by Caitlin Childs | Nov 10, 2022 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Latino Leadership, Resilience Fund
La Plaza launched into action in 2018, just one year after Sonoma County was hit by catastrophic fires and heading into some of our most challenging years with more fires, historic floods, and a years-long pandemic. Yet the nonprofit, a project grown from a leadership...
by Caitlin Childs | Aug 10, 2020 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched every aspect of our lives and created widespread and long-term challenges in Sonoma County communities and throughout the world. As with previous disasters, the impact is not distributed evenly. The Latinx population has been...
by Caitlin Childs | Jul 29, 2020 | 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...
by Caitlin Childs | Jul 22, 2020 | COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund
When Cliff Casolla bought Marshall Auto Body in Glen Ellen nearly six years ago, he could have never predicted the bumps he’d pass over during his first years in business. Fires, black outs, evacuations, closures because of coronavirus; he maneuvered it all with small...