Volunteers are at the heart of nonprofit work. Linda Jacobs of the Center for Nonprofit and Volunteer Leadership reports that 4.8 million California residents are volunteers, and the average active volunteer gives nearly 40 hours a year—the equivalent of a work week. Their efforts equal more than $16 billion in unpaid labor annually, helping with core programs and services, supporting fundraising activities, carrying out technical tasks and becoming advocates for their organizations.—JW Volunteering: Another way to give
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Rotary has helped provide over 10,000 meals to those in our community
Once a month, Santa Rosa Sunrise Rotary gathers at the Redwood Empire Food Bank to aid in the fight against hunger Rotary has contributed over 500 hours yearly to help feed our community
growth in nonprofit activities to individuals who want to make a difference. “That has a pretty big impact,” she says. “The problem is there’s so much need,” says Garlock. “I’m glad there are so many [nonprofits]. I think everybody who has started a nonprofit is so passionate… it gives people a way to help in a way to feel like they’re making a difference. Everybody who has compassion wants to make a difference anyway they can.” She adds that obstacles are a constant challenge, but says, “You have to be courageous and keep going.” Leading the way The Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership (CVNL) was established in 1964 as the Volunteer Bureau of Marin County, and it became the Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership in 2003 after merging with the Marin Council of Agencies. It expanded to Napa County in 2015, to Solano County in 2016 and then to Sonoma in 2019, when the Volunteer Center of Sonoma County was searching for an executive director, and the two organizations recognized that they were doing similar work and decided to merge. “All of them kind of happened by circumstances,” she says, adding that Sonoma County is the largest branch and runs big programs such as paratransit and legal assistance. CVNL provides services for all kinds of nonprofits in the North Bay, and most are a type of 501, an IRS classification that includes 29 different categories of nonprofit organizations, which are exempt from paying taxes and governed by federal law. Among them are 501(c)(1) for federal credit unions, 501(c)(6) for Chambers of Commerce and 501(c)
Santa Rosa Sunrise Rotary has worked to change the lives of those across the globe by providing eye and dental care to those who would otherwise never receive it. Over 35,000 eye glasses have been given out, along with cataract surgeries, providing the gift of vision to those in Nicaragua, Samoa, Vietnam, Haiti and Mexico. Sunrise Rotary has funded the construction and equipping of a Surgical Center in Nicaragua to provide medical care to the 40,000 residents of this remote region of the San Juan River.
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