Frontline Grants
Spring 2025
We face a new defining moment full of uncertainty and peril, where urgent, emergent, and chronic problems increasingly blur together.
Remaining the same is not an option.
These grants are intended to help nonprofits meet the moment and to provide support in addressing current and future organizational challenges.
Frontline Grants Awarded to Six Organizations
On May 1, 2025 Catalyst announced Frontline Grants and opened the application to any nonprofit organization serving Sonoma Valley that was facing governmental policy changes and funding uncertainties that were affecting their clients and/or their ability to serve them. In five short weeks, our dedicated team accepted and reviewed applications, and got funding directly into the hands of the six organizations listed below.
Botanical Bus: $50,000
To expand bilingual, culturally centered behavioral healthcare for Latiné immigrants and Indigenous communities in Sonoma Valley through mobile health clinic visits at the La Luz Center over 12 months. The mobile approach removes barriers to care and increases service capacity while improving referral systems to other types of health care. The goal is to provide community-driven mental wellness that emphasizes healing justice and radical belonging for clients.
La Luz Center: $50,000
To ensure Latinos in Sonoma Valley are safe, informed, and prepared in the face of shifting and often harsh immigration policies. La Luz will continue its bilingual, culturally rooted services as they work to protect families and their children before a crisis occurs.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley: $25,000
To expand mental health services to support youth, caregivers, and staff. By adding family counseling groups and staff wellness initiatives to existing youth programming, this expansion builds a resilient, connected community where everyone has access to the tools and support they need to thrive – creating a culture of resilience, healing, and connection that reaches across Sonoma Valley.
Sonoma Immigrant Services: $50,000
To address the overwhelming increase in call volume and requests for legal information caused by current federal policies and actions that target immigrants. SIS intends to hire a receptionist to help with the increased call volume and a summer intern to develop materials for social media, recruit for the citizenship program, assist with outreach, and general office support.
Catholic Charities of Northwest California: $50,000
To provide free immigration legal services to Sonoma Valley residents through in-person consultations twice monthly at La Luz Center. The program addresses the urgent local need for high-quality, individualized legal support by expanding local access to DOJ Accredited Immigration Representatives.
Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance: $10,000
To train their own staff and 300+ mentors as well as other youth-serving staff and volunteers throughout the Valley to be equipped to handle the fearful and anxious environment many Valley youth are experiencing. The grant ultimately supports youth directly, making them more resilient through group connection and provides them with a strong sense of community and support, which can have a ripple effect throughout their family and Sonoma Valley.
These organizations will be working together in complementary ways to align services, share referrals and collaborate on the frontlines. This is critical, because in addition to expanding to meet the need, this funding also helps to address the very real fear and uncertainty that vulnerable community members are experiencing right now.
The Objectives of the Frontline Grants Program
Increase nonprofit flexibility and resilience to face a rapidly changing funding and policy environment.
Provide rapid assistance to help nonprofits as they seek to address immediate social and economic challenges caused by current federal policies and actions that have targeted certain communities: immigrants, seniors, LGBTQ+, among others.
Support planning for issues that may require coordinated responses, either now or in the future.
Assist organizations and their networks to restructure their service delivery systems in response to government funding cuts and policy changes.
Respond to needs at the organizational and/or community level that are new and urgent or ongoing and worsening. In other words, organizations may seek funding to develop enhanced capacity to expand current services or provide new services.
Support a resilient community by promoting self-determination, reinforcing trusted community resources and mitigating fear.
Frontline Grants are a rapid and responsive effort to fortify local organizations and address current community challenges. Additional support will be needed as uncertainty continues and budget decisions are made at the state and national level. Catalyst will be anticipating and responding as future needs arise. For any questions about the Frontline Grants program, please contact us at grants@sonomavalleycatalystfund.org.