After 5 years of fast development, our Santa Cruz Gives vacation marketing campaign is doubling the variety of native nonprofits we accepted to 80. Right here’s a information to the tasks they may fund together with your donations
Alzheimer’s Affiliation
Large Concept for 2022: “Alzheimer’s Doesn’t Cease—Neither Do We.” Greater than 5,300 folks in Santa Cruz County stay with Alzheimer’s and different dementias, and one other 8,000 family members and caregivers are impacted. All deserve reassurance they aren’t alone on their journey. The Alzheimer’s Affiliation in Santa Cruz connects folks with a group of help each step of the best way. All companies are free and supplied in English and Spanish by telephone, nearly, and in-person, together with care consultations to assist households anticipate and plan; help teams to attach with others who perceive the journey; schooling on matters comparable to the right way to have dementia conversations, efficient communications with these dwelling with dementia, self-care for caregivers; wholesome dwelling for mind and physique.
Arts Council Santa Cruz County
Large Concept for 2022: “Watsonville Motion for Arts and Tradition.” Think about a bustling, welcoming, and inclusive area for artists, arts organizations and the group in Watsonville. A spot the place all of us belong, are rejuvenated and have enjoyable by means of the humanities. Our collective craving for an area to create, expertise pleasure and really feel linked to ourselves and one another is palpable. Let’s construct a house for the humanities rooted in Watsonville’s wealthy cultural traditions, hopes and creativeness.
BalanceSCC
Large Concept for 2022: “2022 Instructor Grant Fund.” Our Instructor Grant Fund grants greater than $25,000 in provides yearly on to native academics and repair suppliers for gadgets they want however can’t afford. Typical gadgets are Chromebooks, iPads, therapeutic chairs and swings, and so forth. We usually present to roughly 60 native academics/specialists who every work with 30-200+ college students with distinctive wants every year. We increase the funds from the group to help this effort. We’ve got additionally given free coaching to greater than 100 native educators for college employees to assist kids study constructive methods to deal with disaster.
Large Brothers Large Sisters of Santa Cruz County
Large Concept for 2022: “Transgender Matching Program & LGBTQ+ Service Growth.” Large Brothers Large Sisters started matching transgender youth all through the county with volunteer transgender grownup mentors in 2015. We are going to improve help to our mentors, matches and different companies on LGBTQ+ issues by means of coaching, roundtables and enhanced match help and actions to deal with this underserved inhabitants. We work in shut partnership with different companies to implement a confirmed mentoring mannequin, which serves as a nationwide mannequin.
Birchbark Basis
Large Concept for 2022: “Love Heals.” When a pet has a well being disaster with a superb prognosis, the distinctive love of a household animal must not ever be misplaced merely as a consequence of value. BirchBark will present stability to weak households confronted with fixable, however unaffordable, pressing veterinary care. Our purpose is to offer therapeutic love and save the lives of 100 pets with Santa Cruz Offers donor funds. As well as, we assist our veterinary companions, who typically should euthanize pets and are extraordinarily affected emotionally when shoppers shouldn’t have monetary assets to save lots of their animals’ lives.
Hen College
Large Concept for 2022: “Spreading our Wings.” Analysis clearly signifies that point spent connecting with nature considerably improves folks’s psychological and emotional well-being, which is significantly in danger for a lot of younger folks at this time. The Hen College Undertaking seems ahead to increasing entry to transformative pathways in birding, group management, area experiences and general private well being and well-being for the scholars of Santa Cruz County. Along with your help, BSP strives to achieve extra college students from minority and underrepresented backgrounds, offering assets and mentorship for them to grow to be environmental changemakers. Our extremely profitable core program prices solely $6 per scholar. Funds raised complement the price of our program for colleges in Santa Cruz County, typically making it free.
Boys and Ladies Golf equipment of Santa Cruz County
Large Concept for 2022: “Energy Hour + SMART Strikes Packages.” Our clubhouse-wide “Energy Hour” program enhances and reinforces what youth study in school by way of every day 60-minute classes through which each member on the membership receives homework assist, tutoring or participates in self-directed studying. The SMART Strikes program helps social-emotional studying and helps youth strengthen wholesome decision-making, enhance shallowness, keep away from dangerous behaviors, develop assertiveness, analyze media and peer affect and construct resilience.
CASA of Santa Cruz County
The Large Concept for 2022: “Advocating for Foster Youth in Santa Cruz County.” CASA recruits, screens, trains and supervises Volunteer Advocates to work one-on-one with kids and their households to help reunification or everlasting placement right into a secure and wholesome residence. Advocates get to know their baby’s state of affairs and wishes, assist caregivers entry assets to satisfy these wants, and advocate for the kid’s greatest pursuits in courtroom, group, and faculty settings. They construct sturdy relationships with the household and work with a CASA Advocate Supervisor to create an Advocacy Plan for his or her baby.
Camphill Communities
Large Concept for 2022: “Photo voltaic for a Sustainable Future.” Over the previous two years, we raised funds to put in photo voltaic panels and batteries on all present properties and properties. To ensure that Camphill to offer reasonably priced housing for growing older residents, employees and volunteers, we have to construct an extra residence for individuals who want to age in Camphill and keep in our group. We afford the constructing, however now all new development in Santa Cruz County requires photo voltaic panels. Having the funds to put in it will enable us to offer ample housing, and guarantee the way forward for our group and the folks we serve.
