December 12, 2025 Interviews with Local Non-Profits (Santa Cruz Gives) Senior Legal Services, El Pajaro CDC, Jacob's Heart Children's Cancer Support

  2:05pm - Ms. Rosalina Nunez, Supervising Attorney for Senior Legal Services describes helping elderly navigate legal issues, including senior benefits, landlord / tenant issues, advanced care directives, and elder abuse.  Your donation can help provide free legal service  to anyone over 60 years and a resident of Santa Cruz or San Benito County who would otherwise not be helped.       https://seniorlegal.org/       https://santacruzgives.org/nonprofit/seniorlegal/   2:35pm- Consider other local non-profits also doing great work in the Community: Rising Worldwide: Donate to help prevent child trafficking and to support trafficked survivors: https://risingworldwide.org/ Arukah Project: Helping survivors of human trafficking to escape and heal: https://www.arukahproject.org/ Santa Cruz VISTA Center: Helping blind and visually-impaired people in our Community: https://vistacenter.org/        3:05pm - Ms. Carmen Herra Mansir, Executive Director, describes how El Pajaro Community Development Corporation helps local Latina women begin and develop their small businesses and farms. You can donate to their in-house lending program and help provide the much-needed funding to help launch a new business and independence.       https://elpajarocdc.org/       https://santacruzgives.org/nonprofit/elpajarocdc/           3:35pm - Mr. Luis Mejia - Interim Executive Director, Jacobs Heart Children’s Cancer Support Services describes the work to help over 125 families in Santa Cruz County who have children battling cancer.  Your donation will help provide food, transportation to medical appointments and family counseling to ease the stress of the diagnosis and treatments.       https://www.jacobsheart.org/       Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Support Services