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communities

SVCF 2013 ANNUAL REPORT

Publications commissioned by SVCF and its partners last year brought attention to social
inequities. We co-funded The Bay Area Muslim Study: Establishing Community and Identity.
The first such study for the region, the report surveyed more than 1,100 local Muslims and
reported on the pervasive discrimination and challenges faced by many in the diverse Bay
Area Muslim community. We also published an issue brief on the experiences of immigrants
in San Mateo County, and convened local officials to discuss the results. We are hopeful
this work may result in the creation of a county office for immigrant services.

Finally, we lobbied for the successful passage of the California Trust Act, which prohibits
law enforcement from detaining people based solely on their immigration status.

For more information, view the immigration impact brief at siliconvalleycf.org/publications.

regional planning

Our grantmaking supports efforts to build great communities with affordable housing and
transportation that meet the needs of all residents. We invest in programs that help shape
land use and transportation plans, and that encourage residents to get involved in the
design of their communities. In this way, we help create communities that are affordable,
healthier and better connected, with jobs and homes close to transit.

SVCF made 22 grants totaling $955,000 under our regional planning strategy.

The approval of Plan Bay Area -- a far-reaching, multi-decade plan for addressing housing,
transportation and infrastructure needs while also considering social equity issues -- was
a major regional success for SVCF and our nonprofit partners.

In addition, our co-leadership of the Great Communities Collaborative (GCC) with The
San Francisco Foundation is becoming a model for how grantmakers can pool resources
to help influence regional issues. In part because of the community partners that make
up the GCC, jurisdictions in San Mateo County have planned for more than 20,000
new homes (nearly 2,000 of them designated as affordable), 8 million square feet of new
commercial space, 26,000 additional jobs and almost 75 acres of new open space.

Thanks in large part to our leadership and advocacy, the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission and San Mateo and Santa Clara county governments have agreed to
direct millions of dollars to affordable housing financing, moves that are crucial to the
future of affordable housing following the dissolution of redevelopment agencies
throughout California in 2012.

For more information, view the regional planning impact brief at
siliconvalleycf.org/publications.

22 grants totaling
$955,000 under
our regional
planning strategy
in 2013

$27 million
from San Mateo
and Santa Clara
county governments
redirected to
affordable housing
financing, thanks
to our grantees