Catholic Charities
Large Concept for 2022: “Collectively we thrive! Juntos salimos adelante!” Your generosity will present direct rental and utility help to Santa Cruz County residents nonetheless combating the financial results of the pandemic. Seniors and adults ineligible for federal help proceed to stroll by means of our doorways looking for assist and hope to stabilize their properties. Your help can present as much as $1,200 in rental and utility help to every particular person combating overdue lease or payments. Catholic Charities is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit company serving folks of all backgrounds and beliefs. Sometimes our Emergency Rental and Utility Help program runs November–February however has been tailored to a year-round program to help folks financially impacted by the pandemic.
California Licensed Natural Farmers Basis
Large Concept for 2022: “Hardship Help for Natural Farmers & Processors.” The Bricmont Hardship Help Fund is the one fund within the U.S. that gives direct monetary help completely to natural producers who are suffering monetary losses as a consequence of excessive hardship. This fund is 100% pass-through, so each greenback we increase goes on to an natural farmer or producer that’s experiencing excessive hardship. In 2020, functions to this fund quadrupled (as did our award quantities) because the natural farming group skilled market, workforce and provide chain disruptions as a result of pandemic and wildfires within the West. We’re once more bracing to help the elevated want because the pandemic continues, accompanied by drought and fires.
Coastal Watershed Council
Large Concept for 2022: “Wholesome River, Wholesome Santa Cruz!” We envision the Santa Cruz Riverwalk turning into Santa Cruz’s Central Park. CWC organizes volunteers to select up trash, pull invasive weeds, and plant native vegetation to enhance the great thing about the Riverwalk and put money into a more healthy river ecosystem. Over the previous few years, the San Lorenzo River has taken a flip for the more severe as a consequence of drought, misuse and neglect. This river is our metropolis’s major supply of consuming water, it’s residence to threatened and endangered species and was the cornerstone to our metropolis’s founding. This river wants us and we want it. Each donation is a present to guard the river that we depend on and impression daily.
Group Motion Board of Santa Cruz County
Large Concept for 2022: “A Serving to Hand to Underserved Communities.” Amid the general wealth of Santa Cruz County, sure communities have traditionally been ignored. We created a “basket” of things this yr for Santa Cruz Offers donors to point out you what we are able to do collectively to counteract the historic omission in a small method at an area stage. CAB will fund DACA renewal scholarships for 2 immigrant youth; buy substances for six group meals for 12 native seniors on the Davenport Useful resource Service Middle; present vaccination present card incentives to 50 farmworkers; and provides direct monetary help to 4 households experiencing homelessness, plus 20 households of Day Employee Middle members who misplaced work as a consequence of Covid.
Group Bike Collective
Large Concept for 2022: “Group Bike Camp.” Group Bike Collective is rooted in our group, fairness and justice. Our Summer season Bike Camp is free to native youth, with a deal with under-resourced and underserved youth in Santa Cruz County. If children don’t know the right way to journey, we educate them. We implement life-changing packages for native youth. A lot of our youth have by no means seen a redwood tree or been to the seaside! Your help will fund impactful packages that interact youth by means of studying in motion with hands-on actions together with bike abilities, life abilities, self-care, community-care, wholesome dwelling and native historical past.
Group Connection on the Volunteer Middle
Large Concept for 2022: “Significant Connections & Meals for our Susceptible Neighbors.” Our group members dwelling with critical psychological sicknesses are a number of the most weak and remoted in the neighborhood. In the course of the pandemic, whereas many people struggled with isolation and the lack to attach with folks and actions that convey that means and well being to our lives, they suffered drastically. We’ve got supplied wholesome meals deliveries and common contacts by means of telephone and web outreach to the psychological well being group we serve. We now want to boost funds to proceed our meals distributions and companies connecting members to actions comparable to schooling, work and volunteerism that enhance lives and make our group stronger.
Group Life Providers
Large Concept for 2022: “Construct Again Santa Cruz County.” Companies can’t discover the expertise, labor and worker dedication to completely recuperate from the pandemic. We’ve got an answer. Even earlier than Covid, we supported adults with disabilities to arrange and be part of the workforce—and we haven’t stopped. Presently, we’ve 25 people on the lookout for significant work. We search your donations to fund a short lived, devoted, part-time Employment Specialist to deal with outreach, engagement, networking and coaching with native companies to offer worker matches of all talents and put together and diversify their workforce as we construct again our native economic system and embrace everybody.
County Park Buddies
Large Concept for 2022: “Scholarships for Youngsters.” Each child ought to have an opportunity to expertise the marvel, well being, wellness and pleasure obtainable in our Santa Cruz County parks, seashores and trails. Our scholarships and fairness packages knock down obstacles that embrace charges, language, accessibility and transportation. We ensure that our packages (comparable to Study-to-Swim classes and Junior Pool Guards) and public areas are really welcoming to all households in our group. We want to proceed this vital work, which has grow to be extra crucial for households in the course of the pandemic.
Dientes Group Dental Care
Large Concept for 2022: “Give Youngsters a Smile Day.” Toothaches are one of the vital widespread causes low-income children miss college. Dientes’ Give Youngsters a Smile Day offers life-changing, free dental care to uninsured kids in Santa Cruz County, and is part of our Dientes Cares for Youngsters program. Our purpose is to make prevention extra widespread than therapy so that youngsters can deal with college as a substitute of a toothache.
Eat for the Earth
Large Concept for 2022: “Group Rx.” Group Rx helps group members who need to make a dietary change that forestalls and sometimes reverses lethal power ailments, reduces severity of COVID signs, contributes positively to the surroundings, is type to non-human animals and tastes nice! Eat for the Earth offers schooling and advocacy selling the advantages of plant-based and plant-strong diets. Our accomplishments embrace working with 9 eating places to extend plant-based choices; offering schooling at 10 group festivals in our county, and serving 450 free, whole-food, plant-based meals and eight,787 meals samples; holding seven free ceremonial dinner displays; and offering instructional audio system for native occasions.
