by Caitlin Childs | Sep 25, 2015 | Environmental Education, Featured Stories
Analy High School students Nica, Maya, and Isi in the GSE garden. How can a garden grow more than just vegetables? When it helps to grow adults, too. That, at least, is among the aims of the Global Student Embassy (GSE), a Sebastopol nonprofit that serves...
by Caitlin Childs | Jul 28, 2015 | Nonprofit Newsletter
A little more than a year ago, Community Foundation Sonoma County engaged the Center for Effective Philanthropy to conduct a confidential survey of our grantees, called the Grantee Perception Report. It was enormously helpful for us to receive your feedback, and we...
by Caitlin Childs | Jun 17, 2015 | Advisor Newsletter, Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories
Imagine not being able to open a door, answer the phone, hear a fire alarm or even pick up a pencil. Think what it would be like to have people stare at you because you’re in a wheelchair or to feel isolated and, alone because you’re “different.” These are the kinds...
by Caitlin Childs | May 8, 2015 | Nonprofit Newsletter
The Programs department holds the great honor of stewarding the charitable legacy of donors who entrusted the Community Foundation, as experts in our local community, to address issues and support effective nonprofits on their behalf. As part of our work, we seek to...
by Caitlin Childs | May 8, 2015 | Donor Newsletter, Early Childhood Education, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter
Seated behind her desk deep within the warren of the Community Action Partnership’s offices in Santa Rosa, Marta Tilling is carefully explaining something about young children. “Five is way too old,” Tilling says firmly. Tilling and her program,...
