OUR MISSION.

We make it possible for people to achieve well-being by providing the education, mental health, and vital services they need. Together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to BETTER OUTCOMES FOR ALL.

DEAR COMMUNITY AND COLLEAGUES,

The past year went by quickly given the pace of change and uncertainty around us. As an agency, our staff and board aligned on a priority to strengthen an equitable recovery. We focused on our foundation: people. We invested quickly in human resources and technology to sustain connections and increase trust at all levels, from making sure that staff at sites across Marin County got regular updates and training, to helping those in the community that our team of frontline specialists assisted daily, along pathways to self-sufficiency.

The truth of what we have all been through together required us to show our strength of care alongside our vulnerability. We stayed the course. Throughout 2021, Community Action Marin’s staff of over 200 dedicated employees helped individuals, families, and the unhoused members of our community family to meet urgent needs. They scrambled to cover for teammates who needed recuperation time from COVID, and they kept going to fulfill our promise to embody the spirit of hope and make this a better place to live. We kept going because we committed long ago to racial and economic justice.

As an agency reflective of the communities we serve low-income, working poor, immigrant, undocumented, people of color, homeless, aging into poverty, Indigenous language speakers, those experiencing mental health challenges, and others we know the injustice of a pandemic that has widened divides of difference and created inequities where our shared humanity requires none.

Many in Marin stepped up, and we’re grateful. We mobilized private, government, and agency resources to make sure that people found in us a capable partner in difficult times. It took all of us, and we’re proud of what we accomplished together with supporters, volunteers, and donors. We will continue to need one another to get to a truly equitable Marin County, and this is our moment to shine!

Thank you for your efforts to make brighter futures possible. I am excited to be with you as we move forward toward justice together.

Sincerely,

Chandra Alexandre Chief Executive Officer