Below are past articles concerning community projects that the Palo Alto Medical Foundation has sponsored or participated in the past.

• Caltrain Calls for Community Mental Health Effort (August 2009)
  
  
• Healthy Kids Donation (August 2009)
  
  
• PAMF Gives $600,000 to Healthy Kids Program (August 2009)
  
  
• Real Help: As Health Care Reform Debate Rages Around the Country, PAMF Made a Difference (August 2009)
  
  
• Jim French Leads Runners for Open Heart Kitchen (August 2009)
  
  
• Palo Alto Officials Look for Long-Term Solutions Following Student Suicides (June 2009)
  
  
• Operation Connect Helps Kids Stay in Touch (June 2009)
  
  
• Fremont Center’' Physicians Build Teamwork and Affordable Homes (June 2009)
  
  
• Group Helps Local Students Explore Medical Careers, February 2009
  
  
• Donation Helps Fremont Children with Cancer Stay Connected (December 2008)
  
  
• PAMF OB/Gyns Help Care for and Empower Community Clinic Patients (December 2008)
  
  
• Flea Market Lease Extended through March 2010 (December 2008)
  
  
• Flea Market Gets One More Year in Current Spot (December 2008)
  
  
• EPA Health Clinic Gets $100,000 Grant (November 2008 )
  
  
• Palo Alto Schools See Decrease in Bullying (November 2008)
  
  
• RotaCare Gets $85,000 Grant (November 2008)
  
  
• Tri-City Health Center Receives $100,000 Grant (November 2008)
  
  
• Sutter grants $100,000 each to Dientes, Santa Cruz Women's Health Center (November 2008)
  
  
• Students Spend Summer Writing for Web Sites (November 2008)
  
  
• Sutter Health awards $100,000 grant to Axis Community Health of Pleasanton (October 2008)
  
  
• Facing Cal is No Laughing Matter for Stanford Women Any Longer (October 2008)
  
  
• CityTrees Celebrates 2,000 Trees
  (October 2008)
  
  
• Free Screening for Prostate Cancer (September 2008)
  
  
• Helping Youth Prevent Injury (August 2008)
  
  
• Free Skin Cancer Screenings Offered (August 2008)
  
  
• Free Prostate Exams Offered (August 2008)
  
  
• Award to Groom Future Doctors (June 2008)
  
  
• Leo the Pit Bull Now Visits Cancer Patients at Camino Medical Group (June 2008)
  
  
• Beaten-Down Dog From Vick Case Has His Day (June 2008)
  
  
• Celebrate Cancer Survivorship at PAMF (June 2008)
  
  
• PAMF Works With Community Clinic to Improve Care (April 2008)
  
  
• Sutter Donates $150,00 to Healthy Kids of Santa Cruz County and to Healthy Families (April 2008)
  
  
• San Carlos Education Foundation Receives $1.5 Million Gift From the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (February 2008)
  
  
• Updated Web Site Offers Parents Health Information (February 2008)
  
  
• In the Community: PAMF Reaches Out to Underserved Populations (December 2007)
  
  
• Fremont Physician Makes Giving Back a Family Affair (November 2007)
  
  
• PRANA Web Site Helps Improve South Asians' Health (September 2007)
  
  
• PAMF Dedicated to Patients’ Health Within Clinic Walls and Beyond (May 2007)
  
  
• PAMF Physician Sets Aside Stethoscope to be 'Principal for the Day' (March 2007)

Community Outreach at PAMF

Below are some examples of other community events and partnerships in which PAMF participates.

• Teen and preteen Web sites, "We're Talking!" and "We're Talking Too!" (www.pamf.org/teen) and (www.pamf.org/preteen), to provide children and their parents with medically accurate health information
  
• Our Parents Web site, an online resource for local parents
  
• The Community Health Resource Center in Palo Alto and the Family Health Resource in Fremont
  
• Grants to and sponsorships of non-profits for health-related events and programs
  
• Health-information columns in local newspapers
  
• Corporate and community health fairs
  
• Physician-sponsored pre-medical college scholarships
  
• Physician and employee participation in volunteer and community activities, such as free medical clinics
  
• Community advisory councils in Fremont, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz, southern San Mateo County and the Tri-Valley to promote open communication with local leaders and organizations about PAMF's community-benefit activities

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