The Aaron Rodgers NorCal Fire Recovery Fund was established at NVCF in the immediate aftermath of the Camp Fire in 2018. Since then, Aaron has been actively involved with several grant programs distributing millions of dollars for regional recovery.
Aaron was born and raised in Chico before becoming a Super Bowl-winning quarterback and four-time NFL Most Valuable Player.
The Aaron Rodgers NorCal Fire Recovery Fund was established in 2018 with $1 million from the Aaron Rodgers Foundation. The fund has been bolstered by thousands of additional donations, including contributions after Aaron hosted “Jeopardy” as well as proceeds from a celebrity golf event.
The fund has supported dozens of organizations and programs to help promote a sense of normalcy for young people as well as supporting several housing initiatives. The fund continues to issue grants for recovery from several Northern California wildfires, including $100,000 in grants from Aaron Rodgers and NVCF after the Thompson Fire in Oroville in 2024.
Grants from the Aaron Rodgers NorCal Fire Recovery Fund have totaled $1.7 million.
Aaron started a new fund at NVCF in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Aaron Rodgers Small-Business COVID-19 Fund. That fund helped 159 small, locally owned restaurants and retail businesses with rent and other operational costs to help survive pandemic restrictions. Grants from the fund totaled $1.6 million.
Recipient | Description | Amount | Date |
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Tiny Pine Foundation | To provide help for Tiny Pine Foundation helping people who have been evacuated. | $10,000 | 07/03/2024 |
Northern Valley Catholic Social Service | To provide help for Northern Valley Catholic Social Service for helping those who have been evacuated. | $10,000 | 07/03/2024 |
Oroville Southside Community Improvement Association | To provide help for Oroville Southside Community Improvement Association for helping those who have been evacuated. | $10,000 | 07/03/2024 |
North Valley Animal Disaster Group | To provide help for North Valley Animal Disaster Group helping those who have been evacuated. | $10,000 | 07/03/2024 |
Oroville Hope Center | To provide help for Oroville Hope Center for helping those who have been evacuated. | $10,000 | 07/03/2024 |
Butte-Glenn VOAD | To provide help for Butte-Glenn VOAD (Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster) for helping those who have been evacuated. | $10,000 | 07/03/2024 |
North State Food Bank | To provide help for North State Food Bank for helping those who have been evacuated. | $10,000 | 07/03/2024 |
American Red Cross | To provide help for American Red Cross helping those who have been evacuated. | $10,000 | 07/03/2024 |
Oroville Church of the Nazarene | To provide help for Oroville Church of the Nazarene for helping those who have been evacuated. | $10,000 | 07/03/2024 |
United Way of Northern California | To provide help for United Way of Northern California helping people who have been evacuated. | $10,000 | 07/03/2024 |
Basket Brigade Support Fund | Funds will provide Thanksgiving meals for at least 800 local families. | $5,000 | 10/31/2023 |
Ability First Sports | To purchase registration fees for youth and adults to participate in community based sporting events. | $1,000 | 05/12/2023 |
Girls on the Run of the North State | To enable families to allow their girls to participate without burden while they heal and rebuild their lives post-Camp Fire. | $13,650 | 04/17/2023 |
North Valley Disaster Immediate Relief Fund | To deploy grants to nonprofits, local agencies and other groups working with survivors in communities recovering from wildfires. | $25,000 | 03/09/2023 |
Boys and Girls Clubs of the North Valley | For startup costs to fill and expand the Paradise Teen Center with fire-resistant furniture to ensure durability and longevity. | $50,000 | 12/19/2022 |
Jesus Center | To give families staying at the shelter a safe place for outdoor play. | $50,000 | 09/09/2022 |
Everybody Healthy Body | Phase 1 of Building Sports Capacity in the Northern California Region. | $50,000 | 09/01/2022 |
Thrive - CARE Team | To support Alternative Therapeutic Approaches. | $50,000 | 07/27/2022 |
The University Foundation, CSU, Chico: Paradise U | For the Paradise U program which helps children use physical activity as a tool to help them cope with mental health and wellness. | $34,965 | 06/23/2022 |
Paradise Junior High School | To build an outdoor fitness equipment area to help create healthy habits for students. | $50,000 | 06/17/2022 |
Enloe Foundation | To fund mobile app to support the overall health of local community. | $50,000 | 06/01/2022 |
Basket Brigade Support Fund | To help 300 local families impacted by the Camp Fire and the other wildfires and disasters in Butte County. | $5,000 | 05/31/2022 |
Boys and Girls Club of the North Valley | To serve youth on the ridge, offering services like music, art therapy, after-school programming and case management. | $49,260 | 05/03/2022 |
Cohasset Community Association | To build a children's playground in Cohasset. | $8,500 | 04/22/2022 |
Girls on the Run of the North State | To allow 50-55 girls on the Ridge to participate in the program. | $10,397 | 04/22/2022 |
Feather River Center | For access to water safety and aquatic recreation activities for youth impacted by wildfire. | $25,000 | 03/01/2022 |
Thrive | To help fund the Paradise Ridge Retreat Campus Wellness Center at Paradise High School. | $10,000 | 12/15/2021 |
