Members of the Hmong Cultural Center Distribute Food During COVID-19. Photo Courtesy Marylyn Paik-Nicely.
The Humboldt Area Foundation and the Wild Rivers Community Foundation have released a follow up to its 2020 COVID-19 report. The COVID-19 Regional Response Fund Report, March 2020-March 2021 can be downloaded here.
The report looks at a one-year snapshot of rapid-response community grant making. Between March 2020 and March 2021, the foundations granted more than 200 grants totaling more than $2.7 million. The report outlines how the foundations shifted its standard grant making cycles into high gear to respond to ever-changing community needs. The report also details more than 20 lessons learned from a year of community response. Those lessons sketch an outline of ways nonprofits and community foundations can make substantive changes to be better prepared for the next disaster.
The report is divided into an 8-page executive summary followed by four appendices to provide greater detail.
Download the Executive Summary [PDF 11.1 mb]
Appendix 1: Regional Context [PDF 422 kb]
Appendix 2: Grants By Theme Tables [PDF 377 kb]
Appendix 3: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Response [PDF 267 kb]
Appendix 4: List of All Donors & Funders [PDF 246 kb]
Download the Initial COVID-19 Regional Response Fund Report [PDF 5.4 mb]
Contacts
For contributions, giving and fund information email Gina Zottola or call 707-267-9905.
For questions about grants from the fund email Craig Woods or call 707-442-2993 ext. 307.
For media inquiries email Jarad Petroske or call 707-382-4716.