May 21, 2021 CPI: Supporting Families Throughout the Pandemic

Posted at 13:28h in 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 just all thought it was going...

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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...

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April 12, 2021 Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund: supporting the Valley through a time of crisis

Posted at 14:52h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund, Sonoma Valley Fund

In June 2020, about 10 Sonoma Valley civic leaders gathered in a backyard to discuss the future of Sonoma Valley. Roughly three months into the pandemic, the group was worried: How would small local businesses survive shelter-in-place orders? How would those who were now unemployed...

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March 2, 2021 IsoCare: helping people isolate and quarantine safely

Posted at 10:59h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

When Elece Hempel, the Executive Director of Petaluma People Services Center (PPSC), first realized the pandemic would impact the organization’s services, she met with seniors who frequent their Senior Café. Although she assured them meals would still be available (through pick-up instead of in the...

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February 25, 2021 Legal Aid: Pursuing justice for Journey’s End Clients three years after the fire

Posted at 10:58h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

When Legal Aid of Sonoma County set out to assist residents of the Journey's End mobile home park after the 2017 fires, they didn't realize how much of a fight they'd be in for. Achieving a settlement for their clients was a lengthy and arduous...

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February 12, 2021 Alliance Medical Center: beginning the push towards ending the pandemic

Posted at 18:19h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

Founded in 1971 by physicians concerned about migrant healthcare, Healdsburg’s Alliance Medical Center now has four healthcare clinics in Healdsburg and Windsor. Annually, they provide medical, dental, behavioral, and wellness services to over 12,000 patients in the region. “The great majority of our patients are the...

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January 12, 2021 California Homemakers Association: activating volunteers to help domestic workers and service workers

Posted at 12:53h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

Erica Diamond began volunteering with California Homemakers Association ten years ago after witnessing the problems and suffering in Sonoma County’s low-income communities. “I wanted to do everything that I can to address the root causes of poverty,” she says. “And I found that CHA was organizing the low-income...

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October 16, 2020 Sonoma County Resilience Fund Donates $1,750,000 to COVID-19 Relief Efforts

Posted at 09:23h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Resilience Fund

Since March, Community Foundation Sonoma County has granted more than $4.6 million to support nonprofit organizations responding to coronavirus. When the coronavirus pandemic struck Sonoma County in March 2020, Community Foundation Sonoma County (CFSC) and our donors immediately responded, making significant grants to help support the...

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September 11, 2020 It takes a Village – Transitioning out of Homelessness at Los Guilicos Village

Posted at 07:52h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

Until late January 2020, a community of nearly 250 unhoused people lived in tents along a 2-mile stretch of the Joe Rodota Trail, an eight-mile bike and pedestrian path that runs west from Santa Rosa to neighboring Sebastopol. Declared a public health crisis, the County...

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September 8, 2020 Cooking Up Healthy Meals with Ceres Project

Posted at 16:52h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

In ancient Rome, Ceres was the goddess of agriculture and offered blessings to farmers and their annual harvests, ensuring communities had enough to eat. Today in Sonoma County, Ceres Community Project is known for something similar: blessing those in need with hearty and healthy meal...

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