Some city-sponsored services for seniors in Novato are on track to be rescued with the help of two grants from the Marin Community Foundation.

The Novato Independent Elders Program, based at the Margaret Todd Senior Center, was notified that a $65,000 foundation grant has been approved for salaries, and another $28,000 will go toward incidental expenses.

"I'm so relieved, and so are the seniors who receive these programs and the volunteers who provide them," said program director Carol Ann Moore, whose salary was at stake.

The elders program, which provides services such as grocery delivery and home yard work to seniors who still live in their homes, was targeted for elimination in recent cost-saving proposals by city staff. The city faces a $3 million budget shortfall for 2009-10.

Hawaii People's Fund & Hawaii Community Foundation are hosting a public exhibition of community organizations that you should know.

With donations, Hawaii People's Fund supports community-based groups working for social change throughout the island. Since 2007, Hawaii Community Foundation has matched many of their grant awards.

Meet over 30 groups funded in 2008 for their work for progressive social change in many intersecting arenas.

An advisory committee board made up of representatives from various Bristol Bay communities spent three days in Anchorage last month to decide who would be the recipients of the first round of Pebble Fund grants.

Alaska Community Foundation, which administers the grants funded by the Pebble Partnership, announced April 1 that 33 nonprofit groups, schools, villages and tribal councils serving the Bristol Bay area were awarded $1 million in grants from the Pebble Fund.

The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan awarded more than $650,000 in grants to local nonprofits in its March grant cycle.