You can read about each of our grantees below.
2022 $100,000 IMPACT GRANT
JEWISH COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC
The 2022 Impact Grant will improve healthcare for homeless and underinsured residents Sonoma County. Jewish Community Free Clinic (JCFC) plans to implement an electronic health records system that would allow its clients to easily transfer their health information between health care providers, promoting health equity for the most underserved populations in our community. To learn more about JCFC and their programs, click here.
2022 $10,000 Merit Grants
VIDAS Legal Services
KBBF Public Radio
VIDAS (Vital Immigrant Defense Advocacy and Services) Legal provides low-cost immigration law services, advocacy and community education service to indigent, low-income communities in Sonoma County. They operate out of five offices in the North Bay area. Learn more here.
KBBF Bilingual Public Radio, founded in 1973, is the first bilingual public radio station in the United States. It serves the North Bay and beyond on the air at 89.1FM and via streaming services, providing local public affairs programming in Spanish and English as well as several indigenous American languages. Learn more and listen to KBBF Radio here.
2021 $100,000 IMPACT GRANT
THE LIME FOUNDATION
The Impact 100 Redwood Circle $100,000 Impact Grant will improve the futures of 60 underserved youth in Sonoma County by expanding the NextGen Trades Academy to four additional cohorts over a two-year period. The grant funding will support integral workforce training combined with social skill development as part of the long-term solution needed to help local youth achieve economic stability and become greater contributors to themselves. their families and their community.
The NextGen Trades Academy serves disconnected and vulnerable youth, ages 16-24 years by providing 18- months of mentorship. vocational construction training, personal skill development and sustainable career opportunities in Sonoma County. By training and empowering students in the program, economic barriers are reduced as graduates become employed and fulfill essential construction workforce demands across our community. Learn more about The LIME Foundation.
2021 $12,500 Merit Grants
Legal Aid of Sonoma County
Santa Rosa Community Health
Legal Aid of Sonoma County has provided services to Sonoma County’s indigent population for over 60 years. Founded in 1958 and incorporated in 1983 as a private nonprofit, Legal Aid provides crisis legal services to low-income families, children, elders, immigrants, and other vulnerable Sonoma County residents. The mission of Legal Aid of Sonoma County is to promote social justice and advance basic human rights for vulnerable people in our community. Their clients typically have nowhere else to turn.
Santa Rosa Community Health serves our diverse community by providing excellent, culturally responsive, comprehensive primary care that is accessible to all people. We care for the whole person with compassion and respect. We cultivate a safe, supportive learning environment where employees can do their best work in a way that embraces diversity. We advocate for health care as a human right because it is fundamental to social justice.
The full list of 2021 Impact Grant Nominees can be found here.
Previous Impact Grant Recipients
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2020 $100,000 IMPACT GRANT RECIPIENT
4Cs Sonoma County
4Cs Sonoma County will be using the 2020 Impact Grant to expand their Child Care Initiative Project (CCIP) and support rebuilding and increasing the capacity of child care programs in Sonoma County. Child care slots have been dramatically diminished following the Tubbs Fire of 2017 and by the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, only 50% of licensed child care facilities are open with greatly reduced student capacity. Seventeen additional facilities have permanently closed, with more closures anticipated.
Parents Earning – Children Learning requires licensed facilities as part of a stable and long term recovery for our communities. CCIP is a five-week training session designed to (1) increase the availability of child care, creating better access, (2) generate small business opportunities for women of color in high need communities, and (3) provide quality early learning environments to children. The CCIP expansion will recruit, train, and support 90 prospective family child care providers, provide incentives to reduce barriers, and track participants’ learning, completion, and license status, as well-child care slots created. More information about Sonoma 4Cs is available at www.sonoma4cs.org
2020 $10,000 Merit Grants
Legal Aid of Sonoma County
Legal Aid of Sonoma County has provided services to Sonoma County’s indigent population for over 60 years. Founded in 1958 and incorporated in 1983 as a private nonprofit, Legal Aid provides crisis legal services to low-income families, children, elders, immigrants, and other vulnerable Sonoma County residents. The mission of Legal Aid of Sonoma County is to promote social justice and advance basic human rights for vulnerable people in our community. Their clients typically have nowhere else to turn. Additional information about this nonprofit is available at www.legalaidsc.org
The Climate Center
The mission of The Climate Center is to work to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas pollution at scale, starting in California. The strategic goal is that by 2025, California will enact policies to accelerate equitable climate action, achieving net-negative emissions and resilient communities for all by 2030, catalyzing other states, the nation and the world to take climate action. Learn more at www.theclimatecenter.org.
