Newsletters
Fall/Winter 2022 Newsletter
Dear Friends, What I love most about this time of year, is the opportunity to give. I get so much joy when I can deliver a homemade treat to celebrate…
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Spring 2022 Newsletter
Dear Friends, A few weeks ago, I was interviewed about the history behind the development of our foundation by an organization we are collaborating with on an innovative project for…
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Fall 2021 Newsletter
Dear Friends, Autumn has a nostalgic way of flooding my thoughts with memories of the creativity I grew up around. Halloween costumes were always handmade – a papier-mâché penguin head
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Announcements
We have LAUNCHED!!! The Mel & Leta Ramos Family Virtual Education Center is LIVE!!
On November 4 the Crocker Art Museum hosted a launch party to reveal our Virtual Education Center. The guest list was comprised primarily of educators from Sacramento State University and…
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RAMOS FOUNDATION JOINS WITH OTHER ART FOUNDATIONS IN NATIONAL BIPOC FUNDING INITIATIVE
Additionally, in keeping with our intention to work in support of arts education for historically under-represented artists, we recently joined a national consortium to help build capacity to host and…
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Southern Exposure’s Mission Girls Rock It!
A Ramos Foundation 2020 mini-grant helped to fund several stipends for girls and female-identified youth to participate in SoEx’s long-term and ongoing partnership with Mission Girls, as part of its Community…
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Relatives With Roots – Arts & Education in the Natural World
Over the summer months of 2021, the Mel and Leta Ramos Family Foundation was happy to help support the activities of the Ojai Valley Green Coalition (OVGC) and its special…
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Centre Picasso d’Horta
The Foundation is honored to be recognized by the Centre Picasso Museo in Horta de Sant Joan, Spain for our donation to the museum and education center. A colorful plaque…
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Alamo Today & Danville Today News. October 2022
Arts for All: Supporting Creative Expression as an Essential Human Need.
Cal State East Bay’s East Bay Today. June 12, 2020
An Artistic Legacy. Family of former CSEB professor and alumna funds program to bring arts education to Hayward schools.
LA Weekly. August 20, 2020
Bookseller’s Holiday: National Non-Profit Impact Month.
A.G. Geiger Presents. Aug 24, 2020
Tales from the LA Art Underworld • Interview with Founder and Foundation President, Rochelle Leininger.