Triggering the Charitable Conversation
Professional advisors face unique situations and expectations when navigating conversations with clients about their charitable intentions. Occasionally, those situations arise in an obvious or linear way, other times opportunities may arise to begin a charitable...
We’re Here to Help
Meet the Philanthropic Planning Team Sonoma Community Foundation’s Philanthropic Planning Team works together with professional advisors to help your clients give effectively and receive significant tax benefits. From the client who wants to make an immediate...
Introducing Greater Good for Advisors
Welcome to the Greater Good, our monthly newsletter for professional advisors vested in the work of Sonoma Community Foundation. We know you want to work smarter and more strategically with your clients as you navigate charitable conversations. Greater Good seeks to...
Helping Healdsburg
The Healdsburg Area Fund honored Tony Crabb and Barbara Grasseschi for their lasting community impact at the Healdsburg Area Fund's recent annual celebration.
Closing the Hunger Gap
In the midst of the Great Recession, more and more Sonoma County residents needed help to meet their most basic needs – like keeping a roof over their heads and feeding their families. In response, Sonoma Community Foundation launched a five-year initiative to...
Aging Healthfully
Dr. Brian Kennedy of the Buck Institute spoke at our Greater Good for Donors Forum in February, 2015. We are pleased to share his TEDx Talk for those of you who weren’t able to join us at the Forum.
Big Birder, Bigger Heart
In March, Community Foundation board member Ted Eliot and wife Pat dedicated a new Sonoma trail. Read about Ted and Pat's passion for birds, preservation, and conservation.
A Culture of Health
Sonoma County has been selected as a finalist for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize. The annual prize recognizes communities that are inspiring locally-driven improvements in health and creating powerful and deep partnerships to make change....
Why Five Fields of Interest?
We are frequently asked about our five fields of interest, so we thought we would take the opportunity to share the origins of how those five areas came to be. In 2014 the Community Foundation gave out approximately $10 million dollars in grants on behalf of our...
Creative Sonoma Workshops
Creative Sonoma is a new countywide effort to promote the arts in our community. Formed in 2014, the agency is launching a series of professional development workshops in March and April for artists and nonprofit arts organizations.
Celebrate a Legacy of Philanthropy: Henry Trione
Henry Trione spent more than fifty years shaping Sonoma County. The Press Democrat pays tribute to his commitment to Sonoma County from wineries to football teams, colleges to open space, his business acumen and philanthropy has created an incredible legacy. We are...
Literacy Payback
At Sonoma Community Foundation, we are committed to promoting equity in our community. When we learned about the critical role that early childhood education plays in a child’s later success in school, career, and life, and that in Sonoma County only half of our young...
Future of Philanthropy
Sonoma Community Foundation’s affiliate Sonoma Valley Fund, is pleased to welcome Katherine Fulton to their board of directors. Here, Katherine reveals the future of philanthropy in her 2007 Ted Talk “You are the future of philanthropy”. Despite changing technology...
Dignity and Care: Compassion Without Borders
Compassion Without Borders cares for pets and unwanted animals from Mexico to Sonoma, providing low-income Spanish speaking families with education about animal care, ID tags, preventative care, and connection to spay/neuter services.
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Introducing your Philanthropic Planning Team.