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July 15, 2009 – Fifty-three grants, totaling $745,250, were recently approved by the Foundation's board of directors.
In making these grants, the Foundation drew on its own grantmaking funds (Interest Area and Diversity Partnership Funds), as well as support from its donors and other foundation partners.
Nine donors contributed $157,000 to the grants pool, with additional support coming from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and The California Wellness Foundation.
In response to the down economy, priority was given this year to helping local groups maintain safety net services such as food, shelter, health care and other resources required to maintain basic standards of living.
Seventy percent of the grants were made in the areas of Community Development, Health and Human Services.
Grants were also awarded in Arts, History and Culture; Education and Youth Development; and the Environment.
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Organization |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Actors' Theatre |
$15,000 |
to underwrite expenses for self-produced plays by contemporary playwrights, directed and performed by local arts community members |
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Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music |
$15,000
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a two-year grant to sustain youth programs at the 2009 and 2010 Cabrillo Music Festival (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
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Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County |
$11,000
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to create an organizational structure that enables the Cultural Council to advance the arts and arts organizations in Santa Cruz County |
| KUSP-FM |
$7,500 |
to broadcast Santa Cruz County music festivals and concert series as part of the "KUSP On-Site" weekly radio program |
| Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center |
$11,500
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to plan and launch a marketing program that attracts new visitors, expands audience, and builds the Museum's membership |
| New Music Works |
$10,000 |
to develop a base of community support that can sustain the creation and performance of contemporary classical music (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
Pajaro Valley Performing Arts Association
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$5,000 |
to expand performing arts programming and increase audience at the Mello Center
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| Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre |
$8,000 |
to plan and implement funding strategies that will increase ongoing individual, corporate and foundation support from for the ballet |
| Santa Cruz County Symphony |
$10,000 |
to continue audience development in South County for Mello Center classical concerts |
| Santa Cruz Mountains Arts Center |
$7,000 |
to sustain free after-school art classes for teens in the San Lorenzo Valley (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
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Organization |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Action Pajaro Valley |
$15,000 |
to assess the impact of the 2002 Growth Management Strategy on Pajaro Valley land use and community revitalization |
| Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action |
$20,000 |
to develop leadership among Latino immigrants in Watsonville to maintain their homes, to advocate for affordable housing and to prepare for gainful employment (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Community Television of Santa Cruz County |
$12,000 |
to produce mini-documentaries for eight nonprofit organizations to be aired on Community Television, uploaded to the Internet and used for organizational promotion by the nonprofits |
| Conflict Resolution Center |
$20,000 |
to develop and launch a bilingual Divorce Mediation program for low-income people in Santa Cruz County |
| Homeless Garden Project |
$5,000 |
for board and executive director training and development (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Watsonville Law Center |
$20,000 |
for a county wide project that provides outreach and education, legal assistance, referrals, and direct representation to prevent mortgage foreclosures (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
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Organization |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Boys and Girls Club of Santa Cruz |
$10,000 |
to coordinate youth development programs in the Beach Flats community and to support after-school transportation to the downtown club |
| Girl Scouts of California's Central Coast |
$10,000
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to support Uniquely Me! (¡Nadie Como Yo!) program, providing science, cultural, and healthy-living-based activities at housing complexes and migrant camps in Santa Cruz County |
| Santa Cruz Community Ventures |
$17,500 |
to prepare foster youth with financial survival skills and a savings buffer before they age out of foster care, through a customized education and asset-building program (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| The Friends of Main Street School |
$15,000 |
to expand the Art Docent Program in Soquel and Santa Cruz Gardens Elementary Schools |
| Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County |
$10,000 |
to continue summer and after-school services for youth, and convene an Advisory Board to create a sustainable funding base for the Youth Coalition |
| Watsonville Brown Berets |
$3,000 |
to continue support for the Watsonville Bike Shack Project and to expand community collaboration on bike, health, and other youth issues |
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Organization |
Amount |
Purpose |
Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County
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$17,000
