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Contents click to view section Sacramento Region Nonprofit Community 1 Community Inspired Solutions 2 Examples of How We Succeed in Our Mission 3 Our Partners, Clients and Collaborators 4 Celebrating the Impact Nonprofit Organizations Make 8 Three Ways Valley Vision is Making Our Communities Healthier, Stronger and More Resilient 10 Our Work Has Addressed the Many Dimensions of Social Equity for More Than 20 Years 17 Thank You Sponsors 18
Credit: Brett Berry, Douglas Taylor At Valley Vision s signature event held at the California History Museum on May 25, 2017, we celebrated the accomplishments of our region s food banks, homeless shelters, child advocacy groups, health clinics and other social service providers that are restoring hope and improving people s lives. a thriving region depends on a network of compassionate organizations committed to making a high quality of life accessible to all. Pinpointing unmet needs and barriers in our communities and building durable solutions from the ground up has been a driving force behind Valley Vision s work for nearly 25 years. This includes ensuring that those who need it most have access to good paying jobs, healthy foods, education, job training, quality health care, and the Internet. Valley Vision s board formally adopted a new 10-year strategy designed to help people living in concentrated poverty through its Urban Jobs Initiative, a bold public-private partnership now underway. We hope you will join us. Addressing inequity and building opportunity requires a network of passionate, committed people willing to change the way we look at the world and redefine the meaning of success. They dream big. And act bigger. Valley Vision is proud to work alongside hundreds of dedicated nonprofit organizations and their leaders who are transforming the lives of thousands. They empower others, and we are all the better for it. With Gratitude, Bill Mueller Valley Vision Chief Executive
Sacramento Region Nonprofit Community As of November 2016, there are 16,296 nonprofit organizations operating in the Sacramento Region Community Foundation s four-county service area (El Dorado, Placer, Yolo and Sacramento counties). Those organizations represent more than $34 billion in assets and generate $1.5 billion in annual revenue. 1 16,296 Nonprofit organizations in four-county Sacramento region 2,526 Organizations generated $7,499,043,347 in revenue for the Sacramento region 2 4,734 501(c)(3) public charities with 69,071 employees 187 Foundations all figures do not include religious organizations 1 Causes Count: The Economic Power of California s Nonprofit Sector (http://www.calnonprofits.org/causes-count) 2 Excludes small tax-exempt organizations whose annual gross receipts are normally $50,000 or less 1
Valley Vision empowers communities to think big and make courageous decisions to improve people's lives by providing resources and intelligence. We bring together experts and leaders from across geographies and industries to design and implement solutions to some of the region s biggest challenges. valley vision has been inspiring change for a better, more livable future across california s capital region for more than two decades. 2
empower a legacy service examples of how we succeed in our mission: āā āā āā āā To reduce hunger, increase local, healthy-food consumption, and build a robust Food and Ag economy that provides adequate food for our residents, we partnered with the Sacramento Region Community Foundation to create a Sacramento Region Food System Action Plan. This framework aligns complex food system efforts in California s six-county Capital Region. To identify communities experiencing the largest health disparities, we support area nonprofit hospitals by spearheading Community Health Needs Assessments. Every three years we conduct these assessments to uncover the barriers to healthcare faced by our most vulnerable residents, allowing hospitals to address community health needs where they are needed most. To position Sacramento and California at the forefront of environmental practices, Valley Vision activates coalitions like the Cleaner Air Partnership to reduce reliance on carbon-based products, services and practices; implement coordinated air quality strategies; and increase efforts to address the effects of climate change. To maintain a vibrant economy and high quality of life, we work closely with area workforce development boards, educational partners and private industry to design and drive a regional Workforce Action Plan that aligns skills development and educational opportunities with the employment needs of the 21st Century economy. Valley Vision was formed nearly 25 years ago to inspire community solutions and drive regional agenda-setting around social and policy issues that deserve attention. We do this by delivering trusted research that informs decision-making and organizing the collaboration needed to overcome complex problems that no single group can tackle alone. Valley Vision s commitment to broad participation stems not just from our desire to have a comprehensive understanding of views and opportunities, but also because it builds a network of champions necessary to achieve success and make it stick. In addition to the examples above, Valley Vision is actively engaged in 20+ projects, spanning 16 counties across Northern California. Our work crosses every social and policy issue affecting the region. To learn more about our work, please visit http://valleyvision.org/projects 3
