Focus:
Housing & Homelessness
Economic Justice
Electoral Politics
Immigration
Political Reform
Social Justice
Community Building

Current Activities:
Organizing workshops and community fora addressing the issues of immigration
houselessness and police practices.

Ways to Participate:
Canvassing
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Marches and Rallies
Research
Petitioning

Focus:
Housing & Homelessness
Economic Justice
Electoral Politics
Immigration
Political Reform
Social Justice
Community Building

Current Activities:
Organizing workshops and community fora addressing the issues of immigration
houselessness and police practices.

Ways to Participate:
Canvassing
Help at Events
Contribute
Attend Events
Marches and Rallies
Research
Petitioning

Focus:
Housing & Homelessness
Economic Justice
Electoral Politics
Immigration
Political Reform
Social Justice
Community Building

Current Activities:
Organizing workshops and community fora addressing the issues of immigration
houselessness and police practices.

Ways to Participate:
Canvassing
Help at Events
Contribute
Attend Events
Marches and Rallies
Research
Petitioning

Focus:
Economic Justice
Social Justice
Other

Current Activities:
Report backs from El Salvador delegations
movie night
webinars
petitions
contact Congressional reps.

Ways to Participate:
Canvassing
Help at Events
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Publicity & Outreach
Online Activism
Attend Events
Marches and Rallies
Direct Action
Research
help with delegations

Focus:
Community Building

Current Activities:
Adding features to the Calendar
Expanding membership
Adding a Public Directory of member groups

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Focus:
Environment
Transportation
Social Justice

Current Activities:
YES to Metro bus passes
Support of Vision Zero
Oppose highway widening
Yes to trail plus public transit on the rail corridor

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Focus:
Public Space
Community

Current Activities:
We are a group of business and community members advocating for a Downtown Commons and permanent home for the Farmers Market at its current location at parking lot 4 in Downtown Santa Cruz. To receive emails
make a request to: downtowncommonsadvocates@gmail.com .

Ways to Participate:
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Focus:
Environment

Current Activities:
Online and in-person education and outreach regarding the environmental impacts of diet

Systems change work to support institutions such as restaurants
schools
and government entities to adopt environmentally-friendly food procurement and service practices

Coalition development and contributions

Ways to Participate:
Office
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Focus:
Social Justice

Current Activities:
End Solitary Santa Cruz
based in Santa Cruz
CA
works to end solitary confinement and sleep deprivation torture in CA prisons
and to end solitary
mass incarceration in the Prison Industrial Complex
mass criminalization
and crimmigration statewide and nationwide.

We hold an action at Pacific and Cooper on the 24th of every month from 12 to 2 pm.

Ways to Participate:

Focus:
Environment

Current Activities:
Publicizing ways community members can volunteer to make a difference for the environment.

Ways to Participate:
Check the listings to volunteer

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Focus:
Community Building

Current Activities:
Third Friday Community Drumming Session at the Inner Light Center
Soquel
CA
Ongoing community drumming sessions for local non-profit groups
corporations and private groups
In-Person and Online percussion education for groups and individuals

Ways to Participate:

Focus:
Community Building

Current Activities:
panel for men to envision a world without violence April 26 7 PM Resource Center for Nonviolence

Ways to Participate:
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Publicity & Outreach
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Focus:
Environment
Social Justice
Community Building

Current Activities:
In Novasutras
we are building community and resilience to aid our work for climate sanity
ecosystem wellness
and social justice
through loving-kindness toward all beings and deep reverence for Nature. We believe that people working to protect
heal and restore our world can be most effective if we have a supportive community that encourages personal wellness practices. We provide online places where critical thinking
diversity
and democracy are honored
and where the core values of the community align with our callings as climate activists and Earth healers. We also provide a constructive social milieu for developing new ideas and initiatives.

