
Events
Turn Your Insights into Action with a Community of Changemakers
Gain insight, connect with changemakers and take action with CORE events. Our events provide dedicated time for our community to gather and share resources, ideas, and models that move us forward. Our gatherings also provide a space for deeper conversations about what our community is experiencing while cultivating new ways of thinking about health and well-being through a racial equity lens.
Join us by registering for upcoming events or deepen your understanding of racial equity, health, and well-being by watching a past event below.
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- Advocacy
- CORE Conditions
- CORE RFP
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- Children & Youth
- Collective Impact
- Community Connectedness
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- Community Resources
- Data Literacy
- Data Visualization
- DataShare
- Economic Security & Mobility
- Evaluation
- Evidence-based Programs-Practices
- Fundraiser
- Grants
- Grantwriting
- Health & Wellness
- Healthy Environments
- Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
- Lifelong Learning & Education
- Local Government
- Program Planning
- Racial Equity
- Safe & Just Communities
- Stable Affordable Housing & Shelter
- Thriving Families
- Video

Domestic Violence Prevention and Response in Santa Cruz County
Join us for a discussion with Julie Macecevic and Leeann Luna on Domestic Violence Awareness Month, exploring data gaps, new services for survivors, and local collaborations addressing domestic violence and sexual assault.

Understanding Demographic Data: A Practical Guide Using DataShare
Designed for those less familiar with data, this interactive workshop equips participants with the knowledge and skills to leverage demographic data for informed decision-making, enabling them to define its importance, identify key sources, effectively use DataShare for analysis, and interpret data for program development.

Introduction to Power Mapping
Curious about how power mapping can benefit your organization? Join our CORE Coffee Chat to explore the concept, review tools for power analysis, and then practice using some tools together.

A Beginners Guide to Data Literacy: Practicing with DataShare
Designed for people who are less familiar with data, this training will provide participants with the essential knowledge and skills to leverage demographic data to enhance their work and contribute to informed decision-making.

Office Hours: Dedicated Sessions for Each CORE Condition
Attend the informal, unstructured Office Hours to receive additional guidance on how to apply the CORE concepts and tools to grant proposals. Each scheduled office hour will focus on a specific CORE Condition.

Developing Your Programmatic Approach & Evaluation Strategy
Join us for interactive discussions on applying your theory of change and logic model to describe your proposed program, incorporating the CORE Continuum of Results and Evidence and Equitable Evaluation Framework™ principles for planning and evaluation, and much more.

Office Hours: Dedicated Sessions for Each CORE Condition
Attend the informal, unstructured Office Hours to receive additional guidance on how to apply the CORE concepts and tools to grant proposals. Each scheduled office hour will focus on a specific CORE Condition.

Best Practices in Data Collection & Sharing: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (SOGI)
Attend this practical, interactive workshop to discover how implementing best practices for sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data collection can enhance the impact of your data and programs.

Developing a Theory of Change and Logic Model with an Equity Lens
Participate in this structured training where we will explore the CORE Investments Framework and learn techniques for crafting effective theories of change and logic models using CORE tools.

Proposal Prep Session 3: The Magic of Metrics
In the final session of our grant-writing series, we'll delve into adopting an evaluator's perspective, utilizing tools such as the CORE Continuum of Results and Evidence to enhance proposal planning by addressing questions on project effectiveness and relevance.

Proposal Prep Session 2: Making Your Case
In this second session of our spring grant-writing series, we'll explore useful tools like Theory of Change and Logic Model, aiding in articulating project goals and rationale, both internally and externally.

Making Meaning of Community-level Data
Designed for people who are less familiar with data, this interactive workshop will provide an opportunity to learn how to make meaning of community-level data on DataShare (and other sources) when you’re doing planning, evaluation, grantwriting, advocacy, or research.

Proposal Prep Session 1: Proposals as Projects
Join us for the first part of our three-part grant-writing series. In this session, we'll dive into pre-RFP preparation, exploring how you can assess community and organizational strengths, needs, partnerships, and capacity.

Transformational Approaches to Creating Economic Equity
Learn how Ventures partners with rural Latino working-class families to ensure a shared and equitable economic future for all through transformational programs like college savings accounts, financial education, and guaranteed income.

A Beginners Guide to Data Literacy: Practicing with DataShare
Designed for people who are less familiar with data, this interactive workshop will provide an opportunity to understand population health data and learn how to apply a data lens in advocacy, policy, and program planning efforts.

