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Get Involved
How to get involved, and partnership opportunities.

Table of Contents:
Prayer
Volunteering
Equipment Wish List
Financial Partnership
Prayer
Please join us as a partner in prayer, lifting up the needs of our ministry: for the children, youth, and adults who we serve, for on-going and new funding sources, and for volunteers uniquely suited to implement our mission.


Volunteering
We have a wide variety of volunteer roles available for people local to our area, including tutoring, mentoring, leading Bible Clubs, teaching classes, prayer walking, and supervising community access hours in the center.

We have short-term summer service opportunities and are looking for additional ministry partners to move into our neighborhood with us.

Equipment Wish List
Curriculum & Supplies
• Math Tutoring Supplies: Math Counters, Abacus, & Pretend Money (especially coins)
• Hardcover Children’s Dictionaries (2)
• Hardcover Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (1)
• Thesaurus (1 – 2)
• Children’s Bibles:
• NIV Discovery Bibles &/or NVI (Spanish) Discovery Bibles (Gently Used or New)
• NIrV Kid’s Study Bibles or NIrV Kids’ Devotional Bibles (New to be given to children)
• NIV Teen Study Bibles (gently used or new)
• Globe
• The Phonics Game
• Learning English Software (for adults)    

Office Supplies
•Laser Printer
•Brochure Racks
•Office Stacking Trays
•1 Mac & 1 PC Computer (Mac: G5 & OS X or newer / PC: Pentium 4 & Windows XP or newer)
•Clipboards     Miscellaneous
•Sports Equipment (ball pump and needles, assorted sports balls, etc.)
•Games (new or in good condition: Connect 4, Chutes and Ladders, Uno, Candyland, Life, Scrabble Jr., Yahtzee, etc.)
•Framed Artwork (especially w/ Christian Scriptural, Inspirational, or Cultural themes)
•Portable boom box w/ CD player and (preferably with an ipod connection
•Camping Equipment (large tents, sleeping bags, lantern, cook stove, flashlights)  

Ongoing Miscellaneous Needs
See 'Supplies Wish List' at right.
 
Financial Partnership
As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to making all of our programs and services financially accessible to low-income families, we rely on charitable giving for the majority of our funding. Tax-deductible donations can be made on a monthly or one-time basis payable to the “Family Center on O’Keefe Street” and mailed to our center at the address below.

For more information about any of these opportunities, contact us at:

The Family Center on O’Keefe Street
1974 Euclid Avenue
East Palo Alto, CA 94303







Family Center Mailing Address
The Family Center
PO Box 50234
East Palo Alto, CA 94303

Supplies Wish List
Ongoing Miscellaneous Needs:

a: Paper Supplies:
lined paper;
graph paper;
printer paper (white + colored); construction paper (multiple colors);
cardstock (multiple colors)

b
: School & Office Supplies: pencils, erasers, pens; markerscrayons, glue, etc.

c
: Children’s Books (in good condition):
classics,
short or easy chapter books;
early reading leveled books

d
: Printer Ink:
HP 54 & 55 (Black and Color)
e: Art & Craft Supplies (paints, scissors, craft kits, paint brushes, etc.)

f
: Incentive Rewards & Prize Supplies for children’s and youth programs:
candy, stickers, $5 gift certificates

g
: Educational Software:
(all ages & levels) that can be used with both Mac and PC