Arts Fund for Children

This fund was established to ensure the foster care children of Marin County get to enjoy art enrichment programs and activities. Ruth Rosen, a long time County Counsel member, established the fund to give these children the music, art, dance, drama, and concerts that would otherwise be unavailable to them.

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Marin Retirement Communities Scholarship Fund

The Marin Retirement Communities Scholarship Fund has helped support educational achievement in Marin County since 1994. Through the collaboration of six retirement facilities (The Aldersly, Drake Terrace, The Redwoods, Smith Ranch, The Tamalpais, and Villa Marin), scholarship support is available to the employees of these facilities, their children, and grandchildren. To date, with support from Marin Education Fund, nearly $400,000 has been awarded to qualified individuals.

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New Leader Scholarship Fund

The New Leader Scholarship Fund of the Goldman Family Fund is a donor-advised fund that provides aid to students who meet certain criteria. They must come from financial and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds, demonstrate leadership capacity, and attend one of the five Bay Area public universities. Preference is given to recent immigrants and students of color. For more information on the New Leadership Scholarship, you can visit its website.

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Stinson/Bolinas Community Fund

The Stinson/Bolinas Community Fund was created in 1998 at the Marin Community Foundation by community members who pooled their charitable dollars to provide an ongoing source of funding for projects that benefit the Stinson Beach and Bolinas communities. Since then, the fund has distributed over $350,000 to more than 250 local projects and organizations.

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The San Anselmo Open Space Fund

Established nearly 20 years ago, the San Anselmo Open Space Fund has already worked to preserve over 55 acres of valuable hillsides, canyons, and ridgelines in Marin's Ross Valley. Ninety-nine percent of funds donated are used to buy at-risk parcels of land designated by the San Anselmo General Plan. This land has been labeled as necessary to preserve in order to save vital greenbelt buffer zones, wildlife habitat, viewsheds, and access to such recreational resources as the Marin Municipal Water District lands.

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The Villa Le Clos Fund

The Villa Le Clos Fund is a designated beneficiary fund that supports the educational and cultural development of children on the coast of rural Brittany in France. The program operates what is known in the French educational system as a "centre de decouverte," where youngsters from the surrounding country areas join teachers in discovering the culture, geography, language, marine life, arts, and music of Bretagne and France.

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