The pandemic has made a stressful task only harder for the 4.7 million Californias who care for a relative or close friend over the age of 50.
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21 for ’21: For everything that 2020 dished out, the Community Foundation was ready to respond
Susan True and her team at Community Foundation Santa Cruz County were the crucial link between Santa Cruz County’s donors who wanted to help and the many who needed that help
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21 for ’21: How Loma Prieta recovery memories helped guide Ryan Coonerty’s 2020 leadership approach
Third District County Supervisor Ryan Coonerty was already having a difficult year before the August fires tested his skills at communications, logistics, and emergency management. A key question for 2021: ‘How are we going to help each other?’
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21 for ’21: Kathleen Crocetti takes on the ambition of creating art that reflects everyone in Watsonville
Artist and teacher Kathleen Crocetti is using an imposing downtown parking structure in Watsonville to reflect the character and the heritage of the city
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21 for ’21: Jennifer Buesing, director of school safety, tries to ‘create order out of chaos’ during pandemic
In a turbulent year for schools everywhere, Jennifer Buesing, a Santa Cruz native and the director of school safety for the County Office of Education, has tried to “create order out of chaos” and helped guide schools through the pandemic.
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21 for ’21: Leslie Conner expects to begin seeing the fruits of her labor
Leslie Conner, CEO of Santa Cruz Community Health Centers, can’t wait to break ground on a new 20,000-sq. ft. clinic in Santa Cruz County that will be connected to housing and other services. It will be her 10-year anniversary at the nonprofit.
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21 for ’21: Cat Willis dances in the space between public health and community advocacy
As the founder and executive director of the Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center, Cat Willis is leading the way in the center’s evolution from a dance studio to a community stronghold.
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21 for ’21: Jacob Martinez and the fine art of nest-building
If you build a solid nest at home, it’s a pretty good jumping-off point for building community nests far and wide. At least that’s how it’s played out for the innovator behind DigitalNEST, the organization seeking to establish Silicon Valley equity for underserved Latinx communities across the Bay Area.
Posted inHealth & Wellness
21 for ‘21: For Juan Morales-Rocha, bridging the digital divide was personal
Morales-Rocha’s advocacy is credited with helping to kick-start a countywide partnership working to bridge the stubborn “last mile” of Santa Cruz County’s digital divide and extend reliable internet to thousands of families.
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21 for ’21: How Jason Borgen has helped retool schools for an ‘anytime-anywhere’ approach
When the pandemic changed the way schools operate, Jason Borgen, the chief technology officer at the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, and his colleagues had to make sure students had the tools they needed to learn from home and teachers were trained on how to navigate distance learning and online classroom settings.