The Offices of Mayor Gayle McLaughlin and City Manager Bill Lindsay, in partnership with Richmond Community Foundation and The Volunteer Center of the East Bay, invite you to celebrate National Volunteer Week and Richmond's Cities of Service initiative. The partners are hosting a City-wide Volunteer Recognition Ceremony on April 11. In addition, you can participate in a series of community service projects during National Volunteer Week, April 15-21, 2012. Please see schedule, and save the dates!
You are invited to nominate your volunteer(s) for the first Distinguished Volunteer Service Awards, that will recognize outstanding service in our community in the areas of Public Safety, City Beautification, Education, Health and Wellness, and the Arts. The Distinguished Volunteer Service Awards will be presented at the Recognition Ceremony at the Richmond Auditorium. Please click here for the quick nomination form and guidelines. Please note: the deadline for nominations is Wednesday, March 28, by 5PM.
The City of Richmond has a long-standing commitment to service and to community stewardship. Now more than ever, volunteers are renewing their commitment to helping others and making new connections that bring us together--as families, as neighbors and as a community--celebrating diversity and service across generations.
The 3rd Annual Northern California Summit on Children and Youth will be held on May 16 and May 17, 2012, at the Richmond Civic Center Auditorium. This year's theme is "Educating Our Children - Who Will Lead?" May 17th coincides with the date of the ruling of Brown vs Board of Educationin 1954 and lends itself to our focus this year on education.
The 2012 summit focuses on effective leadership in schools and in the public and private sectors that are impacting education. The goals of the 2012 Northern California Summit on Children and Youth are to provide a venue for shared learning, training, and networking among target audiences; to develop focused discussions that address questions of leadership roles in education across multiple sectors and to inspire a "Call for Action" to all participants to take leadership to improve educational outcomes for children.
In honor of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., students from five Richmond schools joined parents and community members to March for Peace in Nystrom/Iron Triangle neighborhoods on January 13. This was the fifth M.L.K. March for Peace that the schools and community organized together. Approximately 400 students participated.
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What: After eighteen months of construction, and six years of planning and fundraising, the Richmond, California community will come together to celebrate the completed restoration and renaissance of the historic Maritime Child Development Center. The Center houses the Richmond College Prep Schools preschool and kindergarten, the offices of the Richmond Community Foundation, community meeting spaces and a National Park Service interpretive center. The interpretative center/museum brings to life the rich history of the Maritime Center through “hands-on” history displays, archival photo exhibits, and in a restored historic classroom with original furniture and toys. The National Park Service estimates that 30,000 to 50,000 people will visit the Center annually.
Richmond Pulse, Richmond's community-based, youth-driven news media outlet, has launched its first English-language print newspaper edition. Richmond Pulse is a project of New America Media (NAM), made possible by a grant from The California Endowment. The printed newspaper arrived Thursday, and hits newsstands today. The newspapers will be made available free at newsstands, online from Richmond Pulse and as inserts in The Globe Newspaper.
The 12-page full-color newspaper, in tabloid format, will have an initial run of 7,000 copies. In order to serve the growing Spanish-speaking community in Richmond, a translated version is also available from Richmond Pulse. The paper edition complements the richmondpulse.org website that publishes both written and video stories.
In partnership with The California Endowment and Healthy Richmond, the Richmond Community Foundation was again able to offer mini-grants for summer activities for Richmond children and youth. These mini-grants were designed to give local children and youth the opportunity to acquire new skills, participate in enrichment activities and educational outings, participate in civic engagement projects, improve their health and become more physically active.
A committee comprised of members of the Healthy Richmond Steering Committee and the Richmond Community Foundation's Community Investment Committee reviewed the almost 50 applications that were submitted for the 10 available grants and are pleased to announce that the following organizations have each been awarded $1,000 Summer Mini Grants:
