Napa Valley Community Foundation

Provided grants to 273 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 ten-year period ending 6/30/23 provided legal consultations and (continuation on sch o) esl classes to more than 11,000 residents, helped more than 6,450 submit applications for citizenship and other immigration benefits to the u.s. government, and enabled 2,269 people to become u.s. citizens. Continued the fourth 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 6/30/2023, 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 thousands of Napa and sonoma residents, more than 550 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. the center also partnered with the county of Napa local government to assist in the issuance of forgivable loans for local homeowners willing to deed-restrict their adus to be rented at subsidized rates to low-income members of the Community's workforce.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 6/30/2023, as a result of the residual effects of the 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, 2023. These grants provided housing navigation and rebuilding services to those at risk of homelessness due to the pandemic and/or wildfires. 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 fair housing Napa Valley to protect renters from discrimination and living in uninhabitable homes, as well as 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.