Matching donation: Help fund 100 backpacks for local students in need → Become a member
With one-time funds that are unlikely to be replenished running out for the City of Santa Cruz’s homeless services, Reggie Meisler and Jasmeen Miah advocate for a five-step solution that will stop the up-and-down funding cycle and avoid a return to criminalization as a primary policy tool. The first step, they write in a Community Voices opinion piece: Purchase 900 to 1,000 recreational vehicles and give them to unsheltered people to live in.
Lookout is contributing 10% of new memberships to United Way Santa Cruz County’s Stuff the Bus school supply drive, which provides backpacks full of supplies for local students experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity and other hardships. More than 2,800 local students experienced homelessness during the 2024-25 school year, according to the Santa Cruz County Office of Education.
Right now — thanks to a matching donor — your contribution is being doubled, meaning each new annual membership fills a backpack for an entire student in need.
Every One-for-One membership provides a local teacher with free access to Lookout’s local news coverage. When you upgrade today, you can dedicate your support of free educational access to a teacher in your life. If they teach in Santa Cruz County, designate them to receive access and Lookout will send an invite.
Right now, Lookout is contributing 10% of membership fees — and that's currently being matched! — to United Way Santa Cruz County’s Stuff the Bus school supply drive, which provides backpacks full of supplies for local students experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity and other hardships. More than 2,800 students experienced homelessness during the 2024-25 school year in Santa Cruz County.
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