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September 1, 2015 Napa Valley Community Foundation has awarded scholarships totaling $61,700 to 26 local students, an increase of more than $20,000 from 2014. Among this year’s scholarship recipients: seven military veterans who are receiving financial support thanks to The George and Gwendolyn Goodin Scholarship Fund, a permanent endowment that was established at NVCF with…

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August 24, 2015 . Derek Moore Theresa Lang was asleep in bed or walking to her kitchen -- she can't recall which -- when the South Napa earthquake struck last August and toppled the mobile home Lang shared with her boyfriend, sending the 53-year-old woman sprawling to the floor. Lying there in shock, Lang looked…

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Friday, August 21, 2015 Michael Finney It's been nearly a year since the powerful 6.0 earthquake badly damaged part of the Napa area. While many have recovered, hundreds of residents have been living all this time under a threat of even more destruction. Some residents stored their precious belongings at Napa Self Storage, which was red-tagged…

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August 11  •  Terence P. Mulligan Thank you very much for your Aug. 7 story about the next phase of grants from the Napa Valley Community Disaster Relief Fund, which is managed by my organization and was launched with a $10 million gift from Napa Valley Vintners (“Community Foundation planning more earthquake aid”). I’m writing…

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August 03  •  Lisa Toller Sure, every nonprofit needs money to operate. Fundraising is an ongoing, ever-present and sometimes challenging endeavor for nonprofit organizations. And just as important as bringing in the dollars is how well that money is managed in achieving the organization’s mission – a responsibility that the staff and board of the…

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May 22, 2015 Napa Valley Community Foundation was featured on Today In The Napa Valley, Napa Chamber Edition. To listen to the full interview with Terence Mulligan, President, please visit the Today In The Napa Valley page.

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May 08, 2015  •  By Jennifer Huffman Receiving an email a few weeks ago from someone who claimed to be writing from the White House, Napa nonprofit executive Terence Mulligan admitted that at first “I thought it was spam and ignored it.” It was only after the real White House called that Mulligan finally realized…

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March 5  •  By Jennifer Huffman No one expects to discover they live on top of an earthquake fault line, but that's exactly what happened to Napan Tim Whitlock this past summer when his home on Twin Oaks Drive in Browns Valley was severely damaged in the Aug. 24 quake. The temblor “literally ripped the…

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February 24  •  Christina Jamieson Please acknowledge my great appreciation for the support and assistance from Terrence Mulligan, president of the Napa Valley Community Foundation, plus Shannon Fitzgerald and Amanda Goldberg at E4E Relief, the Foundation's relief administrator for the Napa Valley Vintners' gracious emergency earthquake fund. Also please note my great gratitude to President…

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