| | The Chamber has been a local voice on behalf of business and the community since 1889. We are an independent Chamber of Commerce working within the Santa Cruz community bringing together businesses, workers, residents, organizations, citizens, and local governments to promote economic vitality and prosperity in Santa Cruz County. Connnect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Meetup, LinkedIn,
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 | Rising International | | Carmel Jud | 300 Portrero Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95003 | Phone:
831-4297473 | Fax:
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| | Host a party! Change the world! Rising International sells crafts made by the world's poorest women at home parties. Home party sales enable the artisans to find a way out of poverty by running their own micro-enterprises. In addition, Rising trains under-employed women in Santa Cruz County to run their own Rising Home Party businesses. Our parties empower women both globally and at a home. Can't host a party? Shop online. To learn more about Rising International watch an inspiring video, featuring Rising's global artisans, Dina Eastwood, and Congressman Sam Farr. |
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| American Cancer Society | | michelle Jones | 945 S. Main Street, Suite 201
Salinas, CA 93901 | Phone:
831-772-6529 | Fax:
831-772-0959 |
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| R. Blitzer Gallery | | Robert Blitzer | 2801 Mission St
2nd Floor
Santa Cruz, CA 95060 | Phone:
831-458-1217 | Fax:
831-458-0141 |
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| Helen Maslocka | | Helen Maslocka | 870 Park Ave., #307
Capitola, CA 95010 | Phone:
617-512-4530 |
| | Helen Maslocka is a former CEO and successful entrepreneur. She has worked in life sciences, green tech, energy and others that are dedicated to improving life.She has served as CEO, corporate development, marketing and corporate communications capacities in private venture backed and public companies. Amongst her achievements, she launched the Lasik procedure for Summit Technology. She has raised hundreds of millions of dollars. She moved here 22 months ago after living her adult life to date in the Cambridge Massachusetts area. Helen holds degrees from Boston College and Harvard. She is also working on a fantasy novel and poetry. |
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 | BTF Enterprises | | Glenn Zimmermann | 3540 Soquel Ave. Ste. A
Santa Cruz, CA 95062 | Phone:
831-464-4880 | Fax:
831-464-4881 |
| | BTF Enterprises provides full-time business and administrative management, project management, meeting planning including full conference and tradeshow management, and consulting services. Combining proven business and management concepts with cost effective shared resources, BTF strives to enhance the effectiveness of our client programs and ensure their successful growth. Through a long-term commitment to this mission, we are known for consistently delivering above and beyond our clients’ expectations. We invite you to visit our website – www.BTFenterprises.com - to hear more of what our clients are saying about us and then call us to find out how we can help your company. |
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| | Now in it's 34th year, the Council's mission is to promote, connect, and invest in the arts in order to stimulate creativity and vibrancy in Santa Cruz County. We envision a more vibrant Santa Cruz County, where individual and collective artistic expression thrives and where the arts are valued part of all aspects of our diverse culture, economy, educational systems, and eveyday life.
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| | The Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau is a vital part of our community, providing an important voice for the Santa Cruz County and Pajaro Valley agriculture industry. We are continually involved in local land use and transportation issues as well as opportunities to provide educational support through scholarships and school programs. The Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau helps insure that the agriculture industry here remains viable, and continues to generate financial security for the entire community. Our mission statement is to work for the solution of the problems of the farm, the farm home and the rural community, by use of the recognized advantages of organized action, to the end that those engaged in the various branches of agriculture may have opportunity for happiness and prosperity in their chosen work. |
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| Ag Against Hunger | | Lindsay Coote | PO Box 7051
Spreckels, CA 93962 | Phone:
831-755-1480 | Fax:
831-755-1484 |
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| | The RTC is responsible for area’s transportation planning, policy and funding. The decision making body includes all five county supervisors, one representative from each of the four cities, and three from the Metropolitan Transit District. Main projects and programs include: Securing funding, environmental analysis, design and construction for Highway 1 projects (Mission Street, Highway 1/17 Merge Lanes, Morrissey-Soquel Auxiliary Lanes and Highway 1 HOV project between Santa Cruz and Aptos); Acquiring the cross-county railroad corridor; Maintaining and improving the existing transportation network; Ensuring that there are viable mobility options for residents, commuters, students and visitors. |
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| MAPS | | Virginia Wright | 1215 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060 | Phone:
831 429 6362 | Fax:
831 429 6370 |
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| Rose Filicetti | 4650 Opal Street
Capitola, CA 95010 | Phone:
831-854-2010 650-906-3508 | Fax:
831-515-5331 |
