Youth 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,...

Audubon Canyon Ranch educator Liz Martins shares insights about the flora and fauna of the Bouverie Preserve with youth and mentors from the Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance.

February 23, 2023 $40K grant creates new opportunities for youth nature education

Posted at 14:54h in Education, Environmental Education, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Spotlight

This article was re-shared, with permission, from the Audubon Canyon Ranch blog. Audubon Canyon Ranch received a $40,000 grant from the Community Foundation Sonoma County to provide Sonoma County youth with a greater range of experiences in nature and conservation action through the long-running Junior Naturalist program, where...

Group of SEEC's Wellness Day attendees smiling as they all gather together.

March 14, 2022 Wellness Day hosted by Sonoma Environmental Education Collaborative (SEEC)

Posted at 03:30h in Environmental Education, Featured Stories

The Sonoma Environmental Education Collaborative (SEEC) is a regional consortium of environmental education professionals from various organizations, agencies, networks, and school districts, whose mission is to create vibrant and innovative collaborations that increase environmental literacy with Sonoma County students. SEEC developed a strong membership of educators...

Youth talking to one another in the Sonoma square. Text reads: Sonoma County YouthTruth surveys: new data for 2022. 60,000 students, teachers, families responded

March 10, 2022 Just released! YouthTruth survey results from over 60,000 students, parents, and teachers in Sonoma County

Posted at 15:13h in Featured Stories, Foundation News, News for Nonprofits, Press Releases, Resilience Fund

Sonoma County educational leaders and partners in the nonprofit world are digging into an unprecedented amount of feedback on how our schools are meeting the needs of students, staff, and parents and guardians. As part of a monthlong survey campaign that wrapped up in late January,...

July 16, 2021 LandPaths: Fostering a love of the land, one camper at a time

Posted at 16:01h in Environmental Education, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter, Resilience Fund

The seeds for LandPaths were first planted in 1996, and the organization's mission was simple: foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. Since those early days some twenty-five years ago, LandPaths has acquired and preserved roughly 2,000 acres of parks and open space for...

July 17, 2020 Supporting Student’s Mental Health

Posted at 17:40h in COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

Established in 1993 by Sonoma State Professor Mark Doolittle, Support Our Students Community Counseling (SOS) continues to draw on the original mission of supporting the wellbeing of Sonoma County’s youth. “Mark created the organization with the idea that we’d keep doing exactly what we are doing:...

February 28, 2020 Training Educators to Combat Trauma

Posted at 16:48h in Featured Stories, Resilience Fund

One of the most widespread impacts from both the 2017 and 2019 fires was on our community’s mental health. “Children are especially impacted by disaster, often experiencing trauma-related fears, anxiety and sleep disruption, even after the disaster is over, ” said Karin Demarest, vice president...

November 14, 2019 Healdsburg Forever Grants Impact: Supporting the environment, arts, and more.

Posted at 15:31h in Featured Stories, Healdsburg Forever

Our grants from Healdsburg Forever last year supported our nonprofit community to launch new programs, and maintain others, bringing vitally needed services to Healdsburg and Geyserville residents. We asked our grantees to share some notes of impact, about what they have been able to achieve...

August 15, 2019 Grants Spotlight: Early Childhood Development

Posted at 21:10h in Annual Report, Featured Stories

As grantmakers, we aspire to do more together because we know that when we can leverage funding and make collective grants, we can create impact on a larger scale than would be possible by making grants alone. This principle is at the heart of a...

August 30, 2018 Nonprofit Spotlight: Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County

Posted at 23:14h in Donor Newsletter, Featured Stories, Nonprofit Newsletter

The night of October 8 changed thousands of lives in a near instant. For Cary and Josiah Rich, the fire meant the loss of not only their beloved apartment and all of their treasured keepsakes, but their home-based child care business as well. As Cary describes...