Online gatherings include open Discussions in Difficult Times
Reconnection Rituals
Catharsis conversations
and Focusing Practice every month
Guided Moon Phase Meditations
Octal Meditations & Celebrations (Solstices
Equinoxes and Cross-Quarters)
and scheduled presentation events on varied topics (equatorial rainforests
political engagement and reasons for hope
systems and complexity
regenerative agriculture and land reform)
Please come learn more about us at Link.

In addition to our many online offerings
we host local events in the Santa Cruz area
including shinrin-yoku (forest immersion)
guided meditations
and other rituals. We are happy to lead meditations or rituals in support of other organizations and their work for a better world.

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Focus:
Environment
Healthcare
Community Building
Other

Current Activities:
Open Farm Tour Sunday
October 8 from 10 am to 4 pm in Corralitos -- Suppport Sustainable Family Farms in our Region

Ways to Participate:
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Focus:
Nonviolence

Current Activities:
The Resource Center for Nonviolence promotes the practice of nonviolence in personal and social change to create a more just
peaceful and sustainable world. Our primary mission is to support the growth of nonviolent activists.
Programs:
*Kingian Nonviolence Conflict Reconciliation Training
*Project reGeneration/ Youth Empowerment
*Public Forums and events related to nonviolence as a force for change
*Racial Justice
*Opposing Militarism
*Nonviolence Networking Nights - monthly
*The Art of Nonviolence- exhibits
Associated programs: Palestine Justice Coalition
SCCCCOR

Ways to Participate:
Office
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Marches and Rallies

Focus:
Social Justice

Current Activities:
Active supporter of City and County Climate Action plans.
Supporter of Third Act and other divestment actions.
Climate Education in local schools
Communicator on many climate related issues

Ways to Participate:
Canvassing
Help at Events
Contribute
Publicity & Outreach
Online Activism
Attend Events
Marches and Rallies
Direct Action
Research
Petitioning

Focus:
Community Building

Current Activities:
Adding features to the Calendar
Expanding membership
Adding a Public Directory of member groups

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Focus:
Scientific
Art
Other

Current Activities:
Founded in 1949 to promote earth sciences
gemology
and lapidary arts scholarship and education. Since 1952 has hosted big gem and mineral show at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
third weekend in April. Meets 2nd wed of each month. Meetings include sharing knowledge and an interesting talk or program. All volunteer. Members give lectures and lead field trips. Volunteers operate a lapidary shop at Market St. Senior Center and teach lapidary arts. Member California and American Federation of Mineralogical Societies. Awards $00 Cabrillo and $1000 UCSC Earth Science scholarships on an annual or bi-annual basis
depending on fundraising
contributions
and volunteer availability.

Ways to Participate:
Help at Events
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Publicity & Outreach
Attend Events

Focus:
Affordable Housing

Current Activities:
creating long-term funding sources to build housing for economically disadvantaged
reshape culture to be pro-housing
encourage housing construction
reducing artificial barriers to finding and staying in housing.

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Focus:
Healthcare
Other

Current Activities:
Ongoing therapy groups for survivors of child sexual abuse and their allies. We offer groups for women
men
partners
parents and teens. In English or Spanish. We have a Caring 4 Kids: End Child Sexual Abuse project which includes a Rhythm Event held every year on Earth Day/Day of the Child in Watsonville.

Ways to Participate:
Canvassing
Office
Help at Events
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Fundraising
Publicity & Outreach
Online Activism
Attend Events
Marches and Rallies

Focus:
Environment
Scientific

Current Activities:

Ways to Participate:
Contribute
Fundraising
Publicity & Outreach
Attend Events

Focus:
Electoral Politics

Current Activities:
flipping the House - Congressional District 10

Ways to Participate:
Canvassing
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Online Activism

Focus:
Political Reform
Social Justice
Community Building

Current Activities:
We are celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice Treaty signed in 1918 with activities year round.

Ways to Participate:
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Marches and Rallies

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Current Activities:

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