by Caitlin Childs | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
Over the past 15 months, Legal Aid of Sonoma County has been instrumental in helping thousands of fire survivors navigate the complex legal issues related to their recovery. They have done this work, thanks in part, to a grant from our Resilience Fund, which allowed...
by Caitlin Childs | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
Dreama Goldberg was seven months pregnant and just beginning to decorate her son’s nursery when the fires swept through Coffey Park, burning the rental home she shared with her husband Bobby, and his 7-year-old daughter Kamala. They had lived in their three-bedroom...
by Caitlin Childs | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
When the fire swept through the Mark West Springs area of Santa Rosa on October 9 2017, Bill Chaplin was sleeping with his windows open. He woke up to his house, a place he had worked hard to keep, after years of homelessness, filling with smoke. “The entire horizon...
by Caitlin Childs | Sep 18, 2018 | Advisor Newsletter, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Resilience Fund
Community Foundation Sonoma County is pleased to announce a $1 million investment in community-wide healing efforts through grants to mental-health focused projects. Listen to our CEO Elizabeth Brown announcing our healing grants on The Drive with Steve Jaxon: Long...
by Caitlin Childs | Aug 7, 2018 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
In the days after the October 2017 wildfires, emergency officials knew that the cleanup process would be a long haul. They also knew they needed to start working immediately to identify a partner that could immediately take in the hundreds of thousands of tons of...
