The Kids Who Benefit From The Intero Foundation

Sunday Friends provides opportunities for families to earn what they need through community service and learning.  They do this through making gifts for children in hospitals, preparing healthy meals, cleaning the grounds of the host facility and writing letters to the Sunday Friends Community and so much more. This along with earning opportunities and skills training encourage positive outlooks, healthy productive lifestyles and self-sufficient futures in turn breaking them out of the cycle of poverty. Now that’s moving forward.  Learn more about Sunday Friends in the below video and visit their website to find out how you can help. sundayfriends.org

Sunday Friends Video

Intero Foundation Continues to Grow the Business of Giving

The Intero Foundation Grants $64,740 to Silicon Valley Organizations

On September 19th, the Intero Foundation issued another round of grants directed towards the California communities of Los Gatos, San Jose, and Saratoga. In 2002, the leaders of Intero Real Estate Services, Inc. founded the Intero Foundation to be a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting children in the communities local to where Intero conducts business.

Fall Grantee Logos

Over a decade later, the Foundation empowers a diversity of organizations that positively impact the education and personal development of children. Through Intero’s agents, employees and fundraising events, the Foundation has generated over $2.7 million with an endowment of approximately $535,000.

In order to sustain its commitment to giving back to the community, each quarter, the Intero Foundation presents grants to non-profits that have been approved by the Foundation Committee. This last quarter of the year focused on giving to the Silicon Valley.

For the fall quarter, the Intero Foundation gave a total of $64,740 split amongst the following organizations:

1. Assistance League of Los Gatos-Saratoga – Dedicated to addressing specific needs within the community by providing services, education, and financial assistance to at-risk populations including children, families, and seniors.The Intero Los Gatos office presented $6,000 for Operation School Bell which provides books and clothing to improve the lives of students in need.
2. Northwest YMCA – Working to strengthen the foundations of community through a commitment to nurturing the potential of kids, promoting healthy living, and fostering a sense of social responsibility.A grant of $8,000, presented by Intero Los Gatos, will help to fund their summer food program within their summer achievement programs.
3. Sunday Friends – Runs programs designed to help low-income families break the generational cycle of poverty through an integrated learning economy that offers families the chance to earn the things they need.The Intero Los Gatos office will present a grant of $7,240 to go towards writing, craft and cooking supplies for their Service Projects to teach kids the power of giving.
4. Jose Valdes Math Foundation – Provides a comprehensive math education to middle and high school students to achieve academic success. A grant of $10,000, presented by Intero Saratoga, will go towards their intensive summer math program.
5. Peer Court – Empowers youth by teaching them about our judicial system, allowing them to actively participate in our community, instilling confidence in them and inspiring them to stay in school. Intero Saratoga will present $8,500 so the organization can recruit more teen volunteers and cover the costs related to trainings and hearing.
6. Breathe California – Works to reduce the impact of lung disease through prevention, education, advocacy and patient services.A grant of $7,500 presented by Intero Willow Glen will go towards Camp Superstuff, a week-long summer camp that provides asthma education and family services for low-income and uninsured asthmatic children age 6-12.
7. Good Karma Bikes – Provides homeless and low income working people with safe, reliable bicycle transportation to provide them freedom and ability to travel to where they need to go.Their youth program, Good Karma Kids, is designed to have youth experience philanthropy through requesting donations, rehabilitating bikes, and granting them to peers in need.A grant presented by Intero Willow Glen of $7,500 will go towards funding this youth program.
8. Turning Wheels for Kids – Provides new bikes, helmets and locks for low income children in need, disabled children and children with down syndrome and autism.$10,000, presented by Intero Willow Glen will go towards purchasing helmets to be given with bikes during the organization’s annual Big Bike Build in December.

The Intero Foundation is always seeking to expand the culture of giving.To apply for a grant for your non-profit organization, follow the grant application guidelines here.

Intero Foundation and TeenForce Featured in San Jose Mercury

The San Jose Mercury News just released an article about the event at which the Intero Foundation formally presented it's donation to TeenForce.  Click here to read the article! TeenForce was founded in 2010 to reduce the barriers to teen employment and provide teens with a variety of work experience.  The organization is about halfway to its 2013 goal of creating 100 jobs for foster youth in our community, and the Intero Foundation helped TeenForce come closer to this goal by presenting the organization with $7,500 on June 26th.

Stretching the Body and The Mind

The Art of Yoga Project, www.theartofyogaproject.org, immediately caught our attention. We have not seen an organization like this before and were impressed with the approach and results of helping incarcerated teenage girls. Here is a letter we received from them.

  The Intero Foundation is amazing and speaks volumes on the commitment of all the realtors that support our local community.  We are so thrilled to be awarded this grant in support of our work with incarcerated teen girls.  At the Art of Yoga Project, we are specially-trained yoga teachers and art therapists going into juvenile detention facilities and Aftercare treatment centers to teach an intervention program to promote girls’ physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. We consciously hold safe space for girls to develop the self-awareness, self-respect and self-control necessary for shifts in consciousness and subsequent behavioral change. Through breath control, self-witnessing, and slowing down to pause between reaction and action, the young women learn to self regulate, and channel their own process from a place of self destruction to one of reflection, healing and personal empowerment.  Thank you for giving us the means to support these girls and offer them the possibility of a better future. With deep gratitude, Lisa Pedersen Executive Director The Art of Yoga Project

Hospice of the Valley receives $10,000 Intero Foundation Grant for the Community Grief & Counseling Center’s Children’s Bereavement Program

   

Grant will provide bereavement support services to children and teens experiencing grief and loss

San Jose, Calif., –December 11, 2012 – Hospice of the Valley, a leading provider in advancing palliative, hospice care, community grief support and education in Northern California, receives a $10,000 grant from the Intero Foundation of Cupertino in support of the organization’s Community Grief & Counseling Center’s children’s bereavement program. The grant will provide bereavement support services to approximately 135 children and teens experiencing grief and loss.

