by Caitlin Childs | Jun 15, 2021 | Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter
In 2019, we launched a unique partnership with two other funders, First 5 Sonoma County and the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Sonoma County, to launch Resilient Organizations: Sustainable, Impactful, Effective (ROSIE). The ROSIE program was established to provide...
by Caitlin Childs | Jun 4, 2021 | Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Healdsburg Forever
During the last stretch of her thirty-year career as a self-proclaimed “international workaholic,” Taya Levine left her then home base of Arlington, Virginia and made her way west to Sonoma County. Born and raised in Fremont, California—which was then an agricultural...
by Caitlin Childs | May 21, 2021 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Resilience Fund
When Robin Bowen, Executive Director at Child Parent Institute (CPI) in Santa Rosa, first called her staff together to discuss the impact COVID-19 would have on the organization, she—like many others—wasn’t expecting the pandemic’s duration would last this long. “We...
by Caitlin Childs | Apr 16, 2021 | Basic Human Needs, Community Issues, COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Homelessness, Housing, Resilience Fund
One year into the pandemic, Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County (CAP) is still working tirelessly to meet the changing and growing needs of those most marginalized. While staff continually adapts to working and connecting with clients remotely, Assistant...