The West Marin Fund (WMF), a foundation organized to serve the communities of coastal West Marin, awarded $55,000 towards “Improving Nonprofit Communications” in its Autumn 2015 round of grants – the sixth grant round in the past 3 years, totaling $350,000 to more than 60 organizations, all made possible by generous gifts from local donors to the Fund.
The Autumn 2015 grants to West Marin’s 501-c-3 non-profit organizations, help the organizations improve the effectiveness of their communications. This broad category included professional training, strategic planning, database improvements, bilingual materials – small grants to further professionalize the over 60 non-profits that provide community services to the small villages of West Marin.
Awards support non-profit projects ranging from affordable housing, to bilingual literacy, to technology upgrades to broadcast available services that improve the health of the communities.
The following non-profits received grant awards:
- Art Contemporary Marin
- Bay Area Community Resources
- Bolinas Community Center
- Bolinas Museum
- Community Land Trust Association of West Marin (CLAM)
- Commonweal
- Dance Palace Community Center
- Environmental Action Committee (EAC)
- Gallery Route One
- Halleck Creek Ranch
- Inverness Almanac
- Jack Mason Museum
- KWMR
- Marin Literacy
- Mesa Refuge
- Nicasio School Foundation
- Papermill Creek Children’s Corner
- Point Reyes Farmers Market
- Point Reyes National Seashore Association (PRNSA)
- Sound Orchard
- Tomales Elementary School PTA
- Tomales Bay Youth Center
- West Marin Commons
- West Marin Review
- West Marin Senior Services (WMSS)
