El Dorado County Community Service & Support Digest

Applications for El Dorado Community Foundation grants are open, with a deadline of May 1.

The 29th annual Box Lunch fundraiser for the Child Advocates of El Dorado County is scheduled for April 29th. This group dedicated to helping children in the foster care court system needs your support.

Three Live Your Dream recipients were honored by the Soroptimist International of Cameron Park/El Dorado Hills at an event held in February at the Cameron Park Country Club.

The 29th annual Box Lunch Fundraiser for the Child Advocates of El Dorado County is set for April 24.

Food aid is one of numerous competing priorities California lawmakers will have to juggle in the face of steep potential federal cuts.

Applications are open to fill two seats on the El Dorado County Community Action Council to represent low income residents of the county.

Applications are open to serve on the El Dorado County Civil Grand Jury. Read on to learn more, and consider applying!

Read on to learn more about the El Dorado County Community Action Council, and consider applying to fill one of the open seats!

Read on to learn more about the Child Advocates of El Dorado County and their April 24 Box Lunch fundraiser, and consider supporting this group doing good work in the community,

A $5 billion pot of federal money set aside to help people on the verge of homelessness pay the rent is running out of cash — and no one has a plan to keep the roughly 60,000 renters, more than 15,000 of them in California — from losing their housing after the last dollar is spent.

Ruby Marichalar couldn’t get an in-person meeting after California’s crime victim compensation fund denied her claim. She wasn’t the only one.

Read on to learn more about the three members who have joined the El Dorado Community Foundation Board of Directors.

Read on to learn how you can help fight hunger in El Dorado County at the 25th annual Empty Bowls Dinner in Placerville on March 8.

Read on for details about a report on the 2-year Yolo County Basic Income Program which ended in April 2024.

Read on for more information about the work of the California Tahoe Conservancy, established by the State of California in 1984.

Read on to learn more about the El Dorado Roses and their function as the official hostesses for El Dorado County at many local community events.

Learn how you can apply for scholarships and grants from the Women’s Fund El Dorado.

Read on to learn how your donation to the El Dorado Community Foundation Giving Circle will contribute to scholarships for local graduating seniors entering college.

Learn how you can participate in the El Dorado Community Foundation scholarship giving circle and help send a local high school senior to college.

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS ARE proving that they play a vital role when it comes to public safety in California. The California Reentry Institute, directed by Collette Carroll to help potential parolees, has graduated more than 230 incarcerated individuals in San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.

Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe held the 20th annual holiday luncheon and auction, raising $10,000 for scholarships and program benefitting young women. Read on to learn more and enjoy photos from the ugly sweater contest.

If your project improves the Lake Tahoe environment, read on to learn more about how to apply for a 2025 Tahoe Fund Grant.

Learn more about the new Upper Room Dining Hall food truck serving the hungry and food insecure in El Dorado County.

Learn how Kings Meats and community partners donated turkeys to over 700 underprivileged families this holiday season.

Read on for information about the local businesses working with the League to Save Lake Tahoe.

November has been designated by Tahoe Youth and Family Services as a time to focus on runaway or homeless youth in the community. Read on to learn more.

Read on for details about the new disaster response sponsorship program launched by the West Slope Foundation.

Learn how you can help the Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe provide Thanksgiving family meals in the community.

Applications are open for California Department of Fish and Wildlife Vamos a Pescar grants to support outdoor multi-lingual outdoor programs.

Learn more about the annual fundraising day on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, this year falling on December 3.

Local nonprofit Bread & Broth is asking the community for donations to support their annual Thanksgiving dinner.

Not content with just saving lives and protecting property, South Lake Tahoe firefighters have started a nonprofit foundation to raise funds to make the community better.