COVID19
What's on Your Canvas? Nonprofits Adjust Amid Uncertainty
By Susie Polnaszek Director, Center for Nonprofit Excellence of the Community Foundation for Monterey County Almost every organization has had to adjust its operations due to COVID-19. Our partners at El Pajaro CDC shared a useful tool, and I’d like to pass it along: the Business Model Canvas. This one-page resource helps you name the key aspects of your nonprofit Read more...
Read more$300,000 COVID-19 Relief Fund Matching Gift from Posey Family Foundation
Monterey County, California — COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on the lives of Monterey County residents. The Posey Family Foundation made a generous matching grant of $300,000 to the COVID-19 Relief Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County (CFMC) to inspire donors to continue to support pandemic relief. Since launching March 16, 2020, COVID-19 Relief Fund has provided Read more...
Read moreA Challenge to Rise
By Dan Baldwin and Steve John Oh, how times have changed. A year ago, when we launched Monterey County Gives!, a global pandemic would have been a lame attempt at a campfire story. George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were busy going about their lives. Seventy-seven homes, which have since burned down, still housed families in Cachagua, Big Sur and Salinas Read more...
Read moreRecruiting Engaged Board Members – Tips from Local Nonprofits
By Susie Polnaszek Director, Center for Nonprofit Excellence Nonprofit boards members are stepping up in important ways during COVID. Pivoting quickly, making difficult decisions, speaking with voices of advocacy on behalf of their organizations and communities. For some, shelter-in-place has meant more time to engage fully as a volunteer for nonprofit organizations and issues they are passionate about. Virtual meetings have made participation more accessible for many. For others, increased demands Read more...
Read morePresident's Blog: 2020 The Bright Side
By Dan Baldwin, President/CEO Community Foundation for Monterey County We’ve all heard, said or shared the jokes: what more could go wrong in 2020? Locusts? Spaceships? Frogs falling from the sky? Even old timers (wait, I’m an old timer…) can’t remember the confluence of public health, economic, civic unrest and just plain anxiety that has pervaded our daily lives. And Read more...
Read moreLatinos & COVID-19: Panel Discussion (VIDEO)
The Siemba Latinos Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County held a Zoom discussion on October 8, 2020 about COVID-19 impacts on Monterey County Latinos. The virus has adversely impacted Latino/as in Monterey County. Data released by the County of Monterey demonstrates a higher prevalence of cases among Latinos at 93% of cases despite being 61% of the total Read more...
Read moreCFMC Awards More Than $3 Million in COVID-19 Grants
COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on the lives of Monterey County residents. Since launching March 16, 2020, COVID-19 Relief Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County (CFMC) has provided critical funding for food, housing, mental health and program support to nonprofits serving Monterey County residents in need. The CFMC granted $3,023,762 in the first six months(through September 16, Read more...
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