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Ash
Ash McNeely
Executive Director
Sand Hill Foundation 3000 Sand Hill Road, 1-120 Menlo Park, CA 94025
Sand Hill Foundation is proud to support the following nonprofit organizations in their important work.
This message, written by an unidentified student, appeared on the white board in front of ACS’ On-Campus Counseling Program offices at Palo Alto High School on December 15, 2010. Funded by the Sand Hill Foundation since 1995, the mission of Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS) is to empower teens and their families to realize their emotional and social potential through counseling and preventive education. Support from the Sand Hill Foundation benefits ACS’ On-Campus Counseling Program, providing free counseling and crisis intervention to students at middle and high schools in San Mateo County. In addition to providing valuable counseling and assessment services, ACS also provides crisis intervention at school campuses when needed and preventive education in the community. In the 2009-2010 fiscal year ACS had its busiest year to date, delivering over 8,000 counseling sessions to nearly 1,500 clients and preventive education to over 3,200 community members.
Since 1963, Abilities United has championed people with developmental and physical disabilities. Each year over 2,500 individuals of all ages and their families receive education, training and support through our Children’s Development, Family Support, Aquatic, and Adult services. Abilities United Adult Services provides individuals who have developmental disabilities the employment tools they need for lifelong independence. As members of the workforce and tax-paying, voting citizens these individuals are integral members of our community.
Support from the Sand Hill Foundation has helped Abilities United Adult Services build its team of professional job coaches to place and coach 150 adults who have disabilities in jobs where they maintain a 90% retention and an average wage of $8.25. Abilities United is currently the “go to” agency of choice by the San Andreas Regional Center for providing job placements in Santa Clara County. In addition, participants of Adult Services contributed over 3,000 hours of volunteer service last year sorting and distributing food, landscaping, doing office work, etc., which helped 30 area nonprofits fulfill their missions.
In 2010, the Sand Hill Foundation provided additional technical support to Abilities United, which has allowed the organization to upgrade its computers, servers, and software for efficiency in data management, communications and security.
Abilities United client Nick Gollick on the job at Safeway
(Photo: courtesy of Abilities United).
Message left outside Adolescent Counseling Services' office at Palo Alto High School
(Photo: courtesy of Adolescent Counseling Services).
The photo above features Allan Berkowitz, executive director of Environmental Volunteers, holding a classroom kit bag updated and refurbished with funding from the Sand Hill Foundation.
