$8,000 Grant Awarded to School Health Clinics of Santa Clara County

$8,000 Grant Awarded to School Health Clinics of Santa Clara County

On Tuesday, the Intero Foundation presented its first (of many!) fourth quarter grant checks. School Health Clinics of Santa Clara County, a first time Intero Foundation recipient based in Gilroy, focuses on providing high quality primary healthcare for low-income and uninsured children. For 28 years this non-profit pushed itself to grow well beyond its humble roots and kept itself going with the help of volunteers, the community, and like-minded donors who believed in their cause.

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BAWSI - Bringing Health, Happiness, and Hope

BAWSI - Bringing Health, Happiness, and Hope

As a kid, our parents threw us into soccer or dance, or baseball. Anything to get us out of the house, interacting with other kids, and moving our bodies. Little did we know, we were learning extremely valuable skills like teamwork, leadership, persistence, and patience, all while enjoying time with our friends and making memories that helped build us into the adults we are today.

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Foundation Spotlight - Family Supportive Housing

Foundation Spotlight - Family Supportive Housing

We use to have a house, a place to come home to. I had my own room with pink walls and a basket full of stuffed animals. We had a yard where my brother and I played until the sun went down. We had all of this until rent went up and Mom and Dad couldn’t afford it anymore, even with 3 jobs between them.

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The Grateful Garment Project

The Grateful Garment Project

Picture this, a child is taken to a Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) facility after being sexually abused to be examined and checked medically and emotionally. They're devastated, tired and hungry. All they want to do is go to a comfortable place, not talk to anyone and just let everything go back to normal.

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Swinging into the Holiday Spirit, the Intero Foundation Continues to Grow the Business of Giving

Swinging into the Holiday Spirit, the Intero Foundation Continues to Grow the Business of Giving

Throughout the year, Intero makes an effort to give back to the community by giving quarterly grants to organizations that support kids in the community. In fact, since its inception, the Foundation has collected over $3 million through agent/employee contributions and fundraising events. 

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Mentoring Young Men To Move Forward

Mentoring Young Men To Move Forward

The young man who started this organization, Malik Wade, grew up in inner-city San Francisco and could not resist the appeal of street life. Although a promising athlete with potential to do great things, by the time of his graduation, he was under investigation for selling narcotics and was eventually sentenced to 14 years in prison. He came out seeing the world in a whole new light.

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