Sonoma Valley Nonprofit News
New on the scene: the Center for People Power/Centro del Poder Popular (CPP), a space dedicated to advancing grassroots activism in the North Bay. Located at 18346 Sonoma Hwy. in Boyes Hot Springs, the space will be run by activists committed to struggling against all forms of oppression and exploitation. “The CPP will provide a home for transparency and multicultural community engagement as we center BIPOC history, leadership and powerful vision for a just future,” said D’mitra Smith, Human Rights and Equity Consultant and a CPP founder. The storefront space will be a free space for community meetings, workshops, classes, events and performances, media production, and a community library. “(It’s) a place where I can stand in my truth and know that I will be safe and supported by a family that shares the same or similar truths,” said Ka’lane Raposa, CPP founder, musician, and human rights activist. Mario Castillo, a long-term community organizer for justice in the Springs and CPP founder, envisions the CPP as a step towards shifting the county’s power dynamics. “We can’t keep waiting for our turn. We need to be at the table now.” For more info: [email protected].
Jack London Park Partners, the nonprofit organization that operates Jack London State Historic Park, has welcomed George Arabian, Tom Herman and Trina Lennon to its Board of Directors. “We are continually expanding our vision for how to make the park and the user experience the best it can be,” said Board President Peter Ferris. “We have found three great new people who will help Jack London Park Partners bring our vision to reality,”
Last House Writing Contest. M.F.K. Fisher once said, “People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating and drinking? The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry,” Fisher wrote in The Gastronomical Me. “But there is more than that. It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled that we cannot straightly think of one without the other. So, it happens, that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it.” The fourth annual Last House Writing Contest honors the style and spirit of Fisher. The annual writing contest is presented by Audubon Canyon Ranch – its Bouverie Preserve in Glen Ellen is the site of Fisher’s ‘last house,’ where she wrote 13 books over her 21 years there. Entries accepted through May 31. There are three age groups, youth included, and there is a $40 entry fee. Egret.com
Master Plan for Aging – The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors and the Aging Together leadership team will soon begin work on a Master Plan for Aging (MPA) that reflects the County’s priorities aligned with the state’s MPA framework. The county seeks applicants for the Steering Committee. Submit a completed application by April 7.
More:
— $500,000 in capital grants going to 13 Valley nonprofits
— New home for SOS free meal program
