This is a very important article raising issues that aare very applicable to Australia re:
-tax policies - favouring residual welfare approaches and religion not social development, communtiy development and/or prevention
- inequities reinforced through tax policies and impact on philanthropic giving
As the Director of Development for the Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF), I confront the issues raised in Professor Reich’s article on a daily basis. District level foundations in Saratoga, Palo Alto, Hillsborough, and Menlo Park (to name a few), all have effective mechanisms in place to make direct appeals to parents with students in these individual school districts. The money raised directly benefits the schools within these individual districts.
SVEF is working across all 34 school districts within Santa Clara County. While not trying to limit giving to individual school district foundations, SVEF is making a broader appeal; asking individuals to support not only district level giving but some level of county level giving. These funds are then used to provide programs and services such as our Stepping Up to Algebra summer math program to students within the County that have greater socioeconomic needs.
We look forward to partnering with district level foundations to help spread the benefit of existing charitable giving streams. To date, we have had more success in corporate charitable giving given the obvious reality that employees live across multiple school districts. Even so, we are out every day making appeals to individuals to support public education in a broader way by funding our work across all of Santa Clara County.
Feel free to contact me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you are curious about our work and the ways in which we provide benefits across the county.
Of course, there are legal limits to how much charitable giving can influence political trends. On the surface, however, there appears to be little reason for foundation reticence about communicating and explaining failure.
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BY rhonda galbally
ON July 18, 2006 11:59 PM
This is a very important article raising issues that aare very applicable to Australia re:
-tax policies - favouring residual welfare approaches and religion not social development, communtiy development and/or prevention
- inequities reinforced through tax policies and impact on philanthropic giving
BY Brian Kaplan
ON September 2, 2008 12:45 PM
As the Director of Development for the Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF), I confront the issues raised in Professor Reich’s article on a daily basis. District level foundations in Saratoga, Palo Alto, Hillsborough, and Menlo Park (to name a few), all have effective mechanisms in place to make direct appeals to parents with students in these individual school districts. The money raised directly benefits the schools within these individual districts.
SVEF is working across all 34 school districts within Santa Clara County. While not trying to limit giving to individual school district foundations, SVEF is making a broader appeal; asking individuals to support not only district level giving but some level of county level giving. These funds are then used to provide programs and services such as our Stepping Up to Algebra summer math program to students within the County that have greater socioeconomic needs.
We look forward to partnering with district level foundations to help spread the benefit of existing charitable giving streams. To date, we have had more success in corporate charitable giving given the obvious reality that employees live across multiple school districts. Even so, we are out every day making appeals to individuals to support public education in a broader way by funding our work across all of Santa Clara County.
Feel free to contact me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you are curious about our work and the ways in which we provide benefits across the county.
BY Dan Pimen
ON July 8, 2021 02:27 AM
Of course, there are legal limits to how much charitable giving can influence political trends. On the surface, however, there appears to be little reason for foundation reticence about communicating and explaining failure.