by Caitlin Childs | Dec 27, 2022 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
Prior to the 2017 fire disaster in Sonoma County, the core services offered through Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa focused primarily on homelessness and housing, emergency shelter, and street outreach work. The organization also offered immigration...
by Caitlin Childs | Dec 8, 2022 | Featured Stories, Housing, Resilience Fund
Founded in early 2020, the Napa Sonoma ADU Center is making it easier for homeowners to understand the process of designing, and building, accessory dwelling units—sometimes called granny units. The center is a fiscally-sponsored project of Napa Valley Community...
by Caitlin Childs | Nov 30, 2022 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
The October 2017 North Bay fires left thousands of households with the daunting tasks of navigating insurance claims, disaster recovery assistance like FEMA, and the rebuilding or relocating process. As a result, Legal Aid of Sonoma County established a Disaster...
by Diana Ortiz | Nov 17, 2022 | Community Issues, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories
Since the release of the Portrait of Sonoma in 2014, we’ve talked about the tale of two counties. What we know now is that the inequalities that exist locally have only been exacerbated by the devastation of the fires, the covid pandemic, and the economic instability...
by Caitlin Childs | Nov 10, 2022 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Latino Leadership, Resilience Fund
La Plaza launched into action in 2018, just one year after Sonoma County was hit by catastrophic fires and heading into some of our most challenging years with more fires, historic floods, and a years-long pandemic. Yet the nonprofit, a project grown from a leadership...
by Caitlin Childs | Nov 1, 2022 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
On September 27th, 2020, Jessica Henson watched her TV all day, keeping up with news of the Glass Fire slowly spreading west from where it ignited in Napa County before dawn. She saw smoke rising in the distance from where she lived in one of three houses, all...
