by Caitlin Childs | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
Dreama Goldberg was seven months pregnant and just beginning to decorate her son’s nursery when the fires swept through Coffey Park, burning the rental home she shared with her husband Bobby, and his 7-year-old daughter Kamala. They had lived in their three-bedroom...
by Caitlin Childs | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
When the fire swept through the Mark West Springs area of Santa Rosa on October 9 2017, Bill Chaplin was sleeping with his windows open. He woke up to his house, a place he had worked hard to keep, after years of homelessness, filling with smoke. “The entire horizon...
by Caitlin Childs | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
Our Resilience Fund 2018 Report It is hard to believe that more than a year has passed since the fires swept through Sonoma County on the night of October 8, 2017. In looking at the devastation: 5,130 homes and 24 lives lost, property damage estimates of at least $7...
by Caitlin Childs | Sep 18, 2018 | Advisor Newsletter, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Resilience Fund
Community Foundation Sonoma County is pleased to announce a $1 million investment in community-wide healing efforts through grants to mental-health focused projects. Listen to our CEO Elizabeth Brown announcing our healing grants on The Drive with Steve Jaxon: Long...
by Caitlin Childs | Jul 9, 2018 | Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Resilience Fund
We are thrilled to announce grants to two organizations working to help individuals impacted by the fires who are struggling with insurance claims, legal issues, and securing the resources they need to recover. These grants are funded through our Sonoma County...
