Grants

GIVING FOR THE FUTURE OF ALL = 20 YEARS OF GRANT MAKING – 2024

Healdsburg Forever is all about today, tomorrow, and beyond. Healdsburg Forever’s purpose is to help local nonprofits meet the most pressing needs of our community today and plan for the future.  In 19 years of existence, as an all-volunteer board, and 3 committees, we’ve focused on the unique needs of our community

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Healdsburg Forever doles out grant funds to 13 local nonprofits

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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City working with nonprofits on community grant program

The City of Healdsburg is going to work with Healdsburg Forever and the Healdsburg Healthcare Foundation to identify grantees and a distribution process for a one-time community response grant program funded by $200,000 in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds. On Nov. 1 during its regular meeting, the Healdsburg City

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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

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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.

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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,

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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

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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

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