The Community Fund for Carmel Valley granted $29,242 in December 2021 to nonprofits that focus on projects and programs benefitting the communities surrounding Carmel Valley. Ten nonprofits received grants to strengthen Carmel Valley communities in areas such as education, safety, meals for families, youth camp scholarships, and other community-enhancing programs. One recipient was Carmel Valley Angel Project (CVAP), which received...
Michael Reid dances to his own beat. His path led him from Brooklyn, New York to Monterey County, California. He was the first in his family to attend college and earned a BA in psychology, two Masters’ Degrees and a Ed.D. in Neuromotor Development. He has been married to his partner Bill Robnett for 13 years. Philanthropy has always been...
By Maria Magaña and Sue Parris, National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) In Fall 2021 we facilitated a nonprofit peer learning group for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE) on the topic of partnering with the community – a central tenet for racial equity, diversity and inclusion. Here are some things we discussed that we believe are key for successful, equitable...
Our Fall Newsletter, Giving Matters, features our Distinguished Trustees Mel and Regina Mason, a message of gratitude from Community Foundation for Monterey County President/CEO Dan Baldwin, new additions to staff and year-end giving deadlines and options, including Monterey County Gives! Read Giving Matters
The Southern Monterey County Foundation (SMCF) is participating in the 2021 Monterey County Gives! end of year giving campaign and supporters are excited! Each gift before December 31, 2021 will receive a pro rata match. The fund, an affiliate of the Community Foundation for Monterey County, serves communities from King City south. It has granted more than $168,000 since 2014....
By ileana Ortega Brunetti, Capacity Building Associate with the Center for Nonprofit Excellence The Community Foundation for Monterey County’s (CFMC) Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE) is pleased to welcome Reid Norris to the team as Leadership Development Specialist. Reid will facilitate CNE’s LEAD Institute, which has developed more than 150 local LEADers in the past decade. He will also connect...
By Dan Baldwin and Steve John Welcome to Monterey County Gives! 2021. A year ago we were deep in the abyss of Covid-19, hearing only whispers about an impending vaccination program. Businesses and families who had seen tremendous hardship were still faced with uncertainty. Many nonprofits had canceled fundraisers and were scrambling to make year-end budgets balance. This threatened their...
By Dan Baldwin, Community Foundation for Monterey County President/CEO Noise. That seems to be the dominant feature of our daily lives in recent months. Noisy tweets. Noisy talking heads. Noisy battles in the media. Noise over standing and kneeling. People arguing over what constitutes patriotism, even while hundreds of thousands of DACA students who want desperately to be part of...
By Dan Baldwin, Community Foundation for Monterey County President & Chief Executive Officer I’ve spent the last couple of weeks trying to wrap my mind around the events in Charlottesville, and the aftermath, which is ongoing. Normally, this space is reserved for addressing topics of direct relevance to our work at the CFMC, so the question becomes how marchers in...
By Dan Baldwin, Community Foundation for Monterey County President & Chief Executive Officer We think of housing as an inalienable right. We get up. Work. Go home to a house or apartment we might own or rent. Whatever we can afford. For many folks in Monterey County, it’s not that simple. The unfortunate reality in many parts of California, and certainly...
By Dan Baldwin, Community Foundation for Monterey County President/CEO There’s talk of doing away with the Johnson Amendment, a law that prohibits nonprofits, including churches, from endorsing political candidates. Divides Church and State, Clamps Partisan Endorsements In place since 1954, the Johnson Amendment has created a bright line in the separation of church and state. Ministers, and other religious leaders, are not...
By Dan Baldwin, Community Foundation for Monterey County President/CEO Presidential elections typically answer more questions than they ask. However, the 2016 election seems to have put a lot of the country in a wait-and-see holding pattern on just about every aspect of governance as we’ve come to know it. Health care. Foreign policy. Immigration. The environment. The economy. As...
Monterey County Giving by Dan Baldwin, President/CEO Community Foundation for Monterey County Year-end always seems to prompt thinking about what was accomplished over the past 12 months. Our lives run at such warp speeds, that we move from one item to the next to the next, and so on. Every now and then we just need to take a breath and...
Dan Baldwin, President & CEO, Community Foundation for Monterey County (photo by Bradley Zeve, Monterey County Weekly) Disasters don’t create character; they reveal it. The Soberanes Fire has made clear that the residents of Monterey County are resilient and caring. Certainly, one of the reasons we choose to live here is our wonderful outdoors, including the rugged and beautiful landscape of...
By Maria Magaña and Sue Parris, National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) In Fall 2021 we facilitated a nonprofit peer learning group for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE) on the topic of partnering with the community – a central tenet for racial equity, diversity and inclusion. Here are some things we discussed that we believe are key for successful, equitable...
Our Fall Newsletter, Giving Matters, features our Distinguished Trustees Mel and Regina Mason, a message of gratitude from Community Foundation for Monterey County President/CEO Dan Baldwin, new additions to staff and year-end giving deadlines and options, including Monterey County Gives! Read Giving Matters
The Southern Monterey County Foundation (SMCF) is participating in the 2021 Monterey County Gives! end of year giving campaign and supporters are excited! Each gift before December 31, 2021 will receive a pro rata match. The fund, an affiliate of the Community Foundation for Monterey County, serves communities from King City south. It has granted more than $168,000 since 2014....
By ileana Ortega Brunetti, Capacity Building Associate with the Center for Nonprofit Excellence The Community Foundation for Monterey County’s (CFMC) Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE) is pleased to welcome Reid Norris to the team as Leadership Development Specialist. Reid will facilitate CNE’s LEAD Institute, which has developed more than 150 local LEADers in the past decade. He will also connect...
By Dan Baldwin and Steve John Welcome to Monterey County Gives! 2021. A year ago we were deep in the abyss of Covid-19, hearing only whispers about an impending vaccination program. Businesses and families who had seen tremendous hardship were still faced with uncertainty. Many nonprofits had canceled fundraisers and were scrambling to make year-end budgets balance. This threatened their...
By Breanna Wilson, California State University Monterey Bay Intern with the Center for Nonprofit Excellence The Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE) provides opportunities for organizations to grow and thrive to expand their community impact. Focusing on the nuts and bolts of a nonprofit promotes success in other aspects of the organization such as programing and areas that support the community...
Stories of Legacy Giving Many individuals and families have entrusted the Community Foundation for Monterey (CFMC) to carry out their charitable wishes. The latest issue of our annual “Leaving a Legacy” newsletter introduces donors Jean Duff, and Leslie Mulford, two donors who came to the CFMC for their own specific reasons and have found several different ways the CFMC’s array of...
