Category: Nonprofit News
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Women’s Empowerment Receives 2-Year Grant from Kelly Foundation
Women’s Empowerment has received a two-year grant of $50,000 in 2025 and 2026 from the Kelly Foundation to empower Sacramento women experiencing homelessness to find affordable housing as they look for jobs with upward…
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Report Shows United Way Guaranteed Income Program a Success
A report released today by Sacramento State shows United Way California Capital Region’s guaranteed income program improved financial, housing and food security from July 2023-June 2024, with an additional white paper showing some continued…
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Local Resident to Hold Rummage Sale Benefiting Meals on Wheels Yolo County
Woodland resident and volunteer Dorothy Murphy will host a community-wide rummage sale on Oct. 24-26 to benefit Meals on Wheels Yolo County. The event will take place 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. at 530 5th Street…
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Second Yolo No Kings March and Rally on Oct. 18
Drawing on momentum from the first Yolo NO KINGS march and rally in June that gathered more than 4,000 participants, Indivisible Yolo and Davis Phoenix Coalition will host a second Yolo NO KINGS event…
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United Way & Women United Present Innovate & Ignite Oct. 9
Women across the greater Sacramento region are invited to “Innovate and Ignite,” United Way California Capital Region’s Women United fall fundraiser on Oct. 9 that will raise funds for the local United Way’s foster…
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Volunteers Needed to Help Kids Read Through United Way
United Way California Capital Region is seeking volunteers to help Sacramento kindergarteners learn to read through its partnership with Fortune School’s Kindergarten Reading program. Volunteer tutors will work in small groups with kindergarten students…
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United Way Launches Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Sacramento County
Sacramento County children from birth to age 5 now can receive one free book in the mail each month, regardless of family income, through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which launched in Sacramento today through…
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Tickets on Sale for Women’s Empowerment Gala
Women’s Empowerment will hold its 24th Annual Gala on Sept. 19, where guests will gather to raise funds for the Sacramento nonprofit that is celebrating its 100th session educating, empowering and employing Sacramento women…
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United Way Wins Two Telly Awards
United Way California Capital Region has been honored with two Telly Awards for its brand launch commercial, “Future Forward.” The commercial earned a Silver People’s Telly Award in the General Local TV category and…
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United Way Expands College Guaranteed Income Program
Twenty former foster youth studying at Sacramento State and University of California, Davis, received their first payments today from United Way California Capital Region’s Collegiate Guaranteed Income program that will provide them with $500…