Ecology Motion
Large Concept for 2022: “Youth Pedestrian and Bicycle Security Training for All.” At Ecology Motion, we’re doing our greatest to create and ship cutting-edge school-based packages that educate very important bike and pedestrian security abilities to elementary college students: Stroll Good and Bike Good. In a single era, scholar strolling/biking to high school has dropped from 50% to fifteen%. Our surveys present the key purpose is concern about scholar security. By offering the correct coaching and boosting scholar abilities and confidence, we consider we are able to transfer the needle on secure biking and strolling to varsities—a profit for your entire group. Please assist us convey this precious, in style program to all Santa Cruz County second and fifth graders.
Households in Transition
Large Concept for 2022: “Set Up for Success.” Towards our purpose to finish and forestall homelessness within the County, our mission will assist households in our program with important bills that restrictive authorities funding leaves out. Vital bills embrace bedding, pajamas, cleansing provides and nutritious meals to fill the fridge. With Set Up for Success, donors select the quantity they’d prefer to donate and can understand how our group advantages a household in want. $50 offers groceries for a household of 4; $100 offers groceries and cleansing provides for a household of 4; $250 offers groceries, cleansing provides and clothes for a household of 4; $500 offers the necessities that assist make a home a house.
Farm Discovery at Reside Earth
Large Concept for 2022: “Group Produce Distribution + Diet Training.” This program will increase entry to recent fruit and veggies, vitamin and environmental schooling, and relieves meals and vitamin insecurity, leading to improved group well being and environmental stewardship. We donated 96,000 lbs. (48 tons) of produce in 18 months in the course of the pandemic. A mean of 25 lbs. of produce feeds a household of 4 for one week—due to this fact, we feed about 50 households per week. Along with your help, we’ll proceed this, retaining our value to solely $1.30/lb. of produce, which covers the produce and all labor to maintain the mission going. We offer produce, by means of companions, to farmworkers, households, children, homeless and veterans.
“Meals, What?!”
Large Concept for 2022: “Assist FoodWhat’s New Culinary Supervisor Position.” Beginning in 2022, we are going to introduce our latest place, the FoodWhat Culinary Supervisor! Our Culinary Supervisor will create culturally-relevant recipes, educate youth employable culinary abilities, coordinate distribution of residence meal kits, maintain on-line culinary classes for youth, and help youth as they run their farm-based companies. By FoodWhat, Latinx youth deal with well being disparities associated to lack of entry to wholesome meals and the necessity for supportive group.
Buddies of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Large Concept for 2022: “Realizing the Promise.” We’re elevating funds to bridge the hole between Measure S (handed in 2016 for primary infrastructure upgrades) and the wants on the 10 branches within the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. We already accomplished three lovely branches in 2019-2021. We’re supporting renovations at Branciforte and Garfield Park in 2022, and an expanded facility in Aptos can be full in early 2023. $1 million will assist to create new library areas for kids, teenagers, group packages, grownup companies, reveals, collaborative examine areas and studying actions, along with new collections, know-how, tools and furnishings required to realize the group’s imaginative and prescient.
Ladies Inc.
Large Concept for 2022: “Pleasant PEERsuasion Program.” The Pleasant PEERsuasion program is a singular response to the wants of ladies as a result of it approaches drug-abuse prevention as a peer situation, utilizing the constructive affect of younger folks modeling wholesome habits. Section I is a sequence of workshops that prepare seventh grade ladies (ages 11-14) as facilitators with abilities comparable to decision-making, assertiveness, and communication. Additionally they apply strolling away from conditions the place they really feel pressured to make use of alcohol or medication. In Section II, the newly educated “PEERsuaders” work with fourth and fifth grade ladies (ages 6-10) as function fashions and leaders, guiding actions that assist keep away from ladies’ use of dangerous substances, particularly by giving them abilities to refuse and stroll away.
Gray Bears
Large Concept for 2022: “The Pleasure is within the Journey.” Gray Bears works to unravel the issue of senior starvation and isolation, and to interact everybody to reuse and recycle. Our weekly meals deliveries, every day distributions and scorching meals nourish 4,700 seniors, households and farmworkers. We do all of it with the assistance of 550 wonderful volunteers who will contribute 60,000 hours of service this yr. Our growing older group is a hardworking asset—a pure useful resource with a range of abilities, abilities and boundless methods to contribute. We consider in shifting ahead collectively towards a typical imaginative and prescient, and that the enjoyment is at all times within the journey.
Groundswell Coastal Ecology
Large Concept for 2022: “Saving Santa Cruz Monarchs.” Since 2015, Groundswell has labored with monarch conservation companions to develop and implement administration plans that improve monarch overwintering websites at Lighthouse Discipline and Pure Bridges State Parks. Groundswell improves overwintering grove ecosystems by planting windbreak bushes and nectar assets, controlling predators and managing fuels (to stop hearth). We contain group volunteers and Okay-12 college students on this work.
We want your assist to save lots of wild monarchs in the course of the 2022 monarch season.
Habitat for Humanity
Large Concept for 2022: “For Renters Who Misplaced a House within the CZU Fireplace: A New House.” With a secure, easy and well-built residence with room for members of the family, out of doors area and a neighborhood of friends, households who have been getting ready to homelessness and poverty are in a position to work their method up, have delight of possession and a community of group members to lean on. Habitat has given precedence to households displaced by the CZU fires for 2 properties obtainable within the Rodeo Creek Courtroom growth in Reside Oak. Please assist us help a pair we’ve chosen—each are educators with sturdy ties to the group, who’ve continued to work arduous as they decide up the items from their devastating loss.
