We are dedicated to serving and supporting the foster care community in Napa County, by providing backpacks filled with personal items, clothing, and shoes. We offer kids experiences to help normalize their uprooted lives, and we help meet the emotional needs of Resource Families through support groups, mentoring, and activities.
We are dedicated to promoting and developing fair and equal housing opportunities for all people, including landlords and tenants, though we pride ourselves on serving the most vulnerable. We work to eliminate housing discrimination and ensure a level field through advocacy, counseling, leadership, education, training, and mediation.
We serve the community by supporting the diverse programs and services of the Napa County Library through financial and volunteer contributions. These fiscal and human resources are dedicated to supporting the Library’s role as a critical forum for disseminating information and providing vital support for the community’s many constituencies.
We change the lives of some of Napa County’s most vulnerable community members with the help of our donors. We assist immigrants, refugees, and their families to join and contribute to the Napa County community by providing them with high-quality, affordable immigration legal services, education, and civic engagement opportunities.
We make democracy work by providing voter and election education, and advocating for important community issues, often in partnership with coalitions or other nonprofits. During election years, we hold nonpartisan, bilingual candidate forums and pro/con programs on ballot propositions. We work with volunteers who register and educate voters, including high school/college students and seniors.
We make riding a bicycle in Napa County safe, convenient, and accessible for all ages and abilities. Safe Routes to Schools makes it safer for kids to walk or ride their bike to school. Bilingual family biking workshops, Kidical Mass rides, Bike to Work Day and other activities make bike riding fun.
We connect, inspire, and empower neighbors to take positive action through volunteerism. Our projects are based on a commitment to address unmet community needs. Beside CanDo’s Give!Guide, other current core projects in Napa County are addressing food insecurity: Garden for the Food Bank, Food Rescue Team, Napa Valley Food Project, and Gleaning Project.
We Believe! Everyone Needs a Home. By providing safe, clean and affordable homes for 40+ years, we’ve transformed the lives of 10,000+ children, families, seniors and farmworkers. Our residents are the workforce for local businesses and resident children attend our schools – ensuring a healthy and vibrant community for all.
We empower families to aspire for and achieve positive changes by improving educational skills, engaging in the community, becoming self-sufficient, and ultimately living a healthier life We provide a variety of health, social, and education services that have a significant impact on family interaction, financial stability, civic involvement, and educational success
We grow fresh fruits and vegetables for distribution through the CANV Food Bank to help families struggling to put nutritious meals on their tables. While there has always been a need for this in Napa county, it became especially critical during the COVID-19 crisis and continues through the recovery.
We help local residents avoid hunger, avoid loss of essential services, and avoid eviction. Our children, families and seniors need basic, healthy living conditions; they need water, electricity, heat, food and a roof over their heads. We meet one-on-one with Napa residents, providing food boxes and food vouchers, eviction and utility assistance, extending a hand-up, not a hand-out. No delays, no applications required. Between the pandemic, an unstable rental market, and rising cost of living, our services are needed now more than ever.
We provide guidance, support, and resources in the community, in the home and for the individual, so that everyone can achieve a better life. Our prevention-focused, community-responsive programs are culturally sensitive and aim to help families and communities build on the strengths they already possess to create a future of opportunity.
