Excerpts from the Application- these only reflect specific excepts of the lengthy application. 

Community Charity

• Hosted various fundraisers and food drives for recent natural disasters including the Tubb's Fire, Hurricane Harvey, and, currently, the Kincade Fire.
• Host Toy Drives to benefit local underprivileged families
• Host Bicycle Coalition Group Events
• Designated as Red Cross Emergency Shelter
• Offer health/wellness/fitness education to our community, staff, and members
• Enduring participants in community-sponsored fundraisers including School Fuel,
• Host School Supply Drive to support local teachers/students
• Offer discounted rates to Novato Chamber members and staff members of local businesses
• Annual Donations to local School & multiple non-profits
• Particpants in Novato High Schools Senior Projects
• Gilead House Partners - reduced membership offered to GH clients
• Sunflower Wellness Partners - free memberships offered to SW clients f
• Hosted various fundraisers for both ill-stricken staff members and staff family members

Model Business Practices

• Green Business certified with the Marin Green Business Program
• Host member appreciation parties throughout the year
• Host Staff appreciation gatherings throughout the year
• Host health/wellness seminars for BK members and general Novato Community Members throughout the year
• Subsidize continuing education for staff members
• Offer robust healthcare & 401K options, PTO to our employees

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Community Charity

• National Parks & State Parks (10-30 Years)
  • Our crews build waste receptacles, place them in parks, maintain them, and collect the waste, diverting thousands of tons of recyclable materials from our local landfill. Other crews build and maintain miles and miles of trails and build bridges, retaining walls, and stairs in parks across the North Ba
• Marin County Open Space (10+ Years)
  • Our crews work on county-owned land to do the same kinds of work we do for the City of Novato. This work prevents innumerable fire and flood from ravaging our community.
• Novato Fire Protection District - 30' Perimeter Fuel Reduction (1-2 Years)
• City Of Novato Public Works (10+ Years)

Conservation Corps North Bay (CCNB) has been serving businesses, homeowners, and municipalities like the City of Novato since 1982.

The overarching goal in everything that CCNB does is to develop a strong, capable workforce that contributes to the economy and our community. 99% of our corpsmembers are living at or below the federal poverty line when they join our team. Four out of five are unemployed. They have little to no buying power and no role in shaping or stimulating our economy.

At CCNB, young people learn a variety of job skills, earn certifications, and receive valuable education while earning a higher-than-minimum wage. Corpsmembers are able to receive promotions that have a higher pay rate and more responsibility, and many of our staff members are former corpsmembers. Corpsmembers learn how to be good, punctual employees, how to work across differences, and how to achieve their personal and professional goals. Staff members serve as mentors and role models for corpsmembers and are genuinely excited when they get job placement out in our community.

Young people who have completed our program go on to work in a wide variety of industries, many going on to earn more than double the minimum wage and on track to build even more earning power...

As a business, the projects we take on are done on a fee-for-service model, ensuring adequate compensation for corpsmembers and the staff who support the projects. This model also ensures a financially sustainable business. Since we do not make profit from our work, funding for administrative and case management staff or capital improvements is achieved through a variety of grants and donations from both public and private entities. The wide swath of donors and funders we have built connections with acts as a safety net should an individual funding opportunity fall through.

Model Business Practices

All staff that regularly work with corpsmembers receive training on trauma-informed practices and self-care for themselves.

The populations we serve have a higher level of intergenerational trauma and adverse childhood experiences than the average population, and it is important for the corpsmembers and staff members themselves that staff are equipped to handle issues that arise from the impacts of poverty and trauma.

The partners we do business with consistently note that our crews are wonderful to work with. For example,

Lynn Osgood from the Novato Fire District said, "We would like to thank Patrick and his crew for the amazing and wonderful work they completed for the community of Novato. Patrick was professional, reliable, flexible and very nice to work with.

I heard positive comments from the homeowners as well. I look forward to working with your organization in the future." It helps that we employ so many people from our local cities and towns.

All of the projects we do have an ecological or conservation focus, and our Zero Waste..

As we plan to build a new roof at our Novato site, we will be using roofing material made from recycled tires—one of the items that we work to collect and recycle across the North Bay!

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Community Charity

• Novato Rotary -(20+ Years)
  • Board President, Community Service
  • Projects
• Novato Chamber (3 years)
  • Very involved
  • Festival Committees
  • New Members Ambassadors
• MargaretToddCenterRoad
  • Sponsor Lunch programs
• Sponsored Senior Estate Planning
• Sutter Health Novato Community Hospital
  • Board of Directors

Economic Achievements

• Upgraded our facility to help families at times of need to be a full service, Funeral Home,
  Cemetery, Chapel, Crematory and Reception Center.
• The only one of its type in all of Marin
  County.
• Bringing business into Novato.
• Upgraded our grounds by 7 more acres to accommodate the community of Novato for hundreds of years to come. After all, we are a community place where our community
• Sponsored and Hosted a Health & Wellness event at our facility. /.\nd we open our doors to many community events.
• In just the past two years alone Valley Memorial Park has put back into trie community in donations and sponsorships, the sum of $52,913
• "Host Annual Memorial Day Veterans Service for over 40 yearn.

Model Business Practices

• We are locally owned and not ran by a large corporation. We think of our employees as family and with that, we have done everything that we can to ensure that our employees are well cared for. Our safety practices are monthly reviev\1ed.
• Our benefits packages have increased the past 2 years to now include a 401K, and we offer Aflac now along with  Medical, Dental, and Vision.
• We offer our employees ample paid time off as needed. We always have told employees that family comes first.
• Since we feel our employees are family then to us they come first as Vilf.dl. We celebrate each employee's birthdays with luncheons and we have an annual Christmas party for all employees and their families.
• Our grounds are watered by recycled water. We have recycled!in9 plan rn place for all products that can be recycled.