Quick Links to Chamber Resources

⇒ Lafayette Chamber’s Instagram page

⇒ “We are Lafayette, California Strong” Facebook page!

Coffee and a breakfast treat provided by Lafayette Chamber member Associated Services!

Diablo Auto Works is an automotive customization shop. Services include Test Only Smog, Window Tinting Services, Tires, Wheels, and NEW! DMV registration services! Meet owner, Luis Velez, Jr. and say hi to fellow members (from 6ft away!)

Associated Services specializes in providing coffee and healthy snacks to companies in the Bay Area. Delivering happiness for more than 40 years.

Registration required: lafayettechamber.org/ribbon-cuttings.

Lafayette’s Favorite Dinner Party – The “Taste of Lafayette” Restaurant Stroll is BACK! 

Yes, you saw that correctly! The Lafayette Chamber is preparing for our first community event of the year, the Taste of Lafayette! Tickets are now on sale, $50 early bird through May 31, 2021, $55 thereafter.

Thank you to our sponsors and participating restaurants. This is a fundraising event for the Lafayette Chamber and the Lafayette Community Foundation. 

Become a lifetime Friend of the Chamber

A Friend of the Chamber membership provides a way for community members to support the efforts of the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce. We are 74 years strong and our mission continues “To promote and maintain a healthy business climate and to preserve and enhance the quality of life in Lafayette.” 

All aspects that make up a community are important to us: schools, residents, churches and synagogues, community organizations, activities, and the city government. Chamber members work with representatives of all these groups for the betterment of our community. A lifetime Friend of the Chamber membership is $150 per family. Learn more here>>

The Lafayette Community Foundation (LCF) is proud to present its 2021 Excellence Grants recipients. LCF takes great care in selecting respected, viable nonprofits that have the greatest impact on the communities they serve. Its Grants Committee conducts in-depth analyses of these organizations to ensure that the work they do aligns with LCF's vision of enhancing life, culture and community...together.

To learn more about LCF's Excellence Grants, please visit www.lafayettecf.org.

A Brighter Day is based in Lafayette, and works to increase teen mental health outcomes throughout the Bay Area. The founders are Acalanes Parents Alumni and longtime Lafayette family. View Teen Survival Kit.

Cheers to A Brighter Day - Sunday, May 16 at 4:30pm

Join us at Cheers to A Brighter Day, a fun virtual happy hour event! Cheers will be emceed by local radio host Carolyn McArdle, and we'll enjoy entertainment by the fabulous Leslie Darwin O'Brien! Listen to stories of mental health, hope, and healing from Lafayette teens and their parents.

All attendees will be entered into our door prize drawings, including a $500 gift card to TART Collections, a $500 gift certificate to James Brian Fidelbus Studios, a beautiful Suzy Levain bracelet! There will not be an auction but donations will be highly encouraged.

This event is happening online via Paybee on Sunday, May 16th at 4:30pm. Feel free to invite friends and family - the more, the merrier! Register here.

Come enjoy a fun day of golf for a great cause! A Brighter Day's 5th Annual Charity Golf Tournament is happening at Callippe Preserve Golf Course on Friday, August 20th at 11:00am.

Sponsors will have plenty of opportunities for building brand awareness and networking with all our golfers. All proceeds will be used to drive positive change for teen mental health awareness. Register here.

The Alzheimer's Association provides community education on topics such as Understanding Alzheimer's and Dementia, The 10 Warning Signs of Alzheimer's, and Healthy Living for Your Brain and Body. If you would like a 30 or 60-minute online presentation for a group that you are part of, please contact us. 925-444-0462 or gliu@alz.org.

Since 1971, member volunteers of TeleCare, a philanthropic program of Assistance League® of Diablo Valley, have been making reassurance calls, Monday through Friday, to those in our community who are home- bound. As the chapter’s longest standing philanthropic program, TeleCare empowers the clients, no matter what their ages, to remain in their homes. 

