This year we worked hard to refine our expertise in serving immigrant families of Marin County and beyond. We utilize a family-centered. Strategy, and identify everyone as future leaders - in their families, workplaces and community.
This year we worked hard to refine our expertise in serving immigrant families of Marin County and beyond. We utilize a family-centered. Strategy, and identify everyone as future leaders - in their families, workplaces and community.
This year we worked hard to refine our expertise in serving immigrant families of Marin County and beyond. We utilize a family-centered. Strategy, and identify everyone as future leaders - in their families, workplaces and community.
'We are pleased to share this Commun.ity of Donors to recognize your compassionate commitment and support. On behalf of the entire Canal Alliance extended community, we thank you.
This year we worked hard to refine our expertise in serving immigrant families of Marin County and beyond. We collaborate regionally, building networks and strategic partnerships to provide people with skills, tools and resources they need to succeed. Now, all people
can benefit whether they need basic services, education, or help to start a business.We utilize a family-centered. strategy, and identify everyone as future leaders - in their families, workplaces and community. Some of this year's key achievements:
• Open a Sustainable Business Center - Inspired by an exciting entrepreneurial spirit alive in the immigrant community, the SBC supports an ever growing number of entrepreneurs through trainings which incorporate green principles into building a successful business.We offer one-on-one business counseling and financial coaching, advanced workshops and our resource library.
• Developing Future Leaders - Canal Alliance was selected by the San Francisco Foundation to provide disaster relief services in OUI community, In partnership with SFF, the City of San Rafael, and the American Red Cross, we are developing Disaster Preparedness Plans and trainings so Canal residents can effectively respond and lead during a crisis. Other projects that build leadership include Community Gardens, participation in Census 2010, and starting a neighborhood Recycling Effort, for which our Youth Concilio won the National Geographic Green. Effects ProjectAward.
• Family-Centered Strategy - Through our English classes, youth education program., immigration legal services, and economic development work, we recognize that the family is the center of the immigrant community, Our holistic strategy focusing on family enables all to overcomechallenges that impede success. This approach strengthens families and cornmuniry,
We are proud to serve a cause to which you are so passionately committed and in which you invest so generously.Your investment increases Canal Alliance's capacity to support families on their pathways to success. With you as our partner, families succeed and the community flourishes.
In solidarity,
Tom Wilson, Executive Director
Dick Fletcher, Board President
Canal All iance Boards
Directors
President: Dick Fletcher, OneCa1ifomia Bank Vice President: Norma Martinez-Howard,
Nol-knu Communications
Treasurer: Sandro Rossini, Comerica Batik
Secretary: Frima Stewart, Community Volun.teer
John Adler, University of San. Francisco School of Law Joseph Castro, Ph.D., University of California, San Frandsco Nancy Curley, Community Volmiteer
Barbara Dittmann, Commuwty Volunteer
Miguel Angel Godoy, Canal Alliance
Mara Perez, Ph.D., Development and Planni~lg Services Michelle Rodriguez, ICF Jones & Stokes
Daniel Vasquez, EDM Capital Partners
Tom Wilson, Canal Alliance
Ambassadors
Isabel Allende, author/founder - T1'1c Isabel Allende Foundation Mary Jane Burke, Marin County Office of Education
Patricia Garbarino, Marin Sanitary Service
Belinda Guadarrama, GC Micro
Grace Hughes, Mann Aispone»
Steve Kinsey, County of Marin Board of Supervisors, District 4 Gary Ragghianti, Ragghia.nti Freitas, LLP
Deborah Santana, author/founder - The Milagro Foundation EthelSeiderman, founder - Parent Services Project Inc.
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Marin Community Foundation
Foundation has invested in our cote program and model. With their support, ESL Coordinator Martin Steinman
is leading teachers and developing and using dynamic, interactive techniques to maximize student engagement and participation, with instruction focusing on language tasks that ate most relevant to students' lives - including vocabularyand phrases that can be used in the workplace, the clinic, and the store.
ntegrating mmigrants for a More Resilient and Competitive Economy
English language skills are a prerequisite to economic success. Canal Alliance's English as a Second Language program enables Marin immigrants to develop the language skills necessary for employment, to be advocates for their children's education, and participate more effectively in their daily lives. In the course of a year, our team of 100 volu nteer teachers and aides help as nuny as 800 immigrant residents improve their spoken and written English skills. The Marin Community
Canal Alliance ESL Coordinator Martin Steinman with the MCF team working most closely to bring necessary tools and resources to OUI community: (left to .right) Marcia Quifiones, Program Officer, Education and Immigration; Kathleen Harris, Program Director, Housing & Ending Poverty; Patti D'Angelo.Associate Program Officer, Education & Legal Services,
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Latino Community Foundation
Raquel DOll9S0 and Adriana Acosta, Canal Alliance Economic Development Coordinator, visit an Internet Access workshop.
Internet Access and Knowledge - Bridging the Digital Di'vide
Latino f~rnilies have the ~owe~t rates of home Internet access 111 Northern California, and therefore less access to services, learning and income opportunities. Through funding from The Latino Community Foundation, Canal Alliance is providing workshops that promote internet access and knowledge in Spanish to Latino residents of San Rafael, Santa Venetia and Novato.
Canal Alliance's Instructor Adriana Acosta is connecting families to low-cost computer options and internet access, providing knowledge about computer maintenance, and information about how use of the internet can directly impact personal and professional growth. Through this program, Latinos are gaining the skills, tools and resources they need to success.
