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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...

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July 23, 2021 Staff Appreciation, Meet John E. McGuirk

Posted at 12:30h in Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Our Staff

Here is this week's CFSC Staff Appreciation! John E. McGuirk is a creative strategist with more than two decades of grantmaking experience at the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, James Irvine Foundation, and Arts Council Silicon Valley (now SV Creates). John is also an Adjunct Professor...

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July 16, 2021 LandPaths: Fostering a love of the land, one camper at a time

Posted at 16:01h in Environmental Education, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Resilience Fund

The seeds for LandPaths were first planted in 1996, and the organization's mission was simple: foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. Since those early days some twenty-five years ago, LandPaths has acquired and preserved roughly 2,000 acres of parks and open space for...

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July 16, 2021 Staff Appreciation, Meet Olivia Howell-Wilson

Posted at 12:00h in Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Our Staff

Olivia is a knowledge-seeking individual who naturally found her way into the nonprofit world. She describes her work at Community Foundation Sonoma County so far as “inspiring” as she regularly gains new knowledge. Since joining the team back in January, Olivia has served as an in...

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July 9, 2021 Caring for our Aging Community: Coastal Seniors

Posted at 19:40h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

For people living on the remote stretches of the North Coast of Sonoma County, it can be challenging to find social and other services. This reality, along with the sense of isolation that comes with rural living, was compounded while the nation sheltered-in-place during the...

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July 9, 2021 Staff Appreciation, Meet Maria Sosa Ramos

Posted at 10:30h in Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Our Staff

Maria Sosa Ramos believes in the power of hard work and teamwork. At Community Foundation Sonoma County, Maria is happy to have found a place where she can see and feel her coworkers all working collaboratively to achieve a common mission, as well as providing selfless...

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July 2, 2021 Staff Appreciation, Meet Ann Butterfield

Posted at 12:00h in Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Our Staff

CFSC Staff Appreciation!   Ann holds a strong passion for community development and is a strong advocate for social change. She believes that CFSC is vital to the strength and future of Sonoma County and is honored to be part of the leadership team that ensures that...

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June 29, 2021 Raizes Collective: bringing together art and medicine for community health

Posted at 11:46h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

Since local coronavirus infections were first detected in spring 2020, Sonoma County’s Latinx community has been disproportionately affected. Comprising roughly 30% of our population, Latinx people were hit with more than 60% of Covid infections over the last year. Although several local organizations worked to offer...

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June 25, 2021 Staff Appreciation, Meet Mark Geary

Posted at 12:00h in Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Our Staff

CFSC Staff Appreciation! Mark Geary joined Community Foundation Sonoma County in March of 2020. Since then, his admiration and appreciation for nonprofit organizations has grown. He admires how Sonoma County holds many organizations that focus on a variety of social issues and community topics. Mark shows...

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June 18, 2021 Staff Appreciation, Meet Minal Patel

Posted at 10:30h in Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Our Staff

While her professional accomplishments are impressive, it is Minal’s connection to the community that makes her a great fit for the Community Foundation. She volunteers regularly, most commonly at Redwood Empire Food Bank. She is very environmentally minded – intentionally living a simple lifestyle to...

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