Imagine how TeleCare reassurance phone calls have comforted the homebound clients this past year during the pandemic! Likewise, imagine how the TeleCare daily phone calls have offset overall declining health! Client testimonials offer such insights as…TeleCare makes me feel more secure. It’s my security blanket. I know I’m not alone. What if I fell? No one would know. I know you would call someone… I really appreciate your calls and the sweet cards from Assisteens. Your service brings me relief and helps with the loneliness…You bring a sense of community and a connection… I enjoy your calls. I have family but they live their own lives. I would miss your calls if I didn’t have them. I love the caller. If it weren’t for TeleCare, some of the homebound would never receive phone calls.

Let the following testimonials from member volunteers exemplify…It was surprising to me how spending a mere one half-day per month making TeleCare calls has so enriched my life. In the beginning I felt that I would be making “charity” calls, but in reality it is not that at all. I feel privileged to have conversations with people of different ages, backgrounds, and life situations… TeleCare is a reward that I have enjoyed since 2015! Through the years it has been a personal delight chatting with our wonderful clients; each one slowly becomes a friend. As time goes by, we begin to share stories about favorite books, movies, places where we have lived and where we have traveled, and Family! TeleCare has enriched my life!... I was able to pass along information about getting the covid vaccine shot. And the life-affirming realizations continue.

If you live alone or know someone who does, a daily phone call would be a great way to stay connected with life and make new friends. TeleCare activities include attending an annual holiday party to meet fellow clients and member volunteers face to face, as well as receiving greeting cards from the Assisteens^®, an auxiliary where kids learn to participate in a community service at a young age. So make that call to get you or someone you know connected.

For more information about TeleCare, please phone 925-934-0901. To learn about Assistance League of Diablo Valley’s other philanthropic programs, primarily funded by the Way Side Inn Thrift Shop in Lafayette, please visit this website: www.assistanceleague.org/diablo-valley.

Honor your loved one with a donation to the Bay Area Crisis Nursery!

Looking for an extra special Mother's Day Gift? Make a donation in honor of your mom or a loved one and we will mail them a card on your behalf!

Support our neighbors who are homeless and in great need! Undies and Sock Collection Drive is under way! 

Join us in the struggle to end poverty. Local Lafayette Chamber member businesses will also be collection sites during the month of May. A list of sites is posted here including:

Or DONATE at bayarearescue.org. For more information contact Dean Hollenbeck at 510-215-4876 or deanh@bayarearesccue.org.

BeingwellCA was founded to give voice to the youth who suffer in silence with anxiety, depression and suicide ideation. Two powerful advocates combined their strengths to provide HOPE to the whole family of those struggling with mental health issues which affect 1 in 4 people. Established in June 2019, BeingwellCA delivers programs, workshops and speaker series that address the three legs of mental health support: parents, educators and students. All three support systems are needed to provide a stable base to build upon basis for suffering youth to flourish again. Learn more about BeingwellCA here.

Getting the word out is a continuing process, and a public awareness campaign takes time and money. Your generous financial support will enable us to promote the 4COLIN Mental Health Awareness License Plate campaign and support on-campus Wellness Centers in California. Donate here.

Registration is now open for Cancer Support Community's 7th Annual Hope Walk! It will take place virtually the week of Sunday, May 9 - Saturday, May 15. For more information and to register go to www.hopewalkbayarea.net. 

*For information on Sponsorship levels and becoming a Community Partner please contact Carol Louisell at clouisell@cancersupport.net or 925.953.1209.

Join Cancer Support Community on Saturday, September 18 for its first-ever Film Festival & Charity Gala. We will be featuring three short films on "cancer and community" and raising much-need funds for CSC's free programs and services. Learn how to submit a film here. For more information go to www.cscgala.net or to submit a film go to https://cancersupport.net/events/gala.

Throughout the pandemic, CASA of Contra Costa County has provided critical support to volunteers so they can practice effective socially distant best-interest advocacy for children and families. Our program, along with more than 900 programs across the country, serves more young people in the child welfare system than any other national organization. Yet we still need more volunteers to help additional abused and neglected children in foster care.

Sign up today to attend one of our upcoming webinars during the National Foster Care Month.

The Early Diagnosis Foundation would like to share valuable information regarding the need to continue preventive measures to protect ourselves and others from COVID-19 even if one is vaccinated. In an excerpt from World Health Organization, you can find answers to questions such as: After one has been vaccinated, can one still catch COVID-19 and can one also infect others? and Why does one need to continue with the precautions even after vaccination? And, how long are we expected to take these precautions?

