by Caitlin Childs | Sep 25, 2015 | Environmental Education, Featured Stories
Analy High School students Nica, Maya, and Isi in the GSE garden. How can a garden grow more than just vegetables? When it helps to grow adults, too. That, at least, is among the aims of the Global Student Embassy (GSE), a Sebastopol nonprofit that serves...
by Caitlin Childs | Sep 16, 2015 | Advisor Newsletter, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Professional Advisors Newsletter
Dear Friends, We know you share our heartache for our friends and neighbors, especially those in Lake County, who are facing the most devastating of circumstances wrought by the fires. We also know you are eager to help and it is no surprise to our Community...
by Caitlin Childs | Jun 17, 2015 | Advisor Newsletter, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories
Imagine not being able to open a door, answer the phone, hear a fire alarm or even pick up a pencil. Think what it would be like to have people stare at you because you’re in a wheelchair or to feel isolated and, alone because you’re “different.” These are the kinds...
by Caitlin Childs | May 8, 2015 | Donor Newsletter, Early Childhood Education, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter
Seated behind her desk deep within the warren of the Community Action Partnership’s offices in Santa Rosa, Marta Tilling is carefully explaining something about young children. “Five is way too old,” Tilling says firmly. Tilling and her program,...
by Caitlin Childs | Mar 25, 2015 | Basic Human Needs, Community Issues, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories
In the midst of the Great Recession, more and more Sonoma County residents needed help to meet their most basic needs – like keeping a roof over their heads and feeding their families. In response, Community Foundation Sonoma County launched a five-year initiative to...
by Caitlin Childs | Feb 20, 2015 | Early Childhood Education
At Community Foundation Sonoma County, we are committed to promoting equity in our community. When we learned about the critical role that early childhood education plays in a child’s later success in school, career, and life, and that in Sonoma County only half of...
