Organizations Filed Purposes:
Santa Cruz Community Ventures (SCCV) works to build a compassionate and equitable local economy that contribute to the regions wellbeing.
Financial Capability (Familias con Ms) - Youth and family focused financial coaching and education paired with action-oriented activities (e.g. opening a savings or checking account, checking their credit, etc.). The program aims to increase by low-to-moderate income families financial capability and wealth and reduce reliance on predatory lending services. This includes placing financial counseling at community health centers for families and the peer-to-peer youth financial capability model targeting middle school girls, young working adults, and at-risk high schools students.
Asset Building - Ensures families and youth can build wealth. This includes: Santa Cruz SEEDS a community partnership that provides children's savings accounts for newborns in the county. The effort focuses on improving childrens social emotional development, create a culture supporting post-secondary education, and increase assets and build financial capability of participating families. CreditBound A credit building program aimed at helping families and youth build wealth.
Advocacy - Brings awareness and engagement in financial and economic issues facing the county. This includes development of informational and local research and outreach on issues impacting low to moderately income families.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
Maria Cadenas | Executive Dir. | 40 | $90,000 |
Adriana Melgoza | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
Pedro Castillo | Director | 1 | $0 |
Chris Benner | Director | 1 | $0 |
Elisa Orona | Director | 1 | $0 |
Kayla Kumar | Director | 1 | $0 |
Caitlin Brune | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
Heather Bullock | Chairman | 1 | $0 |
Data for this page was sourced from XML published by IRS (
public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202021909349301502_public.xml