Eleven local nonprofits awarded funding totaling $75,000
Eleven local nonprofits awarded funding totaling $75,000 Giving Marin Community Partnership awarded $75,000 in grants to 11 nonprofits on March 12 at the David Wain Coon Center for Student Success at College of Marin in Kentfield. Marin charities have received $575,000 in grants and more than $5 million in advertising space donations since the initiative’s 2018 inception.
Marla Hedlund and CEO Tara Peterson of Center for Domestic Peace (from left) accept a grant from
Giving Marin Sponsor Melissa Prandi and Marin
Independent Journal Publisher Rob Devincenzi.
“This year the grant committee leaned in to fund basic human needs… a bed, a hand-up to cover someone’s rent, food for a small pantry for the county’s most vulnerable residents,” Rob Devincenzi, Marin Independent Journal publisher, told the crowd alongside Giving Marin Coordinator Sara Moseley. “It’s harder to learn as a student when you’re hungry, it’s hard to thrive when you don’t have a secure roof over your head. Marin is a community unlike any other for people who step up to help others. We are proud to play a small role in affecting change and to support these 11 nonprofits’ incredible missions.”
Matt Smyth of Marin Alano Club shares the impact of the grant on his organization.
The grant winners, selected among more than 100 applicants, were introduced by the underwriters of Giving Marin. They are: Bread and Roses Presents, Center for Domestic Peace, Ceres Project, Extra Food, Gilead House, Marin Alano Club, Marin Center for Independent Living, Marin Humane, North Bay Children’s Center, St Anthony’s Conference of St. Vincent de Paul and Wednesday’s Gift.
Support for Giving Marin’s 2025 grant winners is made possible through Partners Redwood Credit Union, Kaiser Permanente, Ghilotti Bros. Inc., College of Marin, Brayton Purcell/Thirty-Seven Wines, Nugget Markets, Price Family Dealerships, CPi Developers and Marin Independent Journal, and Sponsors Prandi Property Management, City Carpets, Valley Memorial Park Cemetery and Funeral Home, Northern Pacific Roofing, Ultragenyx, Bay Area Bluestone and The Barbara and Charles Goodman Foundation. In addition to annual cash grants, their generosity allows publicity through upward of 50 ads in the IJ supporting Marin-based 501(c)(3)s each month. For more information, visit givingmarin.com.
Hossein Bakhtiari of City Carpets, Teal Conroy and CEO Nancy McKenney of Marin Humane, Leigh Bakhtiari of City Carpets and Rob Devincenzi (from left).
Carrie Scrimshire, CEO of Gilead House, accepts a Giving Marin grant.
Ted Jackson, CEO of Marin Center for Independent Living, thanks Giving Marin supporters.
Partners and Sponsors who support the Giving Marin Community Partnership gather at the David Wain Coon Center for Student Success at College of Marin in Kentfield.
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