Your Generosity at Work

When you make a gift to Bread for the Journey, you're helping good works to emerge, building on our community’s unique strengths. Here are a few of the projects our generous supporters have made possible.

2025 Grants

Promote community access to healthy food and wellness:
  • “Farm Bucks” for participants in PRS’ Domestic Violence program to access fresh produce at Rugged Roots Farm, and a grant to Coral Dunbar to support local women’s participation in wellness retreats
  • A grant to The Dawn Institute to aid in creating a Plumas-Sierra emergency food access plan, and sponsorship funds to revive the Quincy Certified Farmers’ Market
Nurture young people’s connection to the natural world and build capacity for environmental stewardship: 
  • Support for the 6th grade Plumas to the Pacific watershed education trip, and building supplies to relocate the Quincy Elementary School educational garden
Seed funding for new ventures that build economic vitality:
  • At the Quincy Hub visitor center: a new computer for Quincy Chamber, and a grant to Indian Valley Innovation Hub to install laundry facilities for locals and PCT hikers
  • Bridge funding to transition an essential business that promotes other local businesses--Wild Hare Sign Company—to the next generation of local owners
Nurture community vitality and connections through art, music, fun, and fitness:  

2024 Grants

In 2024, your generosity enabled us to award twenty one grants! Here are some highlights of what you helped make possible: 
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Support the creativity and resilience of people of all ages to heal and restore communities after the Dixie Fire: 
Fill the information void with reliable coverage of locally important issues, events, and programs: 
Promote community access to healthy food and wellness:
Build capacity for environmental stewardship and nurture young people’s connection to the natural world: ​
​Nurture community vitality and connections through music, fun, and fitness:  
  • FreQuincy’s summer concerts promoting local musicians and live music, and Plumas Performing Arts’ summer music program for kids 
  • A shade and weather cover for Plumas Ski Club’s longboard races and music events
  • Volunteers’ efforts to improve facilities and grow community participation in Plumas Disc Golf at Pioneer Park and pickleball at the Feather River College courts

2023 Grants

  • $1,500 to the P-CREW Youth Corps for travel and food costs associated with their annual reunion that brings together alumni of their 5-week youth conservation and restoration work experience program.
  • $1,000 to Lake Almanor Watershed Group to support ongoing water quality monitoring and its annual report on the health of Lake Almanor​
  • $1,000 to Feather River Trout Unlimited to support Trout in the Classroom Programs and Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Lassen, Plumas, and Sierra County students.
  • $1,250 to the Lost Sierra Food Project for planning to expand community food projects and programming including food access and education in Indian Valley
  • $2,000 to Plumas Performing Arts to purchase musical instruments and increase participation of younger students in the summer music program
  • $2,000 to NikNek Lemonade to support a Maidu-owned, Greenville-based lemonade stand for local and Native events and fairs
  • $1,000 to Cub Scouts Quincy Pack 151 for need-based scholarship funds to help more local kids join and participate in scouting activities
  • $1,500 to Joanne Wilson to help complete the Dixie Fire Stories Project
  • $2,000 to the Tahoe Food Hub for a pilot project to expand deliveries of local, sustainable food for markets and hunger relief into Plumas County
  • $1,500 to Plumas Audubon Society for Board of Directors training for organizational development, strategic planning, and board recruitment
  • $250 to QHS Gay Straight Alliance for a celebration and purchase of t-shirts to spread a message of love and acceptance 
  • $1,500 to Quircus to purchase a lighting system and fire spinning equipment for local performances and circus education programs
  • $1,500 to the Lawry House Project for startup funding to begin restoration of the historic home and revitalization of downtown Quincy
  • $1,500 to Friends of Plumas County Animals for the Plumas Feral Spay-Neuter Project to help humanely decrease the feral cat population in the county
  • $600 to Plumas Arts to sponsor two flower baskets for the Quincy Main Street beautification project
  • $950 to Kaitlyn Rangel and Flancoco to support their Musartique event promoting a Quincy-international collaboration to create a large interactive art installation
  • $2,000 to Friends of Plumas Wilderness to continue work with local Maidu youth and elders in the creation of a Maidu Plant Book
  • $1,680 to Plumas County Firewise to support another year of monthly meetings with incentive prizes (pine needle rakes) to help local residents reduce wildfire risks

