Community News
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Kevin McCarty declares victory, Flo Cofer has yet to concede in race for Sacramento mayor
By Richard Ramos Updated on: November 27, 2024 / 5:29 PM PST To watch video report, Click Here. SACRAMENTO — California Assemblymember Kevin McCarty declared victory Tuesday evening in Sacramento’s mayoral race. Three weeks after Election Day, the race has remained close, with McCarty and epidemiologist Flo Cofer only separated by one percentage point of the…
Sacramento to get $18 million in state funds to address homelessness. How will it be spent?
By Jennah Pendleton and Theresa Clift Updated October 04, 2024 3:08 PM The city of Sacramento will receive $18.2 million in state money to address homelessness, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday. The grant is part of Newsom’s plan to award $130.7 million to cities across the state to create new housing…
‘Notice to vacate’: Camp Resolution residents expected to leave property by Monday
Updated: 11:02 PM PDT Aug 23, 2024 Peyton Headlee To watch video report, Click Here. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Camp Resolution is a self-governing homeless encampment on Colfax Street in north Sacramento, and the city is telling the residents that they have to move out within the next three days. A lot of residents are trying…
Lodi library now offers online high school program for adults who never graduated
By Dominic Garcia August 20, 2024 / 4:42 PM PDT To watch video report, Click Here. LODI — The Lodi Public Library has a new program for those who never received their high school diploma. It’s the place Amanda Ramos’ son loves to go, but one day she spotted something just for her. “I seen the…
Sacramento County stops delivering water to homeless as heat wave starts. Here’s why
By Theresa Clift Published on July 4, 2024 Sacramento County stopped delivering water to homeless camps Monday — the first day of an eight day stretch with forecast temperatures over 100 degrees. Alaytreya Gregory, 31, was surprised when the delivery didn’t show up Monday, when temperatures reached 103 degrees, at Camp Resolution in North Sacramento,…
Prison and Reentry Education Program at Los Rios colleges may not continue
By Keyshawn Davis On June 25, 2024 In 2016, Mule Creek State Prison in Ione introduced an education program for its inmates to earn their associate degrees. David Cable was an inmate at Mule Creek at the time and thought this program, called the Prison and Reentry Education Program (PREP), could help him achieve an…
Medi-Cal Expands Services to Provide More Help to Unhoused Californians
by CBM NEWSWIRE May 8, 2024 Edward Henderson | California Black Media (CBM) – Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid, is currently transforming to expand coverage for unhoused and at-risk individuals across the state. The rollout for these changes began on Jan. 1, 2022. New programs include rental and deposit aid, recuperative housing, rehabilitation and sobering centers during the…
“Challenger” teams faceoff in baseball game, a home run for inclusivity in Yuba City
By Shelby Reilly On April 21, 2024 YUBA CITY – A Yuba City mom started a baseball team for kids with physical and intellectual disabilities after finding her 11-year-old son with Down Syndrome didn’t have anywhere to play. “Mikey has a big brother and he’s been playing baseball for eight years. He’s been coming to…
Sacramento Pays $4.3 Million to Family of Unarmed Black Man Who Died After Police Restraint
BY THERESA CLIFT APRIL 15, 2024 5:00 AM To watch body cam footage click here. The city of Sacramento is paying a $4.35 million settlement to the family of an unarmed Black man who died after police held him down in a dangerous position in his parents’ living room. In February 2020 Harriet Jefferson called 911…
CalPERS Sells Major, Long-Vacant Lot in Downtown Sacramento to Local Band of Miwok Tribe
BY ISHANI DESAI UPDATED APRIL 03, 2024 2:56 PM The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians reclaimed a piece of its lost history Tuesday by purchasing landmark property in downtown Sacramento’s entryway — a lot once planned for ambitious development in California’s capital city that has since been relegated as an infamous and expensive “hole in the…
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Local Organizations
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Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services
SFBFS is the largest nonprofit provider of basic human needs in Sacramento County. On top of a food bank, the organization provides services regarding clothing, technology, adult learning, parent education, immigration and refugees, and utilities assistance. Its resources include clothing for a newborn baby, advising a teenager on a job interview, Immigration Legal Services and English as a Second Language classes.
Children’s Receiving Home of Sacramento
The Children’s Receiving Home of Sacramento provides a spectrum of services for youth in crisis across the Sacramento region. Types of care offered includes an on-site preschool for the youngest survivors of family trauma, outpatient mental health care for children residing in the community dealing with anxiety and depression, and residential treatment for children who have suffered abuse, neglect or other trauma.
Empowering grassroots efforts and building strategic partnerships that preserve, protect, and enhance California’s urban and community forests.
