In 2024, over $73,000 in grants were awarded to charitable organizations in our service region. These 66 partner organizations host holiday assistance programs in California’s Humboldt, Del Norte, and Trinity counties, and Oregon’s Curry County.
The Holiday Funding Partnership offers small grants of $500 to $2,000 to regional nonprofit organizations, public benefit groups (including schools, churches, tribal governments), groups engaged in charitable projects, and qualified fiscal sponsors. The funds are to be used for holiday assistance programs offered between November 15 and January 1, ensuring that the holiday season is special for those facing housing and food insecurity.
“These yearly grants, and our partners who fund the program, support the incredible work that these organizations do every winter to provide food, clothing, and other basic necessities to underserved communities,” says HAF+WRCF Programs & Projects Manager Elena Keltz.
Partners of the grant program include Humboldt Health Foundation, the Mel & Grace McLean Foundation, the Smullin Foundation and Providence, Community Health Investment.
In 2023, HAF+WRCF awarded 60 grants totaling nearly $76,000. In 2022, grants distributed totaled $68,000.
The list of grantees for 2024 includes:
- 2-1-1 Humboldt Information and Resource Center
- Affordable Homeless Housing Alternatives
- Arcata Family Resource Center
- Arcata House Partnership
- Arcata Presbyterian Church
- Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks #1934
- Bicoastal Media
- Black Humboldt
- Bridgeville Community Center
- Brookings Church of the Nazarene
- Brookings Harbor Community Helpers/Brookings Harbor Food Bank
- California Tribal TANF Partnership – Del Norte
- California Tribal TANF Partnership – Humboldt
- California Tribal TANF Partnership – Trinity
- CASA of Del Norte
- Centro del Pueblo
- Chetco Activity Center
- Court Appointed Special Advocates of Humboldt
- Cumbre Humboldt
- CUNA (Comunidad Unida del Norte de Arcata)
- Curry Child Abuse Intervention Center – Wally’s House
- Curry County Juvenile Department
- Curry Public Library District
- Del Norte Mission Possible
- Eureka Rescue Mission
- Food For People
- Fortuna Volunteer Fire Department
- Free to Fly Foundation
- Garberville Veterans Association
- God-Snacked Outreach Ministry
- Grace Good Shepherd Church
- Healy Senior Center
- HIV Alliance
- Hmong Cultural Center of Del Norte County
- Humboldt Senior Resource Center
- Hupa Family Resource Center
- Let Go and Soar Ministries
- Loyal Order of Moose Lewiston Lodge 1850
- Manila Community Resource Center
- Marshall Family Resource Center
- Mateel Community Center
- Mattole Valley Resource Center
- McKinleyville Family Resource Center
- Nation’s Finest
- North Coast Growers Association
- Northcoast Children’s Services
- Northern United Charter Schools
- Pine Hill South Bay Family Resource Center
- Playhouse Arts
- Redwood Community Action Agency
- Redwood Teen Challenge
- Rotary Club of Brookings Harbor
- Rotary Club of Ferndale Foundation
- Seventh Day Adventist Church
- Southern Humboldt Family Resource Center
- St. Joseph’s Pantry
- St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church
- St. Vincent de Paul
- The Common Good, Inc.
- Toys for Tots – Marine Corps League #578
- Trinity Community Food Outreach
- Trinity Congregational UCC Church/Weaverville Community Food Cupboard
- United Indian Health Services
- Willow Creek Youth Partnership – Dream Quest
- WISH (Women & Children’s Crisis Shelter in Southern Humboldt)