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Holiday funds of the Mountain View Voice, Palo Alto Weekly and the Menlo Park Almanac raised and distributed more than a million dollars during the holiday season to local nonprofit organizations serving families and children.
Just over a million dollars was the combined giving totals to the holiday funds of The Almanac ($350,000), the Palo Alto Weekly ($646,000) and the Mountain View Voice ($53,00).
The Mountain View Voice Holiday Fund began in 2003 and each year selects seven nonprofits providing services to needy families in Mountain View that share equally of the funds raised. This year, the Voice made grants of $7,500 each to Community Services Agency, Community School of Music & Arts, Community Health Awareness Council (CHAC), Day Worker Center, Hope’s Corner, Mayview Community Health Center and Mentor Tutor Connection.
“These organizations are leaders in consistently providing critical services to the community,” said Embarcadero Media Foundation president Adam Dawes. “Highlighting the work of nonprofits on the Midpeninsula is one of the Mountain View Voice’s important missions and we are gratified for the support our readers provide each holiday season,” he said.
The nonprofit Embarcadero Media Foundation, which publishes the online Mountain View Voice and Redwood City Pulse as well as the Palo Alto Weekly and the Menlo Park Almanac, Mountain View Voice and Redwood City Pulse community news websites, covers all the expenses of the campaign, so all the money raised goes to the recipient organizations. The program also receives support from the Packard, Hewlett and several family foundations that prefer to give anonymously.
Thanks for supporting these great organizations. They add so much value to our community.