2022 Grants

  • $800 to Kurstin Clute and Edawna McQuade for materials for their Quincy High School Senior Project to repaint and redecorate rooms in a local women and children’s shelter
  • $1,500 to singer-songwriter Corinne West for studio recording and mixing her original “Plumas Strong” song to raise awareness and benefit Dixie Fire survivors
  • $1,000 to Pachuca Productions for the Youth Voices: Speaking of Fire project, to support youth to write about and share their experiences living through evacuation, fire, and the aftermath of the Dixie Fire at the Silver Linings readers theater event
  • $250 to Plumas Arts for materials to display the Community Mural Project, a collaborative art project designed by Tina Thorman (Trixie Hollyhox)
  • $650 to Inge Stock to purchase a sensory table and covers to soften fluorescent lights in the kindergarten classroom at Plumas Charter School
  • $200 to Plumas Community Hospice to purchase booklets to support families grieving loss
  • $2,000 for materials to help complete the Quincy Community Triangle beautification project, welcoming people and acknowledging this Maidu homeland
  • $360 to Plumas Arts for facilities costs for the “Music on the Green Revival” event in Greenville to support communities affected by the Dixie Fire
  • $1,000 to Friends of Plumas County Animals renovate their new shelter with outdoor spaces for rescued kittens and cats to get fresh air and sunshine
  • $1,500 to Wild Mountain Herbal Collective for logo design, event planning and promotional materials for community education about plant medicine and cultivation
  • $600 Plumas Arts to sponsor two flower baskets for the Main Street beautification project
  • $1,500 to Plumas Audubon Society for promotional and outreach materials and event staffing to raise awareness and support for bird conservation

2021 Grants

  • $1,000 to Quincy High School Library to purchase new books to support junior high and high school readers when the pandemic restricted schools to online learning
  • ​$500 in start-up funding to Wild Mountain Herbal Collective for local education in the art and craft of plant medicine, cultivation, and restoration
  • $3,500 to the Lost Sierra Food Project to purchase a commercial refrigerator to keep produce fresh for local accounts and participants in their education and low-income farm share programs
  • $500 to Plumas Performing Arts for prizes for youth participants in their online Plumas County Vocal and Instrumental Solo and Ensemble Festival
  • $10,500 in designated gifts to Traci Turner and Quincy Thrift & Company to help fund efforts providing for the immediate needs of Dixie Fire evacuees, and short term and future services to returning Greenville residents.
  • $800 to Quircus community-based circus to purchase a crash pad for use in training and community education activities
  • $1,000 to Friends of Plumas Wilderness for a mapping project for further understanding and education about the impacts of recent wildland fire on natural ecosystems
  • $250 to California Scholarship Federation, Quincy High School for Academic Awards prizes to help increase student achievement and participation
  • $1,100 to Feather River Tourism Association to purchase officers and directors’ insurance for volunteers during their first year of operations
  • $400 to Amy Napoleon Wilson and Amanda Maffei to cover direct event costs in organizing the 2021 Women’s March
  • $1,000 to Mountain Passages to support Dixie Fire evacuees with gift cards for food and gas, distributed through Quincy Thrift.

2020 Grants

  • $1,000 to the Lost Sierra Composite Bike Team to get more kids on bikes to “build strong minds, bodies, character, and community”
  • $300 to the Quincy High School chapter of the CA Scholarship Federation for local gift cards as prizes for an awards night
  • $1,000 to the Maidu Summit Consortium, a Native Land Conservancy, for accounting services to help plan financial sustainability during a transition in leadership
  • $2,500 to the Lost Sierra Food Project to increase access to affordable, locally grown food through their free and reduced farm share for low income residents and to empower kids and adults to grow their own food
  • $300 for art journaling materials for participants in coach Tiffany Lozano’s and therapist Aly Kinne’s virtual “Recipe for Resilience” course
  • $250 for local students to attend a virtual performing arts camp
  • $500 for start-up funds for a Main Street community garden and garden shop in Greenville
  • $1,000 to Plumas Arts for video production of a musician led virtual Hometown for the Holidays benefit concert for local musicians and arts.

