Urgent Community Response Fund
United Way Silicon Valley distributes $800K donated by Applied Materials Foundation to Santa Clara County Partner Agencies 
United Way Silicon Valley works with various Partner Agencies throughout Santa Clara County to help those in need with the building blocks for a good life: income, education and health.
Partner Agencies are funded to help those in need.
The $800K of the $1M gift donated by Applied Materials Foundation was divided among the ten Santa Clara County Partner Agencies listed below. The recipient agencies are well-regarded providers of emergency assistance and essential services helping families throughout the community.
Donations at work: families and individuals in need were helped 92,583 times!
*Total units of service: 92,583.
*These numbers represent the total number of individuals who were assisted through the different fields of service. The numbers can represent an individual or a family of four. The grant allowed for clients to be assisted more than once and in more than one area of service. The allowance provided flexibility for assistance.
Lives Changed
Lauri, her husband and 78 year old mother went from losing their home, living in a hotel to now back in a home Lauri, her husband, and her 78 year old mother were evicted from their home after 17 years when the landlord lost his home to foreclosure. The three moved into a hotel, where they lived for 5 months, at a cost of nearly $14,000. During this time, the family sold all of their jewelry and valuable belongings to pay for their temporary housing. The high-cost of the temporary housing made it impossible for the family to save money for their new housing. With the funds available through the UCRF program, InnVision was able to help this family move to permanent housing, dramatically reducing their monthly housing expenses and stabilizing them financially.
A single mother of two was saved from being homeless.
A single mother of two faced eviction from her mobile home park. She could not pay space rent or mobile home mortgage because of high bills she paid to repair plumbing and water damage that caused the flooring to cave in. She had extended battles with her insurance company for six months regarding this incident. Meanwhile, without help, she would have been homeless. The Urgent Response Funds paid the space rent, and we used other funds to help wit the mortgage.
Maria has a child with kidney failure. Her husband donated his kidney and was able not able to work for three months due to the procedure. They received help and avoided her family from being homeless Maria is a 53 yr old woman. She and her family have lived in the USA for over 10 years. One of her kids was diagnosed with kidney failure and was on the transplant wait-list for many years. Recently, the doctors decided to test family members for compatibility and discovered that his dad was a perfect donor.
His dad works at a supermarket making enough income to pay for rent and other expenses. Due to the surgery of the kidney transplant, Maria's husband was going to be out of work for a few months without any pay. He was not eligible for disability benefits.
Family came to Community Services Agency for rent and utility assistance. They were able to secure their rent and prevent their utility services from being shut-down through the assistance they received from CSA. They continue to use the food pantry to supplement their groceries. Client and her family were grateful for the assistance they received and stated that if CSA had not stepped in to help them out, they would have probably lost their housing.
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