
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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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.

Seeding the Future with Semillitas
Learn about Semillitas program, a locally tailored version of a national model (the Savings and Engagement for Education and Development Success, or SEEDS model), powered by Ventures.

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!

Day Worker Center Annual Fundraiser
Support the Day Worker Center of Santa Cruz County (DWC) at it’s Annual Fundraiser!

Harnessing Local Data to Create the CORE Conditions for: Economic Security & Social Mobility
Join DataShare Santa Cruz County and CORE Investments for a community conversation about harnessing local data to foster Economic Security & Social Mobility (one of the eight CORE Conditions for Health & Well-being) so that all community members in Santa Cruz County experience stable employment, livable wages, food security, the ability to afford basic needs, wealth accumulation, and prosperity.

Exploring Myths About Poverty in America with UCSC Professor Heather Bullock, PhD
Join this conversation with Dr. Bullock, Director of the Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, & Participatory Governance, about her research and insights from a 2021 book she co-authored with Mark Robert Rank and Lawrence M. Eppard, Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty.

Guaranteed Income Pilots: Reimagining the Safety Net
Join us for our next Coffee Chat, where you’ll hear an overview of Guaranteed Income Pilots and learn about Alas, a guaranteed income pilot recently implemented by Santa Cruz Community Ventures.

The Best of CORE