Studies have shown that children who receive timely and appropriate grief support will be more resilient and better able to cope with loss and trauma later in life. If not addressed, children and teens have an increased potential for long-term emotional trauma and negative consequences. [Source: Dept. of Health and Human Services, HHS Publication No. SMA-11-4642 - May 2011]

“The Intero Foundation is proud to support the wonderful programs and services of Hospice of the Valley’s children’s bereavement program,” said Cathy Jackson, president of the Intero Foundation. “They offer an invaluable resource to our community by positively impacting the growth and well being of children, teens and the families.”

“We’re honored to be the recipient of the Intero Foundation grant,” said Sally Adelus, president and chief executive officer of Hospice of the Valley. “The Foundation and its board of directors’ support of our children’s bereavement program will provide the much-needed grief care services for children and teens experiencing loss so they will gradually learn to cope, process their grief and function better in school and at home.”

About Intero Foundation

Intero Foundation has raised more than $2 million to benefit children living in the communities in which it serves. Since its founding in 2002, the Foundation has supported over 70 local charities that work to positively impact the growth and well-being of children by enhancing their education and personal development. Funded, promoted and governed by Intero agents, they are vested in the health of the communities in which they work and live. All members of the Intero community – executives, staff and agents – donate their time to further the Foundation’s mission. For more information, visit interofoundation.org.

About Hospice of the Valley

Based in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, Hospice of the Valley provides end-of-life care and services, including hospice, palliative care and counseling for adults and children. Hospice of the Valley’s Community Grief & Counseling Center provides individual counseling and loss-specific support groups to anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one. Hospice of the Valley publishes a community website for caregivers and families at seriousillness.org/santaclaracounty. A nonprofit organization serving Santa Clara County since 1979, Hospice of the Valley honors all cultures, beliefs, values, and traditions and is committed to serving its diverse community and providing equitable access to care for all regardless of financial ability. For information, call 1.408.559.5600 or visit hospicevalley.org.

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Media Contacts

Hospice of the Valley

Jeanne Wun

Community Relations

1.408.489.6787

jwun@hospicevalley.org

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Los Gatos Patch

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Cupertino Patch

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Thank you SJB Child Development!

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Recently, we, at the Intero Foundation donated to SJB Child Development Center, www.sjbcdc.org, $10,000 to provide warm meals to our local children in need. With these dollars they will be able to provide 6,000 meals (breakfast, snack and lunch) to children. Everyone knows first hand that you cannot function, or more importantly learn, if you don't have food in your tummy. Food is a bare essential and that is a significant reason as to why we decided to approve this donation.   In addition, 100% of the money goes directly to feed the children. The facility even has their own garden so the children learn the importance of growing vegetables and their nutritional value. Soon after the check presentation we received the letter below. Thank you SJB Child Development! =======

On behalf of SJB’s Board of Directors, I want to take this brief opportunity to thank you!   Because of the Intero grant we will be able to continue providing nutritious hot meals to hundreds of children every day and we are delighted to welcome the Intero Foundation to our esteemed group of friends and supporters.

Once again, we greatly appreciate your support of our mission to feed, educate and empower the disadvantaged children of our valley. Many of the kids you help with your generous support are the only hot meal they may have for the day...

With deep gratitude,

Victor Hassan SJB Board President

San Juan Bautista Child Development Center 

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Proud Supporter

I am a proud supporter of the Intero Foundation. One of the most impressive things about our organization for me is that we do not support just one particular cause or organization, but, rather, we are able to provide the resources to help many local charities in need. Through every real estate transaction an Intero agent is involved in, we have the option to donate a portion of our commission to the Foundation upon the close of the transaction. Additionally, our agents offer their time to help make a difference in the communities we live and work in by volunteering for various fundraising events. Each grant that the Foundation receives from local charities is carefully reviewed to ensure money and other resources reach the causes most vital to the children in need in our communities. Given the financial hardships we are facing as a nation, nonprofit organizations are in even greater need of support from outside sources. At the Intero Foundation, we are committed to aiding these organizations, ensuring their vital and important work is not hindered. Nisha Sharma, Foundation Member

Special Olympics Schools

Special Olympics Schools Program of San Mateo received a grant from the Intero Foundation, Los Altos office.  The program is designed to help children between the ages of two through seven with developmental disabilities and introduces them to developmental appropriate play program.  The Intero Foundation is delighted to be actively involved with the Special Olympics.

JustREAD

Intero Los Altos agents had the pleasure of presenting a grant to the JustREAD program in Mountain View.  The optional tutoring opportunity is dedicated to improving the reading skills of  high school students in need of assistance and helping them become self directed and motivated learners one student at a time.  We look forward to seeing the continued success this program has achieved through the years.