2017 Jefferson Award Finalist

2016 CA Gold Ribbon awarded to Richmond TOOLBOX School

2013 Dalai Lama endorsement

2007 Commendation from US Representative Lynn Woolsey

2007 Sonoma County Community Service Project of the Year award -- Board of Supervisors and Volunteer Center of Sonoma County

2000 Jack London Award for Educational Excellence — Sonoma State University

1999 “Program of Excellence” — Sonoma County Office of Education

“What I found in (Toolbox Project) are the foundational tools toward building not only sustainable solutions, but tools for building a more meaningful and positive future.”

- Sam Euston, Sonoma County Gazette

“What Mark Collin has accomplished with Toolbox, is truly unique among the social-emotional learning and resilience programs we have reviewed and experienced. Toolbox provides a metaphor for what resilience is all about that has real, practical “legs” in the classroom. It teaches children about their resilient nature and helps them see themselves in a new way.

Toolbox and the Toolbox Project is a gift to both children and adults. It helps everyone,of all ages, recognize that we really do possess within us all the Tools we need to express our innate resilience and live productive, meaningful, and healthy lives, empowered with agency, optimism, and hope.

Thank you, Mark.”

Bonnie Benard: Resilience Expert/ Author: Resilience: What We Have Learned/WestEd and The Search Institute Dr. Sara Trurebridge, Ed.D, Author