Sonoma Valley Collaborative has made a difference through collaboration, partnerships, and advocacy. That's the power of the united voice of the broadest coalition Sonoma Valley has ever seen. It is thanks to our members and supporters that we celebrate these wins for our community!

Our advocacy influenced Sonoma’s City Council to adopt the most pro-housing plan ever in the City of Sonoma! We won 19 of the 26 housing affordability policies we advocated for, in many cases writing proposed language that the City of Sonoma adopted word-for-word in their January 2023 Housing Element. Our months of work with housing experts and diligent consensus-finding among our members enabled us to be specific, constructive, and successful.

These achievements were possible because of the dedication of our members, community leaders across Sonoma Valley's nonprofits, local businesses, health, education, social justice, environment, and government, and our supporters.

We launched SonomaValleyVolunteers.org at the start of the pandemic, with the City of Sonoma and the Food Security Task Force. Since then, the site has recruited enough volunteers to meet every need that's been posted, for food banks, COVID clinics, senior home deliveries, tutoring, and more.

We co-designed with Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund the Casa Sonoma program, led by Petaluma People Services, which crafted over 100 agreements between renters and landlords, which kept people in their homes, and held 77 trainings for landlords navigating the eviction moratorium during the pandemic (Image: County of Sonoma).

We carried testimony from traditionally under-represented groups—local teens served by Teen Services and Latinx people served by La Luz Center—into the halls of power to influence the future of Sonoma Developmental Center and the County and City of Sonoma Housing Elements.

With your support, Sonoma Valley Collaborative can leverage the deep understanding of housing and cross-sector consensus we've developed, to reach more housing goals and take on a broader set of activities. There is still work to be done to make Sonoma Valley a place where teachers, first responders, service industry workers, and families can afford to live.

Help us reach our fundraising goal of $60,000! We need you to help us reach our goal, so we can do more...

We ask you to invest in Sonoma Valley Collaborative, confident that with your support, we can achieve our short-term housing goals while laying the groundwork for the next phase of  working for Sonoma Valley’s sustainability in the long-term.