A new charitable organization of Wine Country heavy-hitters has announced its first fundraiser. Napa & Sonoma Relief will host a $2,500-a-ticket event Dec. 2 in St. Helena with a four-course menu created by renowned Napa chefs, including Michelin-star French Laundry chef Thomas Keller, and an intimate concert by Napa resident Boz Scaggs.

The evening benefits recovery efforts following the devastating North Bay wildfires that killed 42 residents and destroyed or damaged thousands of homes, businesses and vineyards.

“A Night of Friendship & Neighbors” will be held at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone and will include a dinner by Keller and fellow chefs Christopher Kostow (the Restaurant at Meadowood), Kyle Connaughton (Single Thread) and Stephen Durfee (Culinary Institute), highlighting local purveyors and a live auction of luxe packages.

Keller, a Napa resident, is also a founding member of Napa & Sonoma Relief, which arose among a dynamic coterie of local vintners, chefs and valley entrepreneurs.

“Many of us live or have homes in the Wine Country,” said author and founding member Alexis Traina, whose family established Swanson Vineyards 32 years ago in Rutherford. “It was a frightening experience, and heartbreaking loss for so many. Before the fires were fully contained, we frantically texted each other, ‘What can we do to help?’”

Other Napa & Sonoma Relief members include vintner Carlo Mondavi; filmmaker Roman Coppola; tech entrepreneur Trevor Traina; vintners Jean-Charles Boisset and his wife, Gina Gallo; Napa Valley Reserve’s Carol and Philip Norfleet; vintner Agustin Huneeus Jr.; vintner-restaurateur Joel Gott; the French Laundry’s Laura Cunningham; Festival Napa Valley CEO Rick Walker; wine merchant Matt Wilson; and interior designer Ken Fulk.

“Everyone in my family was evacuated at some point during the fires,” said Raen vintner Carlo Mondavi, 37, a Napa native and grandson of the legendary Robert Mondavi.

During 15 frantic days, he and his family raced around the valley checking their homes or bulldozing manzanita in the hope of creating a firebreak at Continuum, the Pritchard Hill vineyard in the Vaca Mountains founded by his father, Tim Mondavi, and aunt, Marcia Mondavi Borger.

All proceeds from this event and future fund efforts will be distributed via Tipping Point Community’s Emergency Relief Fund.

“Four days after the fires hit, we got this emergency fund up and running,” said Tipping Point founder-CEO Daniel Lurie. “We’re working with trusted local partners to provide low-income families and individuals with immediate relief, recovery efforts and rebuilding. To date we’ve already distributed $2 million.”

“Housing was already a problem in the valley, then the fires destroyed or damaged almost 9,000 homes,” Mondavi said. “Now when you’re standing in line for coffee, you don’t know who has suffered. But many people who work in the vineyards or local restaurants lost everything. They’re the heart and soul of our community.”

As a founding Napa Sonoma Relief committee member, Mondavi says their group effort takes an aerial view rather than looking at a map of quarters and boundaries.

“Our fund’s goal is to treat this as one disaster — not just a disaster in Napa, Sonoma, Santa Rosa or Mendocino,” Mondavi said. “Here in the valley, the fires just ripped through Napa and Sonoma. But their extensive brutality will be felt in the surrounding vicinity for years. Disasters don’t have borders.”

Catherine Bigelow is The San Francisco Chronicle’s society correspondent. Email: missbigelow@sfgate.com Instagram: @missbigelow

A Night of Friendship & Neighbors Single tickets ($2,500) are available at http://napasonomarelief.org.