San Joaquin County Community Service & Support Digest

A look at the recipients of Manteca Soroptimist Club scholarships awarded this year to local women to pursue higher education or vocational training.

Following abrupt USDA cuts to the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, the Stockton Emergency Food Bank is scrambling to make up the deficit in the face of growing local need.

The free Seamless Lunch Summer Program runs from May 28 through July 18 providing free lunches to local youth aged 2-18 years at parks in Manteca, Lathrop, and Weston Ranch.

A report on the 32nd Annual Shrimp Dinner fundraiser for the Tracy Sunrise Rotary Club on April 5.

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

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

The Lodi Community Foundation is the recipient of a huge $30 million gift from Lodi native Sheila Wishek. Wow! Read on for details.

Read on for more information about the second Braver Angels workshop scheduled for March 1 in Manteca.

Read on to learn more about the Stockton Service Corp, which has supported more than 8,300 local students, awarded more than $1.6 million in sub-grants and just completed its new three-year strategic plan.

Read on to learn more about the $30 million gift bestowed to the Lodi Community Foundation following the passing of local resident Sheila Wishek.

Read on to learn more about how the Rotary Club of Tracy has worked for 95 years to make the community better.

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.

Get the details about the Manteca Soroptimist annual holiday fundraiser held on December 11 and learn more about their support for the Teen Crisis Counseling Crisis project and other services in the community.

Volunteers with the Emergency Food Bank of Stockton/San Joaquin annual Thanksgiving Food Giveaway passed out Thanksgiving meals to 2,801 families on November 26. Read on to learn more.

Winter is coming, and the Ripon Rotary Club has launched its Winter Coat Drive to assist those in need in keeping warm and dry. Learn how you can help.

Learn about the 52nd annual Manteca Chamber of Commerce hosted Christmas Parade scheduled for December 7.

Help Bikes for Kids meet their goal of refurbishing 300 previously owned bikes to be donated on December 14 to underprivileged children. Learn more and volunteer.

On October 30, the Tracy Rotary presented a donation of $10,000 to support the McHenry House Family Shelter expansion project.

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

Learn more about the Tracy Connects event held on October 22 and the donations made to five groups working in the community.

The Manteca Chamber of Commerce is seeking a volunteer to coordinate the distribution of flags for placement throughout the city on holidays.

Measure R, calling for drug screening of recipients of aid, was approved to go on the November ballot by the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors.

With its opening still months away, the Thomas Toy Teen Center is seeking donations and volunteers, and is hosting an open house on August 15.

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.

TNT Fireworks donated $15,000 to six Lodi nonprofits who had been unable to operate firework stands because of a clerical error.

The new Thomas Toy Community Center in Manteca is calling for volunteers as it prepares to open in September.

Connie Meintasis, Marion Thibodeau, and Jan Brown were memorialized on May 28 by the Manteca Soroptimists with new trees planted in the Soroptimist Grove public park at Snowcap Drive and Pestana Avenue.

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

The Thomas Toy Community Center at Fremont and Yosemite Avenue held an open house on May 17 ahead of its official opening in September.

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.