The Regional Center for Volunteerism-HandsOn Sacramento (HOS) was created in 1998 as a program of Community Link in response to the community's need for a full‐service volunteer action center. Founding volunteers wanted to create social change through volunteerism and education, believing that each person's involvement will make a real difference in our community.
Sacramento Literacy Foundation
The Sacramento Literacy Foundation’s Mission is to improve lives by collaborating with organizations in our community to advance literacy skills.
FGT is the largest holiday gift and backpack donation program in California. It runs both a holiday wish drive and a back to school drive for low income Northern California families. In 2021, FGT fulfilled over 51,000 holiday wishes and provided more than 25,000 supply-filled backpacks to children in need. FGT has served two million children and individuals throughout the greater Bay Area as it aims to inspire the values of kindness, philanthropy, and volunteerism in the community.
Wellspring Women’s Center serves approximately 200 Sacramento-based women and their children every weekday by providing healthy meals, case management, free counseling, art therapy, enrichment classes and workshops, and safety net services. Specific programs include a Children’s Corner Program with early learning opportunities and activities for children ages 3-8 and safety net services including bus passes, diapers, pads and tampons, hygiene kits, and more.
WEAVE’s mission is to promote safe and healthy relationships and support survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and sex trafficking.
We envision a Nation in which young men of color are overrepresented in higher education, underrepresented in the criminal justice system, and are leaders in their communities.
PRO’s direct service programs are offered in school and community-based settings. PRO creates safe spaces for youth to discover who they are, explore topics that impact their daily lives, cultivate skills, and develop into leaders and change-makers for their communities.
Upcoming Events
Juneteenth
Juneteenth is the federal holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans
Mobile Shower Volunteer
We’re looking for empathetic, hard-working, and flexible individuals to help us provide mobile showers and hygiene supplies to individuals in need by becoming a shower squad member! By serving with us, you will create relationships with the folks we serve, build community, and have a better understanding of issues within our community. Volunteer Tasks: Check-in guests.…
Community Garden Helper
The Store has partnered with the Edgehill Community Gardens and has a dedicated garden plot for us to grow produce to help stock our fresh local produce section. We are looking for volunteers who can help with general garden bed maintenance including but not limited to weeding, tilling, planting, watering, harvesting and other miscellaneous garden…
Forest Rescue at North SeatTac Park
“North SeaTac Park is a 200+ acre urban oasis four miles south of Seattle filled with creeks, wetlands, towering trees, and amazing recreational amenities. Tub Lake, thought to be the last true peat bog left in the Seattle area, is also in this park, Join us at this Green SeaTac Partnership event to help free…
CL56: Heeding the Call of the Student
Where do the voices of students call you to take them? What do you hear that points to a path where their concerns and passions can drive a richer exploration of what you had hoped to cover anyway? Join us as we kick off our 8th season of Collab Labs with a discussion focused on…
Seattle Broadway Inclusion Program
STG’s Broadway Inclusion Program provides theatre arts programming to neurodivergent and/or disabled community members and their families and caregivers. Participants tend to be between 8-50 years old, but all ages and abilities are welcome! Participants meet once a week to explore musical theatre and movement-based activities in a creative and safe environment. At the end…
The Social Justice Film Festival
Through strategic partnerships with Pacific Northwest organizations working on issues of social justice, the Social Justice Film Festival features short and feature-length documentaries and narrative films related to social justice. As a movement, social justice promotes a global culture where equality is achieved on all levels. This includes issues pertaining to incarceration, the environment and…
“On the Edge: 2nd International Latinx Performance Art Festival”
On the Edge: 2nd International Latinx Performance Art Festival is the second Latinx performance art festival based in Seattle, showcasing a wide range of experimental performance grounded in the themes of inclusion, identity and intersectionality. Featuring a wide range of pan-Latine/x artists and supporters, these performances will range from intimate, single-person storytelling, to medium-length, mixed-media group performances,…
Poets Laureate Reading
This event is FREE and ADA accessible. Laura Da’ is a poet and teacher. A lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest, Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and The Institute of American Indian Arts. Da’ is Eastern Shawnee. She is the current Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and Poet Planner for King County, Washington. Her…
WPSR’s 2023 Health Justice Gala
About the eventWPSR’s 2023 Health Justice Gala Join WPSR for our annual Health Justice Gala on September 22, 2023! At WPSR’s annual fundraising gala, WPSR supporters like you gather to support and celebrate our work. This year, with your help we will raise $200,000 to fund our critical work confronting the gravest threats: the climate…
Local Hero Spotlight
Members can nominate a local hero for recognition on their local LoveJustice.com city page!
Anyone and everyone can make an impact, and at LoveJustice we believe that they deserve to be recognized for their good, necessary work!
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