Art club meeting
The Sunnyvale Art Club holds its monthly meeting Jan. 16 at 7 p.m. in the paint room of the Sunnyvale Community Center’s Creative Art Building.
The demo artist is club member Angelo Lopez, a cartoonist.
Guests are welcome to attend the meeting. For questions, call Chris MacDonough at 408-230-4511.
Charitable meals grants
Santa Clara County’s Consumer and Environmental Protection Agency charitable feeding pilot program is accepting applications through March 18 for grants of up to $1,000 to nonprofits that rent commercial kitchens in the county for preparing charitable meals.
Nonprofits with no access to commercial kitchens can sometimes operate out of compliance with state law, or spend significant resources to redesign an existing kitchen or rent a permitted facility.
Commercial kitchens are designed to enhance food safety.
“Food safety is an absolute essential. I get that,” said Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, who championed the program. “But changes in State law in recent years have precluded well-intentioned nonprofits from providing a healthy, hot meal to people who need it. I’ve heard from too many churches, temples and local nonprofits who want to help that they simply can’t. That’s why I’m so pleased we’re making these mini-grants available. They should cover the costs for local nonprofits to rent a compliant kitchen and then do the good work they’re anxious to do.”
Grant requests will be considered based on a nonprofit’s goals to improve the safety, quality and availability of food to Santa Clara County community members who may not have the resources to provide for meals themselves. To apply, visit www.sccgov.org/sites/cepa/Pages/cepa.aspx