Thank you for making the past holiday season one of our best ever!

Over 80 donors contributed more than $41,000. This money will help provide services to the men and women who walk through our door. We help them get back on their feet with jobs, housing, skills, and counseling. And we couldn’t do our work without support like yours.

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For the 4th year in a row Rubicon’s President, Rick Aubry, attended the annual gathering of world leaders in Davos, Switzerland on January 24-28. As one of the social entrepreneurs selected by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship to attend, Rick is one of a select few nonprofit and community leaders to attend the meeting. He participated in a panel discussion on preparing workers for the future along with the Prime Ministers of Ireland and Egypt, business leaders from Nigeria and India, and education leaders from France and the US.

For more information about the World Economic Forum, click here.

To celebrate the 4th annual Social Capitalist awards, over 200 leaders of the philanthropic, academic business and social entrepreneurial worlds gathered in New York City on January 9th. The gala event, hosted by Fast Company magazine who selects and publishes the awards, was held at Chelsea Piers. Rubicon’s President Rick Aubry attended the event where Rubicon Bakery desserts were enjoyed by all of the attendees.

For more about the Social Capitalist award, click here.

Rubicon Bakery was profiled on CBS5's nightly show Eye on the Bay on December 18, 2006! One of our long-term employees, Fred, was interviewed along with one of our biggest customers, Williams-Sonoma.

Click here to watch the segment.

Two days after Christmas, Rubicon Landscape Services received an urgent phone call from one of its customers, the CA Department of Health Services, which has a large office campus in Richmond. In the spirit of the holidays, DHS offered its employees the opportunity to donate unwrapped new gifts to needy children. These gifts would then be picked up and distributed by a charitable organization. The employer set up decorated barrels in the lobby. The campaign was successful. But for some reason the charitable organization failed to make its last scheduled pickup so over 30 gifts remained in the office lobby over the Christmas weekend. Unfortunately the charitable organization said it no longer had the means to pick up or distribute the toys.

The Monday after Christmas, we received a call: Could Rubicon find good homes for these gifts?

Rubicon quickly picked up and distributed the gifts. They were distributed to participants in our Project Independence Transitional Housing Program and homeless families seeking services at our Berkeley office. It turns out that some organizations, such as Toys for Tots, which usually provide Rubicon with gifts to distribute, fell far short of their goals this year. This had forced our case managers to carefully ration out the gifts they did receive. This gracious offer from DHS helped fill in the gaps and gave many children a happier holiday.