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About Ventures
We’re working to create the world we want in partnership with rural Latino working-class families in California’s Central Coast to ensure a shared and equitable economic future for all.
Our transformational programs make certain that individuals understand and use their economic and political power. From building their savings to advocating for a living wage, our approach builds community and connects financial stability, wealth building, and self-determination.
Our work creates dignity by recognizing, acknowledging, and valuing our community members’ leadership in making change happen. Together, we are working towards a shared and prosperous economic future where zip code, race, gender, or immigration status do not dictate income or wealth.
We believe that:
We work in ways that:
Our geographic reach encompasses Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties. Ventures is a Latina immigrant led organization.
About Ventures
We’re working to create the world we want in partnership with rural Latino working-class families in California’s Central Coast to ensure a shared and equitable economic future for all.
Our transformational programs make certain that individuals understand and use their economic and political power. From building their savings to advocating for a living wage, our approach builds community and connects financial stability, wealth building, and self-determination.
Our work creates dignity by recognizing, acknowledging, and valuing our community members’ leadership in making change happen. Together, we are working towards a shared and prosperous economic future where zip code, race, gender, or immigration status do not dictate income or wealth.
We believe that:
- Money, and how it is earned, used, and implemented to build wealth and financial systems, is a key component to building wellbeing and a vibrant society.
- We must be intentional an explicit in our work towards racial and gender equity, as social systemic oppressions, including those based on race and gender, are replicated and augmented through the current economic system and related policies.
- Local economies and equitable distribution of income and wealth provide the greatest return and align best in creating wellbeing.
- Money and financing are not well understood and there is a level of mystification around the topic that prevents engagement.
We work in ways that:
- are family centered and culturally appropriate;
- remove system level barriers to economic equity;
- provide leadership development and financial education for children and youth;
- