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, Sonoma Community Foundation launched a five-year initiative to...
by Caitlin Childs | Feb 20, 2015 | Early Childhood Education
At Sonoma Community Foundation, 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 our young...
by Caitlin Childs | Jan 31, 2015 | Animal Welfare, Featured Stories
Working in a Mexico City animal shelter, Dr. Christi Camblor found herself immersed in a nightmare—thousands of animals packed into overcrowded facilities, many suffering from untreated diseases, some dying by electrocution. In 2002, unable to shake those haunting...
by Caitlin Childs | Jan 27, 2015 | Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Our Donors
Gratitude, Dignity, Need: Community Foundation donors Barbara Wollner, Ben Cushman and George Tuttle share why they give in recent Press Democrat articles.
by Caitlin Childs | Jan 27, 2015 | Featured Stories, Our Donors
Family is paramount to Dean and Belinda (Bo) Soiland. So is faith. Dean, like most of his siblings, got his start in his father Marv Soiland’s sand and gravel business before he and Bo launched their BoDean Company for aggregates and asphalt in 1989. Along the way,...
