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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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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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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 30, 2020 Building the Bridge from Homelessness to Housing: Catholic Charities

Posted at 10:25h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Resilience Fund

Like all organizations working with our local houseless community, Catholic Charities continues finding temporary and permanent housing for hundreds of people in Sonoma County, despite the added challenge of the COVID pandemic. “I consider us as kind of the bridge from homelessness to housing,” says Catholic...

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September 22, 2020 Serving Uninsured and Underinsured People in a Time of Crisis

Posted at 09:46h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

From shifting toward Zoom and telephone appointments, to setting up virus testing clinics, Sonoma County’s health centers have handled the sudden changes brought on by the COVID pandemic like the champions they are. In addition to the large healthcare centers, smaller community clinics that serve...

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September 16, 2020 Helping our Community Heal: Santa Rosa Community Health Centers

Posted at 09:35h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

For more than two decades Santa Rosa Community Health (SRCH) has provided physical and mental health services to Sonoma County’s low-income population. The organization has eight clinics across Santa Rosa, which includes a campus for dental services, and a site that serves unhoused people. According...

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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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