CValdo team members have volunteered in organizations and participated in many events within the communities where we live including: high school Shadow Day, career fairs at local universities, staffing volunteer positions after local wildfires, holding office in professional organizations, beach and creek cleanup days, college advisory and youth sports advisory boards, and coaching of various youth sports.

GIVING

Each year CValdo makes charitable contributions to help improve the lives of others. Giving is typically done as a $500 donation for each charity chosen that year but has varied between $250 and $2,500 for individual charities depending on available funds and direction from staff. Charities donated to, as chosen by CValdo staff, include:

Becky’s House / YWCA

A short-term residential program in San Diego for women, men, and children in need of immediate protection from domestic violence.

Riverside County Department of Mental Health

Providing child and adult mental health services throughout Riverside County.

Ronald McDonald House San Diego

Provides food and lodging to families whose children are undergoing care for critical illnesses at local hospitals.

Mission Hope

Provides child and family services aimed at stopping cycles of abuse and poverty, located in Temecula.

Sister Song

A national activist organization dedicated to reproductive justice for women of color, located in Atlanta Georgia.

Debbie Allen Dance Academy

Their world-class facility and staff use dance, theater, and performance to enrich, inspire, and transform the lives of their students, located in Los Angeles, CA.

Maui Food Bank

Provides safe and nutritious food to anyone in Maui County who is at risk of going hungry.


Mama’s Kitchen

Mama’s Kitchen strives to provide nutritional support to San Diego residents at risk of malnutrition due to critical illnesses such as HIV, cancer, congestive heart failure, type 2 diabetes, and chronic kidney disease.


St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Advances cures and means of prevention for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment, regardless of a child’s race, religion, or a family’s ability to pay.


The Wildlands Conservancy

Protects beauty and offers to bring beauty into people’s daily lives by protecting preserves in perpetuity, ensuring all preserves are open to the public for free for passive recreation, providing free youth outdoor education programs, healing human impacts to the land and biodiversity, ensuring preserved lands are not used as mitigation banks, carbon offsets, or as any other commodity, and preventing exploitation of preserves by commercial interests.


Prevent Child Abuse America

The nation’s oldest and largest organization committed to preventing child abuse and neglect before it happens. Promoting programs and resources informed by science that enable kids, families, and entire communities to thrive today, tomorrow, and for generations to come.


Homeward Bound

Provides safe, stable homes, paired with long-term intensive case management services, to highly vulnerable, chronically homeless individuals.

Campaign for Southern Equality

Works across the Southern United States to strike down anti-LGBTQ laws, promote pro-LGBTQ policies, and promote policies that support racial equity, economic justice and immigration reform.

Feeding San Diego

A food bank in San Diego aimed at combating hunger for all ages.

Riverside University Health Systems Behavioral Health

Provides treatment and support services throughout Riverside County to transition-age youth, adults, and older adults who have a mental illness.

San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy

Stewards of open space offering programs including educational field trips to youth and adults within the San Dieguito River Valley.

The Rick and Anne Matsen Endowed Professorship for Shoulder Research

Assuring the future of cutting-edge patient-centered research at the University of Washington for patients with shoulder problems including arthritis, rotator cuff tears, dislocations, fractures, and failed prior surgery.


Allyson Comperatore GoFundMe

Support for the daughter of Corey Comperatore, who lost his life while protecting his family from gunfire in 2024 at the rally for Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.


Wounded Warrior Project

Improves the lives of millions of service members who incurred a physical or mental injury, through direct programs in mental health, career counseling, and long-term rehabilitative care, along with legislative advocacy efforts.


Anera (American Near East Refugee Aid)

Works on the ground without political or religious affiliation with partners in West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, and Jordan, to mobilize resources for immediate emergency relief and for sustainable, long-term health, education, and economic development.


Doctors Without Borders

Providing medical care to people affected by conflict, disasters, epidemics, and social exclusion, based solely on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender, or political affiliation.


Baby2Baby

Provides children living in poverty across the country with diapers, clothing, and the basic necessities that every child deserves.


Temecula Community Food Pantry

Where low-income and homeless people can sign up to receive food. Phone: (951) 444-1404. Donations made via call-in.


Terra Peninsular

Organization committed to the protection of ecosystems and wildlife in Baja California, helping to protect and manage natural resources of the peninsula for sustainable uses that are compatible with ecological processes.