2019 $100,000 IMPACT GRANT RECIPIENT
Forget Me Not Farm Children’s Services
The Impact 100 Redwood Circle annual meeting was held on November 9th to choose the $100,000 Impact Grant winner. Over 130 members were in attendance to hear presentations from the three finalists – Forget Me Not Farm Children’s Services, Santa Rosa Community Health, and Social Advocates for Youth. Members attending the meeting and those who had previously submitted absentee ballots chose Forget Me Not Farm Children’s Services as the 2019 Impact Grant recipient. For more information about Forget Me Not Farm Children’s Services, visit their website at http://www.forgetmenotfarm.org
2019 $7,500 Merit Grants
For the first time, Impact 100 Redwood Circle implemented Merit Grants for the two nonprofits not selected for the Impact Grant. This year the Merit Grant was $7,500. each.
Social Advocates for Youth (SAY)
Social Advocates for Youth (SAY) began over 45 years ago with a mission to keep teens out of jail and off the streets. Today, they provide housing, counseling, and career services to youth and families throughout Sonoma County.
Santa Rosa Community Health
Santa Rosa Community Health serves our diverse community by providing excellent, culturally responsive, comprehensive primary care that is accessible to all people. We care for the whole person with compassion and respect. We cultivate a safe, supportive learning environment where employees can do their best work in a way that embraces diversity. We advocate for health care as a human right because it is fundamental to social justice.
2018 $100,000 IMPACT GRANT RECIPIENT
Catholic Charities
The Impact 2017/2018 Grant was given to Catholic Charities for an Emergency Services for Homeless Children Program by funding a Children’s Resource Navigator and Emergency Childcare Subsidies.
Nominees for this grant included the following organizations: A Theater for Children, Audubon Canyon Ranch, Canine Companions for Independence, Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County, Catholic Charities, Children’s Museum of Sonoma County, Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County, Community Support Network, COTS, Daily Acts, Family Justice Center of Sonoma County, Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Healthcare Foundation of Northern Sonoma County, North Bay Organizing Project, Occidental Arts, and Ecology Center, Petaluma Arts Center, Rebuilding Together Petaluma, Redwood Empire Food Bank, Restorative Resources, Santa Rosa Community Health, School Garden Network, The Living Room, The Volunteer Center of Sonoma County, West County Community Services, West County Health Centers, Women’s Recovery Services, and YWCA of Sonoma County. (finalists in red)
2017 IMPACT GRANT RECIPIENT
Food for Thought
For 26 years, Food for Thought has provided nutrition services for people affected by HIV/AIDS in Sonoma County. Impact 100 RC monies will fund a pilot program to provide these comprehensive nutritional services to people affected by other chronic illnesses.
Nominees included – 10,000 Degrees, Bird Rescue Center, Boys and Girls Club, Burbank Housing, Center for Climate Protection, Ceres, Children’s Museum, Chrysalis Community Counseling, Community Child Care Council, COTS, Face to Face, Food for Thought, Girl Scouts of Northern California, Habitat for Humanity, LandPaths, PDI, Pepperwood Preserve, Redwood Empire Food Bank, Santa Rosa Players (6th Street Playhouse), Santa Rosa Symphony Simply Strings, SAY, SSU Center for Environmental Inquiry, Taskforce for Homeless, The Living Room, TLC Child, and Family Services, YWCA Domestic Violence Services.
2016 IMPACT GRANT RECIPIENT
VOICES
VOICES is an innovative nonprofit that provides youth with the resources they need to leap from foster care to successful, independent adulthood. Impact 100 RC monies will be used to develop and implement a “Foster Youth Navigation Program,” which aims to increase the percentage of foster youth successfully matriculating through college.
Nominees included: ArtStart, Bird Rescue Center, BOOST, Boys and Girls Club, Ceres Community Project, Children’s Speech Therapy Center, Community Action Partnership, COTS, Dovetail Learning, Face to Face, Forget Me Not Farm, Global Student Embassy, Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation, LandPaths, Pediatric Dental Center (PDI), Social Advocates for Youth, School Garden Network, Sonoma County Museum, The Living Room, United Way, VOICES