Regional News

The Sacramento area’s first 24-hour online giving drive for arts groups raised more than $400,000.

The online Day of Giving raised $411,907, according to Arts Day of Giving website. A total of 3,460 gifts were received.

In exchange for donations, donors got discounts from 27 different restaurants and businesses…

After donating to a local Japanese drumming troupe, Donna Reedy was feeling upbeat.

And frankly, a little hungry.

The state employee was standing in line at the Drewski’s Hot Rod food truck Monday afternoon, donation receipt in hand, about to cash in on a $1 discount from the mobile eatery…

Nonprofits in Yuba-Sutter are struggling financially due to economic constraints, and volunteers are working even harder to keep programs alive.

The Nonprofit Resource Center in Sacramento, which supports 18 counties including Yuba and Sutter, said organizations these days are expected to do more with less…

The nation’s leading nonprofits accomplish their missions by sharing leadership with their volunteers, a practice that consultants Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant chronicle in their book “Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits.”

Grant will share all six practices on May 8 at The California Museum, 1020 O St., in Sacramento. Monday, in an interview, she spoke about the importance of nurturing nonprofit networks and inspiring volunteers, or evangelists as the authors call them…

An executive and spokeswoman for the Sacramento County Airport System is taking the top job at the Sacramento Region Community Foundation.

Portland, Ore.-based Umpqua Bank has awarded grants to three Sacramento-area nonprofits through its Joy of Giving campaign on Facebook.

Sacramento’s Mutual Housing California was awarded $5,000. Women’s Empowerment in Sacramento was granted $2,000, and Roseville Home Start received $1,000…

There’s a new flavor in the Big Tomato: pride in this city’s farms, food and restaurants.  Fed by a homegrown generation of chefs and farmers working collaboratively, this formerly beleaguered bastion of blah has blossomed into a vibrant village feasting on fresh, locally grown produce, meat and fish.

A push to raise more than $300 million locally for new museums, science centers and arts venues is making strong headway, despite five years of economic gloom.

Sacramento’s business community on Friday celebrated corporate support of local nonprofits at the Sacramento Business Journal’s annual Partners in Philanthropy awards.

A Sacramento nonprofit called Fresh Producers harnesses the entrepreneurial zeal of students to make fresh fruit and vegetables more available in low-income neighborhoods…

After losing Sunshine, her beloved dog, to old age nearly 25 years ago, Gail Catlin and her children started searching for a canine companion who would attempt to one day walk in Sunshine’s footsteps.

“I looked at puppies wherever I went,” said Catlin, currently the  Executive Director at the Sacramento-based Nonprofit Resource  Center. “One day I found myself at a local pet store and fell in love  with what I thought was a purebred Golden Retriever. Before I know it, I was driving home with a little ball of fluff that we named Poppy.”

Just a couple of months after joining the Catlin family, Poppy began to limp, favoring one of her hind legs. It was determined that, at just seven months of age, Poppy was suffering from severe hip dysplasia and would require surgery…

Craig McNamara, the son of former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, balances public policy work with organic farming and teaching in the Sacramento Valley.

The gig: Craig McNamara is a sustainable farming expert, organic walnut farmer in the Sacramento Valley town of Winters, founder of the nonprofit Center for Land-Based Learning and the California Farm Academy, and president of the state Board of Food and Agriculture, which advises state officials on farming policies…

The CEO of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation announced in an email to supporters and friends on Monday that she is leaving the foundation at the end of this year or early next year…

Marty Keale, executive director of the Capitol Health Network for the past four years, retired Friday.

A local nonprofit that has helped represent nearly 10,000 clients in legal matters in Placer and surrounding counties over the past four years alone has lost $165,847 in grant funding over the past two years, along with vital state and federal funding.  In the wake of massive federal and state funding cuts, Northern California Legal Services Motherlode Region, based in Downtown Auburn, and its other offices throughout Northern California, have had to start turning away many low-income residents desperate for legal help.

Now, the legal nonprofit can only help people covered under very specific grants…

He may be a Democrat. He may have just won re-election. But Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson apparently still has a long way to go to impress the local Democratic Party.

In the latest sign of how fractured that relationship remains, the Democratic Party of Sacramento County has urged city officials to investigate the use of City Hall resources by Johnson’s nonprofit organizations.

Because of painful spinal deterioration, 88-year-old Lois Clark can’t stand up long enough to cook dinner for herself. Five mornings a week, volunteers from Meals on Wheels by ACC deliver her main meal of the day, which Clark refrigerates until later, then zaps in a microwave to reheat…

Marty Keale, a CEO-Link graduate and ED of Nonprofit Resource Center Member Organization Capitol Community Health Network, is featured in the June 22, 2012 issue of the Sacramento Business Journal.

Twenty years ago, at the age of 50, Marty Keale decided to change careers.

“I decided to become involved with health care,” he said. “I had been thinking about it for a long time because my son had health problems from when he was very young, and it was always a tremendous struggle to get competent care for him.

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He is currently executive director of the Capitol Community Health Network — a consortium of local clinics that serves the uninsured and underinsured people of Sacramento County — and was the executive director of CARES, the regional HIV and AIDS healthcare center for six years. He also serves on the advisory board for the California HIV Research Program, an arm of the University of California…