Paradise Junior High School | To provide food, personal care products, clothing and bedding to students in need. | $5,000 | 09/27/2021 |
Thrive - CARE Team | To help launch of the CARE Team supporting Butte County families youth affected by suicide. | $50,000 | 08/31/2021 |
Basket Brigade Support Fund | Funds will provide Thanksgiving meals for 1,000 local families Camp Fire affected areas. | $10,000 | 07/02/2021 |
Feather River Center | To increase the number of individuals participating in the center's water safety and aquatic recreation activities. | $25,000 | 05/25/2021 |
NVCF - Camp Fire Healing Initiative Fund | To fund the End the Silence Youth Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Summit. | $50,000 | 05/25/2021 |
Everybody Healthy Body | For vouchers to increase the number of individuals participating in organized sport or other recreation activities by reducing cost as a barrier. | $100,000 | 04/20/2021 |
Magalia Community Park | To provide operating costs for programming and community services. | $50,000 | 04/06/2021 |
NVCF COVID-19 Employee Care Grant Program | To help local nonprofits and government agencies prepare, respond to and deploy resources for coronavirus response in the four-county region. | $50,000 | 12/18/2020 |
Everybody Healthy Body | Phase 2 of the Recreation and Play Voucher program. | $25,000 | 09/01/2020 |
The University Foundation, CSU Chico | To continue the program to provide physical activity classes to students affected by the Camp Fire. | $50,000 | 07/16/2020 |
Achieve Charter School of Paradise Inc. | To design and implement an extended day program focused on treating PTSD for students. | $50,000 | 07/14/2020 |
Park Planet | To repair and renovate a playground for the use of students in Concow. | $50,000 | 06/01/2020 |
Paradise Charter Middle School | To replace books and materials lost to the fire for their library. | $10,100 | 12/26/2019 |
Paradise Charter Middle School | To provide supplies to 6th-grand students to attend the Shady Creek Outdoor School. | $13,156 | 12/26/2019 |
Paradise Charter Middle School | To provide the opportunity for 155 students grades 6-8 to go on annual field trips free of charge. | $25,000 | 12/26/2019 |
Gridley Recreation Center | To expand and repair Gridley Vierra Park for the benefit of those displaced from the Camp Fire. | $50,000 | 12/06/2019 |
Paradise Adventist Church | To build 200 storage sheds for those affected by the Camp Fire in partnership with Maranatha Volunteers International. | $50,000 | 10/16/2019 |
Golden Feather Union Elementary School District | To repair and renovate a playground for the use of students in Concow. | $50,000 | 10/07/2019 |
The University Foundation, CSU Chico | To establish a program to provide physical activity classes to students affected by the Camp Fire. | $25,000 | 08/13/2019 |
Paradise Recreation and Park District | To establish a program to reduce the effects of trauma on children through nature programs. | $50,000 | 07/30/2019 |
Everybody Healthy Body | To convene health and educational leaders for a coalition focused on strategies and action to support human recovery, particularly reducing youth trauma stress. | $50,000 | 06/27/2019 |
Butte College Foundation | To establish a special fund to support students affected by the Camp Fire who are in danger of dropping out. | $50,000 | 06/03/2019 |
Never Enough Athletics | Never Enough Athletics requested assistance to fund scholarships for players affected by the Camp Fire to participate in the program. | $25,000 | 04/29/2019 |
Ability First Sports | To fund a summer program and expand year-round programs to better serve the increased population following the Camp Fire. | $18,080 | 04/25/2019 |
NorCal Mavericks Athletic Development | To secure equipment and offset costs for indoor athletic facility to allow additional teams for practice, trainings, meetings and tryouts. | $25,000 | 03/27/2019 |
Chico Westside Little League | To fund repairs and refurbishment for their fields and facilities to accommodate their increased use. | $25,000 | 03/21/2019 |
Cedarwood Elementary School Grizzlies Vax IQ Robotics Team | To purchase gasoline and lodging to attend the robotics state championship finals. | $400 | 03/05/2019 |
Paradise High School Athletics Department | To develop and equip a modular athletic training room to provide sports medicine care for student athletes. | $50,000 | 03/05/2019 |
Paradise High School | To replace two sets of graphic novels for the use of the Social Science program. | $1,600 | 02/26/2019 |
Paradise Intermediate School | To fund a trip for their student leadership team to attend a leadership and team building rope course event. | $1,915 | 02/26/2019 |
Paradise High School | To replace physics classroom equipment that is not currently eligible to be replaced by the district. | $4,560 | 02/26/2019 |
Ponderosa Elementary School | To purchase replacement recess play equipment for their kindergarten classes, comprised of 75 students. | $1,700 | 02/26/2019 |
Paradise Unified School District | To fund an annual trip to the Shady Creek 6th Grade Environmental Camp for 106 students. | $25,000 | 02/19/2019 |
Paradise Elementary | To provide funding for an overnight field trip for fifth grade students in their last year at Paradise Elementary. | $14,300 | 02/12/2019 |
Cedarwood Elementary School | To provide a therapeutic art project for each of the grades K-6. | $4,500 | 02/12/2019 |
Paradise High School | To provide 2019 yearbooks for its current students free of charge. | $24,900 | 02/12/2019 |