Sacramento Region Community Foundation

Programs: Donor advised and unrestricted grantmaking: in 2016 the sacramento region community foundation awarded over 1,900 competitive and noncompetitive grants and scholarships. These grants and scholarships totalled approximately $7. 1m in the areas of arts and humanities, human services, education, the environment & conservation, religion, children & youth in the sacramento region and beyond.

expanding philanthropy and the social economy: as part of our commitment to grow philanthropic giving in the sacramento region, we coordinated big day of giving, which generated $7. 1 million for 570 nonprofits that serve the capital area. We offered robust capacity-building training to hundreds of staff members and volunteers of those nonprofits, and began orientations for nonprofits interested in participating in the 2017 giving day. Additionally in 2016, we launched a more robust givingedge, the region's online resource for donors seeking information about local nonprofits, which will be fully populated in 2017.

preparing students to succeed in the new economy: we launched our capital area promise scholars program to address the barriers local students encounter as they pursue higher education, and were awarded a three-year, $930,000 grant to support that work. In july, we partnered with regional leaders in the education sector to host a college-readiness program at california state university, sacramento, for 80 high school students who are participating in the program.

transform the creative economy by making arts available to our community & reinforcing the importance of arts in our region's schools (iarts); connecting the food economy by strengthening access to fresh, healthy food, teaching communities about proper nutrition and cooking and bringing more locally grown produce into the food system (ifood)