On Friday, Jun. 12, Michele McKeegan met with Humboldt Area Foundation + Wild Rivers Community Foundation CEO Sara Dronkers to carry out one of the final wishes of her late friend Assemblywoman Patty Berg: Supporting the next generation of women to grow, learn and lead. McKeegan presented Dronkers with a check for $1.5 million, the […]
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I Don’t Trust Humboldt Area Foundation on Race, Safety and Belonging
Social justice and racial equity in Humboldt and Del Norte counties will not be defined or achieved by the four white women who signed the Humboldt Area Foundation statement titled “A Statement on Race, Safety and Belonging” that recently appeared on the organization’s website. As an institution, the HAF does not practice what it preaches […]
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Humboldt Area Foundation Launches Project to Support Local Media
Humboldt Area Foundation and its affiliate Wild Rivers Community Foundation has invested $35,000 in a pilot project to help support local media in a new pilot project called the Community Voices Coalition that will generate “truthful, courageous and equitable stories covering vulnerable and traditionally underrepresented communities affected by the coronavirus in Humboldt, Trinity, Del Norte […]
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Humboldt Area Foundation Matches Donations to Support HSU’s Dreamers
The Humboldt Area Foundation helped raise more than $20,000 to provide emergency financial support to Humboldt State University’s California Dream Act students amid the COVID-19 crisis. Throughout June, all donations in support of HSU Dreamers were doubled with a matching grant of $10,000 from HAF’s COVID-19 Regional Response Fund. For more information, see the full […]
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County Organizations to Invest $120,000 in Child Care Capacity During the Pandemic
Humboldt County Children and Families Commission and Humboldt Area Foundation are investing $120,000 to increase childcare capacity in the county during the pandemic, according to a joint press release issued by the organizations. Eligible childcare facilities may receive between $500 and $750 toward reopening or remaining open, the press release states. Applications are available at www.first5humboldt.org […]
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College of the Redwoods Receives Humboldt Area Foundation Grant for DACA Students
Humboldt Area Foundation granted College of the Redwoods $20,000 to support the school’s DACA students, a.k.a. “Dreamers,” who are living in the United States under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. According to a release, the grant will provide $325 in direct payment stipends to each of CR’s DACA students, who were excluded […]
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Humboldt Area Foundation Pledges $10,000 in Matching Funds to Support HSU Dreamers
Humboldt Area Foundation will be matching all donations made to the Humboldt State University Dream Act students through June 30 with the help of the COVID-19 Regional Response Fund. “No barrier should derail the ability for a young adult to pursue their greatest potential and fulfill the dream of a university education. These students have […]
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Paolo Todd
During a late-night broadcast in February of 2018, the Humboldt Free Radio Alliance, a long-running independent F.M. radio station, played an audio recording from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, the Kurdish military forces commonly known as Y.P.G. “My name is Paolo Todd,” came a man’s voice, calm and clear. “I’m from California. My Kurdish name […]
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Humboldt Area Foundation Hires New Chief Executive Officer
Humboldt Area Foundation hired Bryna Lipper as the foundation’s new Chief Executive Officer. Lipper is coming to Humboldt County with a master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University and a history in philanthropy: She was the acting director for the Office for International and Philanthropic Innovation at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban […]
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Cooperation Humboldt Plants 20 Community Trees
Cooperation Humboldt planted 20 community fruit trees in public locations throughout Eureka and Arcata as part of the organization’s food program. “We believe that nutritious food is a fundamental human right and our food projects aim to put that belief into practice in very tangible ways,” Tamara McFarland, who coordinates the organization’s food program, said […]
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Looking Upriver: Anonymous Do-gooders Work to Promote Systemic Change in Humboldt
There’s an old fable about a village near a great river, a river used for drinking water, fishing and washing. One day a fisherman noticed someone floating downstream, unable to swim to safety and yelling for help. The fisherman jumped into the river and swam toward him, eventually pulling him safely to the river bank, […]
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Racism Behind the Redwood Curtain Part III: Sorry, Not Sorry
Although Confederate flags do appear on the occasional barn wall, truck bumper or window, Humboldt County had no real role in the Southern cause. But the War of the States did have a marked effect on the Redwood Coast, according to Humboldt State University history professor Thomas Mays. “During the war, Humboldt was like a […]