Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits

10/09/2026

🎃 Last call: All sales close tonight! 🎃

If you’ve been waiting to buy your tables and tickets, this is your last chance to join us!

Step into the enchanted forest for an afternoon with nonprofit leaders, community partners, local celebrities, and supporters, all coming together for connection, celebration, and our signature pumpkin auction featuring one-of-a-kind, creatively decorated pumpkins.

This year is especially meaningful as SVCN is celebrating 30 years of championing Silicon Valley’s nonprofit community. 🎉

We’ll also be honoring community leaders and organizations with our Nonprofit Impact Awards, recognizing their lasting, positive impact and powerful partnerships in advancing community well-being.

Ticket sales close at 11:59 pm tonight!

🔗 https://www.svcn.org/be-our-guest-registration

10/08/2026

This is your last chance to join us at Be Our Guest!

Tickets and table registration will close tomorrow Friday, October 9, at 11:59 PM.

Here’s what to look forward to:

🎃 Nonprofit Impact Awards: Celebrating the wonderful leaders and organizations who have made an outstanding impact in our community

🎃 Celebrity Table Captains: Mingle with local nonprofit celebrities, community leaders, and funders from across Santa Clara County

🎃 Pumpkin Auction: Take home a decorated pumpkin designed by Celebrity Table Captains and community members

Join SVCN for an enchanting afternoon at Mexican Heritage Plaza full of community, connection, and one-of-a-kind pumpkins!

🔗 https://www.svcn.org/be-our-guest-registration

10/08/2026

Ballots have been mailed, so check your mailboxes and our Ballot Measure Guide before Election Day on Tuesday, November 3!

We’re voting YES on:✅ Prop 1✅ Prop 3✅ Prop 40✅ RTM

Why? These positions back affordable housing, access to education, and funding for health care, food assistance programs and reliable transit.

We’re voting NO on:
❌ Prop 39
❌ Prop 41
❌ Prop 42
❌ Prop 43
❌ Prop 44

Why? These positions would make it harder to vote, to tax those with the most wealth, to fund affordable housing through future ballot measures, and to keep our health clinics open.

Want the full picture? Our Ballot Measure Guide breaks down every statewide, regional, and local measure on your ballot.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4e2WyQZ

ℹ️ These recommendations align with SVCN’s 2026 Policy Agenda, our Board of Directors-approved policy priorities that were created in deep consultation with SVCN’s Policy Council, after reviewing the results of our yearly nonprofit survey.

10/02/2026

🗣️ Calling all nonprofits to help Get Out the Vote!

Come turn out your nonprofit staff and community members for an evening of phone banking at the Nonprofit Voter Hub at Open San José!

As trusted community liaisons, nonprofits are uniquely positioned to engage voters in the upcoming election. At this event, we will call voters throughout Santa Clara County to encourage them to vote in the November 2026 election.

Training, scripts, food, and music will be provided!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pj_EA119JR2FYA44NqsOSiF_wTUu2I75BbvPXQ2srz0/viewform?edit_requested=true

10/01/2026

Join SVCN for the 19th annual Be Our Guest on Thursday, October 22 from 11:30am to 1:30pm at Mexican Heritage Plaza!

Each year, Be Our Guest brings together nonprofit leaders, community partners, local celebrities, and supporters for an afternoon of connection, celebration, and our signature pumpkin auction featuring one-of-a-kind, creatively decorated pumpkins.

This year is especially meaningful as SVCN celebrates 30 years of championing Silicon Valley's nonprofit community. Join us as we celebrate the impact of the nonprofit sector and the people who make that work possible.

Well also be honoring community leaders and organizations with Nonprofit Impact Awards, recognizing them for their lasting, positive impact, powerful partnerships, and measurable impact in advancing community well-being.

Every organization that buys a full table can request its own Celebrity Table Captain, with 50 elected, funder, business, and community leaders to choose from. Requests are honored first come, first served!

🚨 Tables and tickets are going fast, and sales close soon so secure yours today:

On Thursday, October 22, Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits returns to Mexican Heritage Plaza for a very special, very pumpkin-filled celebration within the Enchanted Forest. This signature luncheon brings together nonprofit teams, local celebrities, and community allies for an afternoon of connec...

09/30/2026

Overwhelmed by the number of propositions on your ballot and curious what they mean for nonprofits and our communities?

Wondering how your nonprofit can engage with voters to get out the vote (GOTV)?

Interested in participating in the Voter Hub and wanting more information?

Needing information about whether nonprofits can legally take positions on ballot measures?

Register for Prop Talk next week to get answers to all these questions and more. The SVCN team will break down ballot measures help your nonprofit participate in GOTV!

Free and open to the community.

🔗Link in bio https://svcn.tfaforms.net/71

ℹ️ The webinar is part of the Voter Hub at Open San José, a collaborative civic engagement initiative led by LEAD Filipino, Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, and SVCN to strengthen voter participation, civic education, and grassroots organizing across Santa Clara County.

09/11/2026

Every year, Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits recognizes leaders and organizations in the nonprofit community who make a positive impact on the community, as well as the efforts of those who support local nonprofits. After receiving an overwhelming amount of impressive nominees from all over Santa Clara County, SVCN’s Board of Directors is honored to announce 8 recipients whose work has been nothing short of extraordinary.

All recipients will be honored on Thursday, October 22 at SVCN’s Be Our Guest! Join us in celebrating these leaders at our annual pumpkin auction, tickets are selling out fast!

Congratulations to our 2026 Nonprofit Impact Award Recipients!

Palo Alto Community Child Care, Our City Forest, Pacific Clinics, Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action, Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen, Hunger at Home , Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN), City of San José

09/03/2026

Compliance works best as a regular tune-up, not a once-a-year box you check and forget. With so much changing for nonprofits right now, SVCN is teaming up with Melissa Hollatz, the attorney behind the Nonprofit Protection Project at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, for a session on the 5 things every nonprofit should have a handle on:
→ Housekeeping basics
→ Information management
→ Filings
→ Employee matters
→ External risks and relationships

Practical and needed, whether you're in great shape or not sure where you stand. You'll also leave knowing who to call the next time a compliance question comes up. The Nonprofit Protection Project is a free legal resource for Santa Clara County nonprofits, and this is a chance to meet the attorney directly.

This webinar is open to SVCN members only.

🔗 https://svcn.tfaforms.net/f/NPPComplianceTraining

08/31/2026

Join us for an important conversation with local candidates! SVCN Candidate Fora bring together the nonprofit community to hear directly about the ideas, priorities, and policies shaping our region.

This forum for City of San José Council Districts 7 + 9 is co-hosted in partnership with SVH - Action Fund and San José Arts Advocates , with Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN) and Vietnamese American Roundtable joining as partners. We will center critical issues and the role nonprofits play as partners, government contractors, community-based service providers, and advocates.

We'll cover:
affordable housing and homelessness
childcare and childhood development
immigrant protection
revenue
tech and AI
and more!

🗳️ The general public is welcome to attend. Submit suggested questions through the registration form → https://svcn.tfaforms.net/64

08/27/2026

Been putting off finding the answer to a legal question for your nonprofit? You're not alone. The Nonprofit Protection Project exists so you don't have to wait!

The Nonprofit Protection Project was built by the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, in partnership with SVCN, for the legal questions that come with running a nonprofit organization, especially in today’s changing landscape.

Even if you THINK you don’t have a burning legal question, the Nonprofit Projection Project attorney can help you identify common nonprofit legal issues, like a preventative check-up! Learn more about the program today and reach out for a consultation.

SVCN members get priority access.

🔗 https://www.lawfoundation.org/nonprofitprotectionproject