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SVFACES meets Morgan Family Foundation Challenge Grant

 

SVFACES Gala
October 1, 2009
Summit Center, Downtown San Jose More details to come!

 

New Beginnings: Building a Community of Hope:
Hon. LaDoris Cordell

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Contest

 

New SVFACES Blog:
Facing Forward

 

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Other SVFACES News

 

 

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
Ranked in top 10 of participating organizations!
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SVFACES is seeking a Development Director.
Details here.

2009
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Student Art/Writing/
Multimedia Contest

MLK Winner 2008
Grand Prize: Dorothy Nguyen, Oak Grove High School

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":

We, members and leaders of the Silicon Valley interfaith community, are anguished by the events that have unfolded in Israel and Gaza. While some of us—guided by faith and conscience—may in other venues express stronger statements of sympathy either for Israel or Gaza, we share a commitment to engage with one another, even, and especially, during times of great stress. We also affirm our common humanity and our common belief that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must cease, that there is no violent solution to that conflict, that all human life is valued, and that all parties must cooperate to achieve a just and lasting peace on behalf of God’s children who reside in the land we call holy.

Read the full statement

Morgan Family Foundation Challenge GrantMorgan Family Foundation

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.

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2008 Gala

Highlights of 2008 Exemplary Leadership Awards
Gala Fundraising Dinner Event
"Inspired by a Dream"

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.

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Peggy Raun-Linde"Suspensions are lower; expulsions are lower; grades are up; kids are becoming leaders not just on campus, but in the community- all of these things happen because of Everytown."
Dr. Peggy Raun-Linde, Fremont High Principal on NBC News

 

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.

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Interfaith CalendarSV FACES 3 Year
Religious Holidays Calendar Available

SV FACES has gathered in one document:

  1. 2007-9 dates of holidays for most religious traditions
    in the Bay Area;
  2. descriptions of the holidays;
  3. notes on applicable work, schedule or dietary restrictions; and
  4. notes on how to navigate religious observances
    between religions.

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:
calendar | administrator guidelines | teacher guide

 

Ongoing Programs

Victim Witness Assistance
Provides emergency aid, counseling, and compensation to victims of crime and to court witnesses
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Common Ground Enrichment Institute
A weeklong school site program that opens a social-educational world of opportunity for entering high school students and trains older students as their mentors.
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Camp Everytown
4-day/3-night residential retreat for high school youth that reduces stereotypes, bias, and prejudice, and which increases understanding and respect
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Leadership Today
Extends the successful diversity leadership training of Camp Everytown to college students and adults.
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Building Connections
SV FACES' age-appropriate curriculum helps children to develop a positive sense of self-worth and to value differences among people so as to diminish damaging, prejudiced behavior
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Flash Judgments & Experiencing Diversity
A video based program designed to generate discussion, targeted to middle school and high school students.
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Interfaith Dialogues
Fosters education, communication and friendship among influential religious leaders in the community whose work and words profoundly affect thousands of people
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Extremes of Hate:
Holocaust Studies and Critical Thinking

The Holocaust Studies & Critical Thinking program is dedicated to teaching each new generation about the devastating consequences of power and prejudice combined, what happens when citizens remain indifferent to injustice, and the devastating impact of institutional hatred and racism.
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