Celebrating This Remarkable Community of Givers

Instead of setting restrictive New Year's Resolutions that are bound to end in disappointment, this year try setting the same goals a Duke Of Edinburgh Award holder does:

Volunteer
Do something physical
Develop a skill
Venture outside your comfort zone

If you simply do some charity work, exercise, learn a new skill and push yourself outside your comfort zone for a short time this year, then you will have succeeded!

WORDS MATTER

"The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them."

-Elizabeth Gilbert

BITS AND PIECES

AUDUBON 2018 PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

Click here to feast your eyes on award-winning images of the splendor, resilience, and ingenuity of bird life.

FARM TO FOOD BANK

SPEND JUST 45 MINUTES WITH US

at the fabulous Napa Farmers' Market, and help feed our hungry neighbors!

DAY/DATE/TIME

Any Saturday

12:15-1:30ish

(or the short shift:

1:00-1:45ish)

For more information, or

to sign up, click here .

LOCATION

Napa Farmers' Market

South Napa Century Center

195 Gasser Drive

Teens and older

supervised)

children welcome!

SAVE THE DATES

CanDo's NAPA FOOD PROJECT

Neighborhood Coordinator Orientation

Give us just 90 minutes

and we'll help you make sure that all our neighbors

have enough to eat.

Tues., Jan. 17, 6-7:30PM Napa

FFI: Email or call 707.252.7743

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CanDo Connection is filled with volunteer opportunities

and events to help you connect with community.

Our Mission Statement

Wishing you and yours a year of peace, ease,

open doors

and open hearts.

Your CanDo Neighbors

SUCH GENEROUS COMMUNITY OF GIVERS!

CanDo 's 2018 GIVE!GUIDE TOTAL

AS OF MIDNIGHT, DECEMBER 31

$414,305.82

Tune in next week once checks postmarked

by December 31 arrive.

iT'S NOT TOO LATE TO JOIN THE MLK COALITION!

Jan. 20-21, 2019,

communities all around the Napa Valley will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of

the Beloved Community with

volunteer and educational activities.

Dr. Craig F. Schindler reflects on

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s

Beloved Community and how we can achieve it.

Would your service organization, faith-based community, or nonprofit help us spread the word about this wonderful annual community event? We invite you to become a member of Napa's MLK Jr. Coalition.

Just email us the name of your organization, a contact person, email and phone number.

Please write "MLK" in the subject line.

Click here for more information.

Click here to download the MLK Day flyer.

THE CanDo SPOTLIGHT

Events and Volunteer Opportunities

from Other Groups Around the Valley

Tell 'em you heard about it through CanDo!

Note: Posting events in this "Spotlight" does not constitute an endorsement by Napa Valley CanDo unless expressly stated. We list a variety of opportunities and programs we feel may be of interest to our readers. Explore! Enjoy! Get involved!

RECYCLE YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE:

SEND A BOY SCOUT TO CAMP
SPONSOR: Napa Boy Scouts

Your Christmas tree could become the mulch that helps

St. John's Lutheran Church Mission Farm grow vegetables for the Napa Food bank.

Volunteers will haul away any trees left out on the curb by 9AM Saturday morning, January 5. Trees must be stripped of decorations and metal spikes. Volunteers ask that participants leave an envelope containing a $10 check made out to Boy Scouts of America on their door. Most of these proceeds go directly toward helping pay for Boy Scouts to attend summer camp.

A ccording to Napa Recycling and Waste Services, a ny trees not collected on Saturday, Jan. 5, will be collected on the neighborhood's normal service day, beginning the following Monday. Trees taller than eight feet, if they are not picked up on Saturday, must be cut in half.

DAY/DATE/TIME: January 5, beginning at 9AM

LOCATION: Curbside pick-up

DI ROSA CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART SEEKS VOLUNTEERS FOR SCHOOL TOUR PROGRAM

SPONSOR: di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art

di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art is recruiting volunteers to conduct school tours of all ages.

Gallery teachers/volunteers should be curious about art and ideas, comfortable working in an indoor/outdoor environment and available to volunteer weekdays during the day. Applicants from all backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to apply. Conversational Spanish or other languages is helpful but not required.

DAY/DATE/TIME: January 8-February 19

LOCATION: di Rosa Center, 5200 Sonoma Highway, Napa

FFI: Email, call 707.226.5991 or visit their website.

WILD NAPA - FISH MONITORING IN THE NAPA RIVER SPONSOR: Napa County RCD

WILD Napa is a monthly lecture series that explores topics related to Napa County's "wild side!" RCD Senior Biologist Jonathan Koehler joins us for this month's installment. Since 2009, Jonathan has annually monitored smolt abundance, adult returns, juvenile distribution, and genetic diversity in the Napa River Watershed. Just this year his team found tagged trout returning up the Napa River to spawn. The purpose of this monitoring and research is to provide science-based information to all stakeholders involved in steelhead and salmon management and recovery. Come to our lecture at the Napa Library to hear what it's all about.

DAY/DATE/TIME: January 9 7-8PM

LOCATION: Napa Co. Library - 580 Coombs. Street

FFI:
Email
or phone 707.690.3117, or visit their website.

WILD AMERICAN CANYON

SPONSOR: Napa County RCD

WILD Napa is a monthly lecture series that explores topics related to Napa County's "wild side." Melissa Tofflemoyer joins us from WildCare for this month's installment. Come meet WildCare's rescued nonreleasable wild animals during this unforgettable presentation. By sharing their rescue stories, these animals act as ambassadors for their species and help raise awareness of their plight in the wild. WildCare's outreach and on-site educational programs have a history of providing quality nature education programming in the SF Bay Area since the 1970s.

DAY/DATE/TIME: January 23 6:30-7:30PM

LOCATION: American Canyon Library: 300 Crawford Way, American Canyon

FFI: Email or phone 707.690.3117, or visit their website.

HERE'S WHAT YOU CanDo

TO GET INVOLVED

We grow fresh, local produce for the Napa Food Bank. Email Karen or Betty.

Waterway Keepers began as a CanDo project. Now it's orchestrated by our friends at the Napa Co. RCD. Volunteers help maintain our river and streams to keep them vibrant and alive.

Email Karen.

Raises funds and awareness for local nonprofits in a year-end giving campaign. Email hilary or Nancy.

CanDo has a whole new way to help the Food Bank feed neighbors in need. Email Marilyn. To help deliver fresh produce from the Farmers' Market to the Food Bank, Email Karen.

LIKE TO HAVE YOUR EVENT IN THE

CanDo SPOTLIGHT?

Are you a nonprofit in need of volunteers?

Or do you have a fundraiser, educational opportunity,

or fun event you'd like us to share in the "Spotlight"?

Space permitting, your post may run for up to three weeks leading to the date of your event. Any photo

you'd like us to consider MUST be sent as a jpg.

Learn more and submit your event here .

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Sunday, 6PM for the following Tuesday's blast.

The Choices We Make

Napa Valley CanDo seeks to inspire and facilitate action by alerting interested Valley residents about opportunities for service. If you participate as a volunteer in an activity that you learned about through Napa Valley CanDo, whether initiated by CanDo or another organization, please take personal responsibility for your involvement. Use common sense. Only you can determine whether an activity is a good fit, that is to say compatible with your interests and abilities.