$2.0M in expenses

Financial Capability (Familias con Ms) - provides financial capability education to rural, working-class families on all aspects of money-understanding it, managing it, and saving it. This includes a six-month financial stability program to help working-class families build community, self-determination, and financial wellbeing.

$1.4M in expenses

Asset Building - Ensures families and youth can build wealth. This includes: - Semilitas is a community partnership that creates communities of belonging from birth, by investing in Santa Cruz County kids child development, post-secondary educational aspirations, and families financial capability by creating an automatic college savings account for all Santa Cruz County newborns. - Futuro - is a worker-owned cooperative business structure and network that provides income and wealth building for working-class families.

$34K in expenses

Advocacy - To advocate for system-level interventions that, in part, enable the establishment of community-owned structures, which ensure community members hold decision-making power over policies and programs.

$15K in expenses

Emergency Relief & Safety Net Services - As a trusted intermediary during times of crisis, Ventures provides relief to community members in need who are not comfortable working with institutions or who are left out of our safety net.