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Attempts by the San Francisco Foundation to use the cy pres doctrine to spend outside of Marin County resulted in litigation which the SF Foundation lost. [8] [10] As part of a 1986 court settlement, the Marin Community Foundation was established to administer the trust, valued in 2013 at approximately $1 billion. [11]
Alcohol Justice was established in 1987 as one of three major projects funded by the Leonard and Beryl H. Buck Trust at the same time the Marin Community Foundation was formed. The Marin Institute reported in 2006 that "countering the alcohol industry has always been a high priority for the Marin Institute, but we now want to make it the ...
www.ias.org. International Association of Sufism (IAS) is a California nonprofit organization headquartered in Marin County. It is a United Nations ' NGO / DPI and the first organization established to organize an inclusive forum that opens a line of communication among Sufis all around the world. IAS launched a global intra-faith movement ...
The Cool the Earth flagship program was launched in 2007 and is now reaching over 500 schools, and over 60 aftercare centers, and Girl Scout troops nationwide. The program has catalyzed over 300,000 energy-efficiency actions. CTEI offers a school-to-home program that is not curriculum-based. Cool the Earth uses a child-driven model to inspire ...
Community foundation. Community foundations (CFs) are instruments of civil society designed to pool donations into a coordinated investment and grant making facility dedicated primarily to the social improvement of a given place. Community foundations are a global phenomenon with 1700 existing around the world, of which over 700 are in the ...
Donated by the Marin Community Foundation, The Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch Collection, an archive of photographs documenting the people, landscape, and politics of California in the mid-20th century, is the largest single gift in history, to U.C. Santa Cruz, with an estimated value of $32 million. [10] [11]
The Tara Foundation was a charity organization ... The foundation was started in 2001 with the assistance of a $10,000 grant from the Marin Community Foundation. As ...
Marin City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Marin County, California, United States. [3] As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 2,993, [4] up from 2,666 in 2010. It is located 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) northwest of downtown Sausalito, [5] 8 miles (13 km) south-southeast of San Rafael, [6] and about 5 ...