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The Capital of Silicon Valley embraces new ideas, whether in business, education or the arts. It is a networked place where relationships matter more than hierarchy. Its leadership is building the community ties that will create an improved sense of place, high levels of cultural participation and an educated, high-performance work force.

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The 2009 Soul of the Community Survey explores the link between residents' emotional ties to where they live and the community's economic growth. In San Jose, the study has pinpointed several top factors that emotionally attach residents to the area: openness (how welcoming a place is), aesthetics (an area’s physical beauty and green spaces) and education (described as public K-12 and colleges and universities.) For residents, San Jose’s perceived openness to different types of people was the main emotional draw. The study found it to be a community strength, with immigrants being perceived as the most welcomed group.

See survey details for San Jose at http://www.soulofthecommunity.org/sanjose .

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San Jose News Releases

Monday, February 1, 2010: National Contest Calls on Community Foundations for Local Information Experiments
Wednesday, January 13, 2010: Knight Foundation Spurs New Round of Local News and Information Projects Nationwide
Thursday, January 7, 2010: Knight Foundation Commits $70 Million to Community Foundations

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Community Grants in San Jose

Tides Center (The Extraordinaries w Jacob Colker)
Amount: $250,000
To foster community engagement by allowing residents to use a mobile phone for volunteer activities in their community
Zero1 - The Art and Technology Network (Zero One)
Amount: $975,000
To build an internationally recognized cultural identity and sense of place for the Silicon Valley by strengthening ZERO1's organizational capacity and making its biennial international digital arts festival a signature cultural event
C.E.O. Women - Creating Economic Opportunities for Women
Amount: $200,000
To make C.E.O. Women's economic opportunity program available to immigrant and refugee women of San Jose and eventually to other communities
Lenders for Community Development
Amount: $1,855,000
To fund the Citizenship Savings Program, which helps immigrants in Silicon Valley save in order to pay the fees associated with applying for citizenship.
American Leadership Forum
Amount: $1,540,000
To promote change by allowing a diverse group to participate in leadership training and partnering to create a public series to explore regional issues.
Silicon Valley Education Foundation (Franklin-McKinley Education Foundation)
Amount: $1,729,240
To bring forth "innovators of tomorrow" from within Silicon Valley's fragmented education system by supporting a center to set curricula and engage the private sector as active partners.

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