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NEWS FLASH
City of San Jose Recognizes Winners of 2008 Martin Luther King, Jr. Competition
New Coordinator for Building Connections Program
Mission Statement Silicon Valley FACES is the proud new name for Silicon Valley Conference for Community & Justice, which was founded in 1965 as the regional office of The National Conference of Christians and Jews (but is not affiliated with NCCJ). SV FACES is a human relations organization dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry and racism in the South Bay Area and Northern California. SV FACES helps build communities based on understanding and respect for diversity, and justice for all of us
SVCCJ is becoming “Our faces are different, After a year of searching, we’ve settled on a brand new name. The agency mission, all our programs, and our people are the same. We’re just making it easier to say and to remember who we are!
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.
Amy Purchase Reid is an experienced attorney and litigator. Amy, along with her attorney husband Anthony Reid, has been a volunteer facilitator with SV FACES' Camp Everytown program.
2008
The "SV FACES Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Student Contest" is a youth development program to honor and encourage leadership for a multi-cultural society through major diversity role models. The students creatively interpret Dr. King's teachings for their generation.
SV FACES Announces New Coordinator for Building Connections Program
Third Annual Interfaith Gathering was a great celebration of the religious richness of the Silicon Valley!
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
3 Year 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
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We’re celebrating 
