by Caitlin Childs | Jun 29, 2021 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
Since local coronavirus infections were first detected in spring 2020, Sonoma County’s Latinx community has been disproportionately affected. Comprising roughly 30% of our population, Latinx people were hit with more than 60% of Covid infections over the last year....
by Diana Ortiz | Jun 25, 2021 | Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Our Staff
SCF Staff Appreciation! Mark Geary joined Sonoma Community Foundation in March of 2020. Since then, his admiration and appreciation for nonprofit organizations has grown. He admires how Sonoma County holds many organizations that focus on a variety of social issues...
by Diana Ortiz | Jun 18, 2021 | Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Our Staff
While her professional accomplishments are impressive, it is Minal’s connection to the community that makes her a great fit for the Community Foundation. She volunteers regularly, most commonly at Redwood Empire Food Bank. She is very environmentally minded –...
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 Diana Ortiz | Jun 11, 2021 | Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Our Staff
SCF Staff Appreciation! Originally from Chicago, Annette lived in San Jose for 17 years before moving to Sonoma County to trade in her high-tech lifestyle for philanthropic management. Annette is a big believer in the power of community. She began her...
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...