Read these excerpts and find a link to the entire article here. Learn more about the Early Diagnosis Foundation at https://earlydiagnosis.foundation.

Friends Corner Book Shop remains open for curbside service to help with your Spring shopping. Book requests may be made by email to friendscornerbookshop@gmail.com. A volunteer will let you know whether or not the books you’d like are available. 

You can also come by the Book Shop during our open hours and purchase a gift certificate for future use. Exact change or checks accepted. Our hours are: Tuesday through Friday: 10-2, Saturday: 9-1. Proceeds from the sales of our books support the programs, collections, and services of the Lafayette Library and Learning Center. www.lllcf.org/friends-book-shop

Hope Solutions’ (formerly Contra Costa Interfaith Housing) annual Homepage newsletter has been published! Read two inspirational stories about formerly homeless residents, about generations of donors and volunteers, and how community members can help end homelessness, volunteer, or leave a legacy. And check out photos from the Ruby Slippers Virtual Gala.

To read the Hope Solutions Homepage 2021 Spring Newsletter, visit https://www.hopesolutions.org/newsletters.

There are a lot of appreciation events this month that Hospice East Bay wants to recognize. Nurses Day (May 6th), Nurses Week (May 6th - 12th), and National Skilled Nursing Care week (May 9th -15th), are all opportunities for us to recognize the people that have taken care of us throughout this pandemic. Join us in appreciating the nurses and hospital staff in our communities, families and senior care facilities who do so much to provide care to all those who need it. We could not be more grateful for the work they do! www.HospiceEastBay.org

John Muir Land Trust’s annual spring Twilight events are free, family-friendly experiences that celebrate the magic of the East Bay Hills.

Join us on Thursdays, May 20, 27 & June 3 to meet a Screech-owl, visit Family Harvest Farm, and see what’s up in the night sky. To register: jmlt.org/twilight.

The Lafayette Community Garden and Outdoor Learning Center is currently open only to members due to COVID. However, we look forward to re-opening to the community with some small group, guided tours when it feels safe to do so. We will announce tour dates and times in a future Chamber news blast.

If you are interested in becoming a member for next season (March – October, 2022) you can download a membership application by clicking the membership tab at www.lafayettecommunitygarden.org. There, you’ll also find Instructions on where to send the form.

The Lafayette Garden Club, founded in 1970, conducts annual fund-raising projects to further its goal of community beautification and education. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the group wanted to create something special that would honor its members and be a lasting treasure for family and friends.

The Club decided to create a cookbook that included its members’ favorite recipes with an emphasis on fresh and healthy foods. In addition, the artwork on the cookbook covers and recipe divider pages reflects the work of several of its own floral artists.

It took a village of volunteers to pull this cookbook together during most of 2020 and completely on Zoom! Having sold out the first printing of 450 cookbooks, we have ordered a second printing! To order one or more books (at $20 each) please contact: Tracy Walklet at twalklet@comcast.net.

All of us, at some time or another, have probably wandered past the Lafayette Historical Society, located on the ground floor of the Library on Golden Gate Way. And some, during “non-COVID times” may have even visited the Society’s archives and history room and learned something they didn’t know about Lafayette’s past.

And who knew that the Society also maintains operates the City’s very first fire engine? Old Betsy as she is known, is a 1919 Model TT Fire Engine. Yes, that’s Old Betsy in the Library’s parking garage window.

The Society raises operating funds by a combination of its membership dues, newsletter sponsorships, book sales, the not-to-be-miss “Breakfast with Santa” event, and through the popular “Speaker Series.” Due to the COVID pandemic, the Society’s history room has been closed and the Speaker Series canceled. It also appears that the “Breakfast with Santa” will also have to be postponed this year. All that is our way of saying that the Society really could use the community’s help right now. If you have a chance, take a look around the Society’s Website where you can listen to a collection of oral histories from many notables Lafayettans, including Bill Eames, Larry Blodgett, Ed Stokes, Steve Falk, Jon Frank, and Jack Marchant. And, if there’s anybody who knows how to work on a Model T, or knows how to drive one, the Society could sure use your help with Old Betsy. Visit the Society’s membership page now to find out how you can become an active member of this esteemed local gem. You can also call (925) 283-1848, or email Mary McCosker, LHS’s President, at lafayette.history@comcast.net.

