Marlena and Kala at their joint 2017 “Rouse the Spirit” event, along with David Roche, Michael Pritchard and Toan Lam.
After conducting an event together in February 2017, Marlena Blavin and Kala Shah recently reconnected in April 2020. In spite of […]
For our 7th year running, the power of positivity and community action was palpable at our Community Heroes Annual Day of Giving! Volunteers took part in a variety of service projects, spreading our mission of Compassion, Community Connection & Climate Action. Check out the heartwarming pics in our Photo Album.
Kala & Mita with P!NK (who had barely broken a sweat) post-show, complete with heartfelt conversation, wine and hugs!
There are those rare, pivotal moments in life forever punctuated in one’s memory and frozen in time. Your mind might first jump to when you heard tragic news. Then there’s the […]
Energetic group ready to DO!
It’s hard to describe all the feelings you get at the Day of Giving. Electric charge, positivity, sense of purpose, excitement, goosebumps, even some tears (gratitude, vulnerability, concern for others)….all the good stuff that we crave in connecting to others and meaningful causes. All this before 9am […]
Community Heroes ROCKED Socktober! Three of our participating schools (Vallecito, Dixie and Sun Valley Elementary) delivered 2,500 pairs of socks to Downtown Streets Team at their weekly team meeting, their largest sock donation EVER!
They also heard updates from the team members (new job, new apartment, etc.) and got a sense of the strong community among team […]
Angkor Wat temple complex–Summer 2018
Travel has always been a huge and beloved priority in my life. I got that gene running strong from my dad, who at 81 and along with my brother and cousin, recently returned from an exciting and rugged safari trip to Kenya and Tanzania to witness the incredible […]
Our 5th Annual Day of Giving on March 5 went down in Community Heroes history books as another grand success! What felt the same as in years past? The electric charge in the air, the sense of purpose, the infectious excitement as the community joined together to serve was as awesome, wholesome and fun as ever.
What […]
Now well into my 6th year of facilitating Community Heroes, I’m struck by how quickly our very capable elementary students grow into even more capable middle and high school students. I’ve been so inspired by Parkland, Florida, student Emma Gonzalez and how she and her peers are grabbing the helm of leadership and shaking things up for the real and […]
Like many of us in Marin, I woke up in the middle of the night on Sunday, Oct. 8 to the intense smell of smoke and fire coming from the North Bay wildfires. For me, the smell brought on a flood of memories — I suffered third-degree burns on more than 50 percent of my body as a toddler. The […]
What happens when you bring together more than 300 kids and parents from 14 school communities on a Sunday morning to do random acts of kindness, create care kits for the homeless, make superhero capes for sick kids, beautify local parks and much, much more? MAGIC, I tell you, just pure MAGIC! […]