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Amah Mutsun Land Trust

Year Founded: 2014
Staff FTE: 12
Volunteers: 40

 

Arts Council Santa Cruz County

Year Founded: 1979
Staff FTE: 12
Volunteers: 350

 

Association of Faith Communities of Santa Cruz County

Year Founded: 2012
Staff FTE: 8
Volunteers: 200

 

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County

Year Founded: 1982
Staff FTE: 3
Volunteers: 300

 

BirchBark Foundation

Year Founded: 2013
Staff FTE: 2.5
Volunteers: 50

 

Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Cruz County

Year Founded: 1969
Staff FTE: 40
Volunteers: 45

 

Camp Opportunity Inc

Year Founded: 1989
Staff FTE: 0
Volunteers: 65

 

Center for Farmworker Families

Year Founded: 2012
Staff FTE: 2
Volunteers: 100

 

Coastal Watershed Council

Year Founded: 1995
Staff FTE: 6
Volunteers: 300+

 

Colligan Theater - Theatre 831

Year Founded: 2014
Staff FTE: 6
Volunteers: 120-150

 

Community Bike Collective

Year Founded: 2011
Staff FTE: 0
Volunteers: 20

 

Community Bridges

Year Founded: 1977
Staff FTE: 200
Volunteers: 100

 

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Santa Cruz County

Year Founded: 1992
Staff FTE: 15
Volunteers: 230

 

Dientes Community Dental Care

Year Founded: 1992
Staff FTE: 120
Volunteers: 12

 

Eat for the Earth

Year Founded: 2019
Staff FTE: 2
Volunteers: 96

 

Ecology Action of Santa Cruz

Year Founded: 1970
Staff FTE: 106
Volunteers: 86

 

Families In Transition (FIT)

Year Founded: 1992
Staff FTE: 18
Volunteers: 0

 

Farm Discovery at Live Earth

Year Founded: 2008
Staff FTE: 5
Volunteers: 20

 

Free Guitars 4 Kids

Year Founded: 2020
Staff FTE: 2
Volunteers: 100+

 

Girls Inc. of the Central Coast

Year Founded: 1999
Staff FTE: 7 Full time adult staff and 27 Part time Youth Leaders
Volunteers: 53

 

Grey Bears

Year Founded: 1973
Staff FTE: 21
Volunteers: 534

 

Habitat for Humanity Monterey Bay

Year Founded: 1989
Staff FTE: 20.5
Volunteers: 600

 

Homeless Garden Project

Year Founded: 1990
Staff FTE: 11
Volunteers: 1500

 

Hopes Closet of Santa Cruz

Year Founded: 2011
Staff FTE: 3
Volunteers: 18

 

Hospice of Santa Cruz County

Year Founded: 1978
Staff FTE: 131
Volunteers: 290

 

Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Support Services

Year Founded: 1998
Staff FTE: 24
Volunteers: 200

 

KSQD 90.7FM

Year Founded: 2018
Staff FTE: 1
Volunteers: 150

 

Life Lab

Year Founded: 1979
Staff FTE: 6
Volunteers: 25

 

Live Like Coco Foundation

Year Founded: 2016
Staff FTE: 0
Volunteers: 100

 

MENtors Driving Change for Boys, Men and Dads

Year Founded: 2017
Staff FTE: 1.5
Volunteers: 17

 

Monarch Services—Servicios Monarca

Year Founded: 1977
Staff FTE: 48
Volunteers: 10

 

Motion Pacific Dance, Inc.

Year Founded: 1998
Staff FTE: 2
Volunteers: 25

 

Pajaro Valley Arts

Year Founded: 1984
Staff FTE: 3.75
Volunteers: 30

 

Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes

Year Founded: 1989
Staff FTE: 4.5
Volunteers: 250

 

Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance, Inc.

Year Founded: 1991
Staff FTE: 55
Volunteers: 0

 

Pajaro Valley Shelter Services

Year Founded: 1983
Staff FTE: 10
Volunteers: 100

 

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Inc.

Year Founded: 1964
Staff FTE: 39
Volunteers: 162

 

Positive Discipline – PDCR

Year Founded: 2009
Staff FTE: 5
Volunteers: 22

 

Queer Youth Task Force

Year Founded: 1997
Staff FTE: 0
Volunteers: 140

 

Regeneración — Pajaro Valley Climate Action

Year Founded: 2016
Staff FTE: 6
Volunteers: 20

 

Reggie Stephens Foundation

Year Founded: 2018
Staff FTE: 0
Volunteers: 12

 

San Lorenzo Valley Museum

Year Founded: 1976
Staff FTE: 0.6
Volunteers: 50

 

Santa Cruz Children's Museum of Discovery

Year Founded: 2014
Staff FTE: 4.5
Volunteers: 15

 

Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter Foundation

Year Founded: 2003
Staff FTE: 1
Volunteers: Shelter/400; Foundation/8

 

Santa Cruz Shakespeare

Year Founded: 2014
Staff FTE: 6
Volunteers: 90

 

Santa Cruz SPCA

Year Founded: 1938
Staff FTE: 14.5
Volunteers: 350

 

Santa Cruz Welcoming Network

Year Founded: 2019
Staff FTE: 0
Volunteers: 104

 

Save Our Shores

Year Founded: 1978
Staff FTE: 8
Volunteers: 5,000

 

Second Harvest Food Bank

Year Founded: 1972
Staff FTE: 53
Volunteers: 3250

 

Senderos

Year Founded: 2001
Staff FTE: 2.5
Volunteers: 100

 

Shared Adventures

Year Founded: 1994
Staff FTE: 1.25
Volunteers: 240

 

Tannery World Dance and Cultural Center

Year Founded: 2011
Staff FTE: 2
Volunteers: 60

 

Teen Kitchen Project

Year Founded: 2012
Staff FTE: 12
Volunteers: 100

 

The Bike Church

Year Founded: 1998
Staff FTE: 4
Volunteers: 20

 

The Diversity Center

Year Founded: 1989
Staff FTE: 7
Volunteers: 90

 

The Equine Healing Collaborative

Year Founded: 2015
Staff FTE: 13
Volunteers: 60

 

Unchained

Year Founded: 2011
Staff FTE: 14
Volunteers: 165

 

Ventures

Year Founded: 1989
Staff FTE: 17
Volunteers: 10

 

Veteran Surf Alliance

Year Founded: 2018
Staff FTE: 0
Volunteers: 40 per event

 

Vets 4 Vets Santa Cruz

Year Founded: 2015
Staff FTE: 2 FTE
Volunteers: 75

 

Village Santa Cruz County

Year Founded: 2017
Staff FTE: .25 (10 hrs/wk)
Volunteers: 40

 

Walnut Avenue

Year Founded: 1933
Staff FTE: 26
Volunteers: 13

 

Watsonville Wetlands Watch

Year Founded: 1991
Staff FTE: 16
Volunteers: 800

 

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