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FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES
25 YEARS OF SUPPORTING CALIFORNIA’S COMMUNITY COLLEGES
The Foundation for California Community Colleges (FoundationCCC), the nonprofit partner to the California Community Colleges, serves the nation’s largest and most diverse system of higher education as an innovation hub and intermediary for transformative change at scale.
![Mar del Plata, Argentina and Sacramento are dramatically different cities that react to inflation in different ways. (Sacramento photo from Shutterstock, Mar del Plata photo by Erik Stattin & Pepe Robles, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/sacramento_argentina.png?1691178539)
Inflation in Two Worlds
Economic insights from Argentina and Sacramento
A California real estate agent who has relocated part-time to Mar de Plata, Argentina reflects on the two country’s different forms of inflation and resulting reactions.
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The Will to Do Something Is as Important as the Way to Do It
As children, we were given this advice to help us achieve our goals: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” I still fully subscribe to that. Along with my unflagging faith that I’m never alone in my efforts, I’ve believed that wanting something badly enough and being willing to pay the price in time and effort, could make it attainable (God willing).
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Internal Controls: Your First Line of Defense Against Fraud
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By Jolene Fraser
When it comes to the prevention, quick detection or mitigation of internal and external fraud, it’s important that business owners turn their attention to the factors they can control and closely monitor those that they cannot.
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River City Bank Celebrating 50 Years
LEGACY BANK CELEBRATES HISTORIC PAST AND LOOKS TO SUCCESSFUL FUTURE
River City Bank is celebrating 50 highly successful years in business with deep Sacramento roots and a bright future as California’s premier business bank. Backed by personalized service, local decision making and assets of more than $4 billion, River City Bank holds a unique position as the region’s largest independent, locally owned and managed bank.
![Carissa Ramirez transitioned from preschool teaching to a better-paid job working with HVAC systems through the mechanical electrical technology program at Sacramento City College. (Photos by Katy Karns)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/comstocks_workforce_article_-2.png?1690818943)
Bridging the Job Gap
Community-led training programs help people find jobs and escape poverty
Carissa Ramirez was less than six months out of college when she realized she would never reach her goals of owning a home, starting a family and attaining financial stability if she continued a career in her chosen field.
![Chloe Wang, 20, started investing when she was a girl by selling cookies. She’s now a student at UC Davis studying economics, starting several businesses and investing in stocks. (Photos by Wes Davis)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/763a0611.png?1689960973)
Gen Z to the Moon
The youngest investors take a novel approach
Eric Lam didn’t care for college. In 2018, as a freshman at UC Davis studying managerial economics, he decided to drop out. “I knew I wanted to do something in business, and I knew that I could probably learn that off YouTube,” says Lam. A friend suggested real estate.
![Dr. Nkiruka Ohaegbu left a key role at Pacific Gas & Electric to start her own public affairs company, Adaptive Strategies. (Photos by Terence Duffy)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/ohaegbu_lead.png?1688768604)
Young Professionals: Dr. Nkiruka Ohaegbu
Meet the 10 young professionals who are rocking it in their careers and community
The pandemic forced many parents of young children to reduce their volunteer time. Dr. Nkiruka Ohaegbu was not one of them. While guiding an essential government service from her home computer and overseeing her children’s remote education, Ohaegbu maintained her extensive commitments to the community.
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Young Professionals: Ken Imwinkelried
Meet the 10 young professionals who are rocking it in their careers and community
Ken Imwinkelried went to work for River City Bank around the time of the Great Recession. Logging extra time on nights and weekends, he learned everything he could about his profession at a very challenging time in the banking industry. And over the course of several years, his extra work paid off with promotion after promotion. But about five years ago, as Imwinkelried implored other staff to not stay too late, he realized he had to do the same.
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Sacramento Rising: It’s Our Time
As Walt Kelly’s cartoon possum Pogo said on posters for the first Earth Day in 1970, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Comstock’s president and publisher considers how the motto applies to California.