The devastating wildfires in Northern California have claimed at least 28 lives and many areas are still being evacuated. The Sonoma Developmental Center was evacuated (get updates here), and a beloved school for students with higher functioning autism, Anova, burned to the ground.
You can assist Anova with their GoFundMe campaign here.
Here also is a list of organizations accepting donations to support victims of the fires.
1. United Way of The Wine Country
Click here to donate.
2. Bay Area pro sports teams’ fundraiser
Click here to donate.
3. Redwood Empire Food Bank
Donate or sign up to volunteer.
For more information visit its website.
4. Sonoma County Resilience Fund
Click here to donate online.
5. Napa Valley Community Disaster Relief Fund
Click here to donate online.
For more information, visit its website here.
6. Open your home via Airbnb
If you have available housing in the area, consider making it available. Airbnb is facilitating housing for displaced community members and relief workers deployed to help.
7. Donate via GoFundMe
GoFundMe has a page dedicated to the many individual crowd-sourcing campaigns that have been established since the fires broke out on Sunday. They include fundraisers for families and businesses.
Click here to donate online.
8. Four-county fundraiser
With this fundraiser, you can specify which of four counties — Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino or Lake — you would like to support, or mark that you want to support all four.
Click here to donate online.
Locally, The Press Democrat has also created a list of other ways to help here, and here’s another list being updated by NBC Bay Area.