400K handwritten postcards and letters: Mountain View woman manages massive volunteer get-out-the-vote operation
Maria Genzel’s volunteers can either pick up packets of postcards from her porch or join her regular postcard-writing “parties.”
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North Bay students amass more than 500 prom dresses, then open a store to give them away.
This is the second year that students at Redwood High School in Larkspur have opened their Prom Boutique. Garvin Thomas reports.
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Aiming to lift spirits of passers-by, homeless San Jose artist creates elaborate, wearable suits of armor
Using material he scavenged from dump sites, Jared Clark has crafted life-size suits of armor based on characters from the game Warhammer 40,000.
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East Bay group continues to pave the way to college for hundreds of Richmond youth.
Giving hope to young people in a community where they often see little of it. That’s what College Is Real has been doing for close to 20 years. Garvin Thomas shares the latest Bay Area Proud.... -
Los Gatos woman's effort to feed seniors is just latest in long list of helping her community
Even in some of the wealthiest communities in the Bay Area there are those that need help. In Los Gatos, for example, there are dozens of seniors who need help getting enough food each day. Fortunatel...