The Kenneth L. Maddy Institute was selected arsenic a 2025 California Nonprofit of the Year by Assemblymember David Tangipa, a Fresno State alumnus, representing the 8th Assembly District.
The Maddy Institute is 1 of much than 100 nonprofits that volition beryllium honored by their authorities senators and assemblymembers for their outstanding contributions to the communities they serve.
“I americium honored to prime The Maddy Institute arsenic our nonprofit of the year,” said Tangipa, who was a choky extremity connected the Fresno State shot squad from 2014-18. . “The Maddy Institute provides our adjacent procreation of leaders with the accidental to enactment down the scenes successful argumentation making and constituent services.” Over the past fewer months, we person watched our ain Maddy intern, Rayne, excel successful her connection skills, constituent outreach, and argumentation analysis. She has genuinely go an invaluable portion of the team.”
Established successful 1999 by a unanimous ballot of the California Legislature to grant Senator Ken Maddy, The Maddy Institute is dedicated to cultivating the adjacent procreation of nationalist servants successful the San Joaquin Valley done its legislative internship program. The Maddy Institute besides fosters civic engagement by encouraging progressive national information successful authorities and provides nonpartisan, in-depth argumentation investigation connected captious determination issues.
“Senator Ken Maddy believed that the Central Valley produced one-of-a-kind legislators, and his imaginativeness was for The Maddy Institute to springiness opportunities to young radical who wanted to beryllium engaged successful nationalist service,” said Blake Zante, enforcement manager of the institute. “This designation by the California Legislature is simply a testament that Senator Maddy’s bequest lives connected successful hundreds of existent and aboriginal leaders who person participated successful The Maddy Institute’s programs.”
To date, astir 600 students successful the Central Valley person been fixed an accidental to intern successful a local, authorities oregon national authorities office. The Maddy Institute partners with Fresno State, CSU Bakersfield, Stanislaus State, UC Merced and the State Center Community College District.
“The Maddy Institute has provided countless opportunities for students to get progressive successful nationalist service,” said Melissa Frank, seat of the Maddy Institute’s board of directors. “We are arrogant to beryllium recognized by the California Legislature for our enactment to animate the adjacent procreation of bipartisan occupation solvers.”
Now successful its 10th year, the California Nonprofit of the Year inaugural provides the accidental for each California authorities legislator to admit a nonprofit enactment doing outstanding enactment successful their district. The programme culminates with a celebratory luncheon astatine the Capitol connected California Nonprofits Day, which this twelvemonth is May 21.
“We are grateful for the enactment of The Maddy Institute and privation to widen our congratulations for this good deserved recognition,” said Geoff Green, CEO of the California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofits), the sponsor for the initiative. “Nonprofits supply captious services, advocator for our astir susceptible neighbors, and enrich the lives of each Californians. From the childcare programme to the shot team, from the creation people to the wellness clinic, and from the assemblage organizer to the carnal shelter, nonprofits marque our communities stronger.”
The programme is sponsored by the CalNonprofits successful concern with the authorities Senate and Assembly Select Committees connected the Nonprofit Sector. CalNonprofits, the starring argumentation dependable for California’s nonprofit sector, focuses connected advocacy, acquisition and probe to physique a much almighty and politically engaged nonprofit web crossed the state.
“Nonprofits are not conscionable innovators and problem-solvers, but besides a large economical unit wrong the state,” Green said. According to “Causes Count,” a 2019 report commissioned by CalNonprofits, the nonprofit assemblage is the fourth-largest manufacture successful the state, employing much than 1.2 cardinal people. Each year, California nonprofits make much than $273 cardinal successful gross and bring successful $40 cardinal successful gross from extracurricular of California. The unpaid labour contributed by volunteers astatine nonprofits is equivalent to 330,000 full-time jobs each year.
