TO CELEBRATE LIFE AWARDS ANNUAL GRANTS
To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer Foundation awarded $240,000 in grants to 14 Bay Area nonprofit organizations on April 9 in Sausalito, supporting women and men with breast health issues. These…
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SOMA AQUATICS KICKS OFF SUMMER PARTNERSHIP
The Strawberry Seals Swim Team officially approved the continuation of its impactful partnership with 2024 Giving Marin grant recipient Soma Aquatics Foundation to support free summer learn-to-swim programming for youth…
BAY AREA CREATIVE YOUTH AWARDS ANNOUNCED
The Bay Area Creative Foundation announced the 2025 Creative Youth awardees. This year, the fifth annual Creative Youth Awards received submissions from Bay Area high school students in seven creative…
MARIN HISTORY MUSEUM ANNIVERSARY GALA CELEBRATES 26 IMPACTFUL WOMEN
The Marin History Museum marked its 90th anniversary with a sold-out gala on March 30 at the Mill Valley Community Center. The event was attended by more than 225 supporters,…
BIG SHRED DEEMED A SUCCESS FOR SVDP
St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin was the recipient of all donations made at the Big Shred, hosted April 12 by Anne and Tim Russell of Valley Oak Wealth…
BofA PROGRAM SUPPORTS HOMEWARD BOUND
Volunteers from Bank of America spent part of their 2025 Employee Expo packing 100 toiletry bags for people in Homeward Bound’s shelter and housing programs. It was the latest project…
SAN QUENTIN MEDIATORS GRADUATE
A second group of incarcerated men at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center will graduate from a 16-month, comprehensive Transformative Justice Mediation Training program on May 1. The program is designed to…
STUDENT CELLIST SHINES IN NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Enriching Lives through Music announced that Dulce Solis, a cellist and sophomore at San Rafael High School, has been selected as one of 12 youth ambassadors for El Sistema USA’s…
GRANT CONNECTS COMMUNITIES WITH PARKS
The County of Marin will again award up to $200,000 in Measure A funding to community-based organizations this summer to help overcome barriers and connect communities to parks. The maximum…
HEARTS AND HANDS SPREADS JOY TO SENIORS
Last year, Archie Williams High School freshman Charlotte Hendrey began regularly volunteering for various assisted living facilities in Marin playing piano and doing art with the residents. She soon realized…