The Sonoma County Vintners Foundation is pleased to continue their commitment to four program areas: Health and Human Services, Education, Environment, and Arts and Culture.
Donor Name: Sonoma County Vintners Foundation (SCCV)
State: California
County: Sonoma County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy):
- Health and Human Services/Arts and Culture Grant: 03/04/2022
- Education/Environment Grant: 03/11/2022
Size of the Grant: $10k
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The Foundation cultivates a vibrant and diverse Sonoma County through charitable giving focused on improving education, health & human services, the environment, and arts & culture. The Foundation’s annual Community Grants Program ensures that nonprofit organizations working across Sonoma County have the opportunity to apply for funding in these four areas of impact.
Program Areas
- Health and Human Services
- Education
- Environment
- Arts and Culture
A few key points to keep in mind as you consider applying:
- Applicants in the four priority areas will be considered when the request aligns specifically with the stated funding priority
- To provide broad community-wide support, they will consider only one proposal from any one nonprofit organization
- Grant requests must be no more than $10k
- They encourage, but do not require, applicants to attend one of our grant workshops, where they will provide further details about the funding priorities and criteria
Funding Priorities
- Health and Human Services
- The increased stress of the pandemic has had a negative impact on the mental health and well-being of community members, with the greatest challenges faced by those already vulnerable due to multiple factors.
- Funding will target programs or projects that support the fundamental needs of our most vulnerable community members, which could include mental and behavioral health, housing, and food insecurity.
- Education
- In Sonoma County, data from the YouthTruth survey and READY report show that English Learners have been disproportionately impacted by wildfires and the pandemic in two key areas: digital access and access to early childhood education.
- Recognizing that high-quality early education and comprehensive digital access have lasting implications on literacy, the education funding for 2022 will target programs or projects that offer children, youth and/or their families the opportunity to increase early literacy skills and/or address the digital divide.
- Arts and Culture
- The connection between the arts and healing has been well-documented. For a community that has experienced a series of natural disasters alongside a global pandemic, the arts can reduce acute levels of collective stress and uncertainty, transforming struggle into a creative expression of lived experience.
- For 2022, arts funding will target programs or projects that explore the arts and creative expression as a form of healing.
- Environment
- The existing and future threat of climate change-fueled wildfires means disaster mitigation continues to be critical for the safety of their community.
- Funding will target disaster mitigation projects that seek to address the impacts of wildfires primarily through the reduction of fire fuels. Approaches include—but are not limited to—prescribed grazing, prescribed burns, and manual vegetation management. Recognizing the opportunity to create a pathway for a trained, stable, well-compensated workforce that can conduct comprehensive wildfire mitigation, projects that provide opportunities for youth, BIPOC individuals, and others most impacted by economic, racial, and social inequities, will be prioritized.
Grant Period
June 1, 2022 through May 31, 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
Sonoma County 501c3 nonprofit organizations may apply for a Community Grant for either program or project support. They do not accept proposals for:
- Annual fund campaigns, fundraising events, or debt retirement
- Capital campaigns
- Conferences
- Scholarships
- Grants (or loans) to individuals
- Political or religious purposes (or programs requiring religious participation)
- Projects that primarily serve residents outside of Sonoma County
- Organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law
For more information, visit Community Grants.