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to renew support for a countywide permit process that facilitates local watershed restoration projects (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Save Our Shores |
$15,000 |
to strengthen local marine conservation activities and organizational infrastructure (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Watsonville Wetlands Watch |
$20,000 |
to continue Wetland Stewards, a program that provides after-school, outdoor, experiential environmental education to middle school youth of the Pajaro Valley (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
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Organization |
Amount |
Purpose |
| ABC/African-American Community Health Group |
$8,000 |
to sustain health education services directed to the African-American community of Santa Cruz County) |
| Children's Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition |
$15,000 |
to provide comprehensive care coordination services for families of children with life threatening conditions in Santa Cruz County (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Community Alliance with Family Farmers |
$10,000 |
to expand the Farm to School program which promotes the use of fresh produce in local schools through food distribution and educational guides |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz (CASA) |
$25,000 |
to provide foster children with services that increase their life skills and academic performance (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Family Service Agency of the Central Coast |
$20,000 |
to continue to provide free and low-cost counseling to people unable to afford the sliding scale fees |
| Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County |
$40,500 |
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) |
| Health Projects Center |
$15,000 |
to provide training for family caregivers that enables them to provide safe care for their loved one and to maintain their own physical and emotional well-being (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Hospice of Santa Cruz County |
$15,000 |
for an initiative that assures terminally ill patients' preferences for medical intervention and treatment are known and followed by healthcare providers |
| Janus of Santa Cruz |
$17,000 |
to partially subsidize Sober Living Environment housing costs for women and their children (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Life Lab Science Program |
$15,000 |
to expand youth participation in Food What?! and to create nutrition workshops for their parents that sustain the nutritional learning at home |
| Mental Health Client Action Network (MHCAN) |
$17,250 |
to sustain program services that facilitate clients' recovery from major mental illness (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Planned Parenthood Mar Monte |
$12,000 |
to provide affordable transgender healthcare and health education to serve LGBTQ individuals and their families in Santa Cruz County (funded by the Diversity Partnership Fund) |
| Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center |
$20,000 |
to develop a sustainable revenue structure to support mental health services |
| Santa Cruz County Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services |
$20,000 |
to purchase food, shelter and medicine for low-income, seriously mentally ill adults served by various agencies in Santa Cruz County |
| Santa Cruz Women's Health Center |
$25,000 |
to sustain access to primary health care services and improve the quality of care for Medicare and senior patients |
| Survivors Healing Center |
$5,000 |
to continue countywide therapy programs and explore options for sustainability |
| Women's Crisis Support–Defensa de Mujeres |
$7,000 |
to conduct culturally and linguistically competent support groups for teens exposed to domestic violence (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
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| AG Against Hunger |
$10,000 |
to meet the increased demand for fresh produce by purchasing equipment that will enhance the agency's ability to receive more donations |
| Beach Flats Community Center |
$15,000 |
to continue community education and support services to residents in the Beach Flats (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Community Bridges |
$20,000 |
to continue services for low-income and immigrant families at La Manzana Community Resources ($10,000) and Live Oak Family Resource Center ($10,000) (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| The Diversity Center |
$10,000 |
to provide bilingual educational and support services, and resources to the LGBTQ Latino community (funded by the Diversity Partnership Fund) |
| Familia Center |
$8,000 |
to sustain the food distribution program and related outreach and referral services for low-income families in Beach Flats (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Homeless Services Center |
$5,000 |
to augment emergency services, especially meals, at the Day Resource Center |
| Human Care Alliance |
$6,000 |
to establish and participate in a tri-county (Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito) coalition to advocate on behalf of nonprofit human service organizations |
| Mountain Community Resources |
$20,000 |
to support advocacy and basic safety net services for families and teens in the San Lorenzo Valley |
| Pajaro Valley Shelter Services |
$20,000 |
to support family self-sufficiency through case management services and to develop funding strategies to sustain agency services (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Second Harvest Food Bank |
$25,000 |
to bolster the food supply to meet increased demand for food aid (partially supported by donor-advised funds) |
| Western Service Workers Association |
$10,000 |
to expand supplemental food and clothing distributions and referrals for preventive medical care, non-emergency dental care, jobs and resources in South County |
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