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NEWS FLASH SVFACES meets Morgan Family Foundation Challenge Grant
SVFACES Gala
New Beginnings: Building a Community of Hope:
Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Contest
New SVFACES Blog:
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Mission Statement Silicon Valley FACES is a human relations organization committed to ending bias, bigotry and racism in the Bay Area and Northern California. For over 43 years SV FACES has helped build communities based on understanding and respect for diversity, and justice for all of us. SVFACES surpasses goal for American Open Challenge SVFACES is seeking a Development Director.
2009
The SV FACES Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Contest is designed to keep the memory of Dr. King’s lessons in diversity leadership alive for new generations of youth. Utilizing an annual theme from Dr. King’s own words, the contest focuses the students’ creativity on social justice issues which align with the mission of Silicon Valley FACES. They translate his words for their generation, and in so doing they find their own voices. This year’s theme is, “…A new era of progress and hope…to be widened and lengthened into a superhighway of justice…”
An Interfaith Declaration for Peace SV FACES was one of many local interfaith organizations to endorse "An Interfaith Declaration for Peace":
Morgan Family Foundation Challenge Grant We're delighted to announce that SV FACES has been awarded a challenge grant by the Morgan Family Foundation in the amount of $100,000! This money, and the matching funds we will raise, will be designated for capacity building.
Highlights of 2008 Exemplary Leadership Awards Over 400 Silicon Valley business and civic leaders networked, dined, and even prayed together to celebrate the "43rd Annual Silicon Valley Exemplary Community Leadership Awards." 2008 Chairs Tim Guertin (CEO Varian Medical Systems) and Mike Fister (CEO Cadence Design) installed Honorees: Dr. Dick Levy (Board Chairman Varian & United Way of Silicon Valley), Denise DeBartolo York and Dr. John York and the San Francisco 49ers RESPECT Campaign.
Camp Everytown & Common Ground Get Results! With almost 1/3 or her students and many of her faculty having "graduated" Camp Everytown and Common Ground at any given time, Principal Peggy Raun-Linde credits our programs with having dramatically changed her school for the better.
SV FACES has gathered in one document:
This calendar will enable employers, schools and governments to better manage requests for consideration for religious observances across our very diverse society. Companion guidelines for school administrators and a handy guide for teachers are also available. Click to download:
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Ongoing Programs Victim
Witness Assistance Common Ground Enrichment
Institute Camp
Everytown Leadership Today Building Connections Flash
Judgments & Experiencing Diversity Interfaith
Dialogues Extremes
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SV FACES
3 Year