Yolo County Community Service & Support Digest

The two recipients of the 2024 Democracy Works Award will be honored by the League of Women Voters of Woodland on November 19. Click to find out more.

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

An introduction to Maria Roa who was hired as a community service officer with the Woodland Police Department.

The Teichert Foundation awarded a $5,000 grant to Make It Happen for Yolo County in providing household resources and support to youth entering adulthood and living on their own.

Davisville explores the Davis Night Market which recently marked its fifth year of the nightly distribution of surplus food.

A $55,000 Yocha Dehe Community Fund grant has been awarded to The Yolo Children's Fund to provide orthodontic care to children in the Yolo County foster care and juvenile justice system.

A report on the second annual Global Rice Fest which raised over $130,000 for the Yolo Food Bank.

Working with the Woodland Community College, the Yolo Food Bank is offering drive-though food pickups on Thursdays at the college parking lot at 2300 East Gibson Road.

On July 23, the Woodland Rotary Noon Club announced donations totaling $40,000 to the Woodland Community College Foster & Kindship Education Foundation, Make it Happen for Yolo County and the Yolo County Fair Heritage Foundation.

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 Center for Land-Based Learning has launched a new mobile farmers market for Woodland communities without access to fresh locally grown food.

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.

An initial donation of $1.3 million established a new All Things Right & Relevant endowment for grants to support career development for those living with mental health diagnoses.

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.

Hundreds of people attended a May 1 event held in the quad outside the Memorial Union on the UC Davis campus.

The City of Davis is seeking local residents to fill openings on city commissions.

After its first year in operation, First 5 Yolo reports on the progress of its Welcome Baby program.

Sutter Health invested $569K in West Sacramento's Mosaic Village for for people impacted by substance-use, homelessness and mental health illness.

The Yolo County Community Services Action Board is seeking applicants to join in its mission to combat poverty by promoting the health, safety, stability and self-sufficiency of low-income residents of the county.

Meet the Daily Democrat's Teacher of the Week, Nani Wall of the Science and Technology Academy in Knights Landing.

Yolo County student applications for Yolo Community Foundation scholarships of up to $10,000 are due by April 5.

The Mikuni Charitable Organization donation of $5,000 to Make It Happen for Yolo County is in support of local, under-resourced youth making the transition to independent living.

The Yolo County Board of Supervisors is seeking to fill openings on its Community Services Action Board, with the stated mission "to combat poverty by promoting the health, safety, stability, and self-sufficiency of low-income persons residing in Yolo County. "

The eight-week Citizens Academy is designed to involve diverse communities in learning about the criminal justice system with the goal to improve relationships between Yolo residents and the criminal justice system.

In the contest, open to all high schoolers in and around the Woodland area, students can win up to $22,000 in cash and scholarships.

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.

Parker Christensen, a local Eagle Scout candidate, has selected his Eagle service project aimed at aiding the repopulation of the threatened burrowing owl, which once flourished in Yolo County.

VOTE411, a leading digital platform dedicated to election information, offers voters in California a streamlined and intuitive way to research candidates, understand ballot measures, and prepare to vote confidently.

The Yolo County Board of Supervisors approved the appointment of 15 teenagers to serve as the members of the 2024 Yolo Youth Commission.

The Woodland Police Department’s 2024-26 strategic plan included participation from all city department staff with the goal of addressing public safety and quality of life issues.

Khydeeja Alam was sworn in by Speaker Robert Rivas as the new executive director of the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs.