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This past Monday, Bill and James left the office to tour a few grassroots community centers that are making an impact within the East Bay. They were accompanied by Kathy Ahoy, who is a Public [...]

Recently, I spent two hours after school with the Girls for Change team at Shirakawa Elementary School in San Jose.  This team of six graders schooled me in Girl Power + activism.  Their project [...]

By Ashley Murphy, Program Associate The 17th of November marked National Adoption Day, a day in which families all across the country gathered in courthouses to legalize and finalize the adoption [...]

This Thanksgiving, we at PVF are thankful for the generosity of our donors, who make it possible to support educational enrichment within Bay Area public schools. As a leader in grassroots [...]

Margo Watson (@MargWow) is the new Executive Director at FACE AIDS, and we sat down to talk over a cup of Blue Bottle coffee. I’ve watched FACE AIDS grow from a student organization at [...]

This past Friday, I decided to check in on some wonderful people working in the field in the Redwood City area, while accompanied by a local community member, Christine Rammler. For our first [...]

Where’s James? Follow PVF’s Executive Director, James Higa, out of the office for site visits and meetings with outstanding grassroots leaders. As PVF’s new Executive Director, I have been quite [...]

Facebook, headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is launching a community grant program in partnership with PVF. The Facebook Local Community Fund is designed to support 501(c)(3) non-profits [...]

Imagine a random Tuesday morning spent engaging in the following activities: deploying a Van Dorn bottle to collect water samples to test their salinity, temperature, and density; releasing a 16 [...]