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Knight Foundation in San Jose
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The Capital of Silicon Valley embraces new ideas, whether in business, education or the arts. It is a networked place where relationships matter more than hierarchy. Its leadership is building the community ties that will create an improved sense of place, high levels of cultural participation and an educated, high-performance work force.
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In San Jose your first point of contact is Judith Kleinberg, Program Director / San Jose and Silicon Valley.
San Jose
The 2009 Soul of the Community Survey explores the link between residents' emotional ties to where they live and the community's economic growth. In San Jose, the study has pinpointed several top factors that emotionally attach residents to the area: openness (how welcoming a place is), aesthetics (an area’s physical beauty and green spaces) and education (described as public K-12 and colleges and universities.) For residents, San Jose’s perceived openness to different types of people was the main emotional draw. The study found it to be a community strength, with immigrants being perceived as the most welcomed group.
See survey details for San Jose at http://www.soulofthecommunity.org/sanjose .
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Community Grants in San Jose
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San Jose Public Library Foundation
Amount: $246,420
For 250 public access computers at eight San José Public Library locations -
Tides Center (The Extraordinaries w Jacob Colker)
Amount: $250,000
To foster community engagement by allowing residents to use a mobile phone for volunteer activities in their community -
Zero1 - The Art and Technology Network (Zero One)
Amount: $975,000
To build an internationally recognized cultural identity and sense of place for the Silicon Valley by strengthening ZERO1's organizational capacity and making its biennial international digital arts festival a signature cultural event -
C.E.O. Women - Creating Economic Opportunities for Women
Amount: $200,000
To make C.E.O. Women's economic opportunity program available to immigrant and refugee women of San Jose and eventually to other communities -
Lenders for Community Development
Amount: $1,855,000
To fund the Citizenship Savings Program, which helps immigrants in Silicon Valley save in order to pay the fees associated with applying for citizenship. -
American Leadership Forum
Amount: $1,540,000
To promote change by allowing a diverse group to participate in leadership training and partnering to create a public series to explore regional issues.
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