The tour is SOLD OUT but please consider purchasing a donation ticket. Funds raised through the Outdoor Living Tour will directly support their beneficiaries, Youth Alive! and Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa.  To buy a donation ticket, please visit LafayetteJuniors.org. 

The Lafayette Library reopened on Monday, April 26 - stop by for a book, or just to say hello!

Kelly Corrigan returns to the Lafayette Library on May 13!  Join Kelly as she reads from her new book, Hello World. Purchase a signed copy of Hello World to attend this online event. Proceeds benefit the Lafayette Library and Learning Center. Information and Registration HERE or visit www.LLLCF.org

Love You More Jewelry will host a trunk show on Thursday, May 6, 11am – 6pm, in the Don Tatzin Community Hall. Beautiful handcrafted, on-trend jewelry and accessories will be available for purchase. Come shop for fabulous Mother’s Day gifts, and graduation gifts! Love You Move will donate 20% to the Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation. Click HERE to see more.

In honor of Memorial Day, the Library is hosting a special author reading of Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, read by Jeff Gottesfeld - May 20, 2:00PM.  Former sentinel Steve Shodeen SFC USA Retired will share his experiences guarding the Tomb. Books available at Bel and Bunna’s Books. This is a FREE virtual event, learn more HERE.

LPIE's art fair is virtual this year and the community can participate.

We are excited to announce LPIE's Outdoor Art Scavenger Hunt for ALL ages! Gather your family and head outdoors to learn more about art within our wonderful community of Lafayette. Visit the LPIE Art Fair webpage to download the map. Have fun!

Summer Camp registration is open at www.LafayetteRec.org or call 925-284-2232. Camps include Camp Awesome, Tiny Tots, Sports, LEGO, Art, Chess, Dance, Engineering, Programming, and much more! Yoga, Line dancing, Seniorcise, and more adult classes are also available this summer.

Lafayette Senior Services is also offering all sorts of online programs and free zoom support for just $15/year through their Senior Membership. Call 925-284-5050 for more Senior Services info.

Join the Lafayette Rotary at their weekly meetings on Thursdays! Every Thursday on ZOOM ONLINE from 12:15 – 1:30 pm. Each week we feature a different guest speaker in addition to regular club business. Guests are always welcome! If you are interested in checking us out, email patriciafury@comcast.net for more info.

Upcoming Meetings (tentative):

May 6 – John Coleman, EBMUD

May 13 – Michele McKay-McCoy

Every month, Lafayette Rotary CARES by supporting our community through a special project! This month, we are assembling hygiene care kits for the Monument Crisis Center, a local non-profit servicing those in need in our community. Kits include a toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, deodorant & more.  Sign up & get details here.

Since opening its doors on May 1st of 2005, the Lafayette Veterans Memorial Building has become a very important community asset not only for Lamorinda but the greater East Bay as well. Prior to COVID, the building was in use at least five days a week for events of all types - from Weddings, Mitzvahs, Corporate meetings to Celebrations of life. Though the building is owned by Contra Costa County, funding to operate the building is entirely provided by the revenue from the various events, and management is the responsibility of a Board of 8 Veterans and a full time Building Manager.

The COVID restrictions have had a devastating effect on the financial viability of the Veterans Building. Prior to COVID, the building had a fairly healthy financial reserve but as the restrictions have continued that reserve has been nearly depleted despite the receipt of a PPP loans in the spring and significant belt tightening by the Board. The Veterans Board firmly believes that once the restrictions are lifted we will be able to resume normal operations and the challenge is to raise enough money to remain current with necessary expenses.

For the first time in its history the Lafayette Veterans are asking the community to consider supporting us with a charitable contribution that will sustain us until we can open our doors, Please note that all contributions are tax deductible as we are a registered 501(c) 19. Checks can be sent to: Lafayette Veterans, PO Box 501, Lafayette CA 94549.

