• Community Solutions: $1,000 to fund the emergency assistance gift card program for low-income individuals and families. Community Solutions is the largest human service agency in south Santa Clara County and last year served over 13,000 individuals.

• Friends of the Library: $1,000 to help fund the Beyond Books Campaign to furnish the new library. The new library opened its doors on July 21, 2007.

Foundation's Marilyn Librers presents Carol O'Hare President of Friends
of the Library with a check for the grant. (see MHCF donor leaf)

• Learning & Loving Education Center: $1,000 to purchase pictorial dictionaries for the English Literacy Educational program. The center is a women-focused organization with on site childcare that provides educational services to over 250 immigrant women and children.

• Morgan Hill Aquatics Center: $900 to help purchase adult and youth lifejackets. The Center provides fitness programs, recreation swimming and educational/ safety classes to approximately 70,000 individuals during its 80 day season.

Aquatics Center's Angela Papp displays new lifejackets

• Centennial Morgan Hill Committee: $800 to fund the transportation and installation of the “Waiting for the Train” public art project at the corner of Depot and Third Street. The committee formed in 2005 to help celebrate Morgan Hill’s 100th birthday and to promote our heritage through community events and projects.

• Media Access Coalition of Central California (MACCC): $325 to help purchase electronic equipment for the Master Control Upgrade Project. Morgan Hill Access Television (MHAT) operates Channel 19 on the Charter Cable System and provides a public service that benefits the community and supports other non-profit organizations.

• Morgan Hill Wind Symphony: $300 to help fund the cost of putting on 5 to 6 free public concerts for the 2007/08 season.

Spring Cycle 2006

• The Centennial Morgan Hill committee: $1,000 toward the construction of the historical spiral trail at the Villa Mira Monte grounds. The trail will depict about 90 historical events along its path and will have a time capsule buried at its center.

• The Emergency Housing Consortium, Inc.: $1,000 to help fund supplies and materials for the Artistic Heritage Project that serves children from low-income families at the Boccardo Family Living Center in San Martin.

• Leadership Morgan Hill: $1,000 to help fund a public art project for the new library as part of their 2006 graduating class community service project. Leadership Morgan Hill is a training and development program created to inspire future leaders in community service.

• The Live Oak High School Rugby Club: $1,000 for the purchase of regulation goal posts. The rugby club is an associated student body (ASB) club.