LandPaths: Fostering a love of the land, one camper at a time
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...
Staff Appreciation, Meet Olivia Howell-Wilson
Olivia is a knowledge-seeking individual who naturally found her way into the nonprofit world. She describes her work at Community Foundation Sonoma County so far as “inspiring” as she regularly gains new knowledge. Since joining the team back in January, Olivia has...
Caring for our Aging Community: Coastal Seniors
For people living on the remote stretches of the North Coast of Sonoma County, it can be challenging to find social and other services. This reality, along with the sense of isolation that comes with rural living, was compounded while the nation sheltered-in-place...
Staff Appreciation, Meet Maria Sosa Ramos
Maria Sosa Ramos believes in the power of hard work and teamwork. At Community Foundation Sonoma County, Maria is happy to have found a place where she can see and feel her coworkers all working collaboratively to achieve a common mission, as well as providing...
Staff Appreciation, Meet Ann Butterfield
CFSC Staff Appreciation! Ann holds a strong passion for community development and is a strong advocate for social change. She believes that CFSC is vital to the strength and future of Sonoma County and is honored to be part of the leadership team that ensures that...
Raizes Collective: bringing together art and medicine for community health
Since local coronavirus infections were first detected in spring 2020, Sonoma County’s Latinx community has been disproportionately affected. Comprising roughly 30% of our population, Latinx people were hit with more than 60% of Covid infections over the last year....
Staff Appreciation, Meet Mark Geary
CFSC Staff Appreciation! Mark Geary joined Community Foundation Sonoma County in March of 2020. Since then, his admiration and appreciation for nonprofit organizations has grown. He admires how Sonoma County holds many organizations that focus on a variety of social...
Staff Appreciation, Meet Minal Patel
While her professional accomplishments are impressive, it is Minal’s connection to the community that makes her a great fit for the Community Foundation. She volunteers regularly, most commonly at Redwood Empire Food Bank. She is very environmentally minded –...
Building Stronger Organizations Through Collaboration and Innovation
In 2019, we launched a unique partnership with two other funders, First 5 Sonoma County and the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Sonoma County, to launch Resilient Organizations: Sustainable, Impactful, Effective (ROSIE). The ROSIE program was established to provide...
Staff Appreciation, Meet Annette Williams
CFSC Staff Appreciation! Originally from Chicago, Annette lived in San Jose for 17 years before moving to Sonoma County to trade in her high-tech lifestyle for philanthropic management. Annette is a big believer in the power of community. She began her...
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...
Staff Appreciation, Meet Ariana Diaz de Leon
CFSC Staff Appreciation Time! Ariana always knew that her career goals would be centered around social work. However, after being exposed to the emotionally heavy and intense work that goes into social work, Ariana switched paths and developed a love and passion for...
Staff Appreciation, Meet Emily Johnson
Staff Appreciation Time! For Emily, the wildfires that struck the community in 2017, served as a call to action. As a way to give back to her community, Emily fell into the world of nonprofits at CFSC. Here, she was able to provide support to people back in 2017 and...
CPI: Supporting Families Throughout the Pandemic
When Robin Bowen, Executive Director at Child Parent Institute (CPI) in Santa Rosa, first called her staff together to discuss the impact COVID-19 would have on the organization, she—like many others—wasn’t expecting the pandemic’s duration would last this long. “We...
Staff Appreciation, Meet Tiny Torrez
Staff Appreciation Time! Tiny’s first-hand experience volunteering and receiving direct resources from nonprofit organizations like Catholic Charities and One Justice, introduced her to the world of nonprofits. Working at Community Foundation Sonoma County has allowed...