Yolo County Community Service & Support Digest

Meet Rose Cholewinski, the 2024 Davis Citizen of the Year and learn more about her many contributions to the community.

Read on to learn how you can volunteer at the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden.

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.

Read on to learn more about the Yolo Diaper Bank and how you can volunteer for their upcoming annual Community Diaper Wrap taking place on January 18 in Woodland.

An introduction to the Short Term Emergency Aid Committee (STEAC) and their work assembling and distributing food packs to Winters Joint Unified School District after-school program students. Read on to learn more about STEAC and how you can volunteer.

The 39th annual Holiday Meal sponsored by the Davis Food Co-op will be held on December 24 at the Davis Veterans Memorial Center. Read on to learn more and how you can volunteer.

Union Pacific has awarded a $9,500 grand to Make It Happen Yolo County. Find out more about this local nonprofit providing services to underserved youth transitioning to independent living.

Learn more about the Yolo County Independent Living Program and how you can donate to support their work assisting local transitional-age youth from 14 to 21.

Learn more about the grant awarded to Yolo County by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments on November 4 to fund to support local youth community outreach programs.

Learn how you can support the Yolo Crisis Nursery on Giving Tuesday December 3.

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.