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The Foundation awarded $463,085 in grants to 45 local nonprofit organizations through its 2006 competitive grants process. The awards were approved at the Foundation’s Board meeting on July 12, 2006.
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Click here to view or download (in PDF format) a copy of the 2006 Competitive Grants Awards listed below. |
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Learn more about our grantees by clicking on the highlighted link of organizations with websites.
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Organization |
Amount |
Purpose |
| 418 Project |
$4,000 |
to upgrade the Santa Cruz performing arts venue |
| Actors' Theatre |
$6,000 |
to support an office manager position for the organization |
| Boys and Girls Club of Santa Cruz |
$8,000 |
to expand a music education and studio recording program for Santa Cruz County youth ages 7 through 18 (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
| Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music |
$8,000 |
to conduct an in-depth marketing survey of current audience members and donors |
| KUSP-FM |
$4,500 |
to produce and market a CD anthology of live on-air music performances |
| Kuumbwa Jazz Center |
$8,000 |
to support jazz education programming for young performers |
| Mountain Art Guild |
$2,700 |
to support strategic planning for a rural all-volunteer visual arts organization |
| Pajaro Valley Arts Council |
$10,000 |
to support an executive transition process |
| Pajaro Valley Performing Arts Association |
$6,000 |
for general operating support |
| Pisces Moon Productions |
$3,900 |
to support Web development and marketing outreach efforts |
| Redman Foundation |
$5,500 |
to support a strategic planning process for restoring its historic building in the Pajaro Valley |
Santa Cruz County Symphony
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$8,700
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to support a strategic planning process for the organization
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Organization |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Community Alliance with Family Farmers |
$15,000 |
to expand the Buy Fresh Buy Local campaign and continue to develop policies to improve access to healthy, local food for Santa Cruz County residents (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
| Community Bridges |
$29,585 |
to support three programs: 1) to implement a sustainability plan for the Watsonville Law Center (which provides legal services to low-income residents at no cost); 2) to develop plans for a permanent facility for the Live Oak Family Resource Center; and 3) to implement an organization-wide marketing plan for Community Bridges (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
| Community Ventures, Inc. |
$9,200 |
to implement a business plan for a centralized service center to support the childcare sector in Santa Cruz County |
Watsonville Community
Connections Collaborative |
$8,000 |
to support a summit addressing the needs and resources of the Pajaro Valley |
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Organization |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Aptos Sports Foundation |
$20,000 |
a challenge grant to install all-weather turf at the Aptos Sports Complex |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County |
$8,000 |
to continue one-to-one mentoring services and after-school enrichment programs for at-risk children and youth in south county (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
| Girl Scouts of Monterey Bay |
$9,000 |
for board and staff training and planning activities to improve programs for girls (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
| Mercy Housing-Nueva Vista Apartments |
$6,000 |
to build capacity for a collaborative project to improve academic opportunities and achievement for students in the Lower Ocean and Beach Flats neighborhoods of Santa Cruz (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
| Second Saturday Network |
$1,000 |
to support outreach activities for African-American and mixed heritage teens in Santa Cruz County |
Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County–Youth Serve
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$10,000
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to establish a youth-led volunteer involvement program in Santa Cruz High School and San Lorenzo Valley Middle School
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Organization |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Life Lab Science Program |
$25,000 |
to support strategic planning, fundraising development and marketing efforts to improve school garden-based education programs (partially supported by donor advised funds)–two year grant up to $25,000 |
| Lompico Watershed Conservancy |
$10,000 |
a challenge grant to preserve the Lompico Headwaters forest habitat and watershed |
| O'Neill Sea Odyssey |
$10,000 |
a challenge grant to provide marine-based environmental education classes to low-income Latino youth in south county |
| Santa Cruz County Resource Conservation District |
$12,500 |
to support the Partners in Restoration Permit Coordination program to facilitate erosion control and habitat restoration projects affecting county watersheds |
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Organization |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Advocacy Inc. (formerly Ombudsman Advocate) |
$9,000 |
to expand outreach and education regarding long-term care in our county |
| Child Abuse Prevention Council |
$6,000 |
to develop and publicize training to increase the community's ability to prevent and respond to child abuse |
| Children's Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition |
$14,000 |
to continue coordinated care and case management services for families of children with life-threatening conditions (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County |
$12,000 |
to continue outreach increasing access to services for Latino youth |
| Health Projects Center |
$10,000 |
to expend respite services for family caregivers of Santa Cruz County's frail, elderly, and functionally disabled residents |
| Healthy Kids of Santa Cruz County |
$12,000 |
to support insurance premiums for low-income children between 6 and 18 years of age and management costs (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
| Hospice Caring Project |
$14,000 |
to expand efforts to increase access to end-of-life services for Latinos in the Pajaro Valley (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
| Janus of Santa Cruz |
$10,000 |
to plan and establish a methadone treatment program in the Watsonville area |
| Mental Health Client Action Network |
$25,000 |
to support strategic planning, board and staff training, and management information system upgrades to sustain and improve mental health service programs–two year grant up to $25,000 |
| Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center |
$5,000 |
to support STRANGE, a project providing social activities and services for Santa Cruz County lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth and their allies (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
| Santa Cruz Women's Health Center |
$12,000 |
to continue health care services for chronically ill and uninsured women between the ages of 40 and 64 (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
| Strategic Health Communications |
$10,000 |
to produce and distribute a quarterly newspaper written by and for teen addressing health issues |
| Women's Crisis Support–Defensa de Mujeres |
$13,000 |
to continue legal assistance and advocacy services for domestic violence survivors (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
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| AG Against Hunger |
$6,000 |
to continue a winter produce distribution program benefiting Santa Cruz County food pantries |
| Divorced Fathers' Network |
$6,500 |
to support positive parenting classes for men in minimum and medium security correctional facilities in south county (supported by donor advised funds) |
| Familia Center |
$8,000 |
to sustain a food pantry program and related outreach services for low-income families in the Beach Flats community of Santa Cruz |
| GEMMA |
$9,000 |
to start-up a transitional service program for single women coming out of jail (partially supported by donor advised funds) |
| Mountain Community Resources |
$8,000 |
to support bilingual outreach and case management services and for fund development planning to support future services |
| Pajaro Valley Shelter Services |
$25,000 |
to support strategic planning, fundraising development and marketing efforts to improve temporary shelter and transitional housing service programs–two year grant up to $25,000 |
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