by Caitlin Childs | Jul 25, 2022 | Annual Report, Community Issues, Featured Stories, Growing Philanthropy, Healdsburg Forever, Sonoma Valley Fund
At CFSC, as we worked to innovate our grantmaking in light of the coronavirus crisis, we asked a critical question: How could we inspire more people to give? We knew our regional affiliates—Healdsburg Forever and the Sonoma Valley Fund—were already doing incredible...
by Caitlin Childs | Jul 26, 2021 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Healdsburg Forever, Homelessness, Housing, Nonprofit Spotlight, Resilience Fund
The Covid pandemic presented numerous challenges to organizations serving low-income community members here and across the nation. Among those challenges was having enough emergency funds available for the surge in clients facing the loss of work and struggling to pay...
by Caitlin Childs | Jun 4, 2021 | Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Healdsburg Forever
During the last stretch of her thirty-year career as a self-proclaimed “international workaholic,” Taya Levine left her then home base of Arlington, Virginia and made her way west to Sonoma County. Born and raised in Fremont, California—which was then an agricultural...
by Caitlin Childs | Jul 29, 2020 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Healdsburg Forever
Since 2011, Corazón Healdsburg has worked to bridge the racial and economic divide in the northern reaches of Sonoma County. Their work has made a big impact in the Latinx community, through adult education programs, financial counseling, health outreach, a bilingual...
by Caitlin Childs | May 7, 2020 | Featured Stories, Healdsburg Forever
Healdsburg Forever our a regional affiliate has recently made emergency grants totaling $80,000 to six nonprofit organizations providing essential safety net services—food, shelter, and health care—to the most vulnerable people in Healdsburg and Geyserville. The...
