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270 records found
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Senior Coastsiders
Description: Founded in 1977, Senior Coastsiders has become the focal point for senior services on the coastside. We strive to create an atmosphere that acknowledges and affirms the value, dignity and self worth of seniors and adults with disabilities.
The agency also serves as a resource for the entire community for information on aging, support of caregivers, and development of innovative approaches to address issues of aging.
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Sheet Metal Workers Local 104
Description: Sheet Metal Workers are part of the building and construction trade. In shops they layout, fabricate, and assemble sheet metal products; in the field they install these sheet metal products in buildings and construction projects.
Their work includes (but is not limited to) heating, ventilating, and air conditioning, as well as moisture control (gutters, flashing, etc.).
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Sierra Club: Sustainable Land Use Committee
Parent Org: Sierra Club
Description: Mission: To promote sustainable land use within the Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter area by engaging our members in creating more livable communities so as to protect and restore the human and natural environment.
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Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Description: The Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG), formerly the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group, involves principal officers and senior managers of member companies in cooperative effort with local, regional, state and federal government officials. The focus is address majoring public policy issues affecting the economic health and quality of life in Silicon Valley. SVLG's housing work is exemplified by two organizations that it created and convenes. The first is the Housing Action Coalition, an alliance of 150 organizations and individuals at the grass roots level advocating for housing that meets the needs of working families in Silicon Valley through being well-built, relatively affordable and appropriately located. The second program is a Housing Leadership Council comprised of a diverse group of 85 Silicon Valley community leaders pursuing several housing-related initiatives. One major project of SVLG is the Housing Trust Fund of Santa Clara County, a venture that has raised well over $20 million.
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South San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Description: The South San Francisco Chamber of Commerce promotes the interests of business in the City. Members engage in activities such as meeting to exchange ideas, forming new business contacts, solving mutual problems, lending support and planning for the future growth of the business community.
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Stanford Community Law Clinic
Parent Org: Stanford Law School in cooperation with Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County
Description: The Stanford Community Law Clinic operates in cooperation with the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County. It offers weekly intake sessions where clients are given the opportunity to sit down with a law student and describe their legal problems. The Clinic will focus on three primary areas:
- Housing
- Workers' Rights
- Government Benefits Advocacy
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SummerHill Homes
Description: SummerHill Homes is a specialty builder of communities in premier
locations throughout the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. SummerHill prides
themselves on a tradition of innovative designs and well-planned
neighborhoods built since 1976.
"University Park" is a current project located on the site of the former
Palo Alto Medical Foundation.
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Supportive Housing Workgroup
Description: Supportive Housing is housing specially designed for special populations. It includes ancillary services on-site and is sensibly located with respect to additional services. An outgrowth of the 1998 Housing Forum, SHW published a detailed set of goals and objectives, and jumped into various initiatives to create supportive housing in the county. Their activities include acquiring sites and gainnig approvals, coordination among service providers, and financing.
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