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$20,000 grant from MLFP (Mother Lode Food Project) and Sonora Area Foundation donors
Sonora, CA The large donation to the Amador Tuolumne Community Acton Agency (ATCAA) Food Bank will help programs that assist locals. On February 19 the Sonora Area Foundation (SAF) presented a check to the ATCAA Food Bank for $20,849.10. The grant is the result of a partnership with MLFP (Mother Lode Food Project) and Sonora Area Foundation donors.
Due to COVID concerns, MLFP was not able to conduct their scheduled February food pick up and instead requested cash donations to ATCAA’s Food Bank from program participants. Sonora Area Foundation offered to match the first $5,000 in donations in honor of retiring MLFP founders Sue Mundy and Ellen Beck. Other Sonora Area Foundation donors
A truth revealed by the pandemic: Adversity fuels generosity.
Sonora Area Foundation (SAF) has been fortunate to witness this principle in practice through the outpouring of support received by its Community Recovery Fund (CRF). In March of last year, SAF opened the CRF to assist local nonprofits in their response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic; to date, CRF donations have topped $387,000 and more than $330,000 in grants have been awarded. These grants have supported an array of programs and services – from bread for the hungry to helping complete an emergency evacuation road project.
While CRF monies have benefitted many, much need remains, as the pandemic’s repercussions will likely continue well into 2021. SAF has surveyed local nonprofits, and the results are telling. Five organizations reported combined revenue losses of $125,000 from canceled fundraisers; for one nonprofit, such a cancelation meant the loss of 85 percent of its annual budget. Several report se
Darrell Slocum
Sonora, CA COVID-19 continues to impact all communities and right here in Tuolumne County where the need is great, according to the Sonora Area Foundation (SAF).
This weekend’s Mother Lode View features SAF Executive Director Darrell Slocum. The foundation gives a helping hand to many charities and organizations in the community. Slocum details how the coronavirus has affected them, stating, “The impact has been far and wide. Most noticeably, immediately all of our non-profit organizations had to determine how to function, how to operate. Our non-profits, for the most part, had to close their doors. They had to figure out how to provision their employees to be able to work remotely and then to continue to provide the necessary services.”