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

• PAMF Donates $250,000 to Train More Doctors (January 2010)
  
  
• PAMF Doctors Act to Meet Community Needs (January 2010)
  
  
• RotaCare Gives the Gift of Health (December 2009)
  
  
• Second Harvest gets help from Sutter Health (November 2009)
  
  
• PAMF and Sutter Make Holiday Donation to Second Harvest (November 2009)
  
  
• Paly Holds Encouraging Mental Health Forum (November 2009)
  
  
• Paly, Gunn to Host Panel on Teen Mental Health: 'Listen, Learn and Connect' will Feature Physicians, Wellness Experts (November 2009)
  
  
• 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)

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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