Well being Tasks Middle
Large Concept for 2022: “Getting older at House with Dignity.” To assist folks to age safely at residence with dignity, we are going to handle well being care and supportive companies for medically frail, low‐earnings elders; help household caregivers to offer high quality care to their family members, and to maintain their very own bodily and psychological well being; transition low-income folks from institutional dwelling to residence; and strengthen the well being care workforce to successfully deal with geriatrics and in-home care administration. We’re additionally working to coach older adults about Covid-19, and facilitate entry to vaccination. We collaborate with the County of Santa Cruz to offer in-home vaccination to frail, older residents.
Homeless Backyard Undertaking
Large Concept for 2022: “Important Workforce Improvement.” HGP wants the group’s help to proceed to offer our core program of coaching and employment to folks experiencing homelessness and supply important meals for the group. This yr we donated tens of hundreds of kilos of recent, natural produce—that is the byproduct of our mission and permits us to assist much more of our neighbors in want! We additionally function the first-ever CSA program in Santa Cruz County; an academic volunteering program that helps to construct bridges between the housed and unhoused; and a newly expanded on-line retail store.
Hopes Closet
Large Concept for 2022: “Feed The Sole!” Many kids should not in a position to take part totally in bodily schooling in school or have optimum orthopedic well being as a result of they can not afford sneakers with correct help. We’ve got an formidable purpose within the upcoming yr: to offer every baby who receives our companies with new athletic sneakers! Please assist us to assist native kids stand taller and really feel empowered with a brand new pair of sneakers.
Housing Issues
Large Concept for 2022: “The House Candy House Undertaking.” Your donation to Santa Cruz Offers will fund “House Candy House” baskets for households and people who’re receiving companies (like housing navigation and case administration) by means of a Housing Issues program, and who’re shifting from homelessness into everlasting housing. These baskets can be crammed with residence necessities comparable to cleansing provides, linens, grocery present playing cards and a particular housewarming present.
Jacob’s Coronary heart
Large Concept for 2022: “Assist for Fragile Households.” Caring for a medically fragile baby is at all times rife with concern and uncertainty. With help from Santa Cruz Offers, Jacob’s Coronary heart will improve disaster counseling by hiring a crew of bicultural psychotherapists and specialists with experience in therapeutic advanced grief and trauma to offer care to households throughout therapy, households experiencing anticipatory grief and people who are bereaved.
Reside Like Coco
Large Concept for 2022: “Youngsters’s Memorial Studying Backyard.” Households who’ve misplaced a toddler typically concern their baby can be forgotten—or remembered solely as a tragedy. The Reside Like Coco Basis desires to honor these kids’s tales by sponsoring a particular mission on the Aptos department of the Santa Cruz Public Library, certainly one of a number of branches at the moment being rebuilt. Reside Like Coco has agreed to sponsor the Youngsters’s Studying Backyard as a particular memorial to Coco in addition to different kids our group misplaced too quickly.
Reside Oak Training Basis
Large Concept for 2022: “Visible Arts for TK-Third Grade College students.” TK-Third grade college students didn’t obtain particular arts instruction previous to the Reside Oak Training Basis’s first funding in 2019. By equitable, hands-on inventive alternatives, our college students discover self-expression and creativity, grow to be impressed and improve their instructional and social mobility. Funds raised by means of Santa Cruz Offers will present 10 weeks of hands-on visible arts instruction from SPECTRA educating artists for elementary college students. We’re grateful to supply this by means of a partnership with the Arts Council Santa Cruz County.
Meals on Wheels
Large Concept for 2022: “Meals on Wheels Breakfast Undertaking.” The Meals on Wheels program proposes a necessary breakfast meals mission for older adults and seniors who in any other case wouldn’t have entry to crucial balanced vitamin as a consequence of lack of assets. Along with your donations, we would offer ready-made, high-nutrient-dense meals for group members in want. Our free breakfasts are significantly essential for older adults throughout this persevering with public well being disaster and unsure economic system, and very important to help not solely the well being of members, but additionally to cut back the stress of the price of transportation.
Media Watch & Amah Mutsun Land Belief
Large Concept for 2022: “Amah Mutsun Academic Mural (potential web site Laurel & Mission Avenue). By a public mural, Media Watch will collaborate with native BIPOC muralists, Amah Mutsun Land Belief stewards and volunteers to create a visible celebration of the various previous, current and future contributions of Santa Cruz County’s Indigenous folks. Embedded QR codes will enable viewers an immersive expertise of our native Indigenous folks. This mission hopes to associate with Santa Cruz County’s Workplace of Training with actions for each Okay-12 and college college students.
Psychological Well being Shopper Motion Community (MHCAN)
Large Concept for 2022: “MHCAN Homeless Bathe Program.” Many MHCAN members are unhoused and use our services to bathe and preserve private hygiene. Sustaining private hygiene can assist members reintegrate to society, interact within the job market and preserve private dignity. We are going to present showers 4 days per week for as much as 50 folks a day at our drop-in middle. The bathe record is at all times full for our two showers (one is handicapped accessible). We shouldn’t have funding for toiletries, towels, toothbrushes or different hygiene provides. Please assist us to satisfy this vital want.
MENtors: Driving Change for Boys, Males & Dads
Large Concept for 2022: “Fairness for Our Boys.” Many boys and younger males from Black, Latinx and less-advantaged backgrounds have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, distance studying and social isolation in comparison with their extra advantaged friends. We plan to create a weekly, facilitated, secure and welcoming area for boys and younger males in center and excessive colleges to discover, construct and improve the pillars of resilience to get youth out of the survival mode and have the ability to thrive throughout this difficult time.
