Wild Rivers Community Foundation

10/07/2026

🎉 Friday Nights Downtown is ON tomorrow night! 🎉

Downtown is packed and ready for an incredible evening!

From J Street all the way to G Street, you'll find a full lineup of vendors, delicious food trucks and food vendors, plus a fun-filled Family & Kids one for everyone to enjoy.

Be sure to explore everything from the Safekeeping: The Art of Val Polyanin Exhibit at the Bank of America building on H Street all the way to McGown's Munchies underneath the Crescent City Elks #1689 you won't want to miss a thing!

💃 Kick off the evening with Line Dancing from 5:00–6:00 PM in our Performers Circle, then stick around for more amazing performances by Sacral Spaces.

🛍️ Our downtown shops will be open late, so take your time exploring, shopping local, and discovering everything our businesses have to offer.

🎶 Our live music stage will be powered by One King Entertainment, bringing the soundtrack to an amazing night downtown.

A huge thank you to our stage sponsors:
💚 Humboldt Area Foundation + Wild Rivers Community Foundation
🌲 Trees of Mystery

And when Friday Nights Downtown wraps up, the fun doesn't have to end! 🎤 Head to the Crescent City Elks City Elks #1689 for Karaoke, or keep the music going with more live music at Enoteca.

Come shop local, eat local, enjoy live music, support local businesses, and spend a great summer evening with your community. Bring your family, invite your friends, and we'll see you at Friday Nights Downtown!

12/06/2026

Our hard-working scholarships team just finished crunching the numbers and we have once again surpassed the prior fiscal year's record for dollars out the door to students across our communities! Thank you so much to everyone who made this possible, including our staff, donors, committee members and scholarship fund holders!

02/06/2026

Join us this Friday as we launch the 2026 Friday Night Downtown season with live music sponsored by Humboldt Area Foundation + Wild Rivers Community Foundation and the Trees of Mystery

🎶 JORDAN & THE FAMILY TREE
📅 Friday, June 5, 2026
⏰ Music 5:00–7:30 PM
📍 Downtown Crescent City — 3rd Street between G & J

Bring a chair, grab dinner from our local food vendors, explore downtown shops, and enjoy an evening under the Redwood Coast sky. Jordan & The Family Tree's soulful blend of blues, roots music, and powerful harmonies is the perfect soundtrack for opening night.

We are excited to kick off our 10th season of bringing the community together and continuing our mission of changing the narrative about Downtown Crescent City. For the past decade, Friday Night Downtown (and all our earlier named versions) has been about creating a welcoming place where people can shop, dine, connect with neighbors, discover local businesses, and build new friendships. Here's to 10 years of community, connection, and creating memories together downtown. We can't wait to celebrate with you.

20/05/2026

15/05/2026

The Gil and Ann Hess Fund was established with a vision of helping youth in Del Norte County dream big and go far. On May 6, fund advisor Kevin Hartwick and HAF+WRCF Vice President of Advancement Gina Zottola were honored to present a $10,000 grant from the Hess Fund to the Del Norte High School Medical Sciences Club. The grant will support 85+ amazing students as they get hands-on experience in clinical and entrepreneurial healthcare, visit universities, and attend medical conferences. We are honored to support the legacy of the Hess family and other generous donors by helping students in rural communities access opportunities that might otherwise have been out of reach. And we are so proud of these young innovators exploring the future of medicine, diagnostics and healthcare technology, and potentially bringing vital medical skills back to Del Norte County.

23/04/2026

Happy National Library Week! Check out some of the funds that support local libraries in Del Norte and Curry counties!

Happy National Library Week! We are proud to support many different funds that help sustain this important public resource. Browse these funds using the link below. See you in the stacks!

https://hafoundation.org/2026/04/23/support-our-libraries/