Outreach at Foothills Congregational Church is our way of assisting those who are in need in our community and beyond. There are so many worthy programs to potentially support. Our Outreach Board tries to focus on specific areas that we feel represent the feelings of most church members, which tends to be supporting agencies or projects that serve families, children and youth in the local area. We strongly support outreach by gifts of volunteer hours and dollars from individuals and from our Outreach Endowment Fund.
Decisions regarding which organizations/projects to support and at what financial level are made annually after considerable research and interviews. We also make special catastrophic need donations whenever possible. Organizations we supported in 2018 were:
- NCNC-UCC (UCC California-Nevada Conference)
- Mountain View – Los Altos Community Services Agency
- Family Supportive Housing – San Jose Family Shelter
- Child Advocates, a volunteer organization advocating for children caught up in our court system
- Community Health Awareness Council (CHAC)
- Ecumenical Hunger Program
- Help One Child
- LifeMoves
- Mayview Community Health Center, a medical clinic serving those without funds
- Planned Parenthood MarMonte
- Second Harvest Food Bank
- Silicon Valley Faces
- Women SV
- Camp Fire Relief Funds
- Recovery Cafe