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You can form a walk team, volunteer to help with the event, operate a booth with food or entertainment or sponsor the event.

This fundraiser benefits Shoulder to Shoulder, a faith-based nonprofit that advocates for kids growing up without fathers. (916) 792-6127

Shoulder to Shoulder invites you to join a 24-hour endurance walk Sept. 18-19 at MLK Jr. Technology Academy, 3051 Fairfield St., in Sactown.

To get the flyer, e-mail Cindy Franklin at [email protected].

The Habit, 7400 Laguna Blvd., in Elk Grove, will donate 20 percent of your Sept. 14 dinner receipts to the band if you bring along a flyer.

Laguna Creek High School Band is trying to raise money to replace their uniforms and to send students to perform at Carnegie Hall in 2011.

Bring your kids along to the disaster-preparedness event, sponsored by South Sacramento County Visions. Call 916-391-3107 for info.

Learn how to prepare for disaster from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Sept. 26 at Jose Rizal Community Center, 7320 Florin Mall Drive, in Sactown.

While many schools have cut back on arts classes, the artists say, St. Mary’s provides full-time art and music teachers to its students.

NorCal artists are helping to raise funds for St. Mary’s School at the Fine Arts and Crafts Show, 1351 58th St., Sacramento, on Nov. 14

California Native Plant Society, Sacramento, is funding the event, organized by Girl Scouts and Mission Oaks Recreation and Park District.

Volunteers will replace overgrown and invasive ivy with native plants at Maddox Park. Just show up and pick up a shovel.

Celebrate National Public Lands Day from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 27 by helping to clean up Maddox Park, 4871 Thor Way, in Carmichael.

Fifty to 60 volunteers, including parents and neighbors in West Sac, will be painting, gutting, building, retrofitting and more. Whew!

Behr Paint, the City of West Sacramento and Home Depot are teaming up to remodel Discovery Pre-School at 205 Stone Blvd. this weekend.

Capital Stage's subscribers got to donate 10 tickets to the charity of their choice. 970 tickets valued at $24,250 went to 73 nonprofits.

Sacramento's Capital Stage used its campaign for subscription renewals as an opportunity to allow its season ticketholders to give.