Lilliput's Newsroom contains a variety of news items that include In the Pressroom (Newsroom Coverage and Press Releases, General News, and Website Updates. If you are a frequent visitor to this website then be sure to look at the Website Updates section first to see what has changed since your last visit.
Lilliput is celebrating its 30th Anniversary in a big way!
Save the date of September 11, 2010 for a Dream Big celebration!
Click here for details!
Lilliput’s Executive Director,
Karen Alvord, is this year’s recipient of the
prestigious Jan Stohr Executive Leadership Award! Every
year, the Nonprofit Resource Center honors excellence in nonprofit leadership
at its Look of Success celebration. This event spotlights the “best of the
best” in nonprofit leadership and the role of nonprofits in our region.
This award recognizes a nonprofit executive director who exhibits
outstanding leadership characteristics as demonstrated by the
Nonprofit Resource Center’s founding executive director, Jan Stohr.
Lilliput was recognized with two awards at this yearly post-campaign event held by United Way California Capital Region. Lilliput received the "Red Shoe Award" for "meeting the challenge and achieving an increase of 20% or more in its 2009-2010 workplace giving campaign". We also received a "Star Award" for "Outstanding Agency Campaign" in recognition of our agency achieving 100% participation in our 2009-2010 work place giving campaign.
KOVR Channel 10 News Coverage: "Families Make it Official on National Adoption Day"Click on the image to see the online news report which includes a nice article as well as a video clip of the coverage.
Thank you to the Sundt Foundation for a generous $5,000 grant which will provide financially challenged kinship families with payment assistance for comprehensive in-house clinical services.
Soroptimist International of Metropolitan Sacramento generously provided Lilliput’s Clinical Services program with a $1,000 grant. This funding will be used to purchase specialized therapeutic tools and supplies for the new clinical services room which is being established in the South Sacramento office.
Josephine Jones, one of Lilliput's social workers, who was featured in The Observer Newspapers as a special tribute to 30 regional young leaders, all under the age of 30, who are making significant contributions to the community. A tribute was held on Saturday, February 20th during this year’s Capital Black Expo held at the Convention Center to honor her and the other 29 community leaders. Click here to see the article.
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July 12, 2010
Today Lilliput switched over to this new website in order to offer our visitors
an easier user interface, more advanced technical design, better calendaring,
and more flexibility in what we can present to our user community.