Five years of heartfelt, meaningful disaster relief: Catholic Charities
Prior to the 2017 fire disaster in Sonoma County, the core services offered through Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa focused primarily on homelessness and housing, emergency shelter, and street outreach work. The organization also offered immigration...
Announcing new board members
Sonoma Community Foundation is thrilled to welcome five new board members to the foundation’s leadership group. The new board members, Aiko-Sophie Ezaki, Alan Preston, Kit Driscoll, Ralph Lewin, and Teejay Lowe, bring a depth of expertise across their fields and...
Napa Sonoma ADU Center
Founded in early 2020, the Napa Sonoma ADU Center is making it easier for homeowners to understand the process of designing, and building, accessory dwelling units—sometimes called granny units. The center is a fiscally-sponsored project of Napa Valley Community...
Celebrating Ariana Díaz De León
We are honored to celebrate Ariana Díaz De León and her work at Sonoma Community Foundation as she wraps up over four years of contributing to the foundation’s Community Impact team. Ariana first joined Sonoma Community Foundation in 2018 as Community Impact Officer,...
Helping navigate the legal challenges of losing your home in a wildfires: Legal Aid of Sonoma County
The October 2017 North Bay fires left thousands of households with the daunting tasks of navigating insurance claims, disaster recovery assistance like FEMA, and the rebuilding or relocating process. As a result, Legal Aid of Sonoma County established a Disaster...
Celebrating, Honoring, and Bidding Farewell
We are grateful to honor the incredible work and contributions of our colleague Karin Demarest as we share that she is wrapping up eleven years of dedicated service on behalf of Sonoma Community Foundation. Karin first joined Sonoma Community Foundation in 2011. She...
Giving where you love: SCF’s year-end giving guide
Since the release of the Portrait of Sonoma in 2014, we’ve talked about the tale of two counties. What we know now is that the inequalities that exist locally have only been exacerbated by the devastation of the fires, the covid pandemic, and the economic instability...
Centering wellness: how La Plaza is helping Latinx communities heal from disaster
La Plaza launched into action in 2018, just one year after Sonoma County was hit by catastrophic fires and heading into some of our most challenging years with more fires, historic floods, and a years-long pandemic. Yet the nonprofit, a project grown from a leadership...
Surviving the Glass Fire: how Catholic Charities is helping the Henson’s recover
On September 27th, 2020, Jessica Henson watched her TV all day, keeping up with news of the Glass Fire slowly spreading west from where it ignited in Napa County before dawn. She saw smoke rising in the distance from where she lived in one of three houses, all...
Reflecting on 5 Years of the Sonoma County Resilience Fund
It's been just over five years since the Tubbs and Nuns fires changed life as we knew it in Sonoma County. We launched the Sonoma County Resilience Fund knowing that while the immediate needs would be great, our community needed a fund that would be there for the...
COVID-19: How we helped Sonoma County Recover
In March 2020, everything changed. Nearly overnight, the nonprofit organizations that act as Sonoma County's safety net faced a crisis like no other: how to help the thousands of people who suddenly lost jobs or faced other economic hardships survive the widespread...
Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund Recognizes 2022 Star Volunteers
The Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund hosted the annual Sonoma Valley Star Volunteer Awards at the Hanna Boys Center on Sunday, October 9, 2022. Thirty-seven nonprofit organizations honored thirty-nine of Sonoma Valley’s most active and valuable community volunteers during...
Welcoming Susan Price, our new Senior Philanthropic Advisor
Sonoma Community Foundation is thrilled to welcome Susan Price as our new Senior Philanthropic Advisor. Susan Price stepped into the nonprofit field after receiving her Master of Arts degree in Leadership in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community from New...
Seeking our our next visionary leader: our President & CEO position specification
After months of preparatory work, stakeholder interviews and surveys, the Search Committee and our search consultants at Carlson Beck have crafted a new Position Specification for the President and CEO. Do you know a stellar candidate? We encourage you to share this...
The Portrait of Sonoma: Finding the Story Behind the Data
In 2014, we helped develop The Portrait of Sonoma, a groundbreaking study which collected and interpreted census data to illuminate issues of inequity. Using the American Human Development Index (HDI) measurements of health, wealth, and education, the study compares...