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  1. CFMC Announces 2024 Board of Directors

    Community Foundation for Monterey County Names Dr. Rolando Cabrera, Mary Claypool and Robert Cullen to its Board of Directors Monterey County, California — The Community Foundation for Monterey County (CFMC) is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Rolando Cabrera, Mary Claypool and Robert Cullen to its Board of Directors. “We are excited to add Rolando, Mary and Robert to...

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  2. Center for Nonprofit Excellence Announces 2024 LEAD Institute Cohort

    21 Nonprofit Leaders Selected from Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties Monterey County, California — The Community Foundation for Monterey County (CFMC) selected 21 emerging nonprofit managers to join the LEAD (Leadership, Education and Development) Institute’s 2024 cohort. LEAD is a year-long professional development institute offered by the CFMC’s Center for Nonprofit Excellence to foster strong, effective leadership in...

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  3. Organizational Assessment to Help Your Nonprofit Thrive

    Organizational Health Any visit to the gym around the New Year shows how many of us take stock of our physical health and fitness this time of year. Nonprofits are no different. Our attention to organizational health and wellness can shift throughout the year as we focus on vital mission delivery. From time to time it can be helpful to...

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  4. Giving Matters – Fall/Winter 2023 Newsletter

    The Fall/Winter 2023 edition of our Giving Matters newsletter includes a message from Community Foundation for Monterey County President/CEO Dan Baldwin and the latest news including: Celebration of Philanthropy with presentation of Distinguished Trustee Award to Martha Karstens Monterey County Gives! year-end giving campaign Siembra Latinos Fund Awards Inaugural Alfred Diaz-Infante Award to Ernesto Vela, Ed.D. Southern Monterey County Foundation...

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  5. Giving Together – Joe and Sheila Mark

    Joe met Sheila in 1960, two months after Joe moved to Montreal to take a job in the investment field after graduating from Yale and serving in the Army. They worked in the same building and “kept running into each other and the rest was history.” Though they enjoyed working and living in Montreal, when the ice formed on the...

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  6. 2023 Celebration of Philanthropy Honors Martha Karstens

    (Scroll down for event slideshow) Each year the Community Foundation for Monterey County (CFMC) presents the Distinguished Trustee Award to an individual or couple who has demonstrated philanthropic leadership in our region. The 2023 award was presented to retired Big Sur Fire Chief, Martha Karstens, for her decades of service to the Big Sur Community. The CFMC recognized her accomplishments at...

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  7. Introducing the CNE Advisor Circle

    CNE Advisor Circle

      Our local nonprofit sector is large and diverse, and the landscape has changed with our experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Not to mention in the ten years since we rebranded our programs as the Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE).  To help us look ahead and stay responsive, we created the CNE Advisor Circle in Summer 2023. The...

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