our local favorites for planned Giving

Hospice of the Foothills is our region’s largest hospice program and the area’s leading provider of end-of-life care and information.

Providing professional, 

compassionate care for aging adults 

and their loved ones

The Hummingbird Therapeutic Activity Program seeks to bring happiness and delight to our clients by ensuring a fullness of life. It is our hope that clients will not only recognize the beauty in the world around them, but also the beauty within themselves. 

With community support, the Land Trust provides a lasting community heritage by protecting and enhancing meadows, watersheds, forests, farms and ranches, trails and parks.

The mission of Hospitality House is to bring homeless people in Nevada County into a circle of community caring that offers shelter, sustenance, medical care, advocacy, opportunity, dignity, and hope as we assist them in transitioning from homelessness to housing.

Sierra Harvest brings fresh, local, seasonal food to the community through school lunch programs, farmer business-mentoring programs, conferences, and community events.

The South Yuba River Citizens League has been fighting for a healthy and resilient watershed since 1983, and we are dedicated to leading this fight for many years to come. 

The Friendship Club provides a comprehensive, year-round, long-term program aimed at helping empower and educate youth who face challenges of poverty, abuse and trauma between the ages of 10 and 18 and provides assistance into their 20s as they transition into adulthood.

Our mission is to offer resources for building healthy relationships and to work with community partners to provide services for healing the effects of interpersonal violence.

Nevada County Pets in Need began with an appeal for food for the pets of the local homeless people and then grew to include pet supplies and funds for veterinary care, vaccinations, flea meds and especially spay-neuter services. Before long we were providing the same services for pets of low income residents, veterans and senior residents of Nevada County.

The curriculum of tracking, wilderness survival, and nature awareness —and the well-trained instructors— give children and teens first-hand experience of how to “read” the landscape as stewards of the Earth. Using Mentor-Apprenticeship models of instruction, many children attend the program for a decade or more, taking on increasing responsibility until they are teaching the younger students as young adult interns.