Community Partners and Corporate Sponsors
We would like to thank the following companies:
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
CORPORATE SPONSORS
Allstate
The Allstate is the nation's largest publicly held personal lines insurer. It is widely known through the "You're in Good Hands with Allstate" slogan. Allstate provides insurance products to more than 16 millions households and has approximately 12,300 exclusive agents and financial specialists in the U.S. and Canada. Allstate Financial includes the business that provides life insurance, annuity, retirement, banking and investment products through Allstate Agents, independent agents, worksite, financial institutions and broker-dealers. Allstate, based in Northbrook, Illinois, is one of the nation's leading insurers in urban areas and has supported auto and highway safety reforms, including seat belts, airbags and teen driver education. The company has won numerous awards over the years for its philanthropic and employee volunteerism effort.
AT&T
AT&T is bringing it all together for our customers, from the revolutionary iPhone 3GS to next-generation TV services and sophisticated solutions for multi-national businesses. For more than a century, we have consistently provided innovative, reliable, high-quality products and services and excellent customer care. Today, our mission is to connect people with their world, everywhere they live and work, and do it better than anyone else. We're fulfilling this vision by creating new solutions for consumers and businesses and by driving innovation in the communications and entertainment industry. We're recognized as one of the leading worldwide providers of IP-based communications services to businesses. We also have the nation's fastest 3G network and the largest international coverage of any U.S. wireless carrier, offering the most phones that work in the most countries; the largest Wi-Fi network in the United States; and the largest number of high speed Internet access subscribers in the United States.
Bank of America
As the leading bank in California with more than $120 billion in retail deposits, Bank of America has unmatched capacity to deliver financial services and unparalleled opportunities to benefit the communities we serve. Three in ten households have financial relationships with Bank of America. We serve these households, along with businesses, government agencies and community organizations, with a comprehensive suite of high quality financial products and services. Bank of America serves the Sacramento/Greater Northern California region with more than 100 Banking Centers and over 400 ATMs, and employs more than 2500 associates in Greater Northern California. Bank of America is ranked #1 in online banking as well as SBA Lending. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is one of the nation's largest corporate philanthropic organizations. We deliver our services through grants to nonprofit organizations, our signature Neighborhood Excellence Initiative, and by matching dollars contributed to our associates.
California Bank and Trust
California Bank & Trust (CB&T) is one of the largest commercial banks headquartered in California, offering the personal, responsive service of a local bank with the strength and resources of a larger institution. CB&T builds relationships with its business and personal account customers, recognizing their unique needs and working with them to meet their financial goals. A subsidiary of Zion Bancorporation, one of the largest bank holding companies in the West, CB&T's philosophy is supported by associates who are focused on offering the highest quality products and services at branch offices throughout the state.
Citigroup, Inc
Clear Channel
Comcast
Frank Fat Properties
Harrah's Reno & Lake Tahoe
Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. is the world's largest provider of branded casino entertainment. The Company was founded in 1937 in Northern Nevada, with the opening of a small bingo parlor operated by William F. Harrah in Reno, Nevada (which would later become Harrah's Reno). In 1955, Harrah's opened its second property in the region, Harrah's Lake Tahoe, on the Nevada-California border on the south shore of Lake Tahoe. Two additional properties Bill's Lake Tahoe (opened in 1987) and Harveys Lake Tahoe (acquired in 2001) are located adjacent to Harrah's Lake Tahoe in Stateline, Nevada. The Company has over 4,000 employees in the area. Harrah's Northern Nevada has two marketing offices in Northern California (Sacramento and San Jose).
Intel Corporation
For over 35 years, Intel Corporation has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971. Today, Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers and networking and communications products. These products are used by industry members to create advanced computing and communications systems. Intel's mission is to do a great job for our customers, employees, and stockholders by being the preeminent building block supplier to the worldwide digital economy.
Kaiser Permanente
As a health care organization in the 21st century, we have a mission--to provide quality care for our members and their families, and to contribute to the well-being of our communities. See how we dedicate ourselves to this mission.