Monterey Bay Financial Partnership (MBEP)
Large Concept for 2022: “Scholar Ambassador Program.” MBEP’s Scholar Ambassador Program offers significant internship alternatives for college students within the area to domesticate a robust native workforce and advance vital initiatives. Our initiatives cowl the area’s most urgent points: housing, local weather change, transportation, workforce growth and broadband. The thought is to match certified college students enrolled at native schools with these initiatives. On the finish of their internship, college students are awarded a stipend.
Monterey Bay Nationwide Marine Sanctuary Basis
Large Concept for 2022: “Dedication to Multicultural Okay-12 Training.” The Basis seeks to offer free, immersive studying experiences in Monterey Bay Nationwide Marine Sanctuary. In-school and after-school packages are sometimes the one method for college students from marginalized communities to entry environmental schooling, as their households could not have the ability to afford visits or packages at aquariums, pure historical past museums, and so forth. By providing in-person and distant studying for free of charge, we eradicate this barrier for as much as 1,500 college students every year to expertise the sanctuary in a brand new, thrilling and academic method.
Museo Eduardo Carrillo
Large Concept for 2022: “Native Legendary Chicano/a Artists Encourage Teen Writing.” The Califas Legacy Undertaking is targeted on 5 influential Monterey Bay area Chicano/a artists: Eduardo Carrillo, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Ralph D’Oliveira, Yermo Aranda and Carmen Leon. A full-color e-book that includes the artists’ work and native teen narrative writing was produced in a really restricted version. Along with your help, we might reprint the e-book to present 3-4 free copies plus our award-winning curriculum information to all 70 center and excessive colleges (for libraries and instructors) in Santa Cruz County, the place 22,500 college students are enrolled.
Nationwide Alliance on Psychological Sickness of Santa Cruz County (NAMI)
Large Concept for 2022: “Bilingual Psychological Well being Assist.” There may be nice want for culturally responsive psychological well being companies in Spanish in Santa Cruz County. NAMI SCC is increasing programming so all households can obtain hope, therapeutic, schooling, and help for these with psychological well being situations and people who love them by means of our Helpline, lessons and weekly help teams. We search funds to broaden our peer-led lessons and help teams in Spanish.
Nourishing Generations
Large Concept for 2022: “Peer-to-Peer Diet and Culinary Training.” Our large thought is to share our experience with Reside Oak and Watsonville residents by coaching neighbors to show neighbors to unfold the phrase about wholesome consuming and wholesome cooking. We’ll begin by coaching ten instructors, present meals and supplies and can pay trainees for all of their time. These new trainees will enable us to develop to educating an estimated 400 within the first yr.
Pajaro Valley Loaves & Fishes
Large Concept for 2022: “Alleviate Meals Insecurity amongst Farmworker Households and Their Youngsters.” For the previous 30 years, we’ve been a frontline, boot-strapping meals pantry and lunch program touching hundreds of lives every year with a restricted funds and environment friendly operations carried out by a whole bunch of volunteers and a small-but-nimble employees. We obtain, retailer and distribute greater than 500,000 kilos of meals every year, and serve over 26,000 scorching, nutritious meals. A lot of our farmworker shoppers work lengthy hours harvesting meals for us all, and discover it difficult to make our 3pm closing time in the course of the harvest season. To help working households (dwelling beneath the poverty line), we want help to increase pantry hours to 6pm. Please be part of us in making wholesome meals accessible to our neighbors in want.
Pajaro Valley Shelter Providers
Large Concept for 2022: “Hope and House: Transferring Households Out of Homelessness and Into Everlasting Housing and Self-Sufficiency.” Households in PVSS packages actually work their method out of homelessness and monetary vulnerability. Our three-pillar program mannequin transforms the lives of households within the areas of Emotional Stability, Monetary Stability, and Housing Stability. We’re launching a brand new tenant schooling program: Hope and House. We’ll present info, coaching, and help that improve the flexibility of households to seek out and hold applicable housing. Households study to keep away from widespread housing pitfalls comparable to poor landlord/neighbor relationships; lack of emergency funds; irresponsible use of credit score; and lack of expertise of housing legal guidelines.
Deliberate Parenthood Mar Monte
Large Concept for 2022: “Celebrating 50 Years of Offering High quality Well being Care to Santa Cruz County.” This yr, we have fun 50 years of offering high quality well being care and advocacy in Santa Cruz County. What started as a referral and advocacy group in Cynthia Mathews’ kitchen now offers non-judgmental well being care at our Westside and Watsonville facilities, together with reproductive care, major care, behavioral well being care, and Covid-19 testing to greater than 12,000 sufferers yearly. Please assist us proceed to offer entry to well being care to all who want it.
Undertaking SCOUT
Large Concept for 2022: “Let’s Get Santa Cruz County Residents the Cash They Deserve.” Now that we’ve put greater than $2 million of refunds within the wallets of these most in want within the county, we need to attain out to those that may gain advantage most from submitting a tax return and sometimes don’t. It could possibly be seniors who could qualify for the state’s Earned Earnings Tax Credit score (EITC), or excessive schoolers working to assist mother and father make ends meet who should not conscious that by submitting taxes they will get a refund. Your help would offer outreach for individuals who is probably not conscious they need to file taxes, and extra volunteer tax-preparation websites and on-line, digital choices to extend the numbers we can assist.
