by Caitlin Childs | Sep 30, 2020 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Resilience Fund
Like all organizations working with our local houseless community, Catholic Charities continues finding temporary and permanent housing for hundreds of people in Sonoma County, despite the added challenge of the COVID pandemic. “I consider us as kind of the bridge...
by Caitlin Childs | Sep 24, 2020 | Advisor Newsletter, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Our Staff, Professional Advisors Newsletter
We are delighted to welcome Kris Van Giesen to our team as our Senior Vice President for Philanthropic Planning. Kris was born and raised in Santa Rosa (go SRHS Panthers!) and is a lifelong fan of the Cal Bears. Kris and his wife Holly are soon to be...
by Caitlin Childs | Sep 22, 2020 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
From shifting toward Zoom and telephone appointments, to setting up virus testing clinics, Sonoma County’s health centers have handled the sudden changes brought on by the COVID pandemic like the champions they are. In addition to the large healthcare centers, smaller...
by Caitlin Childs | Sep 16, 2020 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
For more than two decades Santa Rosa Community Health (SRCH) has provided physical and mental health services to Sonoma County’s low-income population. The organization has eight clinics across Santa Rosa, which includes a campus for dental services, and a site that...
by Caitlin Childs | Sep 11, 2020 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
Until late January 2020, a community of nearly 250 unhoused people lived in tents along a 2-mile stretch of the Joe Rodota Trail, an eight-mile bike and pedestrian path that runs west from Santa Rosa to neighboring Sebastopol. Declared a public health crisis, the...
by Caitlin Childs | Sep 3, 2020 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
When our cohort of six Sonoma Valley nonprofit organizations met for the first time in February, their primary focus was to identify the ways they could strengthen and support their own and each other’s missions. Soon after that first capacity building meeting,...
