Community Giving

Art & Wind Festival
Gold Level Sponsor
This signature, regional event draws attendance of 60-70,000 every Memorial Day weekend. The festival includes entertainment on 3 stages, fine arts and crafts, professional kite flyers, kite making workshop for children, kid’s zone, hot air balloon launch and other wind features.

Front Row Theatre, Dougherty Station
Community Center
Annual Major Sponsor
The jewel of the Dougherty Station Community Center is its 90-seat Front Row Theater. This wonderful performance and meeting space hosts frequent community theatre productions, children’s theatre, family movie nights, comedy and improv and concerts. Businesses are invited to join Chevron and Windemere as sponsors for San Ramon Performing Arts.

San Ramon Youth Symphony
Title Sponsor
The Youth Symphony will provide an opportunity for intermediate and advanced string, woodwind and brass students to play in a large ensemble. Under the direction of David Sego of Galileo Music Academy, the symphony is based at the Dougherty Valley Performing Arts Center, located at Dougherty Valley High School. Check SanRamonPerformingArts.com for performance dates.

Run Like the Wind in San Ramon Half Marathon and
5k Run/Walk
Title Sponsor
On a vibrant spring day in late March, approximately 1,000 eager athletes gathered in Windemere to “Run Like the Wind” during San Ramon’s second annual half marathon and 5k fun run. This event, which has become a signature spring race of the East Bay, benefited local youth athletic groups.

The idea for this race was based on the spring/summer marathon schedule. “There weren’t many long distance races in early spring,” said Brad Morris, program manager for the City of San Ramon. “We decided to fill that hole with a fun route that would introduce people to this new area. It’s a challenging course, but helps people gauge their marathon training progress.”

When developing the route, race planners used existing courses from local running clubs as a framework. “One of our challenges was finding 13.1 miles that were interesting and wouldn’t disrupt too much city traffic,” said Morris. “Windemere turned out to be an ideal location.”

The Dougherty Station Community Center served as home base for the event. “The community center enabled us to accommodate 1,000 runners and everything associated with hosting an event like this,” continued Morris.

Windemere has been the title sponsor for the past two years, and will continue sponsorship in 2009. “Windemere’s sponsorship helps us offset many of the costs associated with this event,” said Morris. “Because of Windemere’s financial support, we were able to make the price for the event more appealing.”

Trophies were awarded to the top male, female and team finishers of each race. And runners were treated to a variety of refreshments after the race at the bustling Dougherty Station Community Center. For more information about results and total money raised, log on to runlikethewindinsanramon.com.

“We’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback so far,” said Morris. “We are looking forward to a great event for years to come.”