Restoration Café
Large Concept for 2022: “RCSC – Secure Steps.” RCSC will develop to offer a secure, welcoming group two days per week for folks to seek out help of their therapeutic and development—with free espresso, snacks and lunch. Members could have their struggles heard and they’ll obtain encouragement from their friends. Every member has particular person discussions relating to their objectives, and referrals to help them in reaching them, when applicable. Members share their information, are peer helps and volunteer inside the program as they’re ready.
Regeneración — Pajaro Valley Local weather Motion
Large Concept for 2022: “Pathways to Management for Younger Local weather Justice Champions.” In 2022, we are going to meet with younger activists in school websites, hearken to their concepts and provide instruments for stopping burnout, main efficient conferences and eliminating oppressions which might be in the best way of constructing a unified motion to guard life. We plan to host twelve scholar interns over the following yr and make a minimal of eight displays on local weather justice. We may also create alternatives for youth management in lessons or golf equipment at excessive colleges or schools/universities.
Useful resource Middle for Nonviolence
Large Concept for 2022: “Antiracism E book Circles.” The Useful resource Middle for Nonviolence addresses the historic dominance of white tradition in Santa Cruz County by providing Antiracism E book Circles, accessible to each group member. Donations help the creation of those circles and likewise help creating antiracism e-book circles inside different organizations that want to provide a e-book circle to its members. Some circles are multiracial, and a few are organized for racial or gender “affinity teams” to allow Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and different BIPOC group members to discover antiracism topics with group friends.
Secure Ag Secure Faculties
Large Concept for 2022: “Say Earlier than You Spray.” Most individuals don’t know that in California, you haven’t any proper to know prematurely about functions of hazardous agricultural pesticides, and the ag trade is decided to maintain it that method! We’re calling on Santa Cruz County to publicly submit all “Notices of Intent” to make use of Restricted Materials pesticides earlier than they’re utilized in order that residents can shield themselves from hurt and so medical doctors can perceive what their sufferers could have been uncovered to. Please assist us improve transparency.
San Lorenzo Valley Museum
Large Concept for 2022: “Enhanced Out of doors House.” We discover that sharing the area’s cultural historical past will increase a way of belonging, which results in stronger civic engagement. For 2022, we need to set up a everlasting out of doors construction—a gazebo that can present shade, shelter and lighting. This area can be utilized by the K2/3 college program, serving round 350 college students yearly, in addition to guests to the gallery and grounds.
Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre
Large Concept for 2022: “Out of doors Stage.” Think about with the ability to view ballet performances outside at numerous places across the group! SCBT want to assemble an outside, moveable stage that can be utilized for the protection of the viewers and dancers alike. We might additionally make it obtainable to be used by different organizations—due to this fact, your contribution would help many native occasions. The stage can be developed for longevity and suppleness so it’s going to serve for 20 years or extra.
Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos
Large Concept for 2022: “Santa Cruz Cares for Youngsters.” This is able to be a mission that takes place at The Spot, a warehouse middle in Barrios Unidos. Your funding would cowl an after-school children program for ages 5-17 years previous, from 2pm-7pm every day Monday-Friday. We want two part-time staff, padded flooring, desks and computer systems to present children a supportive place to go after college. We hope to start this mission in January 2022.
Santa Cruz Group Ventures
Large Concept for 2022: “Semillitas ‘Small Seeds’ Milestones Program.” Semillitas (“small seeds” in Spanish) offers all county newborns their very own school financial savings accounts, and has seeded 2,000+ accounts with an funding of as much as $50. Youngsters with school saving accounts are thrice extra more likely to go to varsity and 4 occasions extra more likely to graduate. Our Semillitas Milestones Program offers working-class households extra contributions to a toddler’s account if mother and father sustain with well being, dental and academic workshops. The purpose is to assist safe as much as $500 for his or her baby’s financial savings by kindergarten.
Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter Basis
Large Concept for 2022: “Making a Extra Humane Group.” Shelters such because the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter have grow to be complete facilities that set vital “greatest practices” requirements in animal welfare, serving to to create a extra humane group. Our present campus growth continues this mission by rising our free and low value spay/neuter companies and specializing in different preventative packages that hold animals out of the shelter.
Santa Cruz Museum of Artwork & Historical past (MAH)
Large Concept for 2022: “With out Partitions: MAH Open air.” The MAH seeks help for an initiative that includes multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations in out of doors public areas throughout Santa Cruz County. Curated round themes of historical past, heritage and place, this rotating sequence of open-air activations is vital as a result of it helps us reconnect following the pandemic by means of artworks which might be catalysts for dialogue, studying and social motion.
Santa Cruz Museum of Pure Historical past
Large Concept for 2022: “The Museum at Your Aspect.” Early in 2020, we launched a brand new assortment of assets, “The Museum at Your Aspect,” offering educators, households, and our group with packages and instruments for understanding science and exploring nature wherever they’re. The success of this pandemic-inspired mission has us able to launch the following section of bringing the museum to the group, on-line and in particular person. Increasing the Museum at Your Aspect means rising entry to museum packages, collections, reveals and providing extra in-person occasions all through Santa Cruz County.
Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Large Concept for 2022: “Transportation Fund for College students.” Our purpose is to make sure that each single highschool scholar in Santa Cruz County has seen a stay, skilled manufacturing of a Shakespeare play by the point they graduate. Typically, colleges run into transportation difficulties when planning a area journey to get pleasure from a play at The Grove, and fogeys could not have a car or the flexibility to overlook work. We hope to alleviate the expense by offering funds for buses. Santa Cruz Shakespeare extends its summer season season into September every year to supply student-only matinees for top colleges. Please assist us help colleges in want and develop present alternatives to extra college students.
