Santa Cruz County
View our NON PROFIT WISH LIST to see how you can help different organizations. It changes monthly.
You may not be able to help the whole world, but you can make a difference in your own community. --Elizabeth P. Carter
See the list below of non-profits that could use more volunteers! We believe strongly in families giving back to their community by volunteering their time and making donations. Families can make a difference in their community without it necessarily being a big time commitment or expense.
We encourage parents to set an example for their children by demonstrating different ways to give, through donating toys and clothes or by helping serve meals during the holidays. You will be teaching your children empathy and compassion. Below are ways parents and kids can give back to our community.
Click here to submit your own.
The Surfrider Foundation is a nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world's oceans, waves and beaches, for all people, through Conservation, Activism, Research and Education (C.A.R.E.).
Beach Clean ups and water sampling are great ways you as a family can do your part in helping our beaches where we live.
The Literacy Center Education Network is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization with a mission to deliver free, professionally-designed, education material to preschool-age children. Utilizing the power of the Internet, we aim to distribute education material directly to children in their homes, libraries, and schools.
In 2008, the LiteracyCenter.Net had 30 million page views from children in 220 countries.
Going Green
Having a centralized repository for education material is not only the most cost-effective solution, it is also better for the planet. We have discovered that printing books in one country, and then flying them around the globe for use in other countries, burns through natural resources. We believe there must be a better way.
The Literacy Center Education Network is currently developing micro business models that will allow parents and teachers to participate in publishing their own books with local materials.
We are currently looking for volunteers in the following areas:
Blogs
RSS