Santa Cruz Gives Holiday Campaign 2024
As we embark on this year’s fundraiser for 63 local nonprofits, we can all be grateful that 2024 is the first year in quite a while without a community-wide crisis. While most years don’t have a pandemic, a flood, or a recession — for many of our neighbors, every year is challenging. Some groups that ask for your support work to provide essentials such as food and shelter for the neediest. Others elevate the quality of life for all residents to provide what government and for-profit enterprises do not—educational and arts programs, for example, that meet our aspirational hopes and dreams. Other organizations work to improve specific areas such as the environment, healthcare, animal welfare, etc. Our hope is that you will use this site to learn about the great local work being done, and will support the organizations that inspire you. We welcome our newest sponsor, the 1440 Foundation, and extend sincere thanks to our other sponsors who have returned year after year with countywide support: Good Times, the Volunteer Center, Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County, Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Driscoll’s, Inc., Applewood Foundation, Joe Collins Foundation, 1440 Foundation, Santa Cruz County Bank, Wynn Capital Management, The Pajaronian, and Press Banner. Read more