Immigrant Integration Strategy: Strengthening the Legal Services Infrastructure
During the past 18 months, Silicon Valley Community Foundation has gone through a comprehensive
process to identify a new set of grantmaking strategies that will respond to some of the most pressing
challenges facing our two-county region of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. This process involved
identifying the key issues facing the region, conducting research, discovering best practices and seeking
community input through a series of conversations and an online survey.
After extensive discussions by the community foundations board of directors, five grantmaking strategies
were selected: Economic Security; Immigrant Integration; Education (Closing the Middle School
Achievement Gap); Regional Planning (Land Use and Transportation Planning) and a Community
Opportunity Fund focused on safety-net issues and innovative ideas. Research papers on each of the first
four targeted issues are located on our website at www.siliconvalleycf.org.
We are enthusiastic about these strategies and believe that by working together with others who share
these interests, we can have a transformative effect on our region. We value your work and look forward to
collaborative efforts to make this a better place for all the people that work and live in our region.
A series of Requests for Proposals, or RFPs, that address particular strategies will be available beginning in
fall 2008 through 2009.
