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Author: Julia DeNatale

Napa County Announces $9 Million Investment in ADU Development, Proximity Housing

Posted on: Apr 21, 2022

April 20, 2022 – Napa County Board of Supervisors Continuing to address the housing crisis, the Napa County Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to make an historic investment in affordable housing programs using $7 million from the counties American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) allocation and an additional $2 million from the Affordable Housing Fund balance…

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Efforts to ease Accessory Dwelling Unit building process continue in Napa County

Posted on: Apr 6, 2022

April 4, 2022 by Edward Booth in the Napa Valley Register Approvals for Accessory Dwelling Units, touted by lawmakers as one way to help solve California’s housing crisis, have been picking up across Napa County and California over the last few years. Still, the need for housing units still remains astronomically higher in California than what the slowly increasing…

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Big Support for Napa County Small Animals  

Posted on: Mar 28, 2022

Napa Valley Community Foundation (NVCF) is honored to distribute $225,000 from the David and Jane Gotelli Family Fund to support nine Napa County nonprofit organizations and public agencies whose work improves or sustains the welfare of small animals throughout the Valley. This year’s round of grants will fund the following organizations: Jameson Humane      Friends of Napa…

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Accessory Dwelling Unit approvals pick up across Napa County

Posted on: Mar 23, 2022

March 22, 2022 by Edward Booth in the Napa Valley Register The city of Napa saw a boom in Accessory Dwelling Unit applications last year and approved a total 60 of applications, 15 more than in 2020. “We are doing exceedingly well in ADU production, with our highest number of units permitted since we’ve been…

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Napa Register: Napa Community Foundation partners with Redwood Credit Union to provide ADU loans

Posted on: Mar 16, 2022

March 15, 2022  by Edward Booth   The Napa Valley Community Foundation announced Tuesday that it has partnered with Redwood Credit Union to create a construction loan program specifically for Accessory Dwelling Units, allowing homeowners greater access to capital needed to build the small, self-contained residence buildings on the lots of single-family homes. “We think our collaboration…

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Creating a stronger community one new citizen at a time

Posted on: Feb 14, 2022

When our 2012 immigration study revealed that Napa County has 9,000 citizenship-eligible Legal Permanent Residents (LPRs), aka Green Card holders, but many were not taking the important step towards achieving citizenship due to an absence of a robust legal services infrastructure, we launched the One Napa Valley Initiative (ONVI), a campaign to create new citizens and…

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Our response to COVID-19 and help available

Posted on: Oct 4, 2021

The Napa Valley Community Disaster Relief Fund is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. So far, about $5.4 million has been distributed to provide emergency financial assistance to more than 1,700 local families and farmworkers, and help more than 25,000 Napa County residents with essential recovery services, like medical care and counseling,  groceries, hot meals, legal and housing…

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Getting assistance after the wildfires

Posted on: Oct 6, 2019

Help is still available for Napa County residents who suffered losses as a result of the October 2017 Napa Fire Complex. All services are free of charge and confidential, and available regardless of the immigration status, age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion of those who need support. All disaster relief programs are conducted in partnership with carefully-vetted…

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Our 2018 Community Impact Report

Posted on: Mar 22, 2019

When thousands of generous donors come together with the most effective nonprofits in the Valley, we achieve collective impact. Every day, we gather generous hearts and bright minds to solve the problems that lie beneath the surface of this beautiful place we call home. In 2018, we distributed more than $14 million dollars to charities and…

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