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From Napa Register: Two years after the earthquake, the Community Foundation is planning for Napa’s next disaster

Posted on: Aug 24, 2016

August 24, 2016, Kevin Courtney On the second anniversary of the South Napa earthquake, the Napa Valley Community Foundation released a report detailing what became of nearly $11 million in recovery donations and ongoing efforts to prepare for the next disaster. The Foundation reports making cash payments totaling $5.4 million to 1,388 quake victims, $1.1 million…

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From Napa Valley Register: Napan Lomeli goes from battlefield to courtroom

Posted on: Aug 7, 2016

August 7, 2016, Jennifer Huffman Bonifacio Lomeli of Napa spent seven years in the Army working as a combat medic, helping fight for his country. Today, he’s working toward learning a different form of “combat” – the kind waged in courtrooms or at mediation table. Thanks to the George and Gwendolyn Goodin Scholarship, a fund of…

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From St. Helena Star: Help on becoming a U.S. citizen

Posted on: Jul 19, 2016

July 19, 2016, David Stoneberg First in a series Blanca Dixon asked me some tough and personal questions recently and I had to answer them. All 32 of them.The UpValley Family Centers employee asked about my life, my travels and whether I owe taxes (which I don’t), and whether I have ever been stopped, arrested, detained…

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From The Aspen Institute blog: Getting to Know the New “Us”

Posted on: Jul 14, 2016

July 14, 2016, Elise Hernandez For over a decade, the Community Strategies Group (CSG) has advanced practices and policies that help hard-working rural families earn more, keep more of what they earn, and grow what they have into assets over time. As more immigrants move to rural America, practitioners need new tools and strategies to learn…

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Test ONVI

Posted on: Jul 13, 2016

In 2013, Napa Valley Community Foundation (NVCF) launched the One Napa Valley Initiative (ONVI), a three-year campaign to create new citizens and a stronger community. The County of Napa, as well as every municipal government in Napa County, has invested in this $1.1 million public-private partnership, alongside more than 140 local donors, foundations and businesses.…

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From Napa Valley Register: Earthquake victims receive help from Habitat for Humanity

Posted on: Jun 24, 2016

June 24, 2016, Register Staff Nearly two years after the magnitude-6.0 earthquake hit Napa County, Damian Uriarte’s family is just now beginning to recover from the damage. The Uriartes, along with several other families in Napa County, are receiving critical repairs to their home, including a damaged chimney box that left the family without an affordable…

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From Napa Valley Register: New American citizens minted at Napa Valley College

Posted on: Apr 1, 2016

Maria Sestito, April 1, 2016 Twenty-one people from 12 countries became U.S. citizens in Napa on Thursday — a day that also honors Mexican-American activist Cesar Chavez. The new citizens, who included four Napans, two people from St. Helena and a Calistoga man, read the Oath of Allegiance and waved their little American flags with…

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From Napa Valley Register: New U.S. citizens to take oath of allegiance next week

Posted on: Mar 24, 2016

Register staff, March 24, 2016 Civic leaders and local residents are expected to attend a naturalization ceremony in Napa next week at Napa Valley College. In the last two years, 394 Napa County residents have become U.S. citizens through a nonprofit program called the One Napa Valley Initiative, but they have all sworn their Oath of…

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From Napa Valley Register: Businesses rate SBA performance following Napa earthquake

Posted on: Feb 18, 2016

February 18, 2016 •  By Jennifer Huffman In the 18 months since the August 2014 Napa earthquake, the U.S. Small Business Administration has approved 982 loans totaling $37.2 million to Napa County businesses and residents. The data was presented at a round table discussion at Napa Valley College on Thursday morning to discuss the participants’ experience…

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