Our Funders & Sponsors

The Community Foundation Sonoma County provided the Community Network with part of the seed money needed to establish the Journey Project. Community Foundation Sonoma County, with assets exceeding $70 million and more than 200 different funds established by individual donors, community groups and nonprofit organizations, has returned more than $47 million to the community since it was established in 1983.

In the mid-1990s, the Jean Schulz Donor Advised Fund granted the Community Network money needed to purchase computer equipment used to launch and help grow the Journey Project. In 2005 we were again generously awarded grant funds needed to upgrade our computer technology and incorporate the use of digital technology into our workshop program. New technology is housed in the Environmental Center (home of the Journey Project Resource Center) and is shared for the benefit of members of the Sonoma County Conservation Council/Environmental Center. The Jean Schulz Donor Advised Fund is administered by the Community Foundation Sonoma County.

A grant award from Kaiser Permanente (KP) Santa Rosa. Community Benefit is enabling the Community Network to work in concert with KP Health Education staff and area senior centers to produce four “Wellness Through Life’s End” workshops in Santa Rosa and Sebastopol during 2007 (see calendar for more info.) The Kaiser grant award is also enabling us to upgrade our website and build the “Support Group Clearninghouse” serving consumers and providers in the Greater Sonoma County region. It is the mission of Kaiser Permanente to improve the health of KP members and the communities served by KP.

The Pacific Foundation for Medical Care granted the Community Network a part of the seed money needed to start the Journey Project. The Pacific Foundation for Medical Care is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving patient access to physicians. Through their affiliation with the California Foundation for Medical Care, they are part of the largest preferred provider organization (PPO) in California, with more than 35,000 physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers throughout the state.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Rallying Points was a national program (active 2000 - 2004)dedicated to supporting grassroots efforts to improve quality of care and life through life’s end. Grants received from the RWJF Rallying Point Program enabled the Community Network: to work with our Latino Advisory Council and Sonoma County In Home Support Services Public Authority to create a four-hour Sp

The St. Joseph Health System Sonoma County Community Benefit Department provided seed money for the Journey Project Latino Caregiver Outreach & Training Program development during 2006. The grant enabled us to do work with community leaders ( including the Journey Project Latino Advisory Council) to develop a Plan for Cooperative Action. Thi s Plan will help guide and support the expansion, decentralization and integration of the Journey Project services into the existing Latino service delivery system. It is interesting to note that the SJHS-SC, founded and operated by the Sisters of Orange, has been serving our region since New Year’s Day 1950 when Memorial Hospital opened its doors.

The California Endowment assisted with development of the tools, resources and capacity enabling us to provide our Wellness Through Life’s End two-hour training program in Spanish for Latino caregivers. In Fall, 2008 Journey Project Latino Program Co-Directors presented the pilot training program Bienestar A Traves del Final de la Vida, Encontrando Nuestro Camino to more than 30 Latino caregivers as a result. Work is underway, doing what is needed to continue this program created with 2008 seed funding from The California Endowment (TCE). TCE awards grants

The California HealthCare Foundation is providing a two-year grant for the Community Network to develop and provide support for the Sonoma County POLST Implementation Program. This effort is helping to establish the Physician’s Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) as a recognized and widely-used tool in Sonoma County. POLST helps to ensure that patient treatment wishes at the end of life are honored and carries the force of law in CA effective January 1, 2009.

The California HealthCare Foundation is an independent philanthropy committed to improving the way health care is delivered and financed in California.

Tax deductible donations to the Community Network, generated from users of this website, are used exclusively to maintain and grow the CaringCommunity.org website. We do not accept donations to pass through to any other organization. You must donate directly to any other organization you may wish to support.

The Community Network for Appropriate Technologies, is a tax-exempt 501c3 corporation. Our EIN is 94-2515452.

The Journey Project Coordinating Council (previously known as End of Life Care Alliance of Sonoma County) is advisory to the Community Network for development of the Journey Project and CaringCommunity.org website maintained by the Community Network.