Community Foundation Sonoma County

One of our wonderful grantees, Petaluma People Services Center (PPSC) offers mental health support services. In the middle of a pandemic, it is easy to put mental health aside. Further information below, reach out if you need help https://www.facebook.com/PetalumaPeople/posts/3527535117357356

Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County will be hosting "Community Conversations on Race", at 5:30pm TONIGHT on Facebook Live. Join them as they discuss identity through the eyes of multi racial individuals. https://www.facebook.com/capsonoma/posts/10158088465266247

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Community Foundation Sonoma County is honored to be featured in the Press Democrat alongside United Way of the Wine Country. We are very proud of the work we do to help our community and for our accomplishments over the past year. Read the article below. https://www.pressdemocrat.com//united-way-and-community-/

Happy Black History Month! Highlighting Black history is important now and always. As we enter Black History Month, we are honoring the achievements of Black leaders, remembering the hardship and adversity brought on by racial injustice, and focusing on the importance of creating a society that is inclusive and equitable for all. #BlackHistoryMonth

CFSC is proud to support CVNL Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership's Secret Santa program. With the holidays approaching, Secret Santa needs your help. 12,238 holiday wishes were submitted this year via hearts, and to date, only 1,200 hearts have been adopted. Needs are even greater due to COVID-19 and the recent fires. In addition, nonprofit giving programs have had to shift this year, affecting donations and volunteers alike. Individuals can still make a tremendous difference to those who need assistance this holiday season by contributing online.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. To learn more about how the YWCA Sonoma County helps people locally, and how the pandemic has impacted rates of domestic violence, we sat down with CEO Madeleine Keegan O’Connell. #BreakTheCycle #OctoberIsDVAM.

Community Foundation;'s director of communications Caitlin Childs joins Pat Kerrigan on KSRO 1350/103.5 Sonoma County’s News Talk to talk about the $1,750,000 in grants for COVID relief.

The Napa Sonoma ADU project--a project we are co-funding alongside the Napa Valley Community Foundation--is hosting a free Q&A for homeowners interested in building granny units (ADUs) in the north bay. Please help us spread the word!

Our CEO Elizabeth Brown will be talking gratitude and generosity with MOCA+ SF on Monday evening. RSVP to this free event below!

FEMA disaster assistance may be available for individuals impacted by the local wildfires beginning in August 2020. Individuals who sustained damages as a direct result of the disaster can apply for FEMA disaster assistance (DR-4558-CA). Registrations can be completed by contacting FEMA’s toll-free Helpline at 1-800-621-3362, 6:00AM10:00 PM CST. Registration is also available online at http://www.disasterassistance.gov or through the FEMA Mobile App (available 24/7). Individuals can request reasonable accommodation and alternative formats such as American Sign Language, audio format or brail. Those requests can be submitted to: [email protected]

Petaluma People Services Center is helping staff the temporary evacuation shelter in Petaluma. If you’re interested in volunteering, they have a sign up form below!

Los Guilicos Village has provided housing for 60 people who had been living under very poor conditions in an encampment declared a public health crisis along the Joe Rodota Trail,. The site, operated by local nonprofit St. Vincent de Paul Sonoma County, aims to help people transition out of homelessness, into a brighter, more stable future.

Considering adding an ADU (accessory dwelling unit) to your property in Santa Rosa? Check out this webinar, to be presented this evening (September 23) from 6 to 7:30 pm by the Napa Sonoma ADU Center. It will walk you through the planning, permitting and building process. The Napa Sonoma ADU Center is a fiscally sponsored project of Napa Valley Community Foundation with support from Community Foundation Sonoma County and others.

When news of the coronavirus hit, the staff at COTS - in California (Committee On The Shelterless) stepped into action to ensure the unhoused population they serve would be protected. COTS operates the 112 bed Mary Isaak Center Shelter in Petaluma, and staff knew that sheltering in close proximity to others would make people living in shelters exceptionally vulnerable to COVID. Here’s how they responded

We are proud to be the grantmaking partner of the Sonoma County Vintners Foundation. Their premier event, the Sonoma County Wine Auction 2020 has raised over $36 million, benefiting nonprofit organizations throughout the region and supporting local organizations focused on education, health & human services, the environment, and arts & culture. This year, they are taking their auction online, see below for details!

With a recent survey from Pew Research Center reporting that at least one-third of Americans have displayed clinical signs of anxiety, depression, or both since the pandemic began, mental health organizations are busier than ever. Fortunately, NAMI Sonoma County is here with support groups, classes and a warmline to support families and individuals impacted by mental illness.

The volume of meals delivered by Ceres Community Project to medically vulnerable clients has tripled in response to the COVID-19 crisis, all while its operations have had to change to accommodate social distancing requirements. Ceres’ annual Harvest of the Heart fundraising campaign has transitioned to an online format, with a virtual event on September 12. It will raise funds to help offset the increased costs of providing more meals to more clients.

CFSC has made almost $10 million in grants from the Resilience Fund since its inception for emergency assistance and mid- to long-term recovery from the devastating series of disasters we have experienced over the past three years. The Community Foundation stands ready to make emergency grants to support urgent needs as they emerge from the area’s newest disaster, the LNU Lightning Complex Fires.

Due to home and other property losses, victims of the LNU Lightning Complex fires are now facing the formidable task of applying for insurance claims, a task that United Policyholders can, and has helped with, over the past several years of tragic Northern California wildfires. For more information on the services United Policyholders offers, go to https://www.uphelp.org/programs/roadmap-to-recovery. To help support the organization. go to https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/1437516

Sonoma County has seen unimaginable hardship these past three years. A fire that destroyed over 5,300 homes in 2017, flooding and a 77,000 acre fire in 2019, and now the back-to-back burden of the coronavirus and Lightning Complex Fires coming at the same time. We launched the Sonoma County Resilience Fund in 2017 to support our community’s long-term disaster recovery and resilience.... We have made more than $9.6 million in grants to support nonprofit organizations working on the front lines of disaster recovery since 2017. Our work continues. Donate today: sonomacf.org/fire

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, local theater arts organizations are still finding ways to connect with audienceswith a little help. Left Edge Theatre, with some financial help from donors and funders, including CFSC and Creative Sonoma, is investing in streaming technology, so they can continue to reach their patrons with contemporary and innovative productions.

We are so proud that Ann Butterfield, CFSC’s Vice President of Finance and Operations, has been named by the North Bay Business Journal as one of 19 top financial leaders in northern California in their annual North Bay CFO Awards! The winners will be recognized at a Business Journal Virtual Event today (Friday), from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Congratulations Ann! We are so grateful for the dedication, technical expertise, and compassion you bring to your role at the Foundation every day!