Santa Cruz SPCA
Large Concept for 2022: “A Constructing for a Higher Future.” By the help of you, our group, our shelter can assist over 450 homeless animals to be adopted; greater than 2,300 low-income households or people obtain practically 25,000 kilos of canine and cat meals; educate over 4,000 native college kids (elementary to highschool) age-safe and humane animal care practices; host nearly 10,000 hours of soul-nourishing, animal-care volunteer hours and have interaction greater than 4,500 members of our group.
Save Our Shores
Large Concept for 2022: “Improve Out of doors Marine Environmental Choices for Okay-12 College students.” College students not solely join with nature, however they construct abilities collectively as they lead in schoolyard cleanups, create artwork from litter, and nature journal on area journeys to the coast, a slough or watershed. Save Our Shores incorporates outdoor-friendly studying actions and instruments whereas sustaining alignment with Subsequent Technology Science Requirements.
Second Harvest Meals Financial institution
Large Concept for 2022: “Acquired Meals?” You may assist us present meals for 85,000 folks a month in Santa Cruz County who rely upon Second Harvest and our community of nonprofit companies and security internet companies comparable to meals pantries, shelters and group properties to fill pantry cabinets and supply scorching meals. Volunteers assist energy Second Harvest Meals Financial institution, permitting us to distribute a staggering 10 million kilos of meals every year.
Senderos
Large Concept for 2022: “Lifeline for Latinx Youth & Households: Wellness + Resilience.” Along with free folkloric dance and music lessons for Latinx youth, our group middle—Plaza Comunitaria—offers bilingual, culturally-relevant programming on matters comparable to healthcare, schooling, psychological well being, housing and vitamin. As a result of the pandemic continues to impression households already deprived by inequities of earnings, entry and race, we need to develop this mission that may be a lifeline to members.
Senior Community Service (SNS)
Large Concept for 2022: “The Anti-Covid Loneliness Undertaking.” Senior Community Service will, if funded, launch a program designed particularly to make sure that the residents we serve are commonly contacted and engaged in dialog. Figuring out that somebody cares, partaking in mental stimulation and having one thing to sit up for—these could make an enormous distinction to a senior or particular person with disabilities, and have an especially constructive impact on their well-being.
Seymour Marine Discovery Middle
Large Concept for 2022: “Undertake an Eel, Octopus, Swell Shark or Jelly.” The creatures at Seymour Middle have had a tricky couple of years, similar to many people. Final yr close by fires pressured us to evacuate them to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. They’ve returned secure and wholesome, however now they want your assist to get ongoing care. Will you undertake an eel at this time? Or an octopus, a swell shark, or a jelly? We admit we received’t ship you residence with one, however we hope you’ll come to go to them. Your present will assist feed dozens of stay creatures and hold their tanks clear. Additionally, you will fund the contact tank, the place you may contact a sea star, hermit crabs and extra.
Shared Adventures
Large Concept for 2022: “South County Inclusion.” Shared Adventures has a big participant base in our county, however solely receives a modest response from the Latinx disabled group. We plan to make a rare effort to achieve out to the Latinx group, to encourage participation in our actions, from crusing and horse-riding to recreation days and area journeys. We’ll maintain extra actions in South County; focus outreach towards multicultural companies, colleges and households; improve multicultural employees and volunteers; and use Spanish language media assets.
Soroptimist Worldwide of Capitola-by-the-Sea
Large Concept for 2022: “Reside Your Dream.” Annually, our membership receives 12-13 functions for our Reside Your Dream awards for eligible ladies—they have to be enrolled in or have been accepted to a BA or technical coaching program, are the heads of their households, have a demonstrated want and stay anyplace in Santa Cruz County. Winners have a minimum of one baby. Greater than half of our recipients are survivors of home violence, trafficking or sexual assault. Candidates hope to obtain certainly one of our $2,000 money awards that they might use to pay for lease, automotive repairs, medical payments or garments for his or her kids. We usually solely are in a position to fund three awards. Our membership’s dream—and our large thought—is to boost sufficient to fund money awards and vacation present playing cards for each eligible applicant.
Particular Data Mother and father Community
Large Concept for 2022: “Psychological Well being Assist for SPIN Households.” We at the moment present parent-to-parent help by means of our mentor father or mother program and parent-led help teams, and informational workshops and trainings for households who’ve kids with particular wants. Along with your help we want to provide SPIN mother and father free classes with a licensed therapist—each group and particular person classes—with English and Spanish talking therapists.
Sustainable Techniques Analysis Basis
Large Concept for 2022: “The Sustainable City Meals Initiative (SUFI).” We help small farms with new applied sciences, promote agriculture that protects and restores pure assets and champion new Latinx farmers. Undertaking impacts are farms which might be extra productive per acre, extra environmentally delicate, produce more healthy meals and promote native meals justice. We’ve got obtained a US Division of Agriculture grant supporting this mission, however that covers solely a portion of the associated fee. Funds go on to coaching prices, together with direct help for farmers.
Teen Kitchen Undertaking
Large Concept for 2022: “Meal Supply for the Critically Unwell in Santa Cruz County.” TKP’s shoppers can heal once they obtain wholesome meals as a part of their restoration from a crucial sickness. Because of this each week we put together and ship greater than 1,700 medically-tailored meals countywide. There was a surge in requests for our companies in the course of the pandemic: we doubled the variety of households we serve and the variety of meals delivered elevated 150%. We want your help so as to add refrigeration to certainly one of our vans to permit secure transport of meals countywide.
