Media Kit

Thank you for your interest in learning more about Great Northern Services. All press & media inquiries should be directed to Marie-Josée Wells, Executive Director at Great Northern Services. You may reach her at mjwells{at}gnservices.org or by calling (530) 938-4115 ext. 121.

Mission:

Great Northern Services invigorates communities by initiating positive social change to improve economic conditions.

Purpose:

Great Northern Services is a community based nonprofit working to improve life for the most vulnerable populations of Siskiyou County by finding the resources and creating the solutions to a variety of needs. We are committed to helping communities navigate growth and change while enhancing the cultural, social, environmental and economic qualities that are the essence of what makes a place a valued home to its citizens.

What We Do:

Great Northern Services provides a wide range of assistance programs for individuals and families living in Siskiyou County. Our Community Services Department provides child, senior, and general nutrition, senior snow removal, and fresh produce programs. Our Energy Assistance & Weatherization Departments have improved the living conditions of thousands of households. Our Economic Development Department has provided hundreds of businesses with the capital they needed to succeed and our Community Development Department has helped small municipalities access capital to improve their infrastructure.

Nonprofit Status:

Great Northern Services is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit. Donations to Great Northern Services are tax-deductible.

Financial Statements are searchable through the State Clearinghouse and Guidestar:
Great Northern Services in California was formerly known as The Great Northern Corporation.

Recent Press:

Pacific Power Foundation helping feed our children

More than 30,000 lunches have been served to kids in Siskiyou County over the past seven years through the U.S.D.A. Summer Food Program, which is administered by Great Northern Services. The program is supported through the generosity of the Pacific Power Foundation, which is once again playing a big part in that service to our community’s youngest members in the coming summer months. The foundation recently awarded Great Northern Services a $4,000 grant to help maintain the Summer Food program and provide additional healthy food to the menu. “Hunger is an issue in our community year-round and has been made worse in the past couple of years by the pandemic,” said Marie-Josée Wells, Great Northern Services executive director. “Summer break ...
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CARES Act funds Energy Assistance in Siskiyou County

(as published in the Mt. Shasta Area Newspapers on 8/5/2020) Local non-profit Great Northern Services (GNS) is receiving additional funding for their Energy Assistance program through the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. That program, normally funded by the Low-Income Home Energy Program (LIHEAP), helps qualified households pay electric bills, get credit on their kerosene or propane accounts, or assists them with firewood delivery. According to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the CARES Act provides “supplemental LIHEAP funding to help ‘prevent, prepare for, or respond to’ home energy needs surrounding the national emergency created by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).” “California’s CARES Act Energy Assistance Program extends service preference to applicants who have received unemployment-related ...
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Siskiyou Food Task Force brings food to the doorsteps of at-risk residents

(As published in the Siskiyou Daily News and the Mt. Shasta Area Newspapers on Wednesday, April 15th, 2020) The Siskiyou Food Distribution Task Force is addressing the needs of many low-income at-risk residents of Siskiyou County who are isolating themselves in response to COVID-19. Operating under the umbrella and organized by the Siskiyou County Office of Emergency Services (OES), the Task Force uses existing distribution networks and the wide collaboration of organizations and volunteers as well as new technology to get boxes of food delivered to residents who request them. “The willingness of the food banks, resource centers and other organizations to be part of the effort to deliver food to those who need it has exceeded my wildest expectations,” ...
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For more than 20 years, community volunteer has raised funds for Meals on Wheels

A Mount Shasta resident since the winter of 1993, Dawn Fazende founded the Mt. Shasta Meals on Wheels Auxiliary in 2010. She’s also the organizer of Wesak, and annual spiritual festival that takes place in Mount Shasta. She first became involved with the Wesak Festival working with its founder, Dr. Joshua David Stone. When Stone passed away in 2005, she assumed the role of organizer and began donating the festival’s proceeds to the south county homebound meal delivery group. In July of 2019, Great Northern Services assumed administration of the Senior Nutrition Program, which feeds seniors a healthy meal for lunch several days a week at a nominal cost. For those who are able to get out and about, seniors ...
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