Napa Valley Community Foundation

Provided grants to 237 organizations covering a variety of charitable purposes including youth, health, family services, legal immigration services, food, shelter, and other humanitarian efforts, education, religion, the arts and disaster relief and recovery. Engaged in Community leadership activities, including convening stakeholders, nonprofit and local leaders on important issues for Napa county. Managed a multi-year campaign to create new citizens in Napa county called the one Napa Valley initiative, which in the nine-year period ending 6/30/22 provided legal consultations (continue on schedule o) esl classes to nearly 10,000 residents; helped more than 5,750 submit applications for citizenship and other immigration benefits to the u.s. government; and enabled 1,907 people to become u.s. citizens. Continued the third year of a pilot initiative called the Napa sonoma adu center, to help create more affordable rental units for the Valley's workforce and accelerate adoption of accessory dwelling units (adus). the Napa sonoma adu center officially opened in april 2020, and as of the fiscal year end at 6/30/2022, the center had provided tools to help homeowners build adus (informational webinars, one-on-one process navigation assistance, a workbook, website, and cost calculator) to more than 2,500 Napa and sonoma residents, nearly 140 of whom received a personalized adu feasibility assessment of their home property. the center also worked with 16 jurisdictions across the two counties to provide technical assistance to improve adu permitting policies and processes, and launched a "standard adu plans" program, in which a selection of more than 50 adu plans are available in an online gallery; 14 of those have already been reviewed by jurisdictions so that homeowners will save time and money in the development review process. the Napa Valley disaster relief fund (disaster relief fund) and its related funds, the covid-19 response fund and the 2020 Napa county wildfire fund, were active during the fiscal year ending at 6/30/2022, as a result of the ongoing Napa county emergency declaration of march 12, 2020 related to the covid-19 pandemic and the august 18, 2020 and september 28, 2020 California states of emergencies related to the lnu and glass fires in Napa county. As a result of these two disasters, grantmaking to qualified nonprofits to provide relief, recovery and disaster preparedness programs and financial assistance to eligible people who live or work in Napa county, were made during the fiscal year ending june 30, 2022. These grants provided direct financial aid to approximately 150 families who had covid-19 and were mandated to quarantine but couldn't afford to miss work and were ineligible for other government subsidies, as well as an eviction protection program for people at risk of homelessness due to the pandemic. Grants were also made during the period to support Napa county residents who had lost homes in the 2020 wildfires in relocating and/or rebuilding. Grants also were made during the period to support Napa Valley Community organizations active in disasters (coad), a network of nonprofit, faith Community and government sector groups whose mission is to improve coordination and communication before, during and after a disaster. Additional grants funded the operations of Napa communities firewise Foundation so it could manage fuel mitigation efforts countywide, and provided a workforce development program in the construction trades to help low-wage workers be more resilient and boost the local construction workforce to aid in rebuilding from fires.