Healdsburg Forever has delivered its largest grant yet — $445,000 in community impact funds were recently divided out to 13 local nonprofits. The grants were awarded across six impact areas prioritizing food insecurity, health care, housing, senior services, youth/education and support of Latinx communities. Grantees include the Healdsburg Food Pantry;
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Healdsburg Forever fills need, helps other nonprofits during pandemic
In a small town, the best way to pave the way for sustained happiness is to bolster the organizations that make local culture what it is. This is what makes Healdsburg Forever so special. The organization doles out hundreds of thousands of dollars to Healdsburg and Geyserville nonprofits every year,
Leaving a Legacy: Taya Levine on finding community in Healdsburg
During the last stretch of her thirty-year career as a self-proclaimed “international workaholic,” Taya Levine left her then home base of Arlington, Virginia and made her way west to Sonoma County. Born and raised in Fremont, California—which was then an agricultural town that she remembers as being ribboned with gladiola
Helping Nonprofits from a Foundation of Trust
When COVID-19 changed our world, it also changed how Healdsburg Forever, a regional affiliate of the Community Foundation Sonoma County, has raised and granted funds to nonprofits serving the Healdsburg and Geyserville area communities since 2003.
Alliance Medical Center: beginning the push towards ending the pandemic
Original Article Founded in 1971 by physicians concerned about migrant healthcare, Healdsburg’s Alliance Medical Center now has four healthcare clinics in Healdsburg and Windsor. Annually, they provide medical, dental, behavioral, and wellness services to over 12,000 patients in the region. “The great majority of our patients are the hardworking agricultural,
Healdsburg Forever delivers $300,000 to support nonprofits
Responding quickly to the continued toll COVID-19 has taken on the community, Healdsburg Forever, a locally focused community foundation and endowment, recently distributed $300,000 in funding to five nonprofits and one nonprofit/city partnership program. “In a time of urgency, the Healdsburg Forever board listened to local nonprofits and community leaders
Work continues for Healdsburg Forever
EDITOR: Icons speaking of philanthropy say it best. John F. Kennedy: “Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely – call it what you like but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.” Melinda Gates: “Philanthropy is not about money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips
Healdsburg Forever 2020 grant recipient: Food for Thought
Ron Karp of Food for Thought has been the Executive Director since 1996. The organization’s mission is to provide healing nutrition and compassion to more than 1,000 people living with serious illnesses in Sonoma County. Food for Thought approaches food as medicine. Their website states, “A growing body of research
Healdsburg Forever Makes $80,000 in Emergency Grants
Healdsburg Forever has recently made emergency grants totaling $80,000 to six nonprofit organizations providing essential safety net services—food, shelter, and health care—to the most vulnerable people in Healdsburg and Geyserville. The grants to Redwood Empire Food Bank, Healdsburg Food Pantry, Corazón Healdsburg, Farm to Pantry, Reach for Home, and Alliance Medical Center support general operations and are
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This article was originally published in Healdsburg Living Magazine. Nearly 20 years ago, a group of dedicated local volunteers, including Jason Liles and Demaris Briton, approached Community Foundation Sonoma County expressing interest in establishing a permanent fund that would be able to help support nonprofit organizations in the Healdsburg and
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