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   Chris Tokarski 
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Impact Highlights

Volunteer Services: Connecting thousands of volunteers annually to meaningful opportunities, including matching through volunteernow.org, managing court referrals, coordinating paratransit support, and leading emergency volunteer response efforts during disasters like wildfires and floods.

Learning & Leadership: Delivering capacity-building programs, including certificate series and Peer Exchange, serving hundreds of nonprofit professionals. Partial scholarships support greater access to leadership development, and our Membership Program provides additional support and program discounts.

Consulting & Executive Search: Supporting organizations through customized consulting solutions, including executive placements to strengthen infrastructure and sustainability.

Recognition & Community Engagement: Honoring outstanding individuals and organizations through the Heart of Marin, Heart of Napa, and Heart of Sonoma County awards, which distributed $92,500 in community grants in 2024.

Community Programs & Direct Services: Delivering high-impact programs that respond directly to community needs. In 2024:

Secret Santa raised $416,000 and served more than 19,000 individuals across the region.
The Court Referral Program placed over 2,000 individuals in community service across Sonoma County.
Volunteer Wheels provided 43,000 paratransit rides covering more than 523,000 miles, supporting seniors and people with disabilities.
CVNL also supported fiscally sponsored projects including Opening Doors Marin, Powerful Beyond Measure, and Marin City Climate Resilience and Health Justice, helping local initiatives grow with trusted back-end support.

CVNL’s work has been recognized by Points of Light, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and Stanford University’s Center for Social Innovation. Our impact spans organizations of all sizes, from grassroots groups to agencies with budgets exceeding $500 million annually.

Executive Search & Placement

Finding the best person for the job is our specialty

We had a great experience working with CVNL. They took the time to get to know our agency, and the specific program we were hiring for. We knew we had a challenging position to hire for, and I felt reassured that CVNL would stick with us through the full process. The communication with the CVNL team was easy and consistent and trusted. With their expertise about candidates and the search process, we ultimately found someone we are very happy with. We would absolutely use CVNL again, and would recommend them for any agency who is searching.

Justine Underhill – Chief Program Officer School Principal Search for Edgewood Center for Children and Families (NPS)

I was thrilled to be working with CVNL as a partner for my next move. I got the job of my dreams and am so glad to have been supported throughout the entire process.

Chandra Alexandre – Chief Executive Officer (Placement) CEO Search for Community Action Marin

Many thanks to CVNL’s executive search team for working with us constructively at all times, even through hiccups like switching up our search committee head on her midstream. The background work and advice Susan offered was instrumental to a successful outcome.

Jeff Loomans – Board President CEO Search for Greater Farallones Association

CVNL recruited me to make a move to the Bay Area from a career in NYC. CVNL helped me to realize my non-profit experience would be valued in an important non-profit. Through personal service unlike anything I have experienced in my career, I am now fortunate to call the Bay Area home.

Marvin Suchoff – Chief Financial Officer (Placement) CFO Search for The Marine Mammal Center

Volunteer Services

reviews & success stories

What CVNL has done for us is connect the need of the community with the employee …I’m constantly referring Autodesk employees to CVNL

I just want you to know what a true blessing you and Jim have been to our organization. I feel that I am a better Volunteer Coordinator due to the training I received from you. Now I have almost tripled the number of volunteers and have a very strong base.I thank you for sharing your expertise with us. When you are an old man, Molly’s Angels will hopefully be there for you too:) Blessings to you.

Volunteers helped to produce one of our best luncheons to date. Volunteers continue to be available 24/7 for our emergency hotline — 34 years uninterrupted. We have a man helping to promote our men’s program, who is very engaged.

In the last fiscal year, our programs engaged over 3,200 volunteers that donated over 71,000 hours of service equivalent to $1,775,342 of labor time beyond what is currently available in our agency budget. Our volunteer program successfully recruited and engaged over 120 new volunteers through one-time seasonal volunteer opportunities assisting programs with holiday events such as Thanksgiving luncheons and Christmas parties. Our program launched a new online application process to avoid the fax and print heavy process that had been used for many years.

BTGCP has developed strong working partnerships with over 10 schools in the Bay Area who provide both students and teachers to volunteer in all of our programs. Student tutors have been actively recruiting, with my support, new volunteers from their High School sports teams and have built a informal program of replacing themselves in the schedule with friends from other sports when theirs in season and they need to take the semester off from tutoring. BTGCP provided a half day Volunteer Program training for our tutors and mentors with over 60 volunteers in attendance for both the large group session and program specific break out session.

We have attracted volunteers who really care about children and support our mission. Our volunteers range from teen students to professionals. Because of our successful recruitment of volunteer readers, we have been able to extend the season for “Storytime” at the Farmers market..

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