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...
by Caitlin Childs | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
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 smoke. “The entire horizon...
by Caitlin Childs | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
Our Resilience Fund 2018 Report 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...
by Caitlin Childs | Mar 1, 2019 | Featured Stories
We are closely following the flooding happening throughout the county, and want to share some updates with you about a number of nonprofits who are supporting the relief effort, or who themselves have been impacted. This is an evolving situation, as we learn more we...
