Castro Country Club
Castro Country Club (CCC) is looking for volunteers for the closing shift of their café, The Club. The Club is open 365 days a year and provides a safe and social space for people to go in the heart of the Castro. Volunteers are key to keeping the café running – come get trained to be a barista and support CCC’s mission. The shift runs Saturday nights from 6:00pm – 10:00pm.
Learn more and fill out the application here.
Just Solutions
Just Solutions shared Thriving in Our Own Homes: Electrification and Affordable Housing with Annie Carforo, the first video of their newest series on YouTube.
The series, Just Solutions: Collective Stories, shares uplifting and equitable solutions through storytelling focused on the impactful and motivating experiences of environmental justice leaders and advocates.
Follow their YouTube page here.
National Writing Project
This October, National Writing Project will hold Write Out 2024: Poetry for the Planet, a two week celebration of writing, making, and sharing inspired by the great outdoors. This public invitation to get out and create will include a series of online activities made especially for educators, students, and families, and promote the exploration of national parks and other public spaces. Participants can connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing by using the common hashtag #writeout. Information sessions will begin in August so make sure to sign up and stay informed.
The event will be held October 13–27, 2024. Sign up here.
East Bay Getting to Zero
This past June, HIV care services providers from Alameda and Contra Costa counties gathered at Alameda County’s Redwood Room for East Bay Getting to Zero’s June Regional Case Managers Meeting. Attendees networked, shared updates, and addressed challenges while learning about legal service referrals, housing searches for formerly incarcerated clients, and personal well-being practices. Visit their site to browse the presentation slides from this event.
Presentation slides can be found here.
Try Our Fiscal Sponsorship Calculator!
Now you can do the math and help decide if Fiscal Sponsorship makes sense for your nonprofit project. The first-ever Fiscal Sponsorship Calculator is designed to be an easy-to-use tool that provides a high-level comparison of the savings of fiscal sponsorship versus running an independent 501c3. All you need is your project’s estimated annual revenue and number of paid full-time employees.
Try it here.
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