The Moraga-Orinda Fire District is continually looking for ways to improve wildfire safety within our communities. Fire professionals and water system operators generally agree that residents should not turn on their residential sprinklers and allow them run during a wildfire event. Doing so wastes precious water and reduces water pressure for responding fire crews.

But what if Fire Departments had the ability to initiate cycling residential sprinklers in specific areas in advance of an approaching wildfire? The water use would be minimal and the application could be targeted to specific zones around vulnerable structures; embers would be less likely to fall on receptive fuels and fire intensity around the structures would be reduced. The Moraga-Orinda Fire District has been working with the “Change++” team of students at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee to develop an application to do just this. The application is ready for a community-wide test that’s been scheduled for Saturday, May 1st. We need around 50 Lamorinda residents with internet enabled Rachio sprinkler controllers to help with the test.

We have reopened the Lamorinda Spirit Senior Transportation Program. We can now take Lafayette, Moraga, and Orinda passengers to appointments, errands, and grocery shopping. Please email mbruns@lovelafayette.org if you would like to know more about becoming a volunteer driver, have a good driving record and 3-4 hours available every week or two.

We are very grateful to our Spirit Van drivers for providing free pick-up and delivery service for our passengers for the past year.  Email dispatch@lovelafayette.org or call 925-283-3534 if you need something picked up and delivered, need to reserve a ride, or want to learn about utilizing GoGoGrandparent: an Uber/Lyft type of service that doesn’t require a smart phone in order to request a ride.

Join us for dinner! That's right, it's another great TAKE-OUT NIGHT on May 12, brought to you by Lamorinda Sunrise Rotary Club and Locanda Positano.

Don't miss your chance to enjoy some great food while supporting a recovering local restaurant. Check it out at: https://lamorindasunriserotaryfundraiser.com. Orders close May 5, get yours in today!

Lamorinda Village is a local nonprofit organization helping older adults in our community live in their own homes safely with the support of volunteers.

During this pandemic, our volunteers have helped seniors by delivering groceries and medications. We have Zoom meetings of various interests to keep people engaged and not feel isolated.

We’ve come up with innovative plans to make our members safer and connected during blackouts, wildfires, and other emergencies. We’ve also offered help with getting our members vaccinated. Stay tuned and stick with us. Your safety and well-being are our priorities! Please visit our website for more information on Lamorinda Village.

To support all that we do: https://lamorindavillage.org/about-lamorinda-village/donate

It is our pleasure to share the exciting changes each month with you, our loyal supporter!

Join us on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. for a virtual tour! Our guests this month will be Patricia Avilez-Wilson and her daughter Amy Avilez who is a Las Trampas participant. They will provide a great perspective on our new facility as a family who has been long-time members of the Las Trampas Family.

Please click here to register for the Zoom Webinar. After registering you will receive an email confirming your registration with a link to use on Tuesday, May 11th for the Virtual Tour.

To support Las Trampas, please visit our website at lastrampas.org, and click the donate button.

The Live Like Leo Foundation is intended to harness rich global experiences and bring them to students who do not have such access. We believe through opening societal borders and bringing the best of educational programs from around the globe, we can raise awareness to the underexposed and in turn breed a more connected world.

The Live Like Leo Foundation draws its inspiration from young Leo Cellura who’s life was cut short in a tragic accident. Leo's global experiences over his short eleven years of life are what has inspired all of the people he touched and given us the purpose to pay it forward. Learn more and make your donation at livelikeleo.org.

MCE’s Energy 101 Series focuses on the why and how of renewable energy so that you can learn more about concepts like the benefits of biomass and the science behind solar.

Read more about Energy 101 or dive deeper into our Energy Expert series.

Please donate to Mobility Matters annual Mother’s/Father’s Day Fundraiser. Mobility Matters will send a handwritten card to whomever you designate as a living honoree.  By doing so you can honor/memorialize someone you love and assist Mobility Matters in their mission to assist seniors with their mobility needs.

For more information please click on this link or call Elaine Welch at 925-284-6699.

