Nonprofits

The CalifRoots Festival is proudly sponsored by the Arts Council for Monterey County, working to enrich people's lives through the arts. Arts4MC brings multi-discipline arts to public spaces, classrooms, and community programs for youth through seniors, as well as supports established and emerging artists through grants, scholarships, and professional development support. If you're an artist looking for support and to connect to the local art community, look no further! Visit arts4mc.org to learn more about how @arts4mc can support your artistic journey.

Musician Chad Stokes and Tour Manager Sybil Gallagher founded Calling All Crows in 2008 to bring their commitment to hands-on service and activism on the road. Since then, they have continued to connect music fans with feminist movements for justice and equality. Calling All Crows has invested over 35,000+ hours of service and raised more than $1M to support community organizations across the globe. We connect and mobilize music fans to join feminist movements for justice and equality by raising awareness, taking action, and collectively working for social change. Our pre-show service projects, virtual benefit concerts, and concert outreach activities create a community of empowered and engaged music fans and musicians.

Community Human Services is a nonprofit dedicated to providing high-quality mental health, substance abuse, and homeless services to middle and low-income individuals and families in Monterey County. Virtually all of the work we do at CHS addresses underlying conditions or root causes of personal, family and community problems, whether it's addiction, domestic violence, mental illness, emotional health, homelessness, child abuse, or any number of problems that people have trouble solving on their own. We help our clients develop new skills and support networks, learn new behaviors, and learn how to utilize community resources.

The Esselen Tribe is a small group of Indigenous Hokan speaking People, the aboriginal inhabitants of the area, and the first peoples to reside on the sacred land that is now called Monterey Peninsula. The Esselen have inhabited the Monterey Peninsula, Point Lobos, the rugged Big Sur coastline, Santa Lucia Range, and Carmel Valley for over 6,000 years.

Today the Esselen people continue to thrive and perpetuate their culture, traditions, songs, stories, and their deep connection to land, water, and all living things. The Tribe founded a non-profit to support their goals of preserving cultural traditions, protecting sacred lands, and to advocate and protect Mother Earth, as we are one with the Earth.

At HATS, we are dedicated to providing compassionate care and essential resources to the underserved communities in our region. Our goal is to ensure that every individual has access to the services they need to live healthy, fulfilling lives.

HeadCount is a non-partisan organization that uses the power of music to register voters and promote participation in democracy. We reach young people and music fans where they already are - at concerts and online - to inform and empower.

The Last Plastic Straw strives to educate the public about the absurdity of single use plastic, its effects on our health, our environment, and our oceans. We aim to eliminate from the source, the use of single use plastic.

Decoded is a California-based educational campaign, funded by counties and cities, aimed at promoting the physical and mental well-being of young people through safe cannabis practices, especially when it comes to choosing a sober ride home. Within this framework, Monterey County Cannabis Education—a program in the Public Health Bureau of the Monterey County Health Department—plays a crucial role by conducting educational sessions for youth and parents about the effects of cannabis on the adolescent brain and how to engage in meaningful family conversations about cannabis. The program also focuses on issues like drugged driving, illicit market cannabis, cannabis use during pregnancy, safe storage, and high-potency products. Through partnerships with local agencies, Monterey County Cannabis Education offers accurate information and effective prevention strategies to uplift communities to make informed choices about their health and safety.

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Inspired by late Sublime front man Bradley Nowell, the Nowell Family Foundation provides addiction recovery services to the music community through the combined strength of the industry and those who have been touched by the power of music. The Nowell Family Foundation is raising funds to open Bradley's House, a recovery facility that will provide treatment for people in the music industry with opioid addiction, regardless of their financial situation. The goal is to offer a top level of clinical care, including medical detox and the ability to treat the most acute cases, through nationwide partnerships. The Nowell Family Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation.

Punk Rock Saves Lives is a nonprofit that focuses on wellness and equality within music communities around the country. We swab for the national bone marrow registry while giving our harm reduction and mental health resources.

Our Mission: Uniting around the music we love, tackling the environmental and social issues we face, REVERB is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to empowering millions of individuals to take action toward a better future for people and the planet. Our Philosophy: All of us can be active participants in protecting the environment and creating real, large-scale, and measurable change. We believe that making change is not all-or-nothing — many people doing a few things will have more impact than a few people doing everything.

There's a lot to do. But we have you, and we have us. And there's power in us. Let's come together around the things we love and be bigger than the problems we see. Let's be the solution. We need you. We need us. Band Together.

The Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc. (RFFI) is a private non-profit, Section 501(c)3 organization. Our vision is to establish community-based forests that provide both critical habitat for increased biodiversity and improved regional economic vitality. Our mission is to acquire, protect, restore, and manage forestlands and other related resources in the Redwood Region for the long-term benefit of the communities located there.

Save Our Shores' mission is to steward clean shores, healthy habitats, & living waters to foster a thriving Monterey Bay & Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

SurfRider Foundation, Monterey Chapter ensures beaches are accessible, keep our water clean, protect our ocean, preserve our coasts and keep plastic from polluting our waterways.

Surfrider's focus is 100% on protecting and preserving our ocean, beaches & waves. We're champions for the surf and sand and fight to ensure that beaches are accessible, our water is clean, our ocean is protected, our coasts are preserved and plastic is kept from polluting our waterways.

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Vet Tix * provides tickets to events which reduce stress, strengthen family bonds, build life-long memories and encourage service members and veterans to stay engaged with local communities and American life. We support our troops by honoring their service and providing positive family and life experiences, during and after their years of service to our country. Vet Tix provides tickets to all branches of currently-serving Military and Veterans, including immediate family of troops KIA.