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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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June 15, 2021 Building Stronger Organizations Through Collaboration and Innovation

Posted at 16:39h in 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 grant funding and peer collaboration opportunities for...

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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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October 27, 2020 YWCA Sonoma County: Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Posted at 12:06h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Resilience Fund

For more than four decades YWCA Sonoma County has been a safe haven for domestic violence survivors. The organization helps individuals and families through their hotline, housing, therapy services, a preschool, advocacy, and more. Founded in London in 1855, a branch was created in the...

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July 17, 2020 Supporting Student’s Mental Health

Posted at 17:40h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

Established in 1993 by Sonoma State Professor Mark Doolittle, Support Our Students Community Counseling (SOS)  continues to draw on the original mission of supporting the wellbeing of Sonoma County’s youth. “Mark created the organization with the idea that we’d keep doing exactly what we are doing:...

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June 1, 2020 Sonoma Family Meal: Feeding Families, Supporting Restaurants

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

Story by Dani Burlison, Photos by Caitlin Childs During the 2017 North Bay fires, Heather Irwin came up with what she refers to as a “silly idea” to help feed displaced families. Irwin, a local reporter focusing on Sonoma County’s restaurants, started getting phone calls from some...

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May 7, 2020 Adapting to Shelter in Place: The Living Room

Posted at 09:49h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

Story by Dani Burlison, Photos by Erik Castro Since 1993 The Living Room has provided a safe place for unhoused women and their children to go during the day while overnight shelters are closed. In the early days, a mere handful of women dropped in, had...

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March 17, 2020 Our COVID-19 Response: $805,000 in Emergency Grants to Support Sonoma County

Posted at 13:24h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

Even with relatively few COVID-19 cases in Sonoma County so far, people are already suffering from the economic impacts of lost hours at work, and fears of a longer-term economic slowdown. Parents who have children in schools that are closing are struggling to find childcare...

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March 6, 2020 Making Bilingual Therapy Affordable

Posted at 13:06h in Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

UPDATE: this article was published before Sonoma County's social distancing and shelter in place. Humanidad continues to provide mental health services during this time, and are offering remote appointments with clients.  When Isela Vigil lost her Santa Rosa home in the 2017 fires, anxiety and depression...

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February 22, 2020 Supporting the North County After Kincade

Posted at 16:52h in Featured Stories, Healdsburg Forever, Resilience Fund

When the Kincade Fire ignited, multiple organizations responded quickly to ensure residents would be supported. Facing the loss of homes, paychecks, and other essentials as the holiday season approached, we immediately enacted a round of emergency grants from our Resilience Fund to help nonprofit organizations...

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