Sacramento County Local News: Community Service & Support

After more than two decades, one of Folsom’s most passionate purveyors of the arts is hanging it up. Cindy Abraham, of the city’s Gallery 48 at Natoma, has retired.

Project Attain, a nonprofit that helps adults navigate and achieve higher education, offers a handful of programs for esidents of the eight-county Sacramento region with some or no college education looking to get back to their educational goals.

For more than four decades, YoloCares has helped families navigate life’s final stages.

The Twin Lakes Food Bank in Folsom routinely serves 200 households a week with food assistance. With that number climbing to 300 in February, the local nonprofit is suffering a shortage, leaving many of the shelves bare in its warehouse as inflation continues to affect just about everyone at the grocery store, the gas pump, and in the way of utility costs.

Locally based SAFE Credit Union has launched its announce 2024 Scholarship Program will grant four (4) $4,000 scholarships to graduating high school seniors and community college students who meet the eligibility requirements this year for a total of $16,000. 

MinervaVerse will be the first venture capital fund founded by women in the Sacramento region and will offer wraparound support to entrepreneurs through their fund, accelerator and business incubators.

The founder of the nonprofit organization Beauty 2 The Streetz visited Sacramento to provide local homeless with beauty supplies and essentials.

For more than three decades, local resident Terry Gold has operated and maintained the small-scale Folsom Valley Railroad, an iconic part of Folsom’s Lions Park.

Girl Scouts Heart of Central California has announced the launch of the 2024 Girl Scout cookie season, bringing treats to communities in the Sacramento, Stockton, and Modesto regions.

This is the 26th consecutive year the local museum community has presented this event, but it requires advance registration.

Hazel Watson is one of five community organizers with Sacramento Area Congregations Together, who work to facilitate communication between community members and elected officials.

The biennial survey, which continues in neighborhoods, parks and along riverbanks countywide, does more than just tally the region’s unhoused residents.

Sacramento County is celebrating volunteers who are 50 years of age and older for the county’s 5 Over 50 Volunteer Award.