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Last week, Community Initiatives’ CEO and President Ruth Williams shared a blog listing “Eight Steps to Get Started with Fiscal Sponsorship” on Candid’s website. In the blog, Ruth shares the most important steps an organization should consider as it seeks to partner with a fiscal sponsor. Fiscal sponsorship allows projects to center their efforts on […]

Black Genius Foundation “The Black Genius Foundation seeks to transform the conversation around genius by placing Black artists and the Black creative ecosystem at the center,” Simone Eccleston, the Executive Director, said. “It was borne out of my two-decade career celebrating and investing in the creative genius of the African diaspora … at organizations like […]

El/La Para Translatinas Nicole Santamaria, Executive Director of El/La Para Translatinas, was recently quoted in an article titled ‘Reproductive Rights Are Gender Rights’. In response to abortion bans, Nicole said, “The hatred is the same. Against women, against the gender-diverse community. Transphobia has a high component of misogyny, a high component of anti-bodily autonomy.” Read […]

Attendance Works Chronic Absenteeism, a term coined by Hedy Chang (founder of Attendance Works), is defined as students who miss 10% (18 days) of school in a year. In San Francisco, the rate of chronic absenteeism has reached 24%, which is well above the 17% national average. Vulnerable populations make up a significant portion of […]

Ruth Williams of Community Initiatives Joins Charity Navigator’s Consultative Council of Nonprofit Leaders [Oakland, CA, 8/26/2022] – Community Initiatives is proud to announce that Ruth Williams, CEO & President, is one of thirty nonprofit leaders (out of a pool of 400 applicants) to be selected to serve on Charity Navigator’s Consultative Council of Nonprofit Leaders […]

Academic Research Consortium Neurodiversity describes the idea that people experience and interact with the world differently. On August 10, Academic Research Consortium held a session on neurodiversity. Understanding neurodiversity is presently more important than at any other time in history because more students are being diagnosed as neurodiverse in one way or another. Read more […]

Jewish Youth for Community Action The Jewish News of Northern California is promoting the programs of Jewish Youth for Community Action on their website, jweekly.com. Jweekly.com is an online resource for Jewish news, events, lifestyle, and activities. Read more here. Radical Monarchs Radical Monarchs hosted a hatha yoga session on Thursday, June 30. The yoga […]

Community Initiatives Celebrates Dan Sudran, Beloved Founder of Mission Science Workshop Please join Community Initiatives in celebrating the life of Dan Sudran, founder and former Director of Mission Science Workshop, who sadly passed away from cancer on Monday, June 13. Dan is fondly remembered by us and all those who were fortunate to know him. […]

El/La Para Translatinas In solidarity with all women, members of El/La Para Translatinas showed their support for the fight against the SCOTUS decision to reverse Roe vs. Wade. They displayed signs of protest during the June 26 PRIDE parade in San Francisco. Read more here. East Bay Getting to Zero There have been over 300 […]

Mass STEM Hub On the ‘news’ section of their website, Mass STEM Hub published an article titled ‘What Kept Students, Staff Going During the Pandemic: Three Case Studies from New National Report’. The article, by Marianna McMurdock, discloses the details of that which kept students and their teachers engaged over the past few years, during […]