Tips and Tools for Integrative Design
Learn from local colleagues who are participating in the current “Learn, Do, Share with CORE: Designing for Social Systems” Community of Practice.

Designing for Well-being, Part 2
Join us as we continue exploring principles of designing for well-being. This time, we’ll discuss the next three principles: 4) Foster social connections and social capital; 5) Span boundaries; and 6) Build (on) assets and innovation.

Using Community Data for Planning and Evaluation
Join us for an interactive workshop on how community-level data on DataShare can be used for program planning and evaluation.

Designing for Well-being, Part 1
Join us as we explore the first three principles of designing for well-being: 1) Start with what matters to people: well-being; 2) Design and implement with, not for; and 3) Heal and regenerate.

CORE Request for Proposals (RFP) Funding Cycle (July 2025-June 2028): Priorities and Equity Engagement Sessions
The County of Santa Cruz and City of Santa Cruz are planning for the next Collective of Results and Evidence-based (CORE) Investments RFP funding process, and your input is needed!

Harnessing Local Data to Create the CORE Conditions for: Stable, Affordable Housing & Shelter
Join DataShare Santa Cruz County and CORE Investments for a community conversation about harnessing local data for: Stable, Affordable Housing & Shelter.

Workshop: Reimagining Issues that Determine our Future in Santa Cruz County
Did you know that May is Affordable Housing Month? Housing Santa Cruz County has a stellar lineup of events happening throughout the month, designed to bring people together through education, activism, and community engagement to celebrate, engage in conversation, and commit to doing all that we can to bring about housing for all!

Presentation: Building Public Will for Action
Did you know that May is Affordable Housing Month? Housing Santa Cruz County has a stellar lineup of events happening throughout the month, designed to bring people together through education, activism, and community engagement to celebrate, engage in conversation, and commit to doing all that we can to bring about housing for all!

Harnessing Local Data to Create the CORE Conditions for: A Safe, Just Community
Join DataShare Santa Cruz County and CORE Investments for a community conversation about harnessing local data to foster a Safe, Just Community (one of the eight CORE Conditions for Health & Well-being) so that all community members in Santa Cruz County experience fair, humane approaches to ensuring personal, public, and workplace safety that foster trust, respect, and dignity.

CORE Coffee Chat: Community Meeting on Tobacco Product Waste
Join us for this CORE Coffee Chat co-sponsored with the City of Santa Cruz HiAP team, to learn more about policy options for addressing tobacco product waste and to share your questions and opinions about their pros and cons.

CORE Coffee Chat: Combining Helpline and Health Information Resources to Meet Community Members’ Needs
Learn about a new alliance between United Way's 211 and SCHIO, and how referrals for ongoing needs such as housing, food, and transportation can be more customized and efficient because of this partnership.

CORE Coffee Chat: Moving Prevention “Upstream”—A Conversation About Santa Cruz County’s Family First Prevention Services Program
Imagine a community designed with equity and well-being at the forefront, with thriving children, youth, and families living in a just, resilient, and connected community. What would it take to make this vision a reality for everyone? We hope that you’ll join us next week and share your ideas for moving upstream, together.

Harnessing Local Data to Create the CORE Conditions for: Healthy Environments
Join DataShare Santa Cruz County and CORE Investments for a community conversation about harnessing local data to foster Healthy Environments (one of the eight CORE Conditions for Health & Well-being) so that all community members in Santa Cruz County experience a clean, safe, sustainable natural environment and a built environment and infrastructure that support health and well-being.

Harnessing Local Data to Create the CORE Conditions for: Thriving Families & Community Connectedness
Join DataShare Santa Cruz County and CORE Investments for a community conversation about harnessing local data to foster Thriving Families & Community Connectedness (two of the eight CORE Conditions for Health & Well-being) so that all community members in Santa Cruz County experience safe, nurturing relationships and environments that promote optimal health and a sense of belonging, diverse and inclusive neighborhoods and institutions, vibrant arts and cultural life, and civic engagement.

CORE Coffee Chat: The Impact of Environment on Health & Well-being
Joinus for a conversation about the Impact of the Environment on Health & Well-being where our guests will share how they and other partners “mapped” their work and current public funding in the environmental sector to the CORE Conditions for Health and well-being (and other models), then discuss how they’re applying the findings to their planning, messaging, partnerships, and advocacy.

The Best of CORE
