Healdsburg Forever Archives - Community Foundation Sonoma County

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July 25, 2022 Inspiring philanthropy in Healdsburg & The Sonoma Valley

Posted at 12:57h in 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 work in their local...

July 26, 2021 Expanding Healthcare Options for Hard to Reach Communities: Reach For Home

Posted at 11:33h in 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 housing and utility costs. And...

Taya Levine wearing a floral printed blazer and a big smile on her face.

June 4, 2021 Leaving a Legacy: Taya Levine on finding community in Healdsburg

Posted at 11:51h in 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 town that she remembers...

April 19, 2021 Healdsburg Forever: Shifting to Meet Community Needs in a Time of Crisis

Posted at 15:09h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Healdsburg Forever, Resilience Fund

Fundraising can be tricky during a local disaster like a wildfire or flood. It can be even trickier during a global pandemic that spans an entire year and counting. COVID-19 and successive years of wildfires hit the Healdsburg and Geyserville communities hard. With grapes left...

July 29, 2020 Bridging Racial and Economic Divides in the North County: Corazón Healdsburg

Posted at 12:48h in 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 drop-in resource center, emergency...

May 7, 2020 Healdsburg Forever Makes $80,000 in Emergency Grants

Posted at 17:42h in 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 grants to Redwood Empire Food Bank, Healdsburg Food Pantry, Corazón...

February 22, 2020 Supporting the North County After Kincade

Posted at 16:52h in Featured Stories, Healdsburg Forever, Resilience Fund

When the Kincade Fire ignited, multiple organizations responded quickly to ensure residents would be supported. Facing the loss of homes, paychecks, and other essentials as the holiday season approached, we immediately enacted a round of emergency grants from our Resilience Fund to help nonprofit organizations...

November 14, 2019 Healdsburg Forever Grants Impact: Supporting the environment, arts, and more.

Posted at 15:31h in Featured Stories, Healdsburg Forever

Our grants from Healdsburg Forever last year supported our nonprofit community to launch new programs, and maintain others, bringing vitally needed services to Healdsburg and Geyserville residents. We asked our grantees to share some notes of impact, about what they have been able to achieve...

March 14, 2018 Healdsburg Forever Celebrates $160,000 in Grants!

Posted at 22:40h in Featured Stories, Healdsburg Forever

A rainy night didn’t deter nearly 200 donors and nonprofit leaders from gathering together at SHED to celebrate local philanthropy and to honor Mary Hafner for her steadfast leadership and support of the Healdsburg Forever Fund. In 2017, Healdsburg Forever awarded a record $160,000 in grants...

June 23, 2016 Healdsburg/Geyserville Grants

Posted at 16:34h in Healdsburg Forever, Nonprofit Newsletter

Applications will open on August 12th for the Healdsburg Forever grants program. Grant overview/criteria for Healdsburg Forever grants page on website. Click here to learn more....