Napa Valley CanDo

The latest edition of the CanDo Connection is out! Read about:
🤝 The partnership between Napa Food Project and Leadership Napa Valley
👍What CanDo accomplished in 2025
📆 Highlights from CanDo’s Community Calendar
Read the newsletter here: conta.cc/4tBhc0G
Subscribe: www.nvcando.org/cando-connection

The CanDo Connection is out! Read about:
🐟 A CanDo supported project for your youth group that protects local wildlife
✊🏾 Those who founded Black History Month a century ago
🍅 What canned tomato products have to do with the Napa Food Bank
Read: conta.cc/3LX7q8n
Subscribe: nvcando.org/cando-connection

Respect, Kindness, Acceptance! 🩵 CanDo Pro-Inclusion Napa's Positive Yard Sign Campaign aims to amplify inclusivity & compassion in Napa community #PINPositiveYardSigns

If you haven't gotten a sign yet, request one by emailing pro-inclusionnapa@nvcando.org or by going to www.nvcando.org/pin-...

Here's a CanDo project combo! Shown here are bags made at the MLK Jr. Day Celebration Base Camp "t-shirts to tote bags" activity that CanDo led, alongside the produce from a recent glean. 🍊🍋 Learn more about CanDo's Gleaning project and get involved here: www.nvcando.org/glea...

In 2025, CanDo collected & harvested 139,105 lbs of food through our Napa Food Project, Gleaning, Garden for the Food Bank, & Food Rescue projects, for donation to the CANV Food Bank or food distributions throughout the Napa Valley. 🥫🥬 Learn more about these projects at www.nvcando.org/get-...

CanDo's newest Napa Food Project Neighborhood Coordinators completed their orientation yesterday! 🌟 Interested in getting involved with this project? There are 3 levels of involvement -- Food Donors, Neighborhood Coordinators, & Food Bank Warehouse Volunteers. Learn more: www.nvcando.org/food...

This week's Snapshot edition of the CanDo Connection (out today!) features:
🤲 CanDo Give!Guide's record-breaking donation year
💙 CanDo's participation at the MLK Jr. Day Celebration Base Camp
📣 Upcoming Napa County volunteer opportunities and events

Read the newsletter here: www.conta.cc/4pJlqQN

Happy MLK Jr. Day! CanDo participated at the MLK Jr. Day Celebration Base Camp w/ a free book giveaway, "t-shirts to totes" activity to turn old shirts into bags for use at the CANV Food Bank, and a Pro-Inclusion Napa Positive Yard Sign Campaign sign giveaway & Positive Poster Project activity 📚🎨

Have you seen these signs around Napa? 🧡 They are for CanDo Pro-Inclusion Napa's Positive Yard Sign Campaign #PINPositiveYardSigns Get a sign at Justin Siena HS (MLK Jr. Day Celebration Base Camp) on 1/19, or request one by emailing pro-inclusionnapa@nvcando.org or going to nvcando.org/pro-incl....

Throwback to warmer weather last summer, and lots of CanDo volunteering! ☀️ Get involved with CanDo by checking out our projects and volunteer opportunities at www.nvcando.org/get-...!

Did you know that the City of Calistoga Parks & Recreation has a seasonal newsletter? 📰 The Winter 2025-26 newsletter features upcoming youth, family, adult, and senior programs, Parks & Recreation Department updates, and more. View the newsletter here:

CanDo Pro-Inclusion Napa's Positive Yard Sign Campaign is in full swing! 🩵 Take a photo & post it w/ the hashtag #PositiveYardSignCampaign

You can pick up a sign at the Farmers Market on 1/10 or at Justin Siena HS (MLK Jr. Day Celebration Base Camp) on 1/19, or by going to nvcando.org/pro-incl....

CanDo's Neighborhood Reads Project is partnering with First 5 Napa County to spread the word about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program! 📚 Attend a Zoom meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 13 to learn more (email info@nvcando.org to receive the Zoom meeting link).

