Tom Butt

Celebrating women's contribution to and service at home during WWII!

Saturday, March 23
11am—4pm
2024 annual Point Richmond Spring Fling, presented by the Point Richmond Neighborhood Council. 
Be sure to invite your friends to the Spring Fling!

Fancy car exhibition, a spring hat contest, kids’ activities, music, arist booths, and MORE!

See “Urban Tilth and Rich City Rides and a Tangled Web of Murky Nonprofits” http://www.tombutt.com/forum/2024/24-2-18.html

The alleged burglary of Rich City Rides bike shop at 1500 Macdonald in Richmond sometime before January 13, 2024, ripped the bandage off and exposed the dark side of a tangled web of murky nonprofits worth tens of millions of dollars with comingled funds, real properties, organizational names, officers, donors, benefactors and board members doing business in Richmond and North Richmond. There have been tens of millions of dollars involved in murky real estate transactions funded by “anonymous donors.”

Despite complaints and demands for investigation going back several years, the nonprofits and their leaders continue to be extremely popular with the radical progressive community and are protected by a powerful group of officials and politicians that includes City of Richmond management staff, most, if not all, of the Richmond City Council, Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia, the California Strategic Growth Council, and even the California Attorney General’s Office headed by Attorney General Rob Bonta.

Urban Tilth is the epicenter of a multi-million-dollar web of nonprofit organizations dedicated to ultra-progressive causes, including the three faces of Rich City Rides. Doria Robinson is in control of it all, and her housemate and residence co-owner, Najari Smith, control the three faces of Rich City Rides, a multi-million-dollar operation. Doria Robinson was also a Richmond City Council member at a time when Urban Tilth is the beneficiary of a $10 million grant from the City of Richmond, raising serious questions regarding conflict of interest.

Inquiries about Doria Robinson’s apparent conflict of interest to the City of Richmond, the Strategic Growth Council and the Attorney General’s Office continue to be met with silence. Multiple public agencies and politicians have circled the wagons to protect Doria Robinson and Najari Smith.

Speaker Flora Ninomiya and Blossoms & Thorns Documentary

Friday, December 8th
2pm in the Rosie Theater
Free to the public

Join us on Friday, December 8th at 2pm for a viewing of the Blossoms & Thorns documentary, along with guest speaker Flora Ninomiya who grew up in Richmond, where her grandfather established a flower nursery business.

Flora is featured in this moving documentary and here's your chance to hear her story as she speaks to the audience about her experiences during World War II, when her family was sent to the Amache concentration camp in Colorado.

Photo: Flora Ninomiya (Left), ranger Susan (Right)

Whether it was returning to the classroom, expanding our mentor program, or simply reconnecting with our community, 2022 was a year of positive growth for Richmond Promise. In our latest Annual Report, we are pleased to provide an update on the work we've done on behalf of Richmond students while also looking forward to what lies ahead. Click the link below to check it out!

Link: https://richmondpromise.org/2022-annual-report/