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

• Helping Youth Prevent Injury (August 2008)
  
  
• Free Prostate Exams Offered (August 2008)
  
  
• Award to Groom Future Doctors (June 2008)
  
  
• Health Sciences Grad Awarded $10,000 Scholarship for Med School (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)
  
  
• Giving Back to the Community Remains Key to PAMF's Mission (May 2006)

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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