Summer MMXVI

The Invictus Fund

Change and challenge have always served to strengthen the people of the Napa Valley. Our community, like our landscape, exudes a singular energy, a sense of optimism gleaned from nature’s own cycles of resilience and renewal. Sustained by tradition yet driven by the promise of possibility, we commit ourselves daily to realizing a healthier, happier future for succeeding generations while preserving and honoring the memories of those whose individual journeys have laid the paths we walk today.

43 lives were lost
245,000 acres of our iconic wine country was burned
8,900 structures were incinerated
100,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes
11,000 firefighters battled the destructive fires
Estimated losses exceed $3 billion

Change and challenge have always served to strengthen the people of the Napa Valley. Our community, like our landscape, exudes a singular energy, a sense of optimism gleaned from nature’s own cycles of resilience and renewal. Sustained by tradition yet driven by the promise of possibility, we commit ourselves daily to realizing a healthier, happier future for succeeding generations while preserving and honoring the memories of those whose individual journeys have laid the paths we walk today.

This spirit of perseverance and progress moved The Napa Valley Reserve, Meadowood Napa Valley, and the Harlan family domain to form The Invictus Fund NV in 2017 as a response to that year’s devastating fires. The fund again served as a conduit for the outpouring of generosity from neighbors and friends around the world when the Glass Fire broke out in 2020.

Yet, in the calmer interludes between such crises, the Fund has continued to pursue the broader purpose for which it was established: To promote the health, safety, and welfare of all Napa County’s residents and to support the education of our youth by granting scholarships to candidates working toward their degrees.

Together with our donors—to whom we remain deeply grateful—the founders of The Invictus Fund NV celebrate the resourcefulness, compassion, and creativity of this diverse yet close-knit community. The people of the Napa Valley have survived Prohibition, phylloxera, wildfires, earthquakes, and economic strife; and each time, they have emerged from these trials more vibrant than before. With the assistance of friends and neighbors, The Invictus Fund NV continues to do its part to safeguard and enrich this small corner of the Earth, which—in so many ways—is like no other.

One hundred percent of proceeds go directly to health services, education, and disaster relief. All donations are tax deductible.

Donations can be made online, by visiting:
The Invictus Fund NV Donation Portal

Or by check, to:
The Invictus Fund NV
c/o The Napa Valley Reserve
1000 Silverado Trail North
St. Helena, CA 94574

For further questions regarding The Invictus Fund NV, please contact Amanda Harlan at amanda@domainhwh.com or by telephone, at (707) 287-2593.



The Invictus Fund NV is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation and has been granted 501(c)(3) tax exempt status.