MVPC has a weekly food pantry serving Lamorinda that is open Wednesday nights 5pm-6:30pm. If you would like to donate to the pantry, there is a box outside the Church office at 10 Moraga Valley Road, Moraga. A current wish list of food are as follows: canned garbanzo beans, salt free and/or regular nuts, quinoa, ground coffee, granola bars, crackers, honey, BBQ Sauce, soy sauce, juice, oil, brown sugar, powdered sugar, dish soap, laundry soap, apple sauce. Learn more here.

The pandemic has exacerbated our scarcity mindset, but what if abundance had always been available to us? Join us for a series of lunchtime conversations Wednesdays at 1:00 PM on May 5, 12, and 19 on freeing ourselves from a scarcity mindset with a biblical lens. As our society slowly opens up again, we have an opportunity to choose the generous ways of God's kingdom. Are we ready to be any different? www.projectpeaceeastbay.org 

Project Peace is offering a Day of Service June 5th 9am-12pm at various locations throughout the East Bay.  www.projectpeaceeastbay.org

VBS 2021 ROCKY RAILWAY: June 7 to 11, 9 am to noon

After a rocky year full of twists, turns, and derailments, we are back on track for VBS 2021: Rocky Railway! Kids, come explore Jesus’ power and find out how we can trust Him to pull us through when life feels like a low valley or a steep cliff. Deepen your friendships with each other and more importantly, with Jesus. NEW this year...6th graders can sign-up, too! Register at: www.mvpctoday.org. Space is limited!

Time to Save the Date for New Day for Children's Annual Birthday Party Fundraiser on September 19th at Hacienda de Las Flores in Moraga. Details to follow. 

This year we are celebrating 100 girls served! This has only been possible because of incredible donors like you who have saved a young girl's life! www.newdayforchildren.com

Dive into inspiring online courses taught by Cal faculty and other scholars through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Berkeley. Among the nearly 20 topics offered this summer term, which starts June 1, are documentary films, the history of Sicily, Jewish-Muslim cultural encounters, the causes and treatment of pain, and the current state of the U.S. Supreme Court.

OLLI is a membership community for learners ages 50 and over. You do need to be affiliated with Cal to join! Just insatiably curious and excited to know more. olli.berkeley.edu

To support the parade go to Orinda’s Fourth of July – SAVE OUR “Best Hometown Parade” 

To be a part of the parade go to www.orindaassociation.org.

View the most recent issue of The Orinda News here.

TPTT has just announced that it is in contract with the sellers of the Park Theater property and is on its way to fulfilling its mission to revitalize the iconic theater into an accessible and inclusive, community-centered cinema, arts and culture hub. TPTT plans to immediately launch its $8mm capital fundraising campaign to finalize the acquisition and begin the rehabilitation of the theater. Anticipated reopening is late 2022, the Park Theater’s 81st birthday.

Shuttered since 2005, reopening the Park Theater remains one of the top priorities of citizens, local business, and the City as they work to create a vibrant downtown. The Park Theater Trust grew out of a grassroots task force comprised of citizens and community organizations called together in the summer of 2018 by the city of Lafayette. The Trust was formed as a 501(c)3 public benefit corporation in the second half of 2019 and received its official IRS tax-exempt status in February 2020. It has been the recipient of several generous grants from the Lafayette Community Foundation (LCF), private donations, and, most recently, a $2MM pledge from Miramar Capital, developer of the newly approved Lafayette Lane mixed-use downtown development.

Over the past two and a half years, TPTT has looked at various operating models of small community cinemas around the Bay area and the country. This research has determined that for Lafayette, success and sustainability is achievable via a partnership between a nonprofit owning the Park to protect it for future generations, and then leasing it to a for-profit operator who will offer movies but also develop a robust calendar of diversified programming that attracts multigenerational interest and participation.

With its recent announcement to the Lafayette City Council, TPTT now plans to reach out to the broader community to share architectural renderings, answer questions, and fundraise. For more information, please visit www.parktheatertrust.org.

We hope you’ll support SHELTER, Inc's Mother’s Day drive!

If you would like to donate, please contact Yareth at yareth.rodriguez@shelterinc.org or (925) 791-0749. Thank you for your support!

SEED would like to extend a warm welcome and introduction for new families!

