El Dorado Community Foundation

With many families struggling to afford food as the financial impact of COVID-19 increases, many nonprofits are seeing an increased demand in the services they provide. One such organization, the Upper Room Dining Hall, has seen their meals served per day more than double, from an average of 150 meals per day to over 300 […]

When the El Dorado Community Foundation helps a family in need through the Coronavirus Relief Fund, be it for car repair, bill payment, assistance with food or other essentials, or any other form of financial assistance, we never ask for anything in return. We do it because it is right, because it is our mission,

Last week the El Dorado Community Foundation received a voicemail from an elderly South Lake Tahoe resident who was very upset. Through tears she explained on the voicemail that she and her 80 year old husband had been sheltering in place for three weeks now and were out of food. She had decided to go

All across the country as hospitals face shortages of critical supplies and brace for the impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, our local community organizations are taking preemptive steps to prepare our local healthcare providers and workers with the supplies they will need in the days and weeks to come. The El Dorado Hills Library,

Coronavirus is on all of our minds, and for good reason. We are living through a global public health crisis that has the potential to become a pandemic in the weeks or months to come. There’s much we still don’t know, and with that uncertainty comes fear. Despite the fact that the current risk of