Two HEAPA Grants

On December 21st, the HEAPA Board of Directors approved two small grants to community agencies serving our unhoused community. The first was a general operating grant to Sonoma County Acts of Kindness for $1,000 in support of their efforts to provide personal clothing, sleeping gear, and other vital resources for those they serve on the streets. The group has always been of service at encampments, in locations where the unhoused congregate, and has operated almost entirely by volunteers and community giving.

The second grant for $1,580 was given to Sonoma Applied Villages Services (SAVS) for supplies and forty hours of community organizing support for their effort to establish a sanctioned camp on public land. Convinced that recent federal actions to change the rules concerning funding of homeless programs will result in fewer successful housing placements, SAVS is renewing their decade-old insistence for a central, sanctioned housing location.

HEAPA is a nonprofit charity, organized under federal regulations, and donations to it are permitted deductions under the federal IRS rules (84-2299731). The mailing address is 2040 Elizabeth Way, Santa Rosa, CA. 95404.