by Caitlin Childs | Mar 2, 2021 | 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...
by Caitlin Childs | Feb 25, 2021 | 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...
by Caitlin Childs | Feb 12, 2021 | 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...
by Caitlin Childs | Jan 12, 2021 | 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...