Our Partners, Clients and Collaborators Organizations public, private and nonprofit that tackle challenges affecting residents across the region and state work with Valley Vision to create healthier communities that empower everyone to reach their full potential. to achieve outcomes that matter, valley vision works in close partnership with hundreds of organizations committed to transforming lives and our community. 4
We are proud to work together in pursuit of a better community with organizations like these and many others: AIR: Air Quality Management Districts of El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo-Solano counties, Alta Design + Planning, Breathe California Sacramento Emigrant Trails, Sacramento Area Council of Governments, Sacramento Metro Chamber, Sacramento Regional Transit, Sacramento Tree Foundation, SMUD, University of California Davis EDUCATION + JOBS: Align Capital Region, Asian Resource Center, California Community Colleges, California Emerging Technology Fund, California Workforce Development Board, City of Sacramento, Golden Sierra Workforce Job Training Agency, Greater Sacramento Urban League, Impact Foundry, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Leataata Floyd Elementary School, Los Rios Community College District, North Central Counties Consortium, Opening Doors, Roberts Family Development Center, Sacramento City Unified School District, Sacramento County, Sacramento Employment and Training Agency, Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency, Sacramento Metro Chamber, Sacramento State University, Sierra College, UC Davis, University of the Pacific, WayUp, Woodland College, Yolo County Workforce Innovation Board FOOD: America s Farm to Fork Capital, Building Healthy Communities, California Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce, California Department of Food and Ag, Center for Land-Based Learning, Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Economic Development Administration, Food Literacy Center, Greater Sacramento Economic Council, Placer Community Foundation, Placer Food Bank, River City Food Bank, Sacramento Area Council of Governments, Sacramento County Farm Bureau, Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services, Sacramento Metro Chamber, Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Soil Born Farms, The California Endowment, University of California Agriculture and Natural
Resources, University of California- Davis, USDA Rural Development California, Visit Sacramento, Yolo Food Bank, Yolo Food Connect HEALTHCARE: Dignity Health, Hospital Council of Northern California, Kaiser Permanente, Marshall Health, Sacramento County, Sacramento Metro Fire, Sierra Health Foundation, Sutter Health, UC Davis Health, Wellspace Health, Western Health Advantage HOUSING: Habitat for Humanity, Mercy Housing, NeighborWorks Sacramento, Sacramento Housing Alliance, Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency, St. John s Program for Real Change HUMAN SERVICES: Empower Yolo, Loaves and Fishes, Sacramento Steps Forward, United Way, WEAVE, WIND Youth Services, Yolo Crisis Nursery 6
Celebrating the Impact Nonprofit Organizations Make The nonprofit sector enriches our communities in ways impossible to completely measure. It s the work of these organizations and the leaders and contributors behind them that Valley Vision celebrated at our Empower: A Legacy of Service event held on May 25, 2017. Valley Vision is pleased to shine a spotlight on the work that nonprofits do everyday to make the Sacramento region a better place. To learn more about our nonprofit community, the work they do and how you might support a cause important to you, visit the Sacramento Region Community Foundation and their Big Day of 7
Giving, an exceptional program advancing local philanthropy and fundraising support for our nonprofit sector. The Impact Foundry is another great resource, providing a wealth of information, education, support and specialized services for nonprofit leaders in the Sacramento region since 1989. Sacramento Region Community Foundation Big Day of Giving, May 4, 2017 599 Participating nonprofits $7,173,989 Raised for local organizations 40,295 Donations made 100% Donation rate to participating organizations $23+ Million in local contributions have benefitted the Sacramento region's nonprofit community since raised since Big Day of Giving debuted in 2013 8
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Three ways Valley Vision working collaboratively with others is making our communities healthier, stronger and more resilient Valley Vision has long been a leader in increasing access to healthcare, healthy food, and the Internet for those in need, spearheading strategies that improve air quality, education and workforce, and aligning the people, investments and expertise to advance multi-generational progress. Here are three examples of how we are working to make a difference in the communities we serve. 10