LCF is proud to partner with Canal Alliance to increase internet access for latino families in Marin. These technology investments are crucial to eliminating the digital divide and creating opportunities for irnmiqrant and low-income families in this community.
Raque/ Donoso Executive Director, Latino Community Foundation
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Gail and Larry Siegel, ForWards
Critical Thinking Skills and Technology Tools for Enhanced Academic Achievement
I inmigrant youth and those from immigrant families can succeed academically with the right tools, opportunities and collaborative partners, such as Gail and Larry Siegel, Since 2007, when they founded ForW ords in honor of their daughter Catie, the Siegels have brought teacher trainers fi:OU1 the Bay Area Writing Project from UC Berkeley.juid other valuable resources to Canal Alliance so youth in our afterschool program may improve their critical thinking and writing skills, Through the Siegels' support, Canal Alliance has been able to hire Multimedia Coordinator Pamela Vargas- Touchard to train students in video and other media tools, enhancing their ability to express themselves,
Pamela Vargas- Touchard, Canal.Alliance Multimedia Coordinator, and Larry and Gail Siegel teaching Canal.Alliance students.
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Community Organizer Maite Duran explains plans for COIlJJJ1Wllty gardens to josh Townsend while children and Youth Concilio members work in the Canal Alliance raised bed garden.
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Josh Townsend Government Relations I Public Affairs Manager, Pacific Gas & Electric
Community Services and Leadership
The PG&E and Canal Allianceyartnership supports a WIde range of our core servicesand fosters community well-being. As an example: With guidance from Community Organizer Maite Duran, Canal youth have been leading an award-winning Neighborhood
Greening Campaign that combines recycling, monthly trash pickup days, and community gardens, and soon will be organizing for Emergency Disaster Preparedness among neighbors here in the Canal.
PG&E is pleased to invest in Canal Alliance's work to develop young leaders building greener, safer neighborhoods resulting in a healthier Canal community overall.
Rotary International
Training and Guidance through "Service Above Self"
Rotary is an organization of business people who volunteer their time, talents, friendship, and fimds to better the community they live in through their local Rotary Clubs, and to better the rest of the world through Rotary International - the world's first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 dubs worldwide. Under the motto of "Service Above Self', Marin Rotarians - including Keith Axtell of Rotary Club of Marin E vening and Cad
Ilg of Mission San Rafael Rotary Club - have volunteered their time, shared their professional expertise and galvanized support from their clubs for Canal Alliance summer sports progranls, college scholarships, and entrepreneurial education.
Carl llg mentors a Canal Alliance student during the Fill 20(l9 Canal Business Idol Competinon, Keith Axtell (ahove) has been a lillian between the Marin Rotary Clubs and Canal Alliance fur dose to 20 years.
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Zellerbach Family Foundation
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Services for a Healthier Community
Zellerbach funding responds to the needs of newcomers and to the challenges of the organizations serving them. Canal Alliance is the
only community-based organization in the northern Bay Area that provides a full array of family-related immigration legal services to approximately 1,200 clients a year from Marin and Contra Costa Counties. Access to affordable and reliable immigration legal services enables qualified immigrants to obtain the legal status that leads to better and more secure jobs, more rapid acquisition of English, family unification and stability, improved access to health care, improved educational outcomesfor children, and fuller participation in community life. Even immigrants
who do not qualify for an immigration remedy need truthful information about their options so they
do not fall prey to. exploitation or forgo health and educational programs for their children.
share of the proceeds of a revocable living trust left by long-time donor Lucile Fessenden Dandelet, "Dandelet' (as she liked to be called) was a renowned photographer best known locally for her photos of the Frank Lloyd Wright's Civic Center as it was being built and of a retrospective she did of the labor movement led by Cesar Chavez.
Executive Director Torn Wilson had the fortune to visit with Dandelet often. "She was a warm and dynamic person with a great interest in social justice and equity. Her attraction to Canal Alliance was because of the work we do to support a community, the immigrant community, which is all too often marginalized and persecuted. With her art and philanthropic support, Dandelet's legacy continues to bring attention to oppressed people and their plight."
To secure her legacy, Lucile Dandelet used a Revocable Living Jrust, an estate planning tool that
allows assets to be passed to heirs without going through the process of probate, saving costs, time, and maintaining privacy. Revocable means that the trust may be changed at any time by the trustee, often the individual themselves.
You too may want to consider designating Canal Alliance as the beneficiary of your estate plan. Planned gifts (bequests, beneficiary designations of insurance or retirement funds, trusts) help guarantee that Canal Alliance can pursue its mission - developing self-sufficiency for a healthier conununity - while providing you and your family with significant tax benefits,
For more information on designating Canal Alliance as a beneficiary of your estate planning, call Janice Vela, Director of Development, at 415-306-0415. (In all cases Canal Alliance suggests that you consult with your own financial advisor.)
• Kerreen Brandt
in honor of Debbie Macchello
• Michael Kay
in honor of Willliam Peters
• Kenneth &Vera Meislin
in honor ofIgnacio Camarillo
• Geraldine Peters in honor of
William Peters' birthday
• Jillian Robinson
in honor of Bob Campbell and Nance Rosencranz
• Harlan & Carlota Schone in honor of Sally Blackburn
• Nancy Skinner
in Honor of Rev, Jan West
• Tom Steyer & Kat Taylor in honor of Bob Reynolds
• Camille Vincent in honor of
San Domenico teachers
• Nancy Wilson
in honor of the Klienahoes - Bill, Kris, Kelly, Gracie, Madison
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