American River Bankshares Foundation Funds Five Local Organizations that Serve the Most Vulnerable Women and Children in Our Community.SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The American River
The funding descriptions are as follows: * Acres of Hope in Placer County will receive $20,000 towards installing a playground and implementing a family skills building program. * Amador-Tuolumne Community Resources in Amador County will receive $15,000 to build a covered children's play area to provide a safe place to play for the children that stay at the Amador Emergency Shelter Emergency shelters are places for people to live temporarily when they can't live in their previous residence, similar to homeless shelters. The main difference is that an emergency shelter typically specializes in people fleeing a specific type of situation, such as battered . * Redwood Empire Food Bank The Redwood Empire Food Bank is an organization dedicated to feeding the some 30,000 low income people in Sonoma, Lake, Napa, Mendocin, and Del Norte counties, in California. External links
nu·tri·tious adj. Providing nourishment; nourishing. nutritious affording nourishment. food, along with training in nutrition, to families of low-income children. * Wellspring well·spring n. 1. The source of a stream or spring. 2. A source: a wellspring of ideas. wellspring Noun Women's Center in Sacramento County will receive $10,000 to support its Breakfast Program, which gives low-income women and children the opportunity to start each day with a well-balanced meal. * Women's Empowerment em·pow·er tr.v. em·pow·ered, em·pow·er·ing, em·pow·ers 1. To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority. See Synonyms at authorize. 2. in Sacramento County will receive $10,000 to support its mission of ending homelessness one woman at a time by providing the skills necessary to get a job, create a healthy lifestyle and regain a home for themselves and their children. The mission of the American River Bankshares Foundation is to support organizations that create opportunity, enhance self-esteem and provide physical and emotional well-being for the most vulnerable women and children. Proposals were accepted to fund either the general operations of an organization's mission or a specific program relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc women and children. Each proposal is vetted by a volunteer employee committee, which then recommends a list of ten applicants for funding consideration to the Foundation's Board of Directors. "The Foundation looks to fund organizations that not only match the mission of the Foundation, but that can demonstrate clear objectives and a successful financial track record with sustainability," said David T. Taber, President of the American River Bankshares Foundation. "We feel the five organizations selected by our employee committee and Foundation Board are truly exemplary organizations that stood out in a crowd of nearly fifty excellent applicants." About the American River Bankshares Foundation The American River Bankshares Foundation was established in July 2004 to fulfill ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. the shared vision of American River Bank, Bank of Amador and North Coast Bank to give back meaningfully to local organizations based in the communities in which the three Banks do business. The Foundation receives 100% of its donations and is supported by the three Banks, their employees, friends and the Board of Directors of American River Bankshares. For more information on the Foundation, please call (916) 231-6717. About Acres of Hope Acres of Hope is a spiritually-based renewal center that serves homeless women with children by providing them with a home and an environment of structured programming. Located in the beautiful Sierra Foothills, Acres of Hope's unique approach allows residents to live onsite for up to two years while staff and volunteers invest heavily in their lives by providing encouragement, practical life-skills training, job skills, mentoring and spiritual direction. For more information, please call (530) 878-8030 or visit www.acresofhopeonline.org. About Amador-Tuolumne Community Resources Amador-Tuolumne Community Resources is a public agency serving the needs of low-income residents in Amador and Tuolumne counties since 1981 with sustaining services such as emergency shelter and food, home utility assistance, weatherization, Head Start, Amador Lifeline life·line n. 1. a. An anchored line thrown as a support to someone falling or drowning. b. A line shot to a ship in distress. c. A line used to raise and lower deep-sea divers. 2. , child abuse prevention programs, Family Learning Centers and Community Resource Centers. For more information, please call 209-223-1485 or visit www.infonetac.org. About Redwood Empire Food Bank The Redwood Empire Food Bank (REFB), founded in 1987, provides a vital food safety net for low-income people in Sonoma County and the north coast. The mission of REFB is to end hunger in our community. They are working to achieve this by developing and operating programs that provide nutrition assistance directly to low-income children, seniors, working families and individuals, as well as by providing food resources to a network of 125 charitable and faith-based organizations that serve those who are hungry in their local communities. For more information, please call 707-523-7900 or visit www.refb.org. About Wellspring Women's Center The mission of Wellspring Women's Center in the Oak Park Community is to nurture NURTURE. The act of taking care of children and educating them: the right to the nurture of children generally belongs to the father till the child shall arrive at the age of fourteen years, and not longer. Till then, he is guardian by nurture. Co. Litt. 38 b. the innate goodness and personal self-esteem of women and their children. Their drop-in center provides respite RESPITE, contracts, civil law. An act by which a debtor who is unable to satisfy his debts at the moment, transacts (i. e. compromises) with his creditors, and obtains from them time or delay for the payment of the sums which he owes to them. Louis. Code, 3051. and services based on "hospitality and love". Wellspring Women's Center is a thriving center serving almost 200 women and their children every weekday, providing a healthy breakfast, free counseling, referral and help with community resources, and most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , dignity. For more information, please call 916-454-9688 or visit www.wellspringwomen.org. About Women's Empowerment Women's Empowerment is a vital sanctuary where homeless women gather, attend classes, and safely begin their journey beyond homelessness and despair. Their mission is to educate and empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems women who are homeless with the skills and the confidence necessary to get a job, create a healthy lifestyle, and regain a home for themselves and their children. For more information, please call (916) 669-2307 or visit www.womens-empowerment.org. |
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