SEED is the Special Education Enrichment Development Foundation - a Lafayette-based, volunteer-run, non-profit community organization dedicated to supporting the Special Ed community. We serve families whose children have an IEP, 504, or who are simply struggling. SEED builds productive relationships between our parents and with our District, and provides targeted programming to address diverse learning needs. The programs we fund include after school social skills play groups, educational seminars, support groups and socials for parents, and teacher training. During this time of social distancing, we are currently focused on producing parent education workshops via Zoom and providing resources via our Facebook page, website and email newsletter. Please visit us online to learn more!

Mark your calendars for the Sunflower Showcase, being held July 23, 2021 at the Bankhead Theater in Livermore, CA. The Sunflower Showcase will be a visual and performing arts fundraising event, providing critical funds to support the mission and vision of Sunflower Hill, a Bay Area non-profit that develops residential communities and creates life skills and enrichment programs for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The event will be held in-person, with a virtual option, and will be emceed by local comedian, Regina Stoops, and feature a performance by America’s Got Talent Season 14 Winner, Kodi Lee. VIP ticket holders will enjoy a unique reception showcasing works of art, poetry, and other pieces by talented, local adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The VIP reception will feature heavy appetizers and drinks. All in-person attendees will enjoy the live and silent auctions, raffles, and games! Sponsorships are available now. Tickets on sale soon at www.sunflowerhill.org/showcase.

Join Sustainable Contra Costa for this online FREE live broadcast every month as we interview special guests, share the latest tips and provide the inspiration, education, and camaraderie that will help us all live resilient lives in times of uncertainty.

Episode 13, Wednesday, May 26, 2021, 7:00 PM – 8:30pm: Are you thinking about keeping bees? Or perhaps you just want to know more about these miraculous garden helpers and how to encourage them to visit your yard? Our expert from the Mt. Diablo Beekeepers' Association, teaches us about bee ecology & why they are so important, and covers all the basic equipment and steps you would need to get started, as well as tips for anyone to create a bee-friendly garden. There will be plenty of time for your questions.

Register here for this FREE event.

At www.Etsy.com/shop/tieBlueRockShop, Trust in Education sells handmade Lapis Jewelry, and now we are also selling premium Saffron from Afghanistan.

White Pony Express is a local nonprofit that rescues fresh, surplus food and high quality clothing and distributes it to those in need.

If you can support WPE with a donation for this auction (i.e., gift certificate, gift basket, etc.), please contact Steve Spraitzar at steve@whiteponyexpress.org for the details. 

Celebrate National Foster Care Month with the Youth Homes community for a full-length showing of the family-friendly animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse.

Enjoy snacks, exclusive giveaways, and an evening of fun while raising funds to support and empower youth, all from the comfort of your car!

This unique format of this event means our youth can attend the show too--a Youth Homes first! Foster youth are the real superheroes, and we can’t wait to show our youth just how much YOU care! Purchase Movie Tickets here.

The City of Lafayette is urging everyone to sign-up for the latest information for Lafayette residents and businesses.

You can subscribe to City of Lafayette notifications at https://bit.ly/LafayetteNotifications.

The City of Lafayette is conducting a survey of people that live and work in Lafayette to find out what you believe should be the vision of our city in the future. The General Plan Advisory Council (GPAC) is conducting this survey and the results will help guide the GPAC in suggesting a new vision of the city to the Lafayette City Council. Please take a few minutes to fill out the survey and have a voice in our future.

You can find the latest Information on Covid-19 on the City's website here.

For wildfire resources, go to http://bit.ly/LafAreYouReady.

During the Covid-19 emergency, here is how to contact City of Lafayette

offices: https://bit.ly/LafayetteCovid-19Contact.

The physical office of the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce will remain closed until further notice. Our staff is still here to help you, just virtually. You can reach us by calling (925) 284-7404 or by sending an email to info@lafayettechamber.org. We'll get back to you as quickly as possible. See our calendar for upcoming in-person and virtual events.

The Chamber will be posting applicable updates for our businesses and the community to our COVID-19 news page and posting on social media. Check out our posts on Facebook and on Instagram plus Twitter and LinkedIn using links below!