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The Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits' (SVCN) candidate fora provide an opportunity for the nonprofit community to learn about the ideas, visions, and priorities of local candidates. We will center our discussion on policies and programs that directly impact nonprofits as partners, government contractors, community-based service providers, and advocates.
In this space, we also focus on key policy areas such as health equity, affordable housing, children and youth services, civic engagement, and violence prevention and intervention.
The public is welcome to attend our nonprofit candidate forum. However, please be advised that we will be prioritizing questions from nonprofit members and leaders.
This forum is organized in partnership with West Valley Community Services (WVCS) and Choose Children, an initiative of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF).
See below for information on the candidates.
Mountain View Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga is a working mom and former small business owner. She served on the Santa Clara County Board of Education and since 2007 Margaret on the City Council, as the first Asian American woman ever to serve as Mayor. Her commitment to service builds from experiences her immigrant parents who had no access to affordable healthcare, and as a barrier-breaking woman of color elected in Santa Clara County, and as a breast cancer survivor. She made Mountain View the first City in the County to enact a minimum wage increase; started the County’s Clean Energy Authority; maintained and increased law enforcement staffing; and improved emergency communications used to coordinate public safety response. Margaret is running for Supervisor to ensure every family has access to housing and safe neighborhoods; quality healthcare and mental health services; good-paying jobs; clean air, water, and open spaces for our future generations.
Sally Lieber served as a City Councilmember and Mayor, as a County Commissioner for Social Services, and represented Silicon Valley in the State Assembly. She is currently elected countywide to the State Board of Equalization.
At the local level, she enacted a ban on advertising tobacco products to children, created childcare and adult day health facilities, fought against displacement of renters and for mobile home and apartment rent control, and for low-income and immigrant families’ access to leadership opportunities and services.
In the Assembly, Lieber waged a successful three-year battle to raise the statewide minimum wage, enacted renters’ protections and authored numerous bills to protect civil rights and provide for mental health and disability services.
She authored the California Trafficking Victims’ Protection Act, the Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act to address the use of the ‘panic defense’ in hate crimes cases, and legislation to create the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority.
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