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,...
by Caitlin Childs | Aug 26, 2020 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
Since inception in 2017, we have supported local disaster recovery efforts through grants nearing $10 million. Sonoma Community Foundation (SCF) first launched the Sonoma County Resilience Fund in the wake of the 2017 fires, with a mission to help support our...
by Caitlin Childs | Aug 20, 2020 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
When news of the coronavirus first hit the U.S., the staff at COTS (Committee On The Shelterless) stepped into action to ensure the unhoused population they serve would be protected. COTS operates the 112 bed Mary Isaak Center Shelter in Petaluma, and staff knew that...
by Caitlin Childs | Aug 17, 2020 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
One of the first contacts many have with NAMI Sonoma County is through the NAMI Warmline, a non-crisis helpline that operates Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 5 PM (call/text 866-960-6264). Although the line is not staffed 24 hours a day, NAMI’s trained staff and volunteers...
by Caitlin Childs | Aug 10, 2020 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched every aspect of our lives and created widespread and long-term challenges in Sonoma County communities and throughout the world. As with previous disasters, the impact is not distributed evenly. The Latinx population has been...
