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Community & Nonprofit Organizations

The San Francisco Bay Area affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure provided community grants totaling more than $1 million to support Bay Area breast health education and breast cancer-screening and treatment programs. Recipients included the Alexander Valley Regional Medical Center, Alliance Medical Center and Petaluma Health Center in Sonoma County and the Marin Center for Independent Living and Marin Community Clinics.



Cattlemens Steakhouse’s locations in Santa Rosa and Petaluma donated tips received on July 22 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. for the 6th Annual Bob Burke Kid’s Night, which raises funds for terminally ill children.



The 8th Annual Fermenting Change Microbreweries Battling Breast Cancer event raised $40,000 for the Charlotte Maxwell Clinic. The festival was hosted by Marin Brewing Co., Moylan’s Brewing Co. and Noonan’s Bar and Grill.



The Land Trust of Napa County received a $30,000 donation from Sterling Vineyards in Napa Valley. Sterling also released a 2005 vintage of Wildlake Ranch Merlot to benefit the nonprofit.

Disaster Relief

Small non-farm businesses in 15 California counties, including Sonoma, Napa, Marin, Lake, Mendocino and Solano, can apply for low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration to offset the economic losses caused by drought in the first half of 2008.

Marketing

Goodman Marketing Partners in San Rafael was named a silver winner in the 2008 Summit Creative Awards for its work for Autodesk.

Media

Napa-based CAV Media Video Studios was awarded a 5-year contract by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to provide on-call video production services, web casting and editing services throughout the Bay Area.

Printing

Rohnert Park-based O’Dell Printing earned the Forest Stewardship Council’s Chain of Custody certification.

Retail

Bed of Roses flower store in Santa Rosa is now Kaboinga.



Burlingame-based Quent Cordair Fine Art opened its 3,600-square-foot suite of galleries at 1301 First St. in Napa.



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