Local nonprofits are the essential delivery system for our Foundation realizing its mission of helping create and sustain a vibrant and healthy community where all Silicon Valley residents have equal opportunity to live, work and be enriched. It is our Foundation’s goal to achieve maximum impact by responding to nonprofits agencies greatest needs.  For example: 

Community Problem 

Access to quality meeting space to host community meetings, retreats, trainings and fundraisers for their Boards, staff, volunteer and donor cultivation activities is limited throughout Silicon Valley.

Our Philanthropic Response

To rehabilitate a former office building and transform it into the Sobrato Community Conference Center, a new multi-purpose training and meeting space designed to support place-based organizing that is accessible to all Bay Area nonprofits rent-free on the Sobrato Center for Nonprofits campus located in Milpitas.

Community Impact

The Center opened in early 2007, so data regarding its use and the value of rent free space will be available later in the year.

PLACE FEATURES

The new facility has several outstanding features:

• Free meeting space in five multi-purpose rooms that can be flexibly configured based on your needs; all rooms include state-of-the-art audio/visual equipment and speaker phones
• A kitchen, hospitality and registration area for your meetings
• A state-of-the-art Computer Training Lab available for rent (contact SueB@compasspoint.org or call 415-541-9000 and ask for Sue Bennett)
• Easy access within the Community Conference Center to CompassPoint Nonprofit Services’  free Nonprofit Resource Center  that is a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center and includes an online fundraising research database of 50,000 grantmakers as well as 200 book titles and nonprofit publications on fundraising, boards of directors and general nonprofit management
• Free on-site parking
• An on-site café and catering service through Gourmet Express Deli (open from 8 am – 3 pm)
• Is within walking distance to many other ethnic restaurants and stores including McCarthy Ranch and the Great Mall
• Is conveniently located one-block off the Hwy. 880 and 237 interchange in Milpitas
• Is close to downtown San Jose and provides quick access to the Peninsula and the East Bay corridors as well as being near public transportation sites

ELIGIBILITY

Any charitable organization is eligible to utilize the Conference Center on a first-come, first-served reservation basis. A Certificate of Insurance naming the Sobrato Foundation and Silicon Valley Community Foundation as additionally insured on your agency’s current insurance policy is required before using the facility.

MEETING RESERVATION INQUIRY

We recommend you review the complete policy manual before submitting a meeting reservation inquiry. After reviewing the policies, please submit an initial email inquiry to Meetings@Sobrato.org and include:

• Your Name, Phone and Email address
• Your Nonprofit’s Legal Name and Employer Identification Number
• The date of your meeting
• The start and end time of your meeting
• The number of expected meeting attendees

Our Community Conference Coordinator will respond to your inquiry within two business days of having received your request.

COMMENTS TO THE FOUNDATION

You are invited to send a note directly to the Foundation staff and Board letting them know what you think of their People & Places program portfolio. Please email Grants@Sobrato.org and be sure to include your Name and Organization. Thank you for your comments!

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Sobrato Family Foundation
Sobrato Center for Nonprofits, 600 Valley Way, Suite B
Milpitas, CA 95035
Phone: (408) 946-0100  Fax: (408) 516-8007
Email: Grants@Sobrato.org

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