Five Years of Gratitude
The Butte Strong Fund, a partnership of the North Valley Community Foundation, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. and the Aaron Rodgers NorCal Fire Recovery Fund, aims to provide long-term recovery to communities impacted by the Camp Fire.
Disaster Case Management
Read our story about case management and how the system developed, as well as the stories of three individuals who were able to regain hope with the care and support of disaster case managers.
The North Valley Community Foundation and its Butte Strong Fund have granted more than $12 million to help build a case management system and then provide assistance to survivors.
Camp Fire Fund Grant Program
After five years of grants and more than $67 million committed to Camp Fire recovery, we will be focusing on a grant program to support the ongoing issues of recovery.
The grant program will make grants to qualifying nonprofit organizations and government agencies that remain active in recovery in the Camp Fire footprint. These grants will typically range from $500 to $10,000.
Please review the grant guidelines before applying. If you have questions regarding the grant application process or the guidelines, contact our grants team at grants@nvcf.org
Recipient | Project | Amount | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Camp Fire Collective | Simple Unmet Needs Funding Pool | $100,000 | To provide timely, flexible financial support to Camp Fire survivors for recovery-related needs not covered by other sources | April 2025 |
Honey Run Covered Bridge | 60th Annual Honey Run Covered Bridge Pancake Breakfast and Grand Opening | $2,500 | To host the 60th annual pancake breakfast and the first on the rebuilt bridge, bringing together the community member and hundreds of visitors | March 2025 |
Paradise Community Chorus | Spring Concert 2025 | $2,500 | To support the efforts of the Paradise Community Chorus to bring the community together with music of these choral performances, the first of two to take place May 4, 2025. | March 2025 |
Oroville Southside Community Improvement Association | Continued Service of Haven of Hope on Wheels | $12,500 | To support the continued services of the Haven of Hope on Wheels program, which will include establishing partnerships for service delivery efforts, conduct client survey to assess satisfaction and providing referrals to social services. | March 2025 |
Tiny Pine Foundation | Tiny Homes for Camp Fire Survivors | $12,000 | To support with additional funding to help offset a portion of the wages spent on time working on Camp Fire builds. | Feb. 2025 |
Camp Fire Collaborative | Camp Fire Collaborative Operations 2025-2026 | $139,371 | To support CFC’s operations and ensure alignment with Northern Valley Catholic Social Services and Tzu Chi DCM support, to provide administrative and logistical support addressing the ongoing needs of vulnerable survivors. | January 2025 |
Paradise/Butte County Gleaners | Utility support to pick up/distribute supplies | $10,000 | To support their goal to serve the fire victims throughout Butte county with food and supplies and to help the families with homeless prevention by funding PG&E and gas costs to pick up and distribute supplies. | January 2025 |
Paradise Stronger | 2024 Annual Wellness Fair | $3,000 | To support health education as well as informing the community of essential wellness resources like counseling, nutrition, mental health and preventive care for those impacted by the Camp Fire. | September 2024 |
Tula Therapeutic Collective | Paradise Mental Health Expansion | $10,000 | To continue the sliding-scale clinic, which offers low-cost and no-cost psychotherapy services to individuals and families on the Ridge. | July 2024 |
Paradise Stronger | Paradise Community Garden | $10,000 | To establish a community garden in Paradise that will provide volunteer and educational opportunities, and promote healthy eating and community building. | July 2024 |
Butte County Local Food Network | 1000 Acres More on the Ridge | $10,000 | To support neighborhood, community and school gardens in the Camp Fire footprint and throughout Butte County. | July 2024 |
Children's Community Charter School | Increased Counselor Time at CCCS | $10,000 | To support the increase of counselor time for students affected by the Camp Fire. | July 2024 |
From The Ground Up Farms | Highway 70 Corridor Food Pantry | $10,000 | To purchase equipment for the Concow food pantry to continue distributing hot meals to the community. | July 2024 |
New Beginnings Housing Foundation | Affordable Housing For Adults With Developmental Disabilities | $10,000 | To support current home improvements, assistance with application fees, deposits, moving as well transportation needs for Camp Fire survivors with developmental disabilities | May 2024 |
Rebuild Paradise Foundation | Defensible Space (Gravel) Grant | $10,000 | To launch this program with a goal of supporting 100 - 200 families who would each receive a $500 gravel voucher. This will ultimately help combat insurance affordability while simultaneously making our homes and our community safer from wildfire. | May 2024 |
Oroville Southside Community Improvement Association | Support for serving Camp Fire & Berry Creek Fire Survivors through Haven of Hope on Wheels | $10,000 | To support the continuation of Haven of Hope on Wheels, a mobile unit that provides showers and laundry to communities in the fire footprints | May 2024 |
Museum of Northern California Art (monca) | "A Palette of Thoughts" A Community Collaborative Mental Health Awareness Art Show | $2,750 | To host "A Palette of Thoughts" exhibit and a reception for the community which allowed Butte County residents to express their mental health through art therapy | April 2024 |
Home Tech Charter School | Educational Field Trip Fun | $10,000 | To support field trips for the year for students in grades 7-12 that were impacted by the Camp Fire. | April 2024 |
Rotary Club of Paradise | Vocational Committee Website | $10,000 | To support the development of a website for the Rotary Club of Paradise Vocational Committee's annual career expo that provides ongoing learning and working resources for students grades 5-12 | April 2024 |
Butte County Search and Rescue | Over the Edge Rescue | $10,006 | To purchase required gear for over the edge vehicle rescues | March 2024 |
From the Ground Up Farms | Camp Fire Program Extension | $10,000 | Funding to help continue some basic programs who are benefiting Camp Fire families with backhoe services, tree removal, grocery and gas cards and more. | March 2024 |
Youth on the Ridge Community Foundation | The Paradise Chocolate Fest | $2,500 | To support an annual community celebration and fundraiser for local organizations and youth programs in Paradise |
AREAS OF WORK
HOUSING
The Butte Strong Fund is working with community organizations to benefit displaced families.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
The effect of sudden changes in population redistribution can have a big impact on health and wellness for the community as a whole.
EDUCATION
It's traumatic for a child to lose a home. It's exponentially traumatic to lose a school as well.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
When people talk about what was destroyed in the Camp Fire, they often talk about places that were symbolic of the area.
BUSINESS RECOVERY
Hundreds of businesses were destroyed in the Camp Fire. Others were damaged. Those that have managed to reopen or are still deciding whether to reopen face uncertainty.
DIRECT ASSISTANCE
Working with our nonprofit community partners and disaster case managers, we have granted millions of dollars to provide assistance to survivors.
Aaron Rodgers Gratitude Message
PARTNERS & MAJOR DONORS
After opening its doors to first responders and community members in the immediate aftermath of the Camp Fire, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. began a long-term fundraising campaign. The brewery launched Resilience Butte County Proud IPA, a collaborative fundraising project with more than 1,400 breweries worldwide that raised millions of dollars for Camp Fire relief. As short-term relief gave way to long-term recovery, the family-run company has been a valuable, engaged partner every step of the way.
The Aaron Rodgers NorCal Fire Recovery Fund was established in the immediate aftermath of the Camp Fire to support programs that offer youths stability in the face of crisis, support the local youth sports infrastructure and support the process of bringing permanent and transitional housing back to the burned area.
The Aaron Rodgers NorCal Fire Recovery Fund was established in the immediate aftermath of the Camp Fire to support programs that offer youths stability in the face of crisis, support the local youth sports infrastructure
and support the process of bringing permanent and transitional housing back to the burned area.
