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Foundation Furniture Giveway to Nonprofits

August 12, 2010 – We used our upcoming move to our new center as an opportunity to help local nonprofits through a furniture giveaway.

On July 29, we invited groups to tour our offices and tag pieces of furniture they might want for their own organizations. What we had to offer included newer wooden desks, filing cabinets, tables and chairs.

In all, over 100 pieces of furniture were available, with a total estimated value of over $10,000.
  

Among the organizations receiving furniture were the Ecological Farming Association, Above the Line, Life Lab Sciene Program, Court Appointed Special Advocates, Pajaro Valley Arts Council, Homeless Service Center and the Family Service Agency of the Central Coast.



Driscoll's Adds $1 Million to Its Philanthropy Program Fund

May 14, 2010In 2001, Miles Reiter, CEO of Driscoll's, started a corporate donor-advised fund at the Foundation to help streamline his company's charitable giving.

The company recently made a record gift of just of $1 million to build the Driscoll's Charitable Fund, which it has been adding to over time . . .


2010 Santa Cruz County Nonprofit Landscape Study

May 13, 2010 – Similar to our 2005 study that profiled a nonprofit sector in the aftermath of the dot com bust, our just-released 2010 study show organizations in the midst of an even more dire economic crisis.

"We hope this report can help our donors, nonprofit leaders and public sector agencies make good decisions about the future of philanthropy in our county," said Executive Director Lance Linares.

The Executive Summary, Sector Profile Report and Subsector Briefs Report provide a profile of our local nonprofit sector. They examine how organizations have been affected by the current recession and strategies being used to deal with a growing demand for services and increasingly limited resources.



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