Gateway Community Action Partnership houses more than 50 programs under one roof and works to help residents improve their quality of life and promote self sufficiency. We serve communities in Cumberland, Salem, Gloucester, Camden, Atlantic, Cape May and Mercer counties. Need Child Care Information? Interested in WIC services? Information about those programs and many more, including housing and energy assistance and economic development, can be found on our website. Gateway CAP is actively recruiting volunteers for a number of positions around the southern New Jersey region. We value our volunteers and their selfless contributions. To learn more about volunteer opportunities or to apply, please visit www.gatewaycap.org/volunteers. For Poverty Symposium full reports, please visit the website. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter: www.facebook.com/TriCountyCAP www.twitter.com/GatewayCAP

The Santa Barbara Foundation is the largest community foundation in the region and Santa Barbara County’s go-to resource for investment and capacity-building as well as a key convener of people and organizations. The foundation has provided support to nearly every Santa Barbara County nonprofit organization and essential community project in its 90-year history. Connecting those who give, with those in need and all who dream of a better community. To learn more please visit SBFoundation.org.

Alpha Resource Center is a multi-faceted service center providing support and information for families of children with developmental disabilities of all ages, teen and adult recreation, and life skills training for adults. Today Alpha serves over 2200 families. Alpha also owns and operates 3 thrift stores which support our services. Alpha Resource Center is committed to Empowering Individuals, Supporting Families and Building a Community that values the contribution of all people.

The Santa Barbara Rescue Mission has served the county and city of Santa Barbara for over 50 years, providing emergency services and long-term recovery for the homeless and addicted. We are the only emergency shelter that is open 365 nights of the year from Santa Maria to Ventura. In 2016, we provided 143,051 meals and 51,627 safe nights of shelter for individuals with no place else to turn. Because substance abuse has a sizable impact on our community and is often a contributing factor to homelessness, we focus 85% of our resources on recovery efforts employing both outpatient and residential modalities. The Mission’s 12-month residential recovery program aims to bring individuals from decades of addiction, institutionalization, and homelessness back to sobriety, health and wholeness. Certification through the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs ensures that participants receive the highest standard of treatment in a non-medical facility. The recovery programs are operated in two separate gender-specific locations for 45 men and 24 women. In 2016, 44 people completed the recovery program, joining over 723 graduates since 1997. Our most significant accomplishment is the long-term change we see in our graduates. In contrast to national statistics that show only 21% of those who complete addiction recovery programs not returning to dependency within five years, more than 53% of our graduates maintain recovery over this same time period.

VISION All resources invested in food and agriculture systems enhance our collective well-being. MISSION We amplify the impact of philanthropic and investment communities in support of just and sustainable food and agriculture systems. VALUES collaboration • the action of working with someone to produce or create something equity • fairness and justice in the way people are treated respect • to hold in esteem or honor stewardship • the responsible overseeing and protection of something considered worth caring for and preserving integrity • the state of being whole and undivided

Our Chamber is the oldest and largest voluntary organization in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties. As an independent nonprofit corporation (not affiliated with government or any other agency), we uniquely serve the needs of our 1,400+ members and the more than 34,000 individuals they collectively employ. Our philosophy is simple. We believe more business is good for existing business, an attractive and viable city attracts more business activity, and this additional activity benefits every business person and resident. We succeed thanks to highly engaged volunteers supported by a team of professional staff. This potent combination does what no service club, government agency or individual business could accomplish alone: enhance and promote San Luis Obispo as a place to do business and enjoy life. In addition, we stay true to a few core values which assist us in successfully achieving our mission, to connect the business community with ideas, inspiration and each other, by bringing people together to shape the place we love. San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce core values: • Ask What's Possible • Rise Above Self Interest • Target Amazing • Build Relationships • Connect Diverse Perspectives • Grit to Achieve What We Believe In • Oh, and We Like to Have Fun We invite you to get engaged; be an active participant in and caretaker of the place you have chosen to build your life.

JAMES S. BOWER FOUNDATION is a nonprofit organization management company based out of 26 W. MICHELTORENA ST., SANTA BARBARA, CA, United States.

The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo County is a county-wide community resource for local charitable giving. Created by and for the people of San Luis Obispo County, the Foundation is an enduring source of charitable funds to meet the changing needs and interests of the community. Whether your goal is to support a specific cause, create your own charitable fund, establish a scholarship, apply for a grant, or learn about opportunities for local giving, we can help.

As a 501(c)3 nonprofit public benefit corporation, World Telehealth Initiative (WTI) provides sustainable medical expertise to the world's most vulnerable communities to build local capacity and deliver core health services. By leveraging telehealth technology, WTI's network of philanthropic healthcare professionals provides world-class expertise and medical training to its partner clinics and hospitals in underserved areas of the world. WTI collaborates with and holistically supports our host program site partners, addressing both the current need for medical/surgical intervention and increasing future capacity by working to strengthen the local healthcare delivery infrastructure. Our mission is to provide medical expertise to the world’s most vulnerable communities to build local capacity and deliver core health services, through a network of volunteer health care professionals supported with state-of-the-art telehealth technology.

United Way of San Luis Obispo County works in partnership with a broad network of community organizations to build a stronger, healthier, more compassionate community in San Luis Obispo County by focusing on education, income and health. United Way is about creating change in the community by mobilizing a multitude of resources. Donations to United Way’s Community Impact Fund are used locally.