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Arts Council Santa Cruz County

Year Founded: 1979
Staff FTE: 15
Volunteers: 350

 

Balance Santa Cruz County

Year Founded: 2001
Staff FTE: 82
Volunteers: 0

 

Bird School Project

Year Founded: 2014
Staff FTE: 4
Volunteers: 10

 

Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Cruz County

Year Founded: 1969
Staff FTE: 35
Volunteers: 50

 

Community Bike Collective

Year Founded: 2010
Staff FTE: 0
Volunteers: 20

 

Community Life Services

Year Founded: 2012
Staff FTE: 5
Volunteers: 28

 

County Parks Friends

Year Founded: 1987
Staff FTE: 2.8
Volunteers: 45 (avg 46 hrs/yr each)

 

Farm Discovery at Live Earth

Year Founded: 2008
Staff FTE: 3.88
Volunteers: 58

 

Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries

Year Founded: 1979
Staff FTE: 3
Volunteers: 175

 

Girls Inc. of the Central Coast

Year Founded: 1999
Staff FTE: 7.5 + 31 part-time youth leaders
Volunteers: 50

 

Groundswell Coastal Ecology

Year Founded: 2015
Staff FTE: 3
Volunteers: 150

 

Homeless Garden Project

Year Founded: 1990
Staff FTE: 11
Volunteers: 1,000

 

Live Like Coco Foundation

Year Founded: 2016
Staff FTE: 0
Volunteers: 100

 

Live Oak Education Foundation

Year Founded: 2014
Staff FTE: 2 hours/week
Volunteers: 80 (typical year)

 

Media Watch - Amah Mutsun Project

Year Founded: 1989
Staff FTE: 0
Volunteers: 9

 

MENtors: Driving Change for Boys, Men & Dads

Year Founded: 2017
Staff FTE: 1.25
Volunteers: 25

 

Monterey Bay Economic Partnership (MBEP)

Year Founded: 2015
Staff FTE: 10
Volunteers: 40

 

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

Year Founded: 2017
Staff FTE: 1.5
Volunteers: 6

 

Museo Eduardo Carrillo

Year Founded: 2000
Staff FTE: 30 hours/week (.75)
Volunteers: 20 hours/week (.5)

 

Nourishing Generations

Year Founded: 2011
Staff FTE: .5
Volunteers: 10

 

Regeneración

Year Founded: 2016
Staff FTE: 2
Volunteers: 30

 

Resource Center for Nonviolence

Year Founded: 1976
Staff FTE: 2
Volunteers: 65

 

San Lorenzo Valley Museum

Year Founded: 1976
Staff FTE: 16 hours/week (.4)
Volunteers: 80

 

Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos

Year Founded: 1977
Staff FTE: 18
Volunteers: 6

 

Santa Cruz Community Ventures

Year Founded: 1989
Staff FTE: 8
Volunteers: 0

 

Santa Cruz Shakespeare

Year Founded: 2014
Staff FTE: 6
Volunteers: 90

 

Save Our Shores

Year Founded: 1978
Staff FTE: 5
Volunteers: 3,500

 

Seymour Marine Discovery Center

Year Founded: 2000
Staff FTE: 9
Volunteers: 90

 

Soroptimist International - Capitola Branch

Year Founded: 1921
Staff FTE: 0
Volunteers: 30

 

Teen Kitchen Project

Year Founded: 2012
Staff FTE: 9
Volunteers: 100

 

The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History

Year Founded: 1905
Staff FTE: 12
Volunteers: 35

 

UnChained

Year Founded: 2011
Staff FTE: 2
Volunteers: 168 (typical year)

 

Watsonville Wetlands Watch

Year Founded: 1991
Staff FTE: 12
Volunteers: 250 (800 typical year)

 

Your Future Is Our Business

Year Founded: 1993
Staff FTE: 2
Volunteers: 1

 

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