2019 Grants

  • $1,300 to Rural to Rural for local high school students traveling to Uganda to engage in service-learning projects. The students directed the funds—and their labor—toward helping a community renovate a primary school, and to sponsor a student for a year.   
  • $500 for set design and construction work for a dramaworks community theater production of Chicago at West End Theatre
  • $600 to sponsor a hanging flower basket for the Quincy Beautify Main Street Project
  • $500 to help upgrade Greenville High School’s weight room equipment for a safe and healthy exercise environment
  • $600 to Quincy High’s Gay-Straight Alliance to grow a culture of inclusive support through club T-shirts, books, and meals, and $185 for banners for event outreach and visibility
  • $500 to Pachuca Productions to provide tickets for local high school and college students to attend performances of The Laramie Project in Greenville and Quincy
  • $1000 toward purchasing a bassoon—a highly sought-after instrument that opens doors for honor band and scholarship opportunities—for local high school music programs
  • $600 supporting local musicians and entertainment for the newly reorganized Quincy Farmers Market
  • $950 to support planning and outreach for an inter-tribal Big Time gathering in Sierra Valley

A selection of grants made 2015-2018

Youth education and empowerment

  • $550 to support the Quack-N-Wabbit puppet theater with an anti-bullying message for local school children throughout Plumas County, and $400 to video these productions for future classroom use.
  • $150 to Russ Flint for bicycle helmets for a race car event for 8-11 years old to use during the Greenville Kids Fest
  • $550 to assist two homeless Indian Valley youth with initial college housing fees not covered by other grant funding.
  • The new non-profit Quincy Cooperative Preschool received $600 start-up funds for supplies like shade umbrellas and art easels. 
  • Support for Greenville and Quincy high school students to travel to Uganda, where they engaged in service-learning projects. 
  • $500 for First Aid/CPR course for 7th-12th graders through the Indian Valley Youth Summit, which works to build confidence and resilience in youth through mentoring and after school activity classes.
  • $500 was given to Indian Valley Elementary School teacher Laura Beaton to purchase snowshoes to take 4th and 5th graders out exploring their winter landscape.
  • Sierra Institute’s GOAL youth camping and outdoor education programs received funding to purchase sleeping bags.
  • $750 to Quincy Special Day Preschool towards purchasing supplies and tools to enhance the learning environment for disabled children. 
  • Mountain Circle’s Summer Robotics Summer Camp for Indian Valley kids aged 6-12 was given $500 to help offset tuition costs.
  • A teacher at C. Roy Carmichael Elementary School in Portola received funds to purchase supplies for a school garden
  • Indian Valley 4-H Club received $100 to purchase seeds and plant starts for 5-6 year-old “early gardeners.”
  • Woman’s Mountain Passages received $350 to help with their Girl’s Rite Awkward Plumas fundraising event, and another gift in 2016 to make their summer Girls’ Rite program a success.

Community Wellbeing

  • $1,500 toward the local efforts coordinated by Ken Donnell to meet basic needs for Camp Fire evacuees.
  • Sponsorship of 2 hanging flower baskets for the Quincy Beautify Main Street Project (4 years)
  • $500 to Carol and Dana Smith funding facility insurance so they can provide a series of community Back to Basics Baking Classes.
  • $500 for Quincy Certified Farmers' Market’s matching program to help WIC participants and seniors stretch their food dollar with fresh food.
  • $600 to Plumas County Hospice for books, videos and art supplies for volunteer training and to help launch a Grief Support Group.

Environment and Sustainability

  • $1,000 to Friends of Plumas Wilderness for completion of their “Visions of the Lost Sierra” film.
  • $500 to Sierra Institute to fund communal lunches for students and presenters during the Greenville High School Sustainability Institute. 
  • $500 to Quincy Certified Farmers Market to provide intern support.

The Arts

  • $560 to Jen Terhune to purchase ukuleles and support music education in local elementary classrooms.
  • $500 to local student Tristin McMichael’s efforts to repair music instruments for local band students unable to purchase their own, and $500 supporting an upcoming fundraising event for local K-12 school music programs.
  • $500 to help the newly founded Pachuca Productions bring socially conscious theatre to the stage through its new play, Sadder Girl.

Early Highlights: 2010 – 2014

COOKING UP SELF-SUFFICIENCY
College students team with soon to be emancipated foster youth for friendship and cooking classes
DIGGING IN
Elementary school students learn about agriculture  and good food through community gardens
SAVE OUR TOWN HALL THEATER
The community rallies to save its historical theater and performing arts center from shutting down
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