Gospel Center Rescue Mission (GCRM) recently received a $1,350,000 grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco’s 2018 Affordable Housing Program (AHP), sponsored by BAC Community Bank. The grant will fund Hope Housing at GCRM, a project that will provide housing to formerly homeless women and their children. When completed, this will be one of the largest Christian-based, long-term, resident regeneration programs in North America.

Stocktonian Michael P. Duffy will be honored with the 2018 Goodwill Helping Hands Award at a special Evening of Good Will event on Thursday, September 13 at the Stockton Golf and Country Club.

San Joaquin Regional Transit District (RTD) announced today that, as part of a project team, it won the 2018 California Transportation Foundation (CTF) Award for Sustainable Transportation/Environmental Project of the Year.

San Joaquin Delta College unveiled a new look for a new age, as the college rolled out a dramatically improved website that will better tell Delta’s story to students and the general public.

Students who finish certain programs at San Joaquin Delta College enjoy substantial wage increases as a result, demonstrating just how life-changing an education at the college can be.

The San Joaquin County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce announced its Board of Directors has unanimously selected Jesús Andrade as the Chief Executive Officer to lead the organization.

Dr. Lisa Cooper Wilkins of San Joaquin Delta College has been awarded the prestigious Aspen Presidential Fellowship for Community College Excellence, a leadership program aimed at preparing the next generation of community college presidents to transform institutions across the nation to help students be more successful both in college and in the workforce.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) selected a local coalition, led by the City of Stockton, to receive a $600,000 grant to assist with assessing clean-up required to facilitate redevelopment in areas identified as brownfields. A brownfield site is real property where a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant is present or may be present.

San Joaquin Delta College earned its first national marketing award this week, thanks to what judges called a “fresh” and “clever” design to the college’s 2017 Commencement Program.

University of the Pacific’s Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet has been named the top undergraduate small jazz combo by DownBeat Magazine, the ninth time the fellowship program has received the honor since its first win in 2007.