The Healdsburg Area Affiliate brings together charitable donors, community leaders and nonprofit organizations with a special understanding of local needs and challenges. Community Foundation Sonoma County serves as fiduciary and mentor. The Affiliate Board considers grants from applicants whose request is for funding for a program or project that directly benefits residents of the Greater Healdsburg Area, specifically the areas within the 95448 and 95441 zip codes. Grants are awareded each fall in a broad range of categories reflecting the diverse needs of the Greater Healdsburg Area.

Donors benefit from the Healdsburg Area Affiliate, because it is designed to allow them to have a significant impact within the Greater Healdsburg Area. It offers a variety of creative giving vehicles tailored to meet donors' needs and interests. The relationship with the Community Foundation offers donors excellent technical assistance and a proven history of sound investments and fiduciary management. The Affiliate attracts new and additional philanthropic gifts that benefit local organizations and projects. Its ability to be flexible and respond to changing community needs helps ensure the future of the Healdsburg Area community.

Affiliates of the Community Foundation - Making Local Communities Better

Sonoma County has changed significantly since our Community Foundation was founded in 1983. Communities are larger and have much more complex and individualized needs. Affiliates provide a vehicle for donors to enjoy the centralized management and administrative resources of Community Foundation Sonoma County while, at the same time, targeting their charitable interests to the local communities in which they live and work. An affiliate "piggybacks" on the well-established organizational infrastructure of the Community Foundation, including its backoffice information technology, financial, legal and administrative systems and expertise, investment services and its programming and grantmaking experience and systems. However, the actual granting decisions and advice are accomplished by the Healdsburg Affiliate Board, who bring community-specific knowledge and expertise to address the unique needs of the local community. The Community Foundation's Board has delegated grant making authority to the Healdsburg Affiliate Board for this grant program. The Healdsburg Area Affiliate is the first established affiliate of Community Foundation Sonoma County.