Sand Hill Foundation is proud to support the following nonprofit organizations in their important work.
Since 1990, the Service League’s Hope House Program has provided a home in Redwood City, CA to over 700 women and 175 clean and sober babies. The Hope House Program provides 6-12 months of residential and transitional treatment for women. Through intensive workshops, classes and counseling, Hope House motivates women to become clean and sober members of the community. They become better mothers and learn necessary skills to function in society. Through its Capital Grants program, the Sand Hill Foundation made it possible for Hope House to purchase a new van which is a necessity for its daily programming. The previous van was in serious need of engine repair and had interior seats upholstered with duct tape. For years, the executive director had been attempting to find the money to replace their battered van. The safe, new van pictured here transports up to 15 clients everyday to appointments, 12-step meetings and outside events as these women receive the compassionate attention they need to move ahead with their lives.
JobTrain is the Peninsula’s premier job training and career placement program. Founded in 1965 to address unemployment, poverty and crime in the East Palo Alto and Belle Haven communities, JobTrain currently serves more than 5,000 people a year. JobTrain achieves high success rates through its comprehensive model that includes assessment; basic academic, English language and computer literacy instruction; job readiness, life skills and employment success development; and top quality vocational training and job placement programs. JobTrain also operates programs for at risk teens, including a summer jobs program. The Sand Hill Foundation has provided JobTrain with significant support for many years by leveraging donations to the organization’s Holiday Campaign with a challenge match, sponsoring Breakfast of Champions, and from time to time underwriting specific projects. Tom Ford funded the Facilities Reserve when JobTrain purchased its training facility in 1994. Susan Ford Dorsey serves on JobTrain’s Strategic Advisory Committee.
Support from the Sand Hill Foundation enabled My New Red Shoes to empower homeless and very low-income youth to succeed in school by providing over 4,000 Bay Area children with brand new clothing so that they may greet the school year with pride, and by simultaneously educating and rallying more than 1,500 youth around the needs of their homeless peers. The Kids Helping Kids Youth Leadership Programs are designed to inspire and empower one student, one family or one school at a time to join the dialogue about homelessness and plant the seeds of compassion, charity, and community involvement in the youth of the San Francisco Bay Area. With the help of the Sand Hill Foundation, My New Red Shoes’ Kids Helping Kids Youth Leadership Programs were greatly expanded and fulfilled the need for meaningful service projects for students and their families while educating students about homelessness. In describing his 2008 volunteer work at a homeless shelter, high school student Alexander M. said, “Gone were the images of the middle-aged homeless men on the corner. Gone were the ideas I had kept since my youth. In came the stark realization that it is kids, no different than me, who are crippled by poverty.”
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Best,
Ash
Ash McNeely
Executive Director
Solar panel installation and culinary trainees learning the trade.
(Photos: courtesy of JobTrain).
Hope House residents and their new van.
(Photo: courtesy of Hope House).
My New Red Shoes teens become advocates for ending homelessness.
(Photo: courtesy of My New Red Shoes).
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