1. healthy communities To make the Sacramento region the nation s top livable community, all residents must have basic needs met. This means banding together in vision and aligning investments to advance opportunities for residents so they can attain economic security and access housing, transportation, community services, needed health services, and healthy foods. knowing our community s health status is critically important to helping our residents access the basic health needs they deserve. Over the span of two decades and leveraging trusted research through Community Health Needs Assessments, Valley Vision has developed a keen understanding of the region s most significant social, environmental and economic challenges. We use this information to help local not-for-profit hospitals focus their business and community investments in priority areas those neighborhoods facing the biggest health disparities to create stronger, healthier communities for all. By understanding the health status and equity concerns of the greater community, Valley Vision is providing healthcare providers with the information necessary to develop targeted plans to improve community health where it is needed most. Dr. Heather Diaz, Associate Professor of Community Health Education at Sacramento State University 11
2. healthy foods Ensuring that our area residents have access to ample and healthy foods has been at the center of Valley Vision s work for more than a decade. Alongside hundreds of stakeholder organizations, farmers and environmental interests, Valley Vision is focused on increasing food security and strengthening support for an economically-viable and environmentally-sustainable regional food system. as the farm-to-fork capital of the nation, food production is critically important to the capital region s way of life, health, economy and identity.
Through interconnected regional initiatives and stakeholder alignment, our region is poised to achieve a robust regional Food and Ag economy that provides adequate and healthy food for all our residents one that pioneers innovations and is heralded as an environmental leader and economic powerhouse. Through Valley Vision s leadership, elected officials and business leaders have a better understanding of the crucial role agriculture plays here. Tim Johnson, President & CEO, California Rice Commission
3. economic security Certain urban neighborhoods in Sacramento are losing ground in terms of economic security, which impacts the social and economic health of the entire region. Addressing the many facets and complications associated with providing residents with basic needs requires a collaborative, community-wide, data-driven, systematic response. valley vision s 2016 community health needs assessments, which analyzed more than 170 health indicators across six counties within 17 distinct health-service areas, found that economic insecurity is the most pressing health need in the region. Valley Vision recently launched a place-based initiative to address rising urban poverty inflicting nearly 85,000 residents living in our region s most disadvantaged neighborhoods where concentrated poverty is highest. 14
The Urban Jobs Initiative is a collaborative, multistakeholder approach to set a common vision and align resources. The initiative is a phased, multi-year process to overcome inequity and build opportunity to transform the lives of tens of thousands of our neighbors and friends. The effort emphasizes community involvement and an unprecedented level of partnering that unites government, foundation and business-related activities. No other organization is better poised to bring together cross-sector leadership and manage the large-scale coordination required to achieve real change for the region. Jose Hermocillo, Partner, Hermocillo-Azevedo Strategic Communications LLC 15
Valley Vision and community leaders came together to celebrate the Sacramento region s nonprofit contributions at Empower: A Legacy of Service held at the California History Museum on May 25, 2017. Credit: Brett Berry, Douglas Taylor 16
Our work has addressed the many dimensions of social equity for more than 20 years healthy communities Ensure access to basic needs for all 21st century workforce Improve educational and job training opportunities for all food & agriculture Increase food security and food education, and improve policies and programs across the region clean economy Improve air quality, and maximize investment in disadvantaged communities innovation + entrepreneurship Build opportunities for and access to entreprenurial skills for all
Thank you to our Sponsors for supporting the region s nonprofit community and celebrating their contributions with us at Empower: A Legacy of Service Presenting Sponsor Platinum sponsors Gold sponsors 3fold Communications Bank of America Downey Brand Kaiser Permanente Sierra Health Foundation SMUD University of the Pacific Western Health Advantage Sac State Sacramento Kings 18
Silver sponsors Comcast Dignity Health First Northern Bank Hermocillo-Azevedo Strategic Communications Nehemiah Community Foundation Placer County Office of Education Sacramento Regional Transit District Teichert Union Bank Wells Fargo Bronze sponsors Architectural Nexus Five Star Bank Golden 1 Credit Union Volt Services Los Rios Community College District Nossaman LLP SACOG Sierra College Williams + Paddon 19