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The Foundation awarded $622,900 in grants to 48 local nonprofit organizations through the 2008 competitive grants process from Interest Area Funds. These awards were approved at the Foundation’s Board meeting on July 9, 2008.
Click here to view or download (in PDF format) a copy of the 2008 Community Grants Awards listed below.
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Learn more about our grantees by clicking on the highlighted link of organizations with Web sites.
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Organization |
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| Actors' Theatre |
$12,000 |
to upgrade the facility and improve the organization's Web site presence |
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The Beat Within |
$12,000
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a two-year challenge grant to conduct creative writing workshops for youth in Santa Cruz County juvenile detention facilities |
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Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks |
$20,000
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to help stabilize and restore the Castro Adobe
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| Japanese Cultural Fair |
$4,400 |
to develop and implement a board recruitment program and to build a donor base |
| Jazz Society of Santa Cruz County |
$4,000
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to continue to archive written and recorded histories of Santa Cruz County jazz musicians |
| Mariposa's Art |
$15,000 |
a two-year grant to partially support after-school arts and youth development programs (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Pacific Rim Film Festival |
$3,000 |
to expand the film selection at the Pacific Rim Film Festival (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Pajaro Valley Performing Arts Association |
$9,000 |
a challenge grant to support new programming at the Mello Center
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| Redman–Hirahara Foundation |
$12,500 |
to organize an advisory group to guide historical acquisition and programming for the Redman–Hirahara House |
| Santa Cruz City Parks and Recreation Department |
$15,000 |
to expand the visibility and use of Santa Cruz Tickets by both patrons and producers |
| Santa Cruz County Symphony |
$9,000 |
to expand audiences for performances in South County |
| Santa Cruz MountainsArts Center |
$7,000 |
to continue youth art programs and free weekly teen classes in the San Lorenzo Valley |
| Watsonville–Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League |
$10,000 |
to produce a collection of videotaped oral history interviews detailing the Santa Cruz County Japanese American experience available locally and globally online |
| Watsonville Taiko |
$4,000 |
to support an innovative performance of drumming and physical theatre |
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Organization |
Amount |
Purpose |
Coast Watershed Council
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$10,000
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a challenge grant to support staff and consultants engaged in developing a sustainability plan (partially supported by donor advised funds)
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| Ecology Action |
$15,000 |
to support the EcoCruz collaborative, an online website for Santa Cruz County environmental organizations (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| O'Neill Sea Odyssey |
$2,500 |
to advocate for increased funding for outdoor education (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| The Otter Project |
$5,000 |
to partially support efforts to protect our coastal waters through public information and advocacy |
| Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County |
$16,000 |
to coordinate the Healthy Watershed Restoration program to remove invasive plants and restore habitat |
| Save Our Shores |
$10,000 |
to implement a strategic marketing plan and increase agency visibility and support |
| Watsonville Wetlands Watch |
$25,000 |
to enhance an after-school, hands-on wetlands science education program for middle and high school students in South County (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
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Organization |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Center for Community Advocacy |
$25,000 |
a two–year grant to pilot a violence prevention program in Pajaro Valley (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Dientes Community Dental Care |
$25,000 |
a two–year grant to continue to provide dental care at the lowest possible fees (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Family Service Agency of the Central Coast |
$10,000 |
to provide free and/or low–cost counseling to people unable to afford the sliding scale fees |
| Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County |
$20,000 |
for Healthy Kids of Santa Cruz County to provide health insurance coverage for local low–income children 6–18 years of age (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
| Life Lab Science Program |
$15,000 |
to support additional staff for a youth development project for teens focusing on sustainable agriculture and health education |
| Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust |
$40,000 |
a three-year grant to increase staff capacity at the Diabetes Health Center (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Santa Cruz AIDS Project |
$15,000 |
to increase fundraising capacity |
| Santa Cruz Women's Health Center |
$25,000 |
to build the organization's capacity to manage and govern operations (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Survivors Healing Center |
$10,000 |
to support group therapy programs and a speakers series for Latino survivors of child abuse |
| Willow Pond Farm |
$2,000 |
to maintain the equine assisted psychotherapy program for survivors of child abuse in South County |
| Women's Crisis Support–Defensa de Mujeres |
$10,000 |
to improve the organization's administrative capacity by upgrading agency technology and staff training |
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| American Red Cross Santa Cruz County Chapter |
$10,000 |
a two-year grant to continue to support transportation services to out-of-county medical appointments for low-income seniors, disabled people and other county residents |
| Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County |
$10,000 |
a challenge grant to develop a fundraising strategy and build fundraising capacity |
| Community Bridges |
$15,000 |
to support Live Oak Family Resource Center's capital campaign strategy development and training of campaign committee members |
| The Diversity Center |
$15,000 |
an 18-month grant to increase the organization's capacity to provide programs and services to the LGBT community |
| Homeless Services Center |
$15,000 |
a two-year grant to support the Rebele Family Shelter program (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
| Human Care Alliance |
$5,000 |
to continue to strengthen the capacity and effectiveness of the Human Care Alliance, a network of over sixty county health and human service organizations |
| Mountain Community Resources |
$12,000 |
to complete strategic planning and build agency visibility |
| Second Harvest Food Bank |
$25,000 |
a two-year grant to expand the Food for Children Program (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
| Seniors Council |
$10,000 |
to reimburse for travel costs to mentoring and tutoring sites for Foster Grandparents |
| United Way of Santa Cruz County |
$8,000 |
a challenge grant to continue the Homeless Action Partnership's refinement and implementation of the ten-year plan to end homelessness in Santa Cruz County |
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