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With a record-breaking amount of money raised over the holiday season from readers, businesses and foundations this year, The Almanac has made grants of $34,500 each to 11 local nonprofit organizations serving families and children.
$1,086,500 was the combined giving totals to the holiday funds of The Almanac ($379,500), the Palo Alto Weekly ($640,500) and the Mountain View Voice ($66,500).
The Almanac Holiday Fund began more than 25 years ago and each year selects nonprofits providing needed services to residents of Menlo Park, Redwood City, North Fair Oaks or East Palo Alto to share equally of the funds raised. This year, The Almanac and its readers supported the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula, Ecumenical Hunger Program, Fair Oaks Community Center, Health Connnected, Haven House, Literacy Partners Menlo Park, Peninsula Food Runners, Ravenswood Family Health Center, St. Francis Center of Redwood City, St. Anthony’s Padua Dining Room and Upward Scholars.
“These organizations are leaders in consistently providing critical services to the community,” said Embarcadero Media Foundation president Adam Dawes. “Highlighting the work of nonprofits on the Midpeninsula is one of The Almanac’s important missions and we are gratified for the outpouring of support our readers provide each holiday season for these local agencies,” he said.
The nonprofit Embarcadero Media Foundation, which publishes The Almanac and Palo Alto Weekly, as well as the Redwood City Pulse and Mountain View Voice community news websites, covers all the expenses of the campaign, so all the money raised goes to the recipient organizations. The Packard, Hewlett and Menlo Park Rotary foundations all provide support, as do several family foundations that prefer to give anonymously.
