September 9, 2019 Winners of “Discovered: Emerging Artists of Sonoma County” Program Announced

Posted at 19:42h in Featured Stories

(featured image: Nicole Irene Anderson, You Surpass Them All, 2017, oil, casein and graphite on panel) Ten Sonoma County artists are being recognized through the fifth “Discovered Awards for Emerging Visual and Literary Artists of Sonoma County” program, produced by Creative Sonoma and funded by Community...

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August 17, 2018 Sonoma County Vintners Foundation Donates $520,000 to Local Nonprofits

Posted at 22:14h in Featured Stories

The Sonoma County Vintners Foundation is donating $520,000 in grants to more than 50 local nonprofit organizations that address the community’s critical needs. Grants were made through the Sonoma County Vintners Foundation community grants program, with funding from the 2017 Sonoma County Wine Auction. The Community Foundation...

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September 19, 2017 Sonoma Wine Country Weekend Raises $5.2 Million for Local Charities

Posted at 23:18h in Featured Stories

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (September 16, 2017) – The Sonoma County Vintners and Barbara R. Banke, the 2017 Sonoma County Wine Auction Chair, are thrilled to announce that the 2017 Sonoma County Wine Auction raised a record-breaking $5.2 million to support Sonoma County charities focused on literacy,...

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April 26, 2017 Our Values

Posted at 17:11h in Advisor Newsletter, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories

At Community Foundation Sonoma County, we believe in the power of connecting people, ideas, and resources to benefit all who live here. There’s a small but critical word in that mission statement, one that deserves extra attention—all. As an organization that is deeply connected to this place...

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June 17, 2016 ArtEscape

Posted at 16:10h in Nonprofit Newsletter

Bringing bilingual art classes to the Springs.   "The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a...

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May 5, 2016 2015-16 Sonoma Wine Country Weekend Grant Partners

Posted at 17:46h in Advisor Newsletter

  Below is a list of all organizations funded this year thanks to the generosity of Sonoma Wine Country Weekend.   Fund the Future: Early Childhood Literacy We believe that if children can read, they will succeed. Bellevue Union School District: Facilities Fund Community Action Partnership: Pasitos Playgroups and AVANCE Healdsburg...

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April 28, 2016 The Imaginists

Posted at 19:13h in Advisor Newsletter, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It could turn into almost anything! Just who are those wild-eyed, costumed people on bicycles? What are they doing wandering to and fro, performing in the streets? Why are they in our high schools engaging and charming the kids,...

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April 15, 2016 A Mother’s Gift of Music

Posted at 23:30h in Advisor Newsletter, Donor Newsletter

By J Mullineaux This year I decided to honor my mother on Mother’s Day by purchasing a trumpet and donating it to the Music for Schools Program at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. My mother inspired me to play the trumpet – in fact, my...

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March 4, 2015 Creative Sonoma Workshops

Posted at 00:00h in Nonprofit Newsletter

Creative Sonoma is a new countywide effort to promote the arts in our community. Formed in 2014, the agency is launching a series of professional development workshops in March and April for artists and nonprofit arts organizations. ...

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