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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 to more than 100 local nonprofit organizations serving families and children.
Grants totalling $1,151,000 was the combined giving total of the holiday funds of the Voice ($80,000), Almanac ($366,000) and Palo Alto Weekly ($705,000).
The Mountain View Voice Holiday Fund began in 2003 and each year selects several nonprofits providing services to needy families in Mountain View that share equally of the funds raised. This year, the Voice made grants of $13,334 each to Community Services Agency, Community School of Music & Arts, 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, 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.
