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Charitable
foundation
Dedicated to the people, geography, safety and environment of Sleepy Hollow in Marin County, California since 2013
Our primary activity has been to fund and manage renovation of our Community Center and now to operate, maintain, and improve it so that residents can gather together in a sparkling space, enjoy special occasions and relax on a daily basis, and as home for The Sleepy Hollow Homes Association, Sea Lions Swim Team, and Sleepy Hollow Fire Protection District (SHFPD) and its initiatives that make us all safer.
We opened Sleepy Hollow Community Center July 4th 2021 and have since completed the renovation of the locker rooms, added an outdoor shower, built the emergency supplies storage building for use by the SHFPD and with space for a small site office, added all new play areas for children ages 2-5 and 5 - 12, and outdoor fireplace with seating area. At December 31, 2024, we officially concluded the Renovation Capital Campaign.
In 2025 we began a long term effort to fund new immediate needs, foremost the repairs and upgrades for the Sleepy Hollow Community Pool. and to build reserves for unusually large repair or maintenance costs, significant expenses of unknown timing such as creek bank stabilization, and the financial flexibility to refinance outstanding debt at a favorable time.
Pool Fundraising in 2025 netted $46,000 from donations and proceeds of the Family Fun Festival, October 19. Outreach from the Sea Lions Swim Team (SLST) and Sleepy Hollow Homes Association has generated another $38,000 as of April 30, 2026, for a total of $84,000 available for work to begin this winter on the $220,000 project.
A pool lap-a-thon May 21, and the return of the Sleepy Hollow Gala October 3, 2026, plus giving throughout the year can take us the top for completion February 2027. We need a collective push from all who treasure the Community Pool for family swim, lap swim, swim, and summer socials, or love the pool as home of the SLST, PUPS with Mark Anderson Aquatics, or swim lessons and Master Swim from Paul Birich Acquatics.
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Donations Current Fund Drive to Help Sleepy Hollow Community Pool If the Sleepy Hollow Community Center is the jewel in Sleepy Hollow, the Community Pool is the jewel of the Community Center for hundreds of families, whether residents, Friends of Sleepy Hollow, or Seal Lions Swim Team families, the Sleepy Hollow Community Pool has been the basis of lifelong friendships and lasting memories since residents first dug a big hole in the ground at 1317 Butterfield Road. Since then the pool has been completely relocated with then new locker rooms in 2005 Locker rooms were redone in 2022, adding an outdoor shower. The pool and now needs our serious TLC. Re-plastering, retiling, new sand filtration system, improved chlorination system for the wading pool, and more. Coordinated fundraising by the Sea Lions Swim Team, hard work by Sleepy Hollow Homes Association, and the Sleepy Hollow Charitable Foundation are achieving progress to the goal. Support the Sleepy Hollow Community Pool with your gifts in 2026. Save October 3 for the return of the Sleepy Hollow Gala. Consider an early sponsorship of this benefit event. Fine dining and cocktails, silent and live auctions, and paddle raising to Fund-the-Need. Other Needs and Goals We hope to complete pool repairs in winter 2026-27 and continue fundraising for other needed improvements to the Sleepy Hollow Community Center. Fundraising to care for and improve as needed the entire Community Center is an ongoing mission for the Charitable Foundation. The focus on our Community Pool will continue, and as that need is met, will address other needs. High priorities are the resurfacing of the courtyard, repaving of the drive through, and improvement of the off street parking along Butterfield to coordinate with the planned crosswalk at Irving Drive. Other needs include readiness to improve creek bank stabilization, improved fencing, entry portal with site identity signage, and building a rainy day fund (a cash reserve to enable payment for unusually large repairs or replacements needed.) The Charitable Foundation regularly reviews needs with the Sleepy Hollow Homes Association to set fund raising priorities. How To Give Donate, or pledge and schedule donations now or any time at, donate now by credit/debit card or PayPal account, and see the Donor Giving Guide with instructions for other ways to give, including gifts of securities, wire transfers, and donations from an IRA or Donor Advised Fund. You can also give through Rally Up on the SHST website. Those gifts will be deposited to the Sleepy Hollow Charitable Foundation for the Pool Project. Read more about the Charitable Foundation and the design and benefits of our new Community Center. |