Sacramento County Community Service & Support Digest

Learn more about the services provided by the Elk Grove Food Bank and how you can help them in feeding the hungry and food insecure.

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

The Citrus Heights Rotary Foundation has donated $100,000 to the Citrus Heights Veterans Memorial Project which plans to build a Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall.

Sacramento County in partnership with United Way is launching a basic income pilot program for qualifying families.

Applications are open to fill a vacancy on the Rio Linda Elverta Recreation and Park District Board of Directors for a term ending in December 2026.

A look at the community garden in west Del Paso Heights purchased by the Sacramento Community Land Trust in June 2024.

The Rancho Cordova Youth Center is home to children's book vending machine thanks to a gift from the Rancho Cordova Kiwanis Club.

A spotlight on the community service provided by the Elk Grove Food Bank and Executive Director Marie Jachino.

The annual Independence from Hunger food drive hosted by the Citrus Heights Grocery Outlet is seeking donations to reach this year's goal of $15,000 to be given to the Sunrise Christian Food Ministry food bank.

Beginning Monday, 150 households in Fresno County are expected to receive a $500 prepaid card to spend on anything they’d like — no strings attached. It will be the first of 12 monthly recurring payments those Southwest Fresno and Huron residents will receive as part of a guaranteed basic income program for low-income families.

The Sacramento Observer list of free food locations in Sacramento County.

In the May 22 meeting, Elk Grove City Councilmember Sergio Robles advocated the study of a Basic Universal Income program for residents participating in city workforce development programs.

Sacramento State will be home to the central office for the $10 million Black student advancement drive on all 23 California State University campuses.

Gov. Gavin Newsom launched the community school initiative with $4.1 billion in grants to connect students and their families to medical care, counseling and other services.

On May 9, a Solving Sacramento panel discussion were upbeat on the potential for Sacramento to grow an inclusive economy.

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation announced the May 2 Big Day of Giving had raised $13.2 million in donations to 826 nonprofits in El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo counties.

Since the center’s founding, Faith Whitmore and employees have served nearly 27,000 victims, including 13,000 children.

The Cornerstone affordable housing community of 108 apartments and 18 single family homes built in partnership with Habitat for Humanity offers services for formerly unhoused local residents and home ownership opportunities.

Spending an early morning picking up parking lot trash only to return in a few days to it being just as litter-filled is a defeating feeling, according to 19-year-old clean-up participant Darius Jacobs.

Sia Magadan of Rio Linda has joined United Way California Capital Region as director of its impact department, which runs the nonprofit’s many programs focused on ending poverty for local families starting in school.

The Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe has a time-limited opportunity to purchase 232 acres on a Nisenan Village site called Yulića—the tribe’s best opportunity to re-establish a homeland in more than half a century.

Sacramento Community Land Trust serves historically discriminated communities, and its primary objective is to preserve affordable housing. For the first time since its founding in 2017, SCLT has appointed an executive director: Tamika L’Ecluse.

Sacramento Steps Forward still needs about 100 volunteers for its upcoming two-day Point-In-Time count, which documents how many are experiencing homelessness in Sacramento.

During the Jan. 11 Citrus Heights City Council meeting, staff unveiled a new online platform designed to foster community involvement through volunteering.

Nueva Epoca is one of several Sacramento programs that prepare people from underrepresented communities to serve in public office.

“Progress remains slow,” according to a recent report on faculty diversity at California’s community colleges. For Nikia Chaney, the sole full-time Black faculty member at Cabrillo College, the experience is personal.

Since its inception in 2003, the National Black Justice Coalition has been America’s premier civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer+, and same-gender-loving people.

Emery Unified took a targeted approach, including paying teachers extra to stay after school and tutor students.

State audits of the University of California and the California State University found both systems have failed to comply with decades-old state and federal laws mandating the return of Native ancestral remains and cultural artifacts. Only UCLA and Cal State Long Beach have returned a majority of their collections.

The financial aid application for undocumented students is cumbersome and confusing, and many students aren’t completing the forms. A new law streamlines the process.

Federal funding for domestic violence shelters and housing programs is declining. Advocates want the state to step in, but with a record projected deficit new spending is unlikely.

Despite a few improvements, results show students are still struggling on several fronts.