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| | Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks was founded in 1976 to support the interpretive programs of coastal state parks in Santa Cruz County. Because our quality of life depends on the quality of our local State Parks, Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks supports the preservation, knowledge, and awareness of our natural and cultural resources through funding projects and programs in cooperation with local California State Parks. |
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| PG&E | | Rob Morse | 615 7th Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95062 |
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| City of Santa Cruz | | 809 Center Street, Rm. 10
Santa Cruz, CA 95060 | Phone:
831-420-5010 | Fax:
831-420-5011 |
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| | Coryell Autism Center is a school for teens and young adults with autism focusing on successful transition to adulthood through immersion in the Santa Cruz community. The program teaches functional academics as well as vocational, domestic, community, recreation & leisure, and life skills. With the help of our partners in the Santa Cruz business community, the center teaches students to interpret social guidelines, communicate thoughts and needs, manage behavior, process sensory information, and work real jobs, thereby opening the door to a world of opportunities. We offer eligible students the opportunity to live independently through our Supported Living Program. |
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| | Santa Cruz County SCORE, one of 364 SCORE chapters nationally and a resource partner of the SBA, provides counseling and training for small businesses and entrepreneurs. All counseling services are free and confidential. |
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| | Walnut Avenue Women’s Center is a 501(c)3 public benefit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for women, children, and families for over 75 years. WAWC prides itself on a strength-based, self-sufficient and mutual-support model that is utilized throughout the organization. Individuals are encouraged to take control of their lives through personal action and leadership. Through interactive, supportive programs, WAWC seeks to improve the economic, physical, and emotional well-being of women, children, and families in Santa Cruz County.
Mission Statement: To provide support and services so women, children and families have the skills and opportunities to thrive.
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| | The Homeless Services Center’s mission is to provide coordinated services for homeless persons in the Santa Cruz area. We provide both emergency services and transitional services to homeless individuals and families that will enable our clients to achieve self- sufficiency. The programs currently in operation are the Rebele Family Shelter, emergency housing for homeless families with children, Page Smith Community House, transitional housing for homeless single adults, Paul Lee Loft Shelter and Interfaith Satellite Shelter Program, emergency shelter for homeless adults, and the Day Resource Center, providing services such as meals, laundry, mail, showers, and employment assistance to homeless individuals. |
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| | A Temporary Sanctuary for the Mare and Foal, Pregnant Mare Rescue was founded in May of 2006. Our goal is to save as many pregnant mares from abusive situations, feed lots, eventual slaughter, and to provide an alternative for owners who cannot care for their pregnant horse to surrender them to our care. It is our mission to provide a safe natural environment for mares to foal in peace, and to nurture and nurse their young. It is our intent to gentle the mares, imprint and gentle the foals, and prepare them for new loving homes. We live by the Natural Horsemanship Philosophy of harmony, understanding and respecting the spirit of the animal. |
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| Santa Cruz Surfing Club Preservation Society | | | Santa Cruz, CA 95062 | Phone:
831 239-3170 |
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| Siena House Maternity Home | | Wayne Shaffer | 108 High St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95060 | Phone:
831-425-2229 | Fax:
831-425-0138 |
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| | Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center (SCCCC), a California nonprofit corporation, has been serving Santa Cruz County since 1973. SCCCC is the largest community based social service agency in the County providing services to over 7,000 Santa Cruz County residents annually. We deliver our bilingual, culturally sensitive services in many locations throughout the County. Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center cares for the people of the Santa Cruz County through the broadest spectrum of social services that heal, connect, and nurture the mental and social well-being of more than 7,000 children, individuals, families, and communities. SCCCC has touched the lives of one in four families since 1973. At more than 50 locations throughout the County, SCCCC ensures a safety net of counseling, education, housing, and advocacy that ultimately benefits the whole community. |
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| | Court Appointed Special Advocates is a Santa Cruz County non-profit that recruits, trains and professionally supervises volunteers who work one-on-one with children in foster care due to parental abuse or neglect. Last year more than 150 volunteer Advocates served nearly 200 children, working with schools, therapists, social workers and the courts. Judges rely on Advocates' recommendations in deciding how to best meet the children's needs until they are in safe, permanent homes. More than 70% of CASA's annual budget comes from fundraising and donations. Since its founding in 1992, CASA has served over 1000 children and trained more than 500 community volunteers. |
