WHOLE FOODS: NICKELS FOR NONPROFITS: for Novato Community Garden
Whole Foods Novato has selected Novato Live Well Network for their "Nickels for Nonprofits" program. Every time you shop at Whole Foods Novato, make sure you bring your reusable grocery bags. At checkout you have the option of receiving five cents credit (per bag) or donating the money to a selected charity: make sure to select Novato Live Well Network! Your nickels will go to our "seed money" to build the first pilot Community Garden in Novato! Whole Foods Novato is opening on April 22, 2010. The "Nickels for Nonprofits" for Novato Live Well Network will run through July 2010. For more information on the Grand Opening Events visit Whole Foods Novato's website.

FEBUARY 25 EVENT DRAWING DONORS:
Our "Growing A Healthy Community From the Ground Up!" Outreach/Fundraising Event was a success! Thank you local business donors for donating items, gift certificates and services and helping us to raise over $2,000! Please support these local businesses that are supporting our Novato Community Garden Project:

THANK YOU DONORS FOR YOUR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS!

Thank you Autodesk, San Rafael for your generous donation of AutoCAD2010 valued at $4,000!
Thank you Gary Soden of Clear Heart Drilling of Santa Rosa for donating their time, equipment and expertise to drill a well for the Novato Community Garden Project. Valued at $4,000.
Thank you Don Foster, our Community Garden Site Development Director, for the thousands of hours you've put into designing the site plan, overseeing the drilling of the well and for guiding us in all aspects of site development and construction preparation. (Don's on the right!)
Thank You Dietrich Stroeh of CSW/Stuber-Stroeh Engineering Group, Inc. for telling us to drill a well! And, for your generosity in time, expertise and financial support in our efforts.
Thank You David Vossler, Geologist for your generosity in time, expertise in helping us to locate and drill a well.

AND thank you to our Novato Community Garden Committee
for your continual support! Keep the Vision!

Top Row (L-R): Don Foster, Jeff Le Maitre, David Selzer, Elena Freeman, Tori Graw
Bottom Row (L-R) Nicole Marelich, Wheelbarrow, Veronica Valero
Not Shown: Donna West, Sandy Wollenberg, Gisela Le Maitre,
Don Davidson, and Gail Altschuler

A 100% VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION:
The Novato Live Well Network is a 100% volunteer organization. We have great visions that are shared by many. To maintain and grow our programs in a sustainable manner, we need community support and participation. This comes in a variety of forms.

The Novato Live Well Network (NLWN) is a sponsored project of MarinLink, a California nonprofit corporation, exempt from federal tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended.  Your financial contributions are deductible.

BECOME A SUPPORTING MEMBER:
1. Download our brochure and fill out the form and mail it to us with a check.
2. Make a Contribution: Make your check payable to: "Marin Link/NLWN"
3. Mail to: Novato Live Well Network, P.O. Box 1647 Novato, CA 94948-1647

VOLUNTEER SUPPORT:
If any of our programs excite you and you'd like to get involved, please contact us by email or by phone.

OTHER WAYS OF GIVING:
our school kitchens and our school gardens can always use donated items. If you have something that you think we might need, email novatolivewell@comcast.net, or call us at 415-897-2302..

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