KVIE Public Television
Mercy
Mercy, a member of Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), operates six hospitals in the greater Sacramento region -- Mercy General Hospital, Mercy Hospital of Folsom, Mercy San Juan Medical Center, Methodist Hospital of Sacramento, Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital and Woodland Healthcare; Mercy Home Health, Hospice & Lifeline, as well as CHW Medical Foundation, which includes Mercy Medical Group and the Mercy Imaging Centers. We are committed to delivering compassionate, high-quality, affordable healthcare services in a compassionate environment that is attuned to each patient's physical, mental and spiritual needs. CHW is a system of 41 hospitals and medical centers with more than 9,500 physicians and approximately 50,000 employees throughout California, Nevada and Arizona. In 2007, CHW provided more than $922 million in community benefit and free care for the poor.
MetroPCS, Inc.
In Northern California since 2002, MetroPCS, Inc. provides flat rate calling plans with unlimited anytime local and domestic long distance with no contract. The company's local coverage area now includes Sacramento, San Francisco, the Bay Area, the Central Valley, Santa Cruz, Sonoma, and Redding. MetroPCS currently operates 26 corporate stores providing phones and service through its 400-plus authorized dealer locations throughout Northern California. Through its subsidiaries, privately-owned MetroPCS, Inc. holds 23 PCS licenses in the greater Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Dallas, Detroit, and Atlanta metropolitan areas. MetroPCS is among the first wireless operators to deploy an all-digital network based on third generation infrastructure and handsets.
PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, the company is a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation. There are approximately 20,000 employees who carry out Pacific Gas and Electric Company's primary business—the transmission and delivery of energy. The company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California. Pacific Gas and Electric Company and other utilities in the state are regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission. The CPUC was created by the state Legislature in 1911.
Sacramento County Airport System
The Sacramento County Airport System is responsible for planning, developing, operating and maintaining the county's four airports: Sacramento International, Executive Airport, Mather Airport and Franklin Field.
Sutter Medical Center Sacramento
Sutter Health affiliates serve more than twenty Northern California counties, from the Oregon border to the San Joaquin Valley, and from the Pacific coast to the Sierra foothills. We are one of the nation's leading not-for-profit health care organizations.
Our network consists of some of Northern California's most respected physician organizations, more than two dozen acute care hospitals, physician and nurse training programs, medical research facilities, region-wide home health, hospice and occupational health networks and long term care centers.
Teichert
Teichert Foundation expresses the company's commitment to build and preserve a healthy and prosperous region. We make grants to organizations that create beauty, foster culture, nurture children, provide access to food and housing for those in need, preserve nature, increase awareness of our environment, build an educated citizenry and a well-prepared workforce, and strive to provide better health for all.
Union Bank of California
Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America’s largest and most reliable wireless voice and 3G network, serving more than 89 million customers nationwide. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America’s most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers innovative, seamless business solutions to customers around the world. A Dow 30 company, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of more than 230,000 and last year generated consolidated revenues of more than $97 billion.
Wells Fargo Bank
Wells Fargo is a diversified financial services company - providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer finance - for more than 23 million customers through 6,160 stores, the internet and other distribution channels across North America and elsewhere internationally. Headquartered in San Francisco, but decentralized so every local Wells Fargo store is a headquarter for satisfying all our customers' financial needs and helping them succeed financially. Wells Fargo has $435 billion in assets and 150,000 + team members. We're one of the United State's top-40 largest private employers. We ranked fifth in assets and fourth in market value of our stock at June 30, 2000, among our peers.
Western Health Advantage
Western Health Advantage (WHA) is a full-service, not for profit health care plan operating in northern California in the following counties: Sacramento, Yolo, Solano, Western El Dorado, Western Placer and Colusa (for CalPERS only). WHA offers a variety of health care products and services to meet the needs of patients and employers. WHA features some of the region's premiere medical professionals, giving its members access to more than 800 primary care providers and more than 1,400 specialty care providers. WHA also maintains a complete network of specialty physicians who have admitting privileges at some of the top facilities in the region.
WHA was created by local health care providers who believe health care can be delivered in a managed care environment without sacrificing service and quality. Because WHA is owned and directed by providers, its primary focus is to support, assist and improve the ability of physicians and hospitals to provide you the quality care you deserve.














