A $10,000 Grant Is Coming to Sonoma County!
For the past several months, we have been working toward an exciting goal: growing Santa Rosa Women for Good to 100 members so we could award our largest community grant yet: $10,000 to a local nonprofit.
In November 2025, we officially launched our Grow the Good campaign to make that vision a reality. And this week, it happened!
A few days ago we shared a post on social media announcing that Santa Rosa Women for Good had reached 99 members and posed a simple question: Could you be the one to get us there?Within minutes, a woman who had been considering joining reached out and said yes.
Just like that, we reached 100 Women for Good.
And then, to our delight, two more women joined shortly after.
Moments like this remind us how powerful community can be. One woman says yes, then another, and then another. In fact, that is exactly how Santa Rosa Women for Good began.
In November 2022, this group started with just one woman, board member Amanda, saying yes to the idea that women in our community could come together to give collectively and support local nonprofits. Soon after, a few more women took that same leap. Our very first Santa Rosa Women for Good meetup had just four women gathered together.
Today, just a little over three years later, we have more than 100 women in our community, our most recent Happy Hour Social welcomed 30 women, and together we have granted over $80,000 to local nonprofits doing important work across Sonoma County! And we are just getting started.
Amanda Garland & Kristy Kerr, Santa Rosa Women for Good board members and two of the members from that first meeting.
When we set our goal of reaching 100 members, we said that milestone would mean $10,000 for good, and we are absolutely serious about that.
We are thrilled to share that our Spring grant cycle, will fund a $10,000 grant to a local nonprofit making a difference in our community. We are able to do this because of our Impact Members, the women who commit to giving $100 quarterly into our community grant fund. Those contributions are pooled together so that we can make larger, more meaningful grants together than any one of us might make alone. The more women who make that commitment, the larger our grant fund grows and the more we are able to give back to our community.
Reaching 100 members was an exciting milestone, but it is only the beginning. If anything, it has motivated us even more. We will continue bringing women together in Sonoma County who want to build community, support local nonprofits, and be part of something meaningful.
To those of you who have been part of this journey, from the very first meeting of four women to member number 100 and beyond, thank you. Truly. With collective giving, every single contribution matters, and we hope every member feels the deep gratitude of our leadership team and of the nonprofits whose work you have helped strengthen.
And if you have been watching from the sidelines or thinking about joining, there has never been a better moment to become part of this community. Our Spring grant nominations open in just a couple of weeks, and any Impact Member can nominate a local nonprofit they care about to be considered. With $10,000 up for grabs, this will be our largest grant yet and an incredible opportunity to support another organization doing important work right here in Sonoma County.
If you would like to have a voice in that process and be part of what comes next, we would love to welcome you. Join us and help us Grow the Good together.
Together, we are proving that when women come together, generosity grows and incredible things can happen for our community.
With sincere gratitude,
Santa Rosa Women for Good
Board of Directors