by Caitlin Childs | Aug 15, 2019 | 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 new grants program we...
by Caitlin Childs | Jun 26, 2019 | 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...
by Caitlin Childs | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
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...
by Caitlin Childs | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
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...
by Caitlin Childs | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
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...
by Caitlin Childs | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
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...
