Sticking a Fork in Hunger
Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services takes in a half-million pounds of produce in one day
After staging a cattle drive across the Tower Bridge and a tractor parade down Capitol Mall, Mike Testa and his Visit Sacramento staff faced a huge challenge: How could they broaden the impact of Sacramento’s Farm-to-Fork Month kickoff?
Soil Born Builds a Pipeline
In 2004, four years after launching their first farm, the founders of Soil Born Farms Urban Agriculture and Education Project incorporated their group as a nonprofit to help others see the value of growing food within cities, spreading the philosophy of “healthy food for all.”
Grow Your Own Way
Does the evolution of urban agriculture reveal a schism in the community or a movement picking up steam?
Ten years into the movement, and urban farming in the Sacramento region has garnered widespread support. Agrihoods now represent the latest development in the movement — but will they strengthen or overshadow it?
Donating for Impact? Don’t Restrict Your Dollars
Funders may tell you that restricted funding increases nonprofit transparency, but what exactly are funders so afraid nonprofit leaders will do if given the flexibility and implied trust that comes with unrestricted funding?
Alchemist Switches It Up
Sacramento-based community development corporation selects new executive director
If Davida Douglas had one word to describe her ideal Sacramento community, she would choose “equitable.”
Say Yes
Yes 2 Kollege helps African-American students find an education and a career
Dee Lucien is waiting patiently. She’s on the shortlist for a spot in the prestigious doctoral program at UC Davis’ Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, thanks to a full-ride scholarship she says she never would have known about if it hadn’t been for one local nonprofit.
Sponsored
The Next Generation of Giving
Giving back and making an impact are critical priorities among millennials, and Metro EDGE members are no different. Forbes characterized our generation as one that integrates “the causes they care about into their daily routines and purchase behaviors.” But it goes beyond selecting specific brands or businesses that give back to our global community or position themselves as businesses that do good. Millennials want to participate and see tangible results.
From the Editors: July Business Recap
Comstock’s monthly look at the business news in the Capital Region. So what happened in July (and the tail end of June)?
Best Seat in the House
California Musical Theatre finds a new way to tell old stories
Those who have seen past California Musical Theatre productions of Beauty and the Beast were in for a treat this year: The “tale as old as time” is decidedly new and improved thanks to a recent influx of grant money from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.
Indelible Impressions
916 Ink hosts creative writing classes for children at their “Imaginarium” in Sacramento
Katie McCleary and 916 Ink co-founder Michael Spurgeon knew they wanted to start a creative nonprofit for children when they met at a writer’s conference in 2010. They believed Sacramento could support such a program because there was already a strong writing community here, nurtured by programs like the Sacramento Poetry Center, but there was a glaring, missing piece in Sacramento’s creative writing community — a youth program.