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| | The Land Trust of Santa Cruz County is a non-profit organization that works in cooperation with public and private interests to protect and manage lands of significant natural resource, agricultural, cultural and open space value. In partnership with the community, the Land Trust will protect the remaining critical land and water resources that define Santa Cruz County's beauty, coastal landscape, unique biotic habitats and rich agricultural heritage through a variety of strategies. For more information visit our web site www.LandTrustSantaCruz.org. |
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| | Womens Crisis Support/ Denensa de Mujeres is a non-profit organization whose mission is "to end the cycle of violence and sexual assault for all women, youth and children in our community, with special commitment to Latinos and other served groups". |
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| | Companion for Life / Lifeline Project is a nonprofit program for seniors, homebound and the disabled. They provide an emergency response equipment and monitoring on a month to month lease basis. If a subscriber is in trouble, they press the button on a pendant or wristband they wear. Their call for help is relayed to one of three responders selected in advance by the client. Help is on the way, generally within three to five minutes. This is a project of the Emergency Response Systems of Central Coast Counties |
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| HOPE Services | | Sally French | 220 Lincoln Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060 | Phone:
831-600-1502 | Fax:
831-600-1399 |
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| | The Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries, Inc., is a nonprofit organization whose members support the Santa Cruz City-County Library System through fund-raising, volunteer services and advocacy. The Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries (FSCPL) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the Santa Cruz Public Libraries (and the book mobile). Through FSCPL membership dues and donations, our members provide programs, services and media to all Santa Cruz Public Library branches. Thanks to your book donations and FSCPL volunteers, we also have a Friends Bookstore in the Central Library Branch and hold a giant Book Sale twice a year at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. |
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| Save Our Shores | | Laura Kasa | 345 Lake Avenue Suite A
Santa Cruz, CA 95062 | Phone:
831-462-5660 | Fax:
831-462-6070 |
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| | Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter (SCCAS) provides animal rescue, regulation and humane care that protect the health, public safety and welfare of people and animals in Santa Cruz County. We currently rescue and assure safe, temporary shelter, veterinary and humane care for approximately 7,000 stray, unwanted, abandoned, mistreated, neglected and injured animals each year. Our shelter also provides 24-hour animal rescue service and is Santa Cruz County’s only full service, open-admission animal shelter. SCCAS provides two locations for owners to find and recover their lost pets and adopt new animal companions. |
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| | We endeavor to provide life-changing services to children, youth, and families in our communities and around the world. We are devoted to creating permanent loving homes for children and youth in need, provide education and support to couples rearing children, maintain humanitarian aid efforts to benefit orphaned
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| | Grind Out Hunger is a Santa Cruz based non-profit created through the vision of skateboarders helping kids overcome hunger. It has grown to harnesses the energy of the youth and their concern for helping their peers. Grind Out Hunger's mission is to empower and educate the youth by utilizing the passion of skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding and music to take leadership in the fight against childhood hunger and malnutrition nationwide. In partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County, Grind Out Hunger has helped provide over 1.5 million healthy meals in Santa Cruz County. |
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 | Rotary Club of Santa Cruz | | 1492 Soquel Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95062 | Phone:
831-345-5182 |
| | Throughout its history, the Santa Cruz Rotary Club has attracted some of the city’s most important and influential business people and civic leaders. As the club celebrates over 86 years of service to the community, this continues to be the case. |
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| | We are an organization of community based volunteers, and we carry out our mission guided by the following priniciples: Excellence, Empowerment, Leadership, Equal Opportunity, and Partnership. Our goals for advancement are: Our Youth will succeed in school and in life, Our Families will be financially stable and independent, and Our Residents will have good health. |
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| Firelight Foundation | | Ms Cheryl Talley-Moon | 740 Front Street, Suite 380
Santa Cruz, CA 95060 | Phone:
429-8750 | Fax:
429-2036 |
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| | Established in 1989, HfHSCC is the only non-profit agency in the County of Santa Cruz providing home ownership opportunities for local low income families - coupled with sweat-equity and a vibrant community volunteer program. HfHSCC is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) and operates independently as a separate 501c3 with it’s own Board of Directors, staff and volunteers drawn from the community. |
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| | Since 1982, the Foundation has been promoting philanthropy by providing a simple, safe, and efficient way for individuals, families and businesses to invest in Santa Cruz County and beyond. |
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