Posts Tagged ‘Richmond Community Foundation’
How Richmond rebuilds abandoned homes
The house on South 37th Street is the ninth one rebuilt under the housing renovation program that turns abandoned, uninhabitable homes into livable ones and sells them to local, lower to medium income, first-time homebuyers.
Read MoreVacant, Neglected, Destructive: How Richmond’s abandoned homes became fire hazards
After sitting vacant and neglected for almost a decade, 662 Fourth St., a home in the Iron Triangle, burst into flames. The blaze, which neighbors say was started by trespassers, lead to the destruction of three homes. According to public records and interviews with city officials, Richmond doesn’t have the budget or staffing to fully mitigate the risks posed by vacant homes.
Read MoreSocial impact bonds come to Richmond as an innovative weapon against housing blight
Starting with the rehabilitation of blighted houses in Richmond, the city will issue long-term low-interest-rate bonds that private investors can buy to fund social programs.
Read MoreRichmond nonprofit donation drive begins
A marathon donation campaign is under way in Richmond, the first of its kind in California. At 6 a.m. Wednesday, the Richmond Community Foundation’s “We Give – 2013!” campaign kicked off, a 36-hour, non-stop social media donation drive to benefit city nonprofit organizations. The campaign is at the heart of the foundation’s mission to use…
Read MoreRichmond’s first food policy council meets
At Richmond’s first food policy council meeting Tuesday night at City Hall, Urban Tilth Executive Director Doria Robinson instructed the carefully chosen participants to catalog the city’s most pressing food-related problems. The session started off quickly. As the participants introduced themselves, they cited their biggest concerns while Robinson took notes on a dry-erase board in…
Read MoreRichmond struggles to provide public Internet access, but computers proliferate
More than 750 families in the city’s low-income Iron Triangle neighborhood now have computers in their homes thanks to a two-year effort by a coalition of nonprofit agencies working to make broadband Internet access widely available there.
Read MoreEvent set to donate 2,000 books to Richmond kids
The 2nd annual Richmond Tales Family Literacy Festival should draw as many as 1,000 kids and parents to a Saturday festival of arts and a book giveaway.
Read MoreRichmond hosts a summit on children and youth
More than 150 educators, community leaders, and representatives of foundations and non-profits met in Richmond this week for the second annual Northern California Summit on Children and Youth.
Read MoreLoads of laundry and books
Literacy at the Laundromat puts books into children’s hands.
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