5 minute read
2022 Rise Together Circle of Support Grants
Amah Mutsun Land Trust: $14,400 to provide 25 weeks of wages for AMLT’s first Food Sovereignty & Native Plant Steward, whose responsibilities include producing and distributing healthy, organic and native foods to the Tribal community, providing education about them, and progressing toward developing a new food sovereignty program. Aztecas Youth Soccer: $22,500 to have continuous funding for the Club House, a safe space for health education, life-skills, tutoring and mentoring. Black Surf Club Santa Cruz: $22,500, operating support, programs and resources that reduce barriers to outdoor spaces, water, and surfing for People of Color to promote mental, physical, spiritual, communal healing through surfing, education, advocacy and wellness. Campesina Womb Justice: $9,900 to start a Doula Program to train farmworkers to advocate and support each other through births. To offer womb care and personal hygiene kits, and small donations. For farm workers to exercise freedom to practice ancestral womb medicine, rooted in reproductive, menstrual, farmworker healing justice. CA Film & Cultural Center: $13,500 for reorganizing as a community center encompassing film and cultural education including Westside Video (YA Film School, screenings, biggest library in state), AAVE Cafe (community cooking show, barista training program), Mystery Coast Productions (Set School), and EDI Educators (diverse youth program, discussion facilitation, HR policy development, trainings and panels around gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, accessibility) all under one roof. Community Action Board Santa Cruz County: $18,000 to help assess community needs and realities for those in poverty. To engage with voices of community members, pay a consultant of color to help design a plan, and support surveys, interviews, focus groups to gather info and pay participants to be compensated for their time. This project will inform the next Community Action Plan, a tool to help decisionmakers respond to needs. Digital NEST: $18,000 to provide youth in Watsonville and surrounding area with the skills to pursue careers in multimedia and to share positive stories of their community. To produce 5 short documentaries led by 3-6 youth per film. The curriculum will be brought to other regional NESTs.
Speak for Change Podcast & Everyone’s Music
Advertisement
School: $18,000 to jumpstart a Scholarship Program for BIPOC students, community classes and film production and expansion. To train teachers to open a new Watsonville location. Housing Santa Cruz County: $18,000 to build capacity to promote and advocate for affordable housing while staying focused on maintaining the priority of DEI throughout Santa Cruz County. Assistance with operating funds will help advance this priority, sustain leadership growth and development opportunities to serve the community. Positive Discipline Community Resources: $35,000 for strategic planning with Impact Launch allowing for growth as an effective executive director. Increasing ability to engage in root-level systems change with a radical transformational leadership skill set. Partially support a program manager position for 1 year to support organizational capacity.
Estrellas de Esperanza & Esperanza del
Valle: $30,000 to provide an inter-generational, cross-cultural experience for 28 adult and student dancers who will travel to Veracruz, Mexico, to learn from master folklorica instructors.
Santa Cruz County Black Health Matters Ini-
tiative: $13,500 to support staffing, curation of 2-3 events, and continued operations. To support the improvement of the quality of Life for Black residents through culture, connection, programs, partnerships, events, space-making and belonging activities. Santa Cruz Local: $18,000 for a part-time temporary position to create bilingual news that addresses information needs of Latinos in Santa Cruz County. Senderos: $50,000 to compensate five Senderos dance and music teachers equitably for their time teaching (previously as volunteers). Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center: $13,500 to expand the capacity and reach of the Diaspora Performance Project beyond 6 selected cultural artists of the African Diaspora and community programming. Operative funding to allow TWDCC to establish a sustainable model to support the current cohort of artists while inviting more artists to join. Unrestricted stipends to support artists’ livelihood outside of operating support. UC Santa Cruz University Library: $4,800 to provide scanners and hard drives to community members and pay them so they can scan materials and host an event about the Amah Mutsun Land Acknowledgement with tribal members and folks who helped write it. Watsonville Film Festival: $18,000 for the Cine Se Puede Fellowship, which supports a cohort of emerging Latine filmmakers for one year. The program provides funding, mentorship, connections with industry reps, promotion and community. Watsonville Campesino Appreciation Caravan: $13,500 to provide support during winter/ non-work season to campesinos. For weekly appreciations, information packets, COVID safety messages, and gift cards for household essentials. Funds will help cover 100 gift cards of $150 when hardship for farmworkers is highest. Healing Events: $13,500 to put on events that support community healing in wake of COVID-19 and economic impact on People of Color. Funds support the capture of storytelling from elders, pay participants on panels, provide food and cover supply costs. La Alianza Del Valle Pájaro: $5,000 for operating support this organization that leads two of Watsonville’s largest cultural events: Mexican Independence Day and Cinco de Mayo. BBQueer Fest: $5,000 to compensate the performing artists and organizing leaders of BBQueer Fest — a Black, Brown, and Queer dance festival. Fuerza Santa Cruz: $5,000 to sustain grassroots youth programming in the Beach Flats serving predominantly Latinx youth. Supporting free beach soccer, holiday and back to school drives, scholarship opportunities, snacks and supplies. London Nelson Legacy Project: $5,000 to help fund year 1 of a 3-year project to research the history of London Nelson and other Black residents of Santa Cruz County. SC Equity Collaboration: $13,500 to help fund events and activities related to the restoration and maintenance of the Black Lives Matter mural. Watsonville is in the Heart: $2,000 to support collaborative programs with the Community Archiving Programs for Watsonville is in the Heart in collaboration with the Tobera Project. n
SPECIALIZING IN Residential Repaints & Custom Homes Homeowners Associations Property Managers FALL SPECIAL
If we paint your interior and/or exterior by November 30, 2022 we will buy the paint.
DO YOU HAVE OR NEED A Medicare Supplement? Medicare Advantage Plan? Turning 65 Soon? Are You Paying For or Losing Group Insurance?
Review New Prescription and Medicare Supplement Plans Designed To Meet Your Budget And Needs!
Where our clients send their friends. We make it easy for you!
★★★★ Customer Service