UnChained
Large Concept for 2022: “Canines Educating Compassion.” UnChained works with two weak populations in Santa Cruz County: homeless canines and underserved youth. UnChained provides progressive animal-assisted remedy in an 8-week program for youth and canines twice per week, educating teenagers to coach canines in primary abilities, constructive socialization and good manners. Our youth assist place the canines into adoptive properties after having achieved values of endurance, respect and duty for themselves and others. Please assist UnChained rent a licensed psychological well being skilled to co-lead our packages alongside the canine coach, and advance the social and emotional studying of our youth.
Valley Church buildings United
Large Concept for 2022: “Meals Pantry.” Of us that by no means wanted our help earlier than however discovered their lives in hardship for the final yr and a half as a result of pandemic disaster adopted by the CZU hearth catastrophe proceed to depend on our year-round meals pantry. We ask for funds to inventory our meals provides year-round with our deal with nutritious meals and sources of protein. We do obtain meals donations from Second Harvest Meals Financial institution, however to satisfy the necessity we should buy meals all year long. We hope to boost sufficient to offer a minimum of 12,500 kilos of meals for grateful shoppers.
Veterans Memorial Constructing (VMB)
Large Concept for 2022: “Veterans Village—Veteran-Owned and Operated.” We’ve got raised 75% of the funds wanted to develop a Veterans Village that would offer housing for as much as 40 veterans in want of everlasting, supportive, reasonably priced housing in Santa Cruz County. We’ve got the help of group leaders to accumulate a property with housing that can in the end generate the income to help itself by means of HUD-Vash funding (for veterans housing). As soon as arrange, the mannequin is designed to generate funds for operations and future growth. It additionally allows us to construct actual property fairness for the nonprofit. We want your preliminary assist to offer a group middle, onsite help service employees and operation.
Vets 4 Vets Santa Cruz
Large Concept for 2022: “Pc Lab Updates for Veterans.” We’re asking for help for our large thought, which is to buy new computer systems to replace our veterans’ pc lab positioned within the Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Constructing. This pc lab permits all veterans entry to the web, enabling them to carry out important duties comparable to accessing e mail, looking for housing and employment and studying to make use of primary software program packages, together with Microsoft Workplace.
Warming Middle/Footbridge Providers Middle
Large Concept for 2022: “Heat Nights For Everybody.” It’s our dedication that everybody sleeping outdoors in a doorway, tent or automotive ought to have what they must be heat at evening. This can be our eighth yr offering a pop-up shelter, but many will select to remain of their tents even on the coldest nights. Hypothermia is a continuing menace for these isolating on this method. Along with offering a coldest nights’ shelter, we additionally inventory and distribute as many as 1,000 blankets, hundreds of hand heaters, gloves, beanies and heat clothes. We’ll additionally distribute greater than 100 tents and a number of other hundred rain tarps.
Watsonville Wetlands Watch
Large Concept for 2022: “Reconnecting Pajaro Valley Youth to Nature.” Rising from 15 months of digital instruction, college students want enriching out of doors studying experiences. Watsonville Wetlands Watch will host hundreds of 3-Twelfth grade college students for environmental schooling and hands-on out of doors environmental restoration area journeys in Watsonville wetlands, parks and path methods in help of the Pajaro Valley Unified College District’s Restorative Begin initiative now by means of spring of 2022. College students will discover ways to take significant motion associated to local weather change resilience and concrete forests. Teenagers will restore wetland habitat for native, migratory, uncommon, threatened and endangered wildlife. They may also plant bushes all through parks, streets and neighborhoods.
Wings Homeless Advocacy
Large Concept for 2022: “Rehousing Wave: Welcome House.” The County of Santa Cruz supplied secure shelter and important companies to greater than 800 residents who lacked housing in the course of the pandemic. With state funding for these shelters ending, lots of these 800 folks want everlasting housing or they may fall into homelessness once more. Be a part of Wings and the remainder of the Homeless Motion Partnership to assist us forestall homelessness for everybody exiting these quarantine shelters. The trouble is known as the Rehousing Wave, and Wings is proud to be an integral half by offering primary must folks transitioning into everlasting housing. Whenever you donate to our mission, you assist to offer beds, hygiene and cleansing provides and very important paperwork companies to households and people. With no constructing bills, just one.5 full-time-equivalent employees and 50 volunteers, we exhibit the ability of group in motion.
Yoga For All Motion
Large Concept for 2022: “Reunite with Wellness.” We’re doing issues otherwise by not solely educating yoga to incarcerated college students, however by empowering them to grow to be yoga academics themselves. This program builds on the apply of yoga and meditation and provides coaching in group facilitation and holistic wellness, with a deal with breathwork, vitamin and somatic motion. Incarcerated college students will study invaluable instruments for self-care, and abilities to grow to be facilitators of this work. This can be a mentorship program that can present transitional help by inserting licensed facilitators in educating jobs the place the distinctive lived expertise of these transitioning from incarceration is valued.
Your Future is Our Enterprise
Large Concept for 2022: “LINKS SantaCruz.org.” YFIOB will help college students by connecting them to group members working in all 15 trade sectors acknowledged in California. Introducing college students to quite a lot of careers early on permits them strong, hands-on experiences. We do that by providing in-person companies comparable to profession gala’s, panels, job shadowing, internships and mentorships. One of many gaps for our colleges is to have the ability to entry these LINKS at a second’s discover. Your help will assist us to create LINKS SantaCruz.org the place very important info can be obtainable any time. This on-line platform would join colleges and companies, and provides academics entry to career-based curriculum, enterprise LINKS and group alternatives for college students. It could additionally home digital excursions of firms and different instruments to be used in curriculum.
The Santa Cruz Offers marketing campaign continues by means of Dec. 31. To learn extra about these teams, and to donate, go to santacruzgives.org.
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