Financial Support Archives - Community Foundation Sonoma County

Five kids standing next to each other with their arms linked. Text: CPI

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...

July 29, 2020 Bridging Racial and Economic Divides in the North County: Corazón Healdsburg

Posted at 12:48h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Healdsburg Forever

Since 2011, Corazón Healdsburg has worked to bridge the racial and economic divide in the northern reaches of Sonoma County. Their work has made a big impact in the Latinx community, through adult education programs, financial counseling, health outreach, a bilingual drop-in resource center, emergency...

July 9, 2020 UndocuFund: Supporting Our Community in Times of Crisis

Posted at 16:43h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories

When shelter in place orders were instated, *Elena’s hours at the coffee shop where she’s worked for twelve years were cut from 40 to 16 hours per week. A parent with two children at home (ages 4 and 22), Elena’s job helps keep the bills...

May 18, 2020 Emergency Grants Help Small Business Owners Stay Afloat Through COVID-19

Posted at 10:41h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

Story by Dani Burlison, Photos by Erik Castro On the afternoon of April 22, New Jersey native Tom Singerline made his way through Dry Creek Valley on his way home to Santa Rosa. Singerline, who owns and operates Jersey Tom Wine Country Tours, was emotional as he listened...

April 10, 2020 Creating Homes Without Building

Posted at 12:54h in Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

When Amy Appleton’s children became teenagers in 2011, she decided to spend some of her newfound spare time volunteering. Although she had a background in IT, she found herself working with the county’s unhoused population at the COTS (Committee on the Shelterless) Mary Isaak Center...

April 6, 2020 Nonprofits and the CARES Act

Posted at 09:47h in Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter

Financial Resources for Nonprofits Community Foundation Sonoma County is responding to the current and continuing disaster with a commitment to helping to ensure our communities and their many wonderful nonprofit organizations remain resilient, sustainable and vibrant. We are dedicated to ensuring nonprofit agencies are supported as we navigate the...

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...

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...

October 25, 2019 Kincade Fire Response: where to give

Posted at 16:06h in Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

Updated Wednesday, October 31, 2019: Welcome home Sonoma County. We are incredibly, unspeakably, grateful to the first responders who worked tirelessly to keep the Kincade Fire from spreading further and who are now able to welcome so many of our neighbors home. As many of our...

April 3, 2019 HELPING SPOTLIGHT: Legal Aid

Posted at 18:57h in Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

Over the past 15 months, Legal Aid of Sonoma County has been instrumental in helping thousands of fire survivors navigate the complex legal issues related to their recovery. They have done this work, thanks in part, to a grant from our Resilience Fund, which allowed...