The Sisters of St. Joseph Healthcare Foundation has awarded $707,500 in grants in fiscal year 2026 aimed at strengthening Sonoma County nonprofits. These grants are focused on addressing family homelessness and homelessness prevention through increasing food and housing security and family violence prevention. The grants, awarded to 15 nonprofit organizations, will fund food banks and food pantries, rental assistance, homeless shelters, housing navigation and domestic violence shelters and prevention.
“These investments reflect the ongoing commitment since 1950 of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange to address the needs of Sonoma County, especially of the poor and vulnerable,” said Sr. Judith Dugan, CSJ, a Foundation Board member who previously served in Santa Rosa. “By supporting local organizations and innovative projects, we are helping ensure that our communities have the resources they need to thrive — today and into the future.”
“Our partnership with the Sisters of St. Joseph Healthcare Foundation really allows us to keep focusing on the work in front of us, while also dreaming bigger and broader, so that we can aspire to take bigger swings and have greater impact, righting institutional wrongs that have made low-income families so particularly vulnerable to homelessness,” shares Sunny Noh, Executive Director, Legal Aid of Sonoma County.
The organizations receiving funding include Buckelew Programs, Extra Food, Hanna Center, La Luz Center, Legal Aid Sonoma County, Child Parent Institute, F.I.S.H. Santa Rosa, Farm to Pantry, Latino Service Providers, Redemption House of the Bay Area, Corazon Healdsburg, Secure Families Collaborative, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, The Living Room Center and Verity.
