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Summer Camps in Palo Alto: A Parent's Guide
Palo Alto packs an unusual amount of summer into a small footprint. Within a few miles you can find a science museum with live animals, an art school in a historic downtown building, tennis courts and swim clubs, a nature preserve in the foothills, and dozens of independent studios running week-long programs. Camps here are run by a mix of people: city recreation staff, long-standing nonprofits, neighborhood studios, and national programs that set up each June at local schools. For a family, th
Ladies Shred: A Surf, Skate, and Art Community for Marin Girls
Ladies Shred was dreamt up in 2013 - the work of one Marin native, Lilja Merrill, who almost everyone just calls Lil. Born in San Francisco and raised in Larkspur from the second grade on, Lil has spent well over a decade on boards and more than ten years coaching. She built Ladies Shred to do one thing: help the girls and women of Marin County find their footing in surfing and skateboarding, in a space made for them. The mission, in the group's own words, is to hold "a safe space for the girls
Summer Camps in Fremont: A Parent's Guide
Fog rolls off the bay flats at Don Edwards most July mornings before burning away by nine, leaving kids on the marsh trail in T-shirts and sun hats by the time the day camp starts. Across town, the parking lot at Ardenwood Elementary fills with LEGO bins and bike helmets, and downtown, a rehearsal hall on the Ohlone College campus rings with fourteen-year-olds hitting a high note for the third time in a row. This is what summer camp in Fremont looks like: spread across five old townships that gr
The Floathouse Petaluma: Learning to Row, Paddle, and Sail on Petaluma's Longest Park
A Rivertown Nonprofit with a Heart for Community The Floathouse sits at 50 Water Street, on 160 feet of low dock anchored to seven fiberglass pilings in the middle of downtown Petaluma. It is a project of the Petaluma Small Craft Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2007 by a coalition of people who loved small boats and wanted the river opened up to everyone else. Programming started in 2009 with community events and boating summer camps, run for years off borrowed docks near the Petaluma
The Best Registration Software for Children’s Enrichment Providers
Choosing registration software in children’s enrichment is unusually sensitive. Families are buying something that feels part education, part care, part trust, and part logistics. Providers are trying to offer warm, human experiences while also needing systems that can take payments, manage refunds, hold rosters, collect forms, and fill empty seats without creating more administrative strain. That tension is real in this category, and it changes what “good software” actually means. This guide
Rancho Compasión: A Farm Animal Sanctuary for West Marin Families
Rancho Compasión began in 2015, when Miyoko and Michael Schinner adopted two goats and gave them a home in the rolling hills of Nicasio. What started as one family's quiet act of care grew into a nonprofit farmed animal sanctuary that today provides a lifelong home to more than one hundred rescued residents across twelve species, among them pigs, cows, goats, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, and donkeys. The sanctuary's mission, in its own words, is "to provide a loving, lifelong home for rescued