Tree-Plenish mentors students through a step-by-step process leading up to their own tree-planting event, including how to calculate their schools’ paper usage. To reach their goal of planting 295 saplings, students at O’Dowd and Tech are reaching out to residents to order the saplings and allow volunteers to plant the saplings in the residents’ yards on March 26. | By Ava Stern and Mary Lee Two local schools are taking up a cause that will help make Oakland greener. In partnership with Tree-Plenish, over 450 schools, including Bishop O’Dowd and Oakland Tech, began work last month to help build sustainable communities through youth engagement. March 26 is the date of the mass tree-planting event, […]
Each year, Irvine’s Leadership Awards recognize innovative leaders whose breakthrough solutions to critical state challenges improve lives, create opportunity, and contribute to a better California. In addition to spotlighting exemplary leaders whose work benefits the people of California, The James Irvine Foundation provides each recipient’s organization with a grant of $250,000 to support their work. | Oakland Roots Community Health Center’s Dr. Noha Aboelata and DeVone Boggan of Richmond’s Advance Peace are among six winners of this year’s James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards. Each year, Irvine’s Leadership Awards recognize innovative leaders whose breakthrough solutions to critical state challenges improve lives, create opportunity, and contribute to a better California. In addition to […]
San Francisco, California (PRWEB) February 07, 2022 The James Irvine Foundation today announced the recipients of its 2022 Leadership Awards, recognizing
Omicron has created a situation where finding test sites that can accommodate you, or even finding do-it-yourself tests, can be a challenge, though not an impossible one. There are hit-or-miss situations folks are facing as they seek confirmation of their COVID status.