COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY

For the last nine years Napa Valley and the surrounding areas have welcomed Live In The Vineyard with open arms. Wine makers, Chefs, Artisans, Business owners, residents, and everyone in between, have become our family and made us feel at home amongst the lush scenery that is now being so devastatingly affected by these fires.

Join us to raise funds for the Napa Valley Community Foundation (NVCF)  to help keep #NapaStrong! All of the net proceeds from this campaign will be donated to NVCF to help a community that has done so much for us for so many years and is now struggling. Every little bit helps!

In the days ahead, NVCF will be convening decision-makers from the nonprofit sector and local government to assess urgent needs, identify short term gaps and gather information that will inform longer-term recovery efforts. NVCF will do this work in collaboration with Napa Valley Community Organizations Active in Disaster (aka, the  Napa  Valley COAD). The Foundation will also distribute immediate response grants to a targeted list of local nonprofits that were pre-approved to receive such grants following the 2014 earthquake.  All of these nonprofits received intensive technical assistance from NVCF to boost their capacity to respond to events such as the fires now underway in Napa County.

Live In The Vineyard (www.liveinthevineyard.com) will be returning in November for our festival and we plan to help any way we can!

Photos courtesy of Will Bucqouy of Santa Rosa, CA

Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, Lake and Yolo counties have suffered from the dramatic effects of the recent wildfires that have burned through large swaths of land in and around their regions.

To learn more about the fires, please read here: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/us/california-fires-napa/index.html 
 
We ask that you donate to all those who have been affected by these fires. 

All of the funds raised will be donnated to the Napa Valley Community Foundation (NVCF). The NVCF will be convening decision-makers from the nonprofit sector and local government to assess urgent needs, identify short term gaps and gather information that will inform long-term recovery efforts.

To learn more, please visit the Napa Valley Community Foundation (NVCF) website: http://www.napavalleycf.org

This GoFundMe page was created by Fäsi Estate Winery, a Central Valley winery who is trying to bring together invidiuals who would like to make an effort to help those who have been affected by these horrible fires.

Update as of Thursday, September 14 @ 4:00 pm.

We met our goal for Napa Valley Dreamers – and then some!


Dear Friends,
 
With an incredible outpouring of generosity from local donors like you, we’ve surpassed our fundraising goal in support of local Dreamers.

Since Tuesday afternoon: 77 people have made gifts totaling $44,838 to our Napa Valley Dreamers Fund.

(Please note that our GoFundMe campaign was just one of the ways we sought support for this effort.)

As you may recall, our goal was to raise $30,000 to help 60 local Dreamers pay their $495 application fee to the federal government on or before October 5th.  

Because we have surpassed this goal, and believe strongly in transparency and accountability, this is what we will do with gift receipts in excess of $30,000 – both those that we have on-hand, and those that might yet come in:

       * First, we will help as many eligible Napa Valley Dreamers as we can, if there are more than 60 to be helped

       * Second, after October 5, any resources we haven’t spent on application fees will be held in the Dreamers Fund, so that we can be in a position to help eligible youth, once again, if Congress passes legislation to bring back the DACA program.

Today, we delivered a check for $30,000 to the nonprofit legal services agency helping local Dreamers file their renewal applications, the Napa office of the International Institute of the Bay Area (IIBA).

IIBA says they’ve been seeing 8-10 DACA renewal clients per day, and they expect that this number could increase with the sudden arrival of financial support.

Thank you, once again, for acting with such speed and compassion.

It turns out that harvest isn’t the only thing going at a breakneck pace in the Napa Valley.

Sincerely yours,
 
Terence P. Mulligan
President
Napa Valley Community Foundation





The President's decision to rescind DACA means at least 60 young people who live, work or go to school in Napa County now face a looming deadline of October 5 to reapply to the program -- at a cost of $495 each, payable to the government.

The goal of the Napa Valley Dreamers Fund is simple: we want to help as many eligible local youth keep their DACA status as possible, so they can continue to work, support their families or pursue a higher education.

Napa Valley Community Foundation will manage the Napa Valley Dreamers Fund, and make distributions to those in need through the Napa office of a trusted nonprofit legal services corporation: the International Institute of the Bay Area (IIBA ). 

Contributions to the Dreamers Fund will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $15,000, thanks to the generosity of several Napa Valley Community Foundation donors.

With $30,000 in-hand, we can support the filing fees of more than 60 local Dreamers.

Please join us in standing with Dreamers in Napa Valley.  For most, the only home they've ever known is right  here, and as Congressman Mike Thompson observed last week, "they are every bit as American as any one of us."

Thank you very much.