Impact Grant

August’s Coachella Valley Spotlight recipient is local nonprofit Caravanserai Project. Caravanserai Project is a hybrid social impact venture striving to identify, mobilize and energize mission-driven leaders. The group supports entrepreneurial journeys of building sustainable and relevant ventures, for-profit and nonprofit alike. Its work focuses on the development and implementation of accountability systems,supplying specialized skills and

Life after cancer can be isolating so local nonprofit Shay’s Warriors gave survivors a safe place at its second annual I Am Hope Survivors Reset Retreat. Shay’s Warriors used the $25,000 Spotlight Grant from the Berger Foundation to sponsor 11 of the 40 women on the retreat. The retreat offered healing techniques and a community

May 2023 Coachella Valley Spotlight Grant from the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation goes to local nonprofit California Paws Rescue. “I look at the dogs we have here, and I know we save their life. We can’t save them all, but we save their life,” said founder and president of the organization Lori Weiner.

February’s Coachella Valley Spotlight grant of $ 25,000 from the H.N & Frances C. Berger Foundation goes to the local nonprofit Drone Flyers Academy. It’s a chance for students to take flight. DFA gives hands-on drone flight training to underserved communities in the valley. Sebastian Galve was one of the students who participated in the