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"Box this…" – KWMR
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"Vote for West Marin Projects" – KWMR

"Vote for West Marin Projects" – KWMR
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Marin County allocates funds to bolster coastal nonprofits

“Many people have a rosy picture of West Marin,” said Sarah Hobson, executive director of the West Marin Fund. “They don’t see the realities of many families here."

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Inverness club provides boost to school gardens

Inverness club provides boost to school gardens
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Initiative hopes to close communication gaps

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08/04/2021
A new project is asking residents how to close West Marin’s communication gaps. A coalition of agencies and community organizations supported by the West Marin Fund launched a survey this week in the first stage of an effort to bridge language, technology and geographic barriers. “We love living here, but the communication system can be a bit disjointed,” said Mia Johnson, co-chair of the West Marin Equitable Communication Project. “It’s a little bit of a game of telephone at times.” The project’s advisory committee is made up of around 30 organizations, including school districts, utility providers and media outlets, many of which will send out the survey through mailing lists. The survey gathers basic demographic data before diving into questions about modes of receiving information: Whether the recipient has a cell phone, a landline, a computer and social media accounts. Finally, it leaves room for open-ended suggestions about how West Marin could better communicate. “We don’t know exactly what phase two of this project is going to look like,” Ms. Johnson said. Around 10 percent of West Marin residents speak a language other than English at home, and Spanish is by far the most common, according to census data. Translation into Spanish is one key way to bridge barriers, but Ms. Johnson said there are other languages that can fall through the cracks, like Indigenous Central American languages, which have a handful of speakers in Bolinas. Beyond language, Ms. Johnson cited technology barriers like spotty cell and internet service, a lack of tech literacy, and the cost of electronics. Sarah Hobson, executive director of the West Marin Fund, said the communications project was spurred by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic last spring, when organizations large and small had to react to and disseminate rapidly changing public health guidance. Beyond health information, disaster preparedness and school updates are some of the most crucial communication needs. The project’s leaders know they won’t hear back from everyone. “It’s ironic, because it’s a communication survey and we may not be able to communicate with everyone to do the survey,” Ms. Johnson said. West Marin is historically undercounted in the United States Census, and last year’s census was no exception. All four of the census tracts that make up West Marin were in the bottom 20 percent of self-response rates in the nation, partly because of the high number of temporary residents, the lack of mailing addresses and spotty internet connection. Yet Ms. Hobson said the project’s leaders are hopeful their survey will garner higher response rates and begin to address some of the failings of the census. “We recognize there are still many barriers, but we have a few things in our favor,” she wrote in an email. “This is not a government initiative; it’s a locally defined and driven initiative.”

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Happy birthday, West Marin Fund

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07/21/2021
A healthy community is a healthy community. I know that sounds redundant, but it isn’t really, because when it comes to community, “health” has two completely different but equally vital meanings. The West Marin Fund, now celebrating its 10th year of life, understands that duality as well as or better than any private or community foundation in the world. My evidence? The astounding number of thriving and well-run nonprofit organizations in our watershed that are encouraged and supported financially by the fund, whose staff, directors and active advisors are fiercely intent on keeping them and the communities they serve in good health.

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Shoreline split over Tomales preschool plan

Shoreline split over Tomales preschool plan
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Farmworker housing initiatve fell short of ambitious goal

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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.

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Shoreline will take over Tomales preschool, but wait on Papermill Creek

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04/28/2021
The Shoreline Unified School District board voted last week to bring Shoreline Acres under its control starting this fall. The move is intended to align the Tomales preschool with the elementary school, boost staff retention by offering employees health insurance and allow for easier access to state funding. While trustees had some questions about the budget, they were ultimately in full support of the proposal, whose cost is covered by tuition, donations and state scholarships.
“It’s been a goal of boards I’ve been sitting on for 20 years to have preschools under the roof of the Shoreline district,” trustee Tim Kehoe said.

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