Non-profit Links

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  • Monterey County Network of Care - Search our comprehensive database to find services in your community.

  • Monterey County PAL (Police Activities League) - Monterey County Police Activities League combats youth crime and delinquency in the unincorporated areas of Monterey County. We provide opportunities, leadership and life skills to youth today, for a better community tomorrow.

  • Monterey County Scholarship Fund - Scholarships eligible for Monterey County employees and their families.

  • Natividad Medical Foundation - The Foundation is committed to fund-raising for special equipment and programs that improve access to health care and social services and increasing the awareness of the excellence and range of services at Natividad Medical Center.

Alphabetized List of Non Profit Organizations:

  • Alliance on Aging - the largest and oldest agency devoted exclusively to the welfare of Monterey County’s older men and women.
  • Animal Friends Rescue Project - (AFRP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding good permanent homes for abandoned, stray, and abused companion animals.  We are also committed to ending the overpopulation crisis through aggressive spay/neuter programs.

  • American Lung Association

  • American National Red Cross - Contact them right away, because this kind of help can't wait.

  • American Red Cross, Carmel Chapter - information for locals on blood drives, volunteering, and more.

  • American Red Cross, Monterey Chapter - The local homepage.

  • Artichoke Festival (Castroville)

  • Arts Council for Monterey County- All about the Arts.

  • Big Sur Arts Initiative

  • Big Sur JazzFest

  • Blind & Visually Impaired Center of Monterey County - Provides services to Monterey  County residents who are blind or visually impaired, helping them overcome the difficulties of vision loss.

  • Carmel Bach Festival  Inspired music-making and the uplifting beauty of Carmel and its environs attracts artists and audiences from across the Monterey Peninsula, the United States, and the world to the Carmel Bach Festival.

  • Carmel Foundation - Assists seniors on the Monterey Peninsula. Our Foundation strives to assist its members in carrying out the everyday functions of living, to promote their physical health and emotional well-being, to bring them companionship in a friendly atmosphere, and to provide them an array of activities and services that will enhance and enrich their lives.

  • Carmel Performing Arts Festival - (CPAF), the largest and most diverse performing arts festival in California, is celebrating its fifth year of providing the best music, dance, theatre and spoken word from the Monterey Peninsula and worldwide.

  • Central Coast Visiting Nurses Association - Providing home care, hospice, extended services, and adult day care.

  • Chispa is Monterey County's largest non-profit affordable housing provider.

  • Community Human Services - provides quality behavioral healthcare services at the Counseling Centers, Family Service Centers, Genesis House, Off Main Clinic, Rising Eagle Youth Services and Safe Place.

  • Crime Stoppers of Monterey County

  • Deaf and Hard of Hearing Service Center, Inc - Provides services and assistance for the hearing-challenged public. Also offers support program and youth club for the hearing impaired and their families.

  • Door to Hope: provides recovery services to women and behavioral health services to children and teens.

  • ECTAR - As an ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Services) group and ARRL (American Radio Relay League) affiliate club, ECTAR is dedicated to providing trained amateur radio communicators to local government agencies, emergency support services, and disaster relief agencies such as the American Red Cross. In the event of a natural or man made disaster and the assistance of ARES is called upon, ECTAR members are prepared to station themselves where needed to provide these necessary emergency communications.

  • Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 204 - This group is dedicated to the pursuit of sport aviation.

  • Food Bank for Monterey County

  • Friends of Moss Landing Marine Labs (MLML) - Involves and educates the public in the research and education efforts of the Moss Landing Marine Labs.

  • Habitat for Humanity
    Monterey County Chapter of  Habitat for Humanity, International

  • Hospice Foundation for the Central Coast - raises, manages, and disburses funds to support , hospice care in Monterey and San Benito counties.

  • Housing Authority of the County of Monterey has a mission  to provide, administer, and encourage quality affordable housing and related services to eligible residents of Monterey County

  • Josephine Kernes Memorial Pool is a warm water swim & exercise program for disabled children and adults.

  • Keep Monterey County Clean - Dedicated to keeping Monterey County litter free. Report Litter problems easily online, and learn how to help reduce the litter in our area with helpful links. Sponsored by the Monterey Regional Waste Management District.

  • Lyceum of Monterey County  - The Lyceum’s Mission is to stimulate the individual creativity and intellectual promise in children through enrichment classes that aim to inspire a life-long love of learning.

  • Meals on Wheels, Salinas - Meals on Wheels of the Salinas Valley promotes a better quality of independent living and addresses the unmet needs of people who are homebound, elderly or disabled and who are unable to shop for or prepare their own meals, by delivering affordable nutritious meals to their Salinas Valley homes and providing friendly contact with caring volunteers.

  • Mira - Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy

  • Mission Trails - This site provides a central information clearing house of Regional Occupational Programs and Adult Education services in Monterey County.

  • Monterey Bay Veterans - Monterey Bay Veterans, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides fishing trips to disabled people.

  • Monterey Bay Users Group - MBUG-PC welcomes all those who want to become more involved in the use of personal computers and are willing to actively participate in club activities to pursue that goal.

  • Monterey County Film Commission

  • Monterey County Historical Society

  • Monterey County Sheriff's Posse - Check out their Calendar of Events and Junior Rodeo information.

  • Monterey County Veterans Employment Committee (MCVEC) - Promotes the employment of veterans in Monterey County

  • Monterey Jazz Festival

  • Monterey Rape Crisis Center - committed to advocacy services to victims of sexual abuse, and delivers prevention programs to the local schools and community organizations.

  • MSVRR (Monterey and Salinas Valley Model Railroad and Historical Society) is a non profit educational corporation.

  • PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) is a non-profit site dedicated to promoting the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons.

  • Rebuilding Together with Christmas in April - a community based organization dedicated to helping low income or disabled people, especially the elderly, live in warmth, safety and independence through volunteer repair and renovation of owner-occupied homes and non-profit facilities which benefit underserved populations.

  • Relay for Life - A team event to fight Cancer.

  • Salinas Area Modelers, Inc. - Members of this RC model aircraft club prefer good-time fly-ins to serious competition events.

  • Salinas Barrios Unidos - is a multi-cultural, grassroots, non-profit organization based in Salinas, California. Our mission is to prevent and curtail violence and drug abuse among youth by providing them with life-enhancing alternative activities.

  • Salinas Valley Memorial Foundation and the Children's Miracle Network - The Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital Foundation through committees composed of volunteers seeks tax deductible gifts of cash, securities, and other properties as well as deferred gifts. Our goal is to enhance the quality of health care given to the members of our community at Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare Systems.

  • South County Out Reach Effort (SCORE) - a group of agencies that provide services to underserved portions of the South County.

  • Steinbeck Center Foundation - Exploring Human Values through the works of John Steinbeck.

  • United Way of Monterey County -  Our mission is to identify and thereby raise awareness of the most pressing needs in our communities.

  • Valley Health Associates We are a non-profit corporation offering prevention, intervention, and treatment services for alcoholism, alcohol abuse and drug dependency.

  • Volunteer Center of Monterey County - Here's your chance to "Act Locally" while you "Think Globally" . Volunteer for something.

 

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Site last updated on November 23, 2010