Featured Stories

09 Sep Winners of “Discovered: Emerging Artists of Sonoma County” Program Announced

Posted at 19:42h in Featured Stories

(featured image: Nicole Irene Anderson, You Surpass Them All, 2017, oil, casein and graphite on panel) Ten Sonoma County artists are being recognized through the fifth “Discovered Awards for Emerging Visual and Literary Artists of Sonoma County” program, produced by Creative Sonoma and funded by Community...

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22 Aug Remembering Ted Eliot

Posted at 21:56h in Featured Stories

(Pictured: Ted Eliot and Jean Schulz at an event in August 2017) Last week we lost a remarkable community leader and dear friend, Ted Eliot. Ted served for nine years on the Community Foundation Sonoma County Board and then transitioned to serving on our Sonoma Valley...

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15 Aug Grants Spotlight: Early Childhood Development

Posted at 21:10h in Annual Report, Featured Stories

As grantmakers, we aspire to do more together because we know that when we can leverage funding and make collective grants, we can create impact on a larger scale than would be possible by making grants alone. This principle is at the heart of a...

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26 Jun Announcing: $700,000 grant to Sonoma Land Trust to protect critical open space land at Sonoma Developmental Center

Posted at 23:44h in Advisor Newsletter, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter

We are so pleased to announce this wonderful news: Thanks to the vision of a family that cared deeply about the future of Sonoma County, the Sonoma Land Trust has received a $700,000 grant from Community Foundation Sonoma County and our regional affiliate the Sonoma Valley...

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03 Apr HEALING SPOTLIGHT: Resilience Collaborative

Posted at 18:58h in Featured Stories

Over the course of eight days this fall and winter, 115 community members from all walks of life—doctors, social workers, teachers, counselors, waiters, yoga instructors, chaplains—gathered to learn skills to help our community heal. Dr. Bo Greaves, who retired from practice and now volunteers for Health...

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03 Apr HEALING SPOTLIGHT: Wildfire Mental Health Collaborative

Posted at 18:58h in Featured Stories

Long after the chaos of a disaster is resolved, the ongoing effects become clear. Over the fall, nearly one year after the October 2017 fires, Sonoma County was in a critical stage of post-disaster recovery. This phase of the recovery process, when some people are beginning...

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03 Apr HELPING SPOTLIGHT: Legal Aid

Posted at 18:57h in Featured Stories

Over the past 15 months, Legal Aid of Sonoma County has been instrumental in helping thousands of fire survivors navigate the complex legal issues related to their recovery. They have done this work, thanks in part, to a grant from our Resilience Fund, which allowed...

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03 Apr HELPING SPOTLIGHT: Catholic Charities

Posted at 18:57h in Featured Stories

Dreama Goldberg was seven months pregnant and just beginning to decorate her son’s nursery when the fires swept through Coffey Park, burning the rental home she shared with her husband Bobby, and his 7-year-old daughter Kamala. They had lived in their three-bedroom home on Pine...

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03 Apr HELPING SPOTLIGHT: Bill Chaplin

Posted at 18:57h in Featured Stories

When the fire swept through the Mark West Springs area of Santa Rosa on October 9 2017, Bill Chaplin was sleeping with his windows open. He woke up to his house, a place he had worked hard to keep, after years of homelessness, filling with...

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03 Apr Here for the Long-Term

Posted at 18:57h in Featured Stories

It is hard to believe that more than a year has passed since the fires swept through Sonoma County on the night of October 8, 2017. In looking at the devastation: 5,130 homes and 24 lives lost, property damage estimates of at least $7 billion, and...

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