Tuesday, September 13, 2011
| Organization | Area served | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County | Santa Clara County | Expand free tax services and financial education classes for very low and low-income clients. | $126,000 |
| Community Financial Resources | San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties | Increase financial capabilities of unbanked and underserved low-income families by partnering with community service organizations to offer consumer friendly, low-cost banking tools with task-based financial education programs. | $118,700 |
| EARN | San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties | Expand access to financial coaching for low-wage workers by providing training to community-based organizations and delivering direct financial coaching services. | $125,000 |
| Opportunity Fund | San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties | Provide 500 of Silicon Valley’s working families with financial preparedness education and incentives to save for the future through a nationally–recognized Individual Development Account program and to launch an innovative new IDA product enabling the lowest-income families to build an emergency fund. | $150,000 |
| Pacifica Resource Center, a project of the Tides Center | San Mateo County | Expand core human needs services to include financial education and asset-building strategies for low-income families and individuals in Pacifica, such as free tax preparation, financial support groups and financial coaching. | $68,750 |
| Project Read, North San Mateo County | San Mateo County | Provide low-income first- and second-generation immigrants with financial literacy, one-on-one coaching and savings vehicles to support greater economic stability. | $121,500 |
| Sacred Heart Community Service | Santa Clara County | Help people facing poverty become economically self-sufficient through improved access to peer support, wealth-building resources and tools to gain assets and financial education. | $77,400 |
| Self-Help Economic Development | Santa Clara County | Scale a "Micro-Branch" credit union model in East San Jose that serves previously un-banked Latino immigrant families by delivering “in line” financial education and facilitating asset building through event-based savings and lower-cost access to necessary financial services. | $150,000 |
| United Way of the Bay Area, on behalf of the SparkPoint San Mateo Center Collaboration | San Mateo County | Expand the SparkPoint San Mateo Center at Skyline College serving low-income San Mateo residents — particularly persons of color, those with limited English and those from immigrant households — so they can easily access a full range of integrated financial education and asset-building tools and supports that will move them closer to financial stability. | $119,620 |
| United Way Silicon Valley | Santa Clara County | Launch volunteer-led credit-coaching program that provides low-income individuals and families with one-on-one assistance to use on-line financial tools and resources to build healthy credit. | $117,986 |
| Working Partnerships USA | Santa Clara County | Develop financial education and asset-building components tailored to current and prospective building and construction trade workers in a green pre-apprenticeship program. | $50,000 |