wealthy are less giving
Study finds affluent of L.A. donate nearly twice as much
San Francisco Chronicle - December 26, 2006

The New Face of Philanthropy and A Foundation for the Next Era (PDF)
Palo Alto Weekly – December 13, 2006

Time to Think Regionally and Act Locally
Pacifica Tribune, CA - November 22, 2006

Silicon Valley Community Foundation names two leaders
San José Business Journal, CA - November 14, 2006

New Director Leads Merged Community Foundations
San Francisco Business Times - November 6, 2006

Carson begins work on molding new community foundation
Silicon Valley/San José Business Journal - November 3, 2006

Charity Merger Set to Sail; Foundation Built From Two Organizations Names New Leader, Vision
Palo Alto Daily News - October 19, 2006

The Visionaries of Silicon Valley (PDF 1.1mb)
Philanthropy Today - September 2006

First CEO named for huge new foundation
San Francisco Chronicle – August 3, 2006

With hire, charity sets course (PDF)
San José Mercury News, August 3, 2006

An outspoken outsider takes reins of merged foundations (PDF)
San José Mercury News editorial, August 3, 2006

Foundation created by merger of groups sees promising start (PDF)
San José Mercury News – July 14, 2006

Non-profits team up to give big (PDF)
San José Mercury News – July 13, 2006

Press and media inquiries should be directed to info@siliconvalleycf.org.