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By 08/04/2021
The Tomales Bay Youth Center, a hub for young people located on the West Marin School campus, has been adopted by West Marin Community Services. The acquisition will provide a more secure future for the center, which started in 2011 as a program of the West Marin Lions Club. Over time, the project grew and provided after-school services and served as a hub for youth advocacy. Madeline Hope, the director of the youth center, said the project relied on many disparate funding streams and the Lions Club had been looking to merge with a larger community partner for years; at the same time, West Marin Community Services was looking to expand its influence on youth services. After consulting with the Center for Volunteer Nonprofit Leadership and conducting a feasibility study, the boards of the Lions Club and West Marin Community Services voted to move forward with the merger, which began on July 1. Ms. Hope said she was thrilled to be partnerin
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By 06/30/2021
Farmworker housing advocates are facing some hard lessons from a pilot project that fell drastically short of its goal. Starting in 2012, a collaborative between the Marin Community Foundation and Marin County used a combination of public and private funds to build and renovate agricultural worker housing on ranches in West Marin. The group initially planned to fund 200 units within five years, but later sharply reduced the goal to 20 units.
In the end, only a dozen units were built, while the need for more affordable housing never went away.
“There were a number of lessons learned, including that using public funding on private land is really challenging,” said Leelee Thomas, the planning manager with the Marin County Community Development Agency who led the project.