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Dear Fellow Member of the Woodside-Portola Valley Fire Protection District,

Thank you for your encouragement during this transformational time for our Fire District! Your generous support means the world to our community, ensuring the availability of life-saving equipment and facilities that are essential for our first responders to provide the wide range and high quality of emergency services our community needs to thrive.

Our website, like our fire stations, is under construction in order to bring you improved content and security for your donations. We'll be back for our 2023 Annual Campaign in the fall. Thank you for your patience and your support! 

Dear Fellow Residents, 

Thank you for answering our call to action during this extraordinary year when we all contended with the ongoing impacts of wildfires and the global pandemic. Once again, generous members from every one of our seven service areas stepped up to strengthen our Fire District’s ability to help our communities stay as healthy and safe as possible. Here’s to you, Woodside, Portola Valley, Emerald Hills, Ladera, Los Trancos, Skyline, and Vista Verde. 

2019 Donations: $262,000 

2020 Donations: $450,000 - a 72% increase in support! 

The past year’s significant funding increase resulted from a greater overall number of gifts from households in the community, as well as an uptick in levels of support from many of our longtime supporters, including one extraordinary, anonymous gift of $100,000. 

Please join us in acknowledging all of the contributors to the 2020 appeal listed on the enclosed donor roll. 

Preparedness will continue to be key to protecting the wonderful people and places in our District. 

Please consider making a generous gift to the 2021 Annual Fundraising Campaign. Your support will make a tremendous difference in our ability to swiftly and effectively respond to the health and safety challenges ahead. 

As always, funds contributed to the Woodside-Portola Valley Fire Protection Foundation by our friends and neighbors will be used to equip our first responders with life-saving tools and essential resources that are not covered by the operating budget. 

Please use any of these three methods to make your gift today: 

• Mail a check made out to Woodside-Portola Valley Fire Protection Foundation using the envelope provided 
• Donate online through our website www.FireDistrictFoundation.org 
• Direct a gift via Paypal to Woodside-Portola Valley Fire Protection Foundation 

With thanks for your consideration, 

Board of Directors 
Woodside-Portola Valley Fire Protection Foundation

Please see the 2021-Annual-Campaign-letter.

Dear Woodside Fire Protection District, 

We are beyond grateful for the consistent flow of support from neighbors in our seven primary service areas of Woodside, PV, Emerald Hill, Ladera, Los Trancos, Skyline, and Vista Verde. 

Thanks to the community’s generosity in 2019, we used the funds to provide critical training and equipment for our first responders in 2020. Tim Richards, 20-year veteran Woodside Firefighter says, “On behalf of all of us at Woodside Fire, I would like to thank you for your generous contributions to the foundation. The tools, equipment and vehicles that your gifts have helped us purchase over the years are critical to our response efforts and get used literally every day. We have a tremendous sense of pride in the quality of our equipment. It is the best that money can buy and makes our jobs safer, easier, and more effective every single day.” 

Please join us in tipping our hats to all of the contributors to the 2019 Campaign.

As you are well aware, 2020 has been a year of staggering, unprecedented health and safety challenges due to the impact of Covid-19 and widespread wildfires. The case for investing in our local Fire District has never been stronger. 

Please join us in making a generous contribution to our annual campaign to the support the Woodside Fire Protection District. 

As always, funds provided by our friends and neighbors will be used to equip our first responders with life-saving tools that are not covered by the operating budget. 

For the safety and well-being of our community, please take a moment today to make your contribution. 

With thanks for your consideration, 

Board of Directors
Woodside-Portola Valley Fire Protection Foundation 

Donate Today!

Dear Friends of the Fire District,

Thank you once again for stepping up to support your local first responders. Collective contributions from you and your neighbors in Woodside, Portola Valley, Emerald Hills, Ladera, Los Trancos, Skyline, and Vista Verde totaled more than $257,000 in 2018, representing an increase of 2.5% over contributions in 2017. As we do at this time each year, we invite you to stand with us in support of our local Fire District through making a generous contribution to our annual campaign.

Double the impact of your gift!

Long-time Portola Valley residents – and avid supporters of the fire district’s CERPP emergency response and preparedness program – Onnolee and Bud Trapp will generously match NEW donor contributions to the fire foundation. To encourage their neighbors in the district to get involved, Onnolee and Bud will match gifts of any size received by December 31, 2014 from first-time donors, dollar for dollar, to a total of $10,000. Donate today and double the impact of your contribution

Funded this year with your contributions:

• Improved emergency medical services: cardiac monitor/defibrillators to replace outdated units on support trucks, enabling paramedics to provide consistent all-life support (ALS) from all vehicles.
• New station planning: preliminary analysis for our new headquarters station on Woodside Road.
• Mobilized community training: a new vehicle and trailer complete with AV system that enables WFPD to bring essential training directly to your neighborhood.
• Expanded fire prevention: a second chipper to expand the fuel reduction program.
• Enhanced public education: an expanded smoke alarm program to targeted neighborhoods.
• Added after-the-incident help: a specialized booklet for residents recovering from natural disaster or medical emergency.
• Improved firefighter safety: specialized washers for cleaning our firefighters’ protective clothing.

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