This week's CanDo Connection (out today!) features:
📚 An upcoming CanDo & First 5 Napa County partnership to get free books to families & children
🤲 The King Centers's theme for this MLK Jr. Day
💙 How CanDo will be celebrating MLK Jr. Day this year

Read here: www.conta.cc/3LehSba

If one of your New Year's Resolutions this year is to start volunteering in the Napa Valley, CanDo has you covered! 🤲

Check out all of our projects and volunteer opportunities at www.nvcando.org/get-..., or learn about other Napa Valley nonprofits to get involved with at www.nvcando.org/find...

CanDo Pro-Inclusion Napa's Positive Yard Sign Campaign launches TODAY! 📣 Put up your sign in your front yard, window, or workplace, take a photo, & post it to social media with the hashtag #PositiveYardSignCampaign! Volunteers needed to distribute signs - see CanDo's Instagram / Facebook for info.

Want to get more involved in the Napa Valley community in 2026? Take a look at our volunteer opportunities and events happening in January! ☃️

For information on all of CanDo's projects, go to www.nvcando.org.

This week's Special edition of the CanDo Connection (out today!) features:
🖼️ CanDo Pro-Inclusion Napa's recent poster display
📣 The upcoming Positive Yard Sign Campaign (launching Jan 1!)
📚 An upcoming CanDo - First Five partnership to get free books to kids

Read here: www.conta.cc/4qs0yhJ

Happy Holidays, from the CanDo Core! ❄️

Calling all Napa nonprofit organizations! Did you know that you can request to have a volunteer opportunity or event listed in CanDo's twice weekly newsletter, the CanDo Connection? 📰 Go to our website to put in this request: www.nvcando.org/list-your-event

On Saturday, CanDo Napa Food Project volunteers helped break all records by collecting 21,095 lbs of food & $12,505 in monetary donations, in addition to more than $5,000 raised in November—a tremendous gift to neighbors in need.

Interested in getting involved? Sign up here: www.nvcando.org/food...

This week's Snapshot edition of the CanDo Connection (out today!) features:
🍎 How volunteers make CanDo's Gleaning Project possible
🥫 Napa Food Project's record-breaking food collection day this month
👕 A volunteer opportunity at Napa's MLK Jr. Day of Service

To read: www.conta.cc/48UDaT5

Did you know that the city of Napa has a biweekly city newsletter? 📰 This week's newsletter features an update on the acquisition of the former Harvest Middle School property, a request for public input on Napa County Hazard Mitigation Survey, and more. Sign up here: www.cityofnapa.org/l...

CanDo’s Pro-Inclusion Napa (PIN) project held their Year-End Meeting and Holiday Social yesterday evening, and signs for PIN’s Positive Yard Sign Campaign were distributed! 🧡 This campaign amplifies inclusivity and compassion in the Napa community.

#PositiveYardSignCampaign

Next Saturday, December 13 is the CanDo Napa Food Project December collection day. Let's make this our largest December collection day yet! If you are able, consider filling two bags -- a grocery bag is absolutely fine if you don't have a second green bag. 💚

CanDo Pro-Inclusion Napa's Positive Yard Sign Campaign launches Jan 1, 2026! This campaign aims to amplify the values of inclusivity and compassion. Request or pick up a sign and display it in your yard, window, or workplace, to help promote inclusivity and compassion in the Napa Valley. 🩵

This week's CanDo Connection (out today) features:
🧡 Updates on CanDo's Give!Guide (donate now at candogiveguide.org!)
🏆 The Hilary Zunin CanDo Spirit & Service Award winners
🤲 Info on human rights & promoting/protecting them (Dec. is Human Rights Month)

Read here: www.conta.cc/48L9ubZ

Looking to do some volunteering this winter? Take a look at our volunteer opportunities and events happening in December! ❄️

For information on all of CanDo's projects, go to www.nvcando.org.

CanDo's Gleaning Team recently harvested over 400 lbs of persimmons from backyard fruit trees, for donation to the CANV Food Bank! 🌳

Interested in getting involved with the Gleaning Team? Learn more about the project & sign up as a produce donor or volunteer harvester here: www.nvcando.org/glea...

The CanDo Garden for the Food Bank harvested its first ever sweet potatoes this week! 🍠 All produce harvested from the Garden goes to the CANV Food Bank.