by Caitlin Childs | Jul 9, 2021 | 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...
by Caitlin Childs | Jun 29, 2021 | 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....
by Caitlin Childs | Jun 15, 2021 | Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter
In 2019, we launched a unique partnership with two other funders, First 5 Sonoma County and the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Sonoma County, to launch Resilient Organizations: Sustainable, Impactful, Effective (ROSIE). The ROSIE program was established to provide...
by Caitlin Childs | May 21, 2021 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Resilience Fund
When Robin Bowen, Executive Director at Child Parent Institute (CPI) in Santa Rosa, first called her staff together to discuss the impact COVID-19 would have on the organization, she—like many others—wasn’t expecting the pandemic’s duration would last this long. “We...
