Monterey County Weekly

Welcome to Monterey County Gives! 2011

Over here at the Weekly, we’ve long recognized the immense value that local nonprofits contribute to the community. Since our first print edition in 1988, we’ve been consistently reporting on their important work and the many ways nonprofit organizations make this community so wonderful.

A decade ago, we decided we could help in another way, supporting the change they create through our own (and your) charity. We established...

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Special Awards

$100,000 Bonus Fund

We have raised an additional fund of just over $100,000, a special "matching grant" fund that will be divided amongst the nonprofit organizations (their bonus award will be based on the percentage of the total donations received during the campaign). Last year nonprofits received nearly a 25 cent bonus donation for every dollar donated to their organization.

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MC Gives! Blog

Thanks to the generosity of the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, Neumeier Poma Investment Counsel, the Community Foundation for Monterey County and Monterey County Weekly, a $100,000 match has been raised. The amount below does not include that match in the total raised for this year's MC Gives!

Get to know this year’s incredible line-up of worthy nonprofits. Select a category, then a nonprofit to learn more.