The Duveneck family bought the Los Altos Hills ranch in 1924 and soon began using the property to support causes they believed in.

Members of the Miraj Sustainable Racing Team build a solar race car, and four friends create Zeno, an application to detect Parkinson’s disease. Garvin Thomas reports.

Cake4Kids volunteers bake birthday cakes for children who otherwise wouldn’t have one on their special day. This week, Cake4Kids will deliver their 30,000th cake to a child in the Bay Area.

FabMo is a nonprofit based in Sunnyvale that collects samples from places like San Francisco’s Design Center and then makes them available to artists, craftspeople and teachers at its store.

When Virginia Hislop’s husband was called to active duty in 1940, she had to leave behind her studies at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education.

The end of the school year at colleges usually means mountains of trash being thrown out, often perfectly good items that students don’t have the room to take with them. Santa Clara University is trying to curb that waste and help those in need at the same time. Garvin Thomas reports.

Air National Guard Sgt. Juan Acosta nominated his manager, Mariela Trabanino, for the Patriotic Employer Award. Garvin Thomas reports.

For years, Sharon Alexander has been feeding those living under Interstate 980 in Oakland – even when her circumstances were not much better. Garvin Thomas reports.

CROP’s yearlong Ready 4 Life is a residential program aimed at preparing former inmates for jobs in the tech industry. Garvin Thomas reports.

Malia Boksanski came to USF wanting to learn about ways to help the environment. By reducing and repurposing food waste, she managed to do that and help others at the same time. Garvin Thomas reports.

Rich Firato, who has spent more than 20 years working on “Morgan’s Cove,” is now welcoming school groups to tour the fantasy world. Garvin Thomas reports.

In 2023, flood waters destroyed all the musical instruments at Pajaro Middle School. Thanks to the South Bay Guitar Society, the students now have 24 new guitars to replace what was lost. Garvin Thomas has the story.

John Verdon says when things got tough during the Marathon des Sables and he needed a reason to keep going, he thought of the perseverance his nephew, Buddy, has displayed while fighting cancer. Garvin Thomas reports.

Najari Smith formed Rich City Rides more than a decade ago. He soon plans to extend its activism beyond just cycling.

Lucy Hsu got her first passport at the age of 23. Twenty years later, she has been to every country in the world.

Maria Genzel’s volunteers can either pick up packets of postcards from her porch or join her regular postcard-writing “parties.”