Basic Human Needs Grants Catholic Charities: $5,000 for the rural food program. Children's Village of Sonoma County: $5,000 to provide food for foster children living at the Children's Village. Committee On The Shelterless: $5,000 to provide year-round free meals to low income residents through the Petaluma Kitchen and to residents at the Mary Isaak Center. Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County: $5,000 for utility expenses, such as water, gas and electricity, for the Sloan House Emergency Shelter. Community Builders Group: $5,000 to pay for replacement windows as part of the cost of remodeling a facility for recovering addicts. The Living Room: $5,000 to provide nutritionally balanced meals and emergency clothing to homeless and low income women and their children. Migrant Education: $4,800 to provide migrant farm worker families with food, clothing and basic needs during the winter. Petaluma Ecumenical Properties: $5,000 to provide emergency financial aid to low income seniors for food, rent and clothing. River to Coast Children's Services: $5,000 to provide emergency food, diapers, medicine, shelter and transportation to low income families living in the lower Russian River area. West County Community Services: $5,000 to provide food to low income families in crisis. Women's Recovery Services/A Unique Place: $5,000 to pay utility expenses for residential services that help women break the cycle of homelessness and chemical dependence.
Committee On The Shelterless: $30,000 to help homeless families become strengthened and their lives stabilized through connection to the community, attaining personal goals, increasing income, maintaining sobriety and securing housing through the support of a team of qualified and trained volunteers. Committee On The Shelterless: $30,000 to help homeless families become stable and break the cycle of homelessness by teaching homeless parents to make their children's needs a high priority and to provide a safe, loving and secure home for their children. Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County: $30,000 to end family homelessness through partnering with homeless adult participants to initiate healthy relationships, develop insight into their triggering events, support avoidance of drug and alcohol use, and strengthen family self-sufficiency. YWCA of Sonoma County: $30,000 to help female survivors of domestic violence and their children break destructive patterns of family violence, develop healthy relationships by connecting to support services in the community and achieve housing stability as a result of their participation in the Adobe Project Counseling Program. Women's Recovery Services/A Unique Place: $30,000 to help women with children break the cycle of addiction and subsequent homelessness and become more self-sufficient. Catholic Charities: $30,000 to help homeless parents to break destructive patterns, develop healthier relationships and support systems, improve the health of their family unit, and strengthen their family as they move toward self-sufficiency. Arts Mini-Grants Petaluma City Ballet: $2,000 for general operating support. Sonoma County Taiko Japanese Drumming: $1,800 for general operating support. Sonoma Valley Chorale: $2,000 for general operating support. Sonoma Valley Jazz: $2,000 for general operating support.
American Philharmonic Association: $9,000 for general support. Cinnabar Arts Corporation: $9,000 for general support. Santa Rosa Symphony: $15,000 for general support. Sixth Street Playhouse: $9,000 for general support. Sonoma County Repertory Theater: $9,000 for general support. Education Grants The Bay Institute: $15,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining its environmental education for both K-12 teachers and students through a program of watershed studies and riparian restoration. California Poets in the Schools: $15,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining the Sonoma County program to improve English and literacy skills among lowincome students through a series of poet-in-residence teacher programs. LandPaths: $12,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining existing environmental education programs. Santa Rosa Symphony: $15,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining an education program which supports teaching of core subject matter through music. (made possible through the Partners in Philanthropy Program) Sonoma Community Center: $15,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining arts education programs. Sonoma Ecology Center: $15,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining its education programs to increase science achievement for elementary students while developing their knowledge of native organisms and local ecosystems. Wells Fargo Center for the Arts: $15,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining a program to help students comprehend and retain arts education learning more effectively through a program of artists in the schools. (made possible through the Partners in Philanthropy Program) Audubon Canyon Ranch: $15,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining its work to restore native habitat, protect rare species and to ensure their results are maintained.
Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation: $15,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining core programs in research, education and restoration. LandPaths: $15,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining existing habitat-based stewardship work. Sotoyome Resource Conservation District: $5,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining it's work to improve habitat for salmonids and other native species within agricultural lands. Health and Human Services Grants Action Network: $10,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining social and preventative health services to residents of the north coast. California Parenting Institute: $500 to provide general support to the organization in meeting increased demand for services. (made possible through the Partners in Philanthropy Program) CASA: $15,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining its transitional program for foster youth. Catholic Charities: $15,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining its programs to seniors. Children's Village of Sonoma County: $15,000 for general operating support of the Children's Village. (made possible through the Partners in Philanthropy Program) Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County: $15,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining preventative health services to low income children. (made possible through the Partners in Philanthropy Program) Elim Lutheran Church: $10,000 for Petaluma Bounty to provide general support to the organization in providing affordable access to healthy fresh food. La Luz Bilingual Center: $15,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining services to its communities. Legal Aid of Sonoma County: $20,000 to provide general support in sustaining its Collaborative Legal and Support Services Project with the YWCA.
Northern California Center for Well-Being: $15,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining its operations. (made possible through the Partners in Philanthropy Program) Redwood Empire Food Bank: $15,000 for general operating support. (made possible through the Partners in Philanthropy Program) River to Coast Children's Services: $11,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining basic services and increasing safety net funding for families. (made possible through the Partners in Philanthropy Program) Social Advocates for Youth: $2,000 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining services to former foster youth and mentally ill young adults. (made possible through the Partners in Philanthropy Program) Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance: $5,100 to provide general support to the organization in sustaining its mentoring services. (made possible through the Partners in Philanthropy Program) Initiative Grants Arts Council of Sonoma County: $35,000 for the Artists Awards Program; from the Irvine Communities Advancing the Arts Program, Phase 2. Arts Council of Sonoma County: $25,000 to increase audience for arts organizations in Sonoma County through creating a comprehensive destination web portal for the arts. Arts Council of Sonoma County: $45,000 for marketing and promotion of a signature countywide arts festival ARTSONOMA occurring in fall 2009. Healdsburg Area Fund Grants Alliance Medical Center: $7,500 to help offset the costs for salaries, benefits and rent for the start-up of a new Teen Health Center. Becoming Independent: $5,000 to help meet the core operating expenses due to the increased demand for client services in Healdsburg, and to help with transportation costs to Santa Rosa for some clients. California Human Development Corp.: $5,000 to support overhead costs associated with the Day Labor Center, particularly staff salaries. Boys and Girls Club of Healdsburg: $4,000 to pay the salaries for program staff during the school year to provide daily academic and enrichment support.
Healdsburg Education Foundation: $6,500 to assist with compensation for a Program Assistant to manage the flow of funds, and maintain a donor database. Social Advocates for Youth: $7,500 to help cover core operating expenses (rent, office supplies, etc.,) and salaries to maintain their Family Resource Center in Healdsburg. Matrix Parent Network and Resource Center: $2,000 to help cover costs to train and mentor parents of children with special needs providing in English & Spanish basic information about disability issues, thereby allowing Matrix staff more time to assist families with more complex issues. Sonoma Valley Fund -Ellman Grants LandPaths: $4,000 to support Flowery Elementary School 3rd grade program "In Our Own Backyard" connecting students with nature while also supporting broader education needs. Quarryhill Botanical Garden: $4,000 to support environmental education tours for SVUSD 4th and 5th grade students at QBG, an Asian woodland comprised of wildcollected species plants. Sonoma Ecology Center: $10,000 to support the K-12 Watershed Education Project which delivers environmental science content and outdoor experiences for over 1,000 students per year. Sonoma Land Trust: $2,000 to flag and develop (with largely volunteer labor) two low-key, gentle loop trails through the back country of the Glen Oaks Ranch to make the property more accessible to visitors. Sonoma League for Historic Preservation: $2,500 to present the newly renovated Hooker House to the public, installing exhibits, signs and creating brochures and schedules.