Our Mission
To engage creative donors and community partners in grassroots philanthropy via radical collaboration.
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From partnering with Facebook to fund nonprofits to an awards program for innovative ideas, our community initiatives benefit from our grassroots giving expertise.
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In an effort to address inequalities in public education and build future generations of strong leaders, PVF provides small but critically needed grants to individual classrooms.
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PVF is known for creating customized giving opportunities, in which we match a donor’s giving interest with an innovative program that we have either designed or identified for the donor.
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“We believe – start small, think big, act quickly. This is what PVF does.”
– Bill Somerville, PVF’s Founder and President