Food Security Archives - Community Foundation Sonoma County

March 30, 2023 Strengthening Sonoma Valley: 13 Nonprofits Benefit from $500,000 in Capital Improvement Grants

Posted at 15:50h in Basic Human Needs, Featured Stories, Homelessness, Housing, Nonprofit Spotlight, Sonoma Valley Fund

Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund (Catalyst Fund) and Community Foundation Sonoma County (CFSC) are pleased to announce $500,000 in new funding for vital capital improvement projects for 13 Sonoma Valley-based nonprofit organizations. This initiative aims to support local nonprofits, many of which operate on tight budgets,...

July 9, 2021 Caring for our Aging Community: Coastal Seniors

Posted at 19:40h in 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 during the...

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...

Small buildings lined up displaying the temporary shelter. Text: Los Guilicos Village, Temporary shelter

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...

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...

August 6, 2020 Over 8 million meals since March: the Redwood Empire Food Bank

Posted at 12:40h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories

Redwood Empire Food Bank (REFB) is no stranger to supporting communities through disasters. In recent years, they’ve responded to their fair share: Sonoma and Mendocino Complex Fires, Russian River floods of 2019, the Kincade Fire, and more. Now they have a new crisis to address:...

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 14, 2020 Feeding the Medically Fragile: Food For Thought

Posted at 17:11h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories

The staff at Food For Thought in Forestville began implementing sanitation plans as soon as they got word of the pandemic in early March. But because the organization relies heavily on volunteers to help get food on the tables of those in need—and because the...

July 7, 2020 Feeding Seniors in Sonoma County: Meals on Wheels

Posted at 15:57h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

For more than 50 years Sonoma County’s Council on Aging has provided valuable support to the region’s older adults. Of the many services they offer, the Meals on Wheels delivery program is an essential part of keeping one of our most vulnerable population safe and...

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...