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Urgent Needs Require Flexible Funding
After decades of grantmaking and leadership, the East Bay Community Foundation knows the challenges facing our local communities. Today poverty and hunger are increasing, high-school graduation rates are falling, and thousands of homes in the East Bay are in – or at risk of – foreclosure.
The vital work we do requires a strong infrastructure and fiscal flexibility – both of which are made possible by our Community Leadership Fund. We depend on these unrestricted funds to conduct local research, create vital partnerships, and ensure results and impact. The Fund gives us the flexibility to make direct grants to meet urgent needs of at-risk children, families and adults.
We need your help to ensure a strong future for our Foundation so we can sustain stronger communities together.
Local Focus Creates Sustainable Change
With just one generous gift to the Community Leadership Fund, you can have a lasting impact on countless lives. Each gift empowers our organization to do more good, for more people, more quickly. The positive impact of your gift is multiplied as we leverage it to relieve hardship and generate sustainable change in local communities where the need is the greatest.
For example, the East Bay Community Foundation has partnered to:
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Promote reading by grade level at 3rd grade by supporting parents, providing books to schools and families, one-on-one tutoring, and reading nights to 6,000 children and families.
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Support 2,000 individuals with academic and career training that improves child care for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
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Form a coalition of 40 literacy providers to build capabilities and best practices.
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Fund programs providing 3,000 people with financial literacy training and workshops.
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Support the launch of a major Green Jobs program in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
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Fund programs for 1,000 entrepreneurs wanting to start or expand small businesses, thus creating sustainable jobs in our communities.
Amplify Your Charitable Giving with a Gift Today
The economic downturn has had a ripple effect on every level of American society. Here in the East Bay, those serving disadvantaged people have turned to the East Bay Community Foundation for help. Now, we are depending on you to ensure that we can serve urgent needs today, and well into the future. Make a gift today and we will mobilize the resources to ensure that your gift counts and makes an impact.
We invite you to contact us soon to discuss how giving to the Community Leadership Fund can meet your own financial planning goals for the future while meeting the immediate human needs of people in the East Bay who so urgently need our help.
