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PG&E Bright Ideas grant applications available for Spring 2011

Apply now for PG&E Bright Ideas grants. The Solar Schools Programs will award up to $250,000 in grants for schools with projects designed to...

Solano foundation awards small grants to public school teachers

Dozens of public school teachers in Solano County will be receiving checks of up to $500 for classroom projects from the Solano Community...

Vallejo housing nonprofit rejoins the neighborhood

A local nonprofit organization that has helped bring federal low-income housing dollars to Vallejo for years but was cut off from new funding for...

Nonprofit leader - Cedric Brown of the Mitchell Kapor Foundation

I first encountered the Mitchell Kapor Foundation while development director with Urban Solutions, when the Foundation was one of the first to fund...

A new philanthropy

From my days as a theatre artist, I recall the comic Bill Irwin's delightful performance in "The Regard of Flight." With deadpan delivery...

Cole Hardware: A model for small business philanthropy

There are corporate philanthropists, family foundations, community foundations and giving programs started by wealthy techpreneurs, but ... small...

Priorities of corporate philanthropy in the Bay Area - VISA

Yesterday's column covered my conversation with Wells Fargo Bay Area region president Michael Billeci about the bank's outlook on charitable giving...