With a goal to continue their mission to uplift the community through music and music education, Kuumbwa Jazz created Mondays with Kuumbwa, a weekly virtual video series available every Monday on the Kuumbwa website.
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Broadband for all: enabling equal coverage across Monterey Bay
MBEP is launching Equal Access Monterey Bay, a community-based initiative to bring high-speed broadband to families and implement long-term solutions to the region’s broadband challenges of affordability, access, infrastructure, and equity.
Planning a return to the office? Time to rethink your commute.
As offices re-open and traffic worsens, an innovative program called GO Santa Cruz offers a more sustainable way to manage your commute (and you even get rewarded). Beat the traffic and register for free today so you can earn cool prizes for logging your walking, biking, carpool or bus trips!
The Business of Art: workshops for local creatives to bridge the gap between art and business
Sign up today! The Tannery Arts Center, in partnership with Arts Council Santa Cruz County and Intersection for the Arts, presents ‘The Business of Art’, a six-class series for Santa Cruz County’s artists to learn social media marketing, how to create a vision statement, grant writing basics, pricing, and legal aspects of art.
Victorian elegance in the heart of nature
Nestled in Happy Valley between Granite and Branciforte Creeks, this stately Victorian home will take your breath away. The property’s storied history, charming guesthouse, spacious yurt, stunning gardens and bocce ball court make this property unforgettable.
How one woman turned her passion for sewing and home decorating into a thriving business
Burgundi Thure, Owner of Sew Rose, provides a one-stop home decorating service for her clients, including creating beautiful upholstery and custom pieces. When it came time to buy the building her business occupies, Santa Cruz Community Credit Union came through for her. Now her business and passion continue to thrive and provide a beautiful service to those in the Ben Lomond and Santa Cruz community.
Dr. Fernando Lozano: a post-Covid path for the Monterey Bay Region
Dr. Fernando Lozano, Professor of Economics and Chair of the department at Pomona College, gives his take on how the tri-county area will emerge from the pandemic. He is a speaker at MBEP’s upcoming virtual Regional Economic Summit event on May 6, 2021.
Amenities abound in this peaceful Scotts Valley home
This elegant home tucked away in the peaceful community of Mone Fiore in Scotts Valley has it all. Inside the light and airy space are two fireplaces, large closets, and a wine room, while outside a beautiful oasis awaits, complete with pool, garden and pizza oven.
UC Santa Cruz and United Way partner to empower youth through research in local communities
A new partnership between UC Santa Cruz and United Way will support community-engaged research and offer UCSC undergraduates and local youth leaders opportunities to study issues affecting health and wellbeing in surrounding communities.
The journey to make farmworker housing happen: MBEP works to affect lasting change in the region
To address the critical shortage of farmworker housing in the Salinas and Pajaro valleys, it is estimated that the region will need more than 33,000 units of farmworker housing to alleviate critical overcrowding. Monterey Bay Economic Partnership (MBEP) puts data and technical policy knowledge into action to make housing progress.

