We help create a safe, sanitary and cruelty-free community by reducing the number of feral animals on the streets via both adoption and spay/neuter services. When we place the right animal in a forever home, the rewards ripple around the community.

With your help, we aim to spay/neuter/vaccinate over 250 feral cats this year. These services will prevent thousands of kittens being born without a home, and will promote health and longevity for the existing feline population.

All of our work is performed by volunteers from the Napa community, so you can be sure your donations go straight to helping animals in need. We partner with professional veterinarians in and around Northern California, as well as the UC Davis veterinary school, to ensure the best care possible for every furry friend.

We are community members and retired Napa State Hospital staff whose goal is to enhance the lives of over 1,200 Napa State Hospital patients. We care about mental health, and the people who live life on the margins. We work with Enhanced Patient Services at the Napa State Hospital, social workers, and rehabilitation therapists who make life joyful and meaningful for residents. This includes providing many forms of artistic rehabilitation, recreation, entertainment and even holiday celebrations for the patients. We provide financial support to the hospital’s Patient Benefit Fund which gives each patient a nominal amount during the holidays and on their birth month. Small acts can have a huge impact on patient outcomes!

We advance neuroscientific research and provide training that becomes improved healthcare for the underserved. We do this by developing medical technologies that address urgent gaps in care, while mentoring the next generation of scientists and engineers.

Since 2017, we’ve provided hands-on internships to over 40 high school students, primarily from Napa Valley. Interns work alongside our scientists, physicians, and engineers on real-world research in neuroscience, AI, and biomedical engineering. They gain first-hand experience in designing experiments, building prototypes, and analyzing data.

Our most ambitious project to date, developed with help from former interns, is the Virtual Neurologist, an AI tool designed to diagnose strokes in ambulances and rural hospitals where specialists are scarce. One of our high school interns, who contributed to the Virtual Neurologist project, was accepted into the BSMD program at Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

We also offer the NeuroSpring Scholarship, awarded to promising interns continuing their education in science and medicine. Two students have received this honor, and our very first intern recently completed a Master’s in Neuroscience and is now applying to MD-PhD programs.

Since 1996, CASA has helped thousands of abused and neglected children in foster care. We provide educational, emotional, physical and early intervention services for children of all ages. These children are victims of physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse and severe neglect. By state statute there is only one CASA program in each county.

CASA representatives meet with children weekly, forming a vital relationship and assessing needs. During the time a child is in the foster care system, they will have, on average, 5 different social workers and 3 foster care placements. CASA provides the only consistent adult that follows the child throughout the time they are in foster care. We build trusting relationships with the children, provide them with essential and non-essential items, and help them cope with adversity and develop resilience.

Having a long-term, stable and positive relationship with a trained adult is the single most important factor influencing positive outcomes for children in foster care. We provide educational, emotional, physical and early intervention services for children of all ages.

The Rail Arts District (RAD) is a 2 mile-long route of contemporary art that exists free to the public, and runs along the Vine Trail and Napa Valley Wine Train route from the Oxbow District to Redwood Road.

We have installed more than 40 works of art, including 21 large-scale ceramic sculptures. In 2024, RAD unveiled Quake Mosaic – a large-scale public artwork by Kristina Young, created in collaboration with over 2,000 community members over the previous decade. This piece acknowledges the painful losses many Napans faced during the 2014 quake and 2017 and 2020 wildfires, while demonstrating our strength and commitment to rebuild and move forward together.

Over half a million people ride their bikes or walk through RAD each year, 30% of which are from out of town. The Rail Arts District makes an important contribution to what makes Napa a wonderful place to visit and to live.

For more than a decade, the Napa Valley Farmworker Foundation has supported farmworkers and their families through education and professional development. We believe there is no greater investment than education—and that Napa Valley’s strength is rooted in its vineyards and the dedicated people who care for them.

Our complimentary, year-round programs foster personal growth, career advancement, and community leadership. From English literacy and financial literacy to vineyard skills and safety training, we equip more than 3,000 participants annually with tools to succeed at work and in life.

Since 2011, we’ve seen program participation grow by over 700%, which illustrates the degree of need that exists for our services. Education helps create pathways for farmworkers to become supervisors and eventually buy homes, thus providing greater stability for their families and making them more involved in their communities.

Your donations make this possible. Every contribution builds a pathway to education for our friends and neighbors who otherwise may not have access. We help the people who keep this world-famous growing region thriving, and that helps us all.

We supplement the generous canned food donations made to the CANV Food Bank with nutritious, delicious, fresh fruits and vegetables grown on our Mission Farm, all provided free of cost to those in need.

Having access to fresh fruit and vegetables provides families with the dignity to cook meals of their choice, and the agency to curate healthier options. Canned food alone does not provide this, and we fill this critical gap.

Last crop season the Mission Farm delivered to the Food Bank 20,000 lbs. of organic produce. If sold commercially, it would fetch about $56,600! Our volunteer parishioner-farmers feel proud to make such a significant contribution to the nutritional quality of the diets our low-income neighbors can afford.

We are a Napa County–based nonprofit working to prevent fentanyl-related tragedies through education, awareness, and community outreach. Founded in memory of our son Michael, who lost his life to fentanyl poisoning in 2020, we aim to protect others by equipping youth, families, and schools with life-saving information about the dangers of counterfeit pills and the prevalence of fentanyl in other street drugs.

Through school presentations, community events, and free naloxone safety kits, we spark critical conversations and work to reduce stigma around substance use. Our outreach is driven by lived experience and a deep commitment to keeping other families from suffering similar loss.

We’ve distributed thousands of educational materials, trained hundreds on naloxone use, and provided resources that have helped families and community members start difficult but necessary conversations. Our work offers hope, builds awareness, and honors lives lost. As our mission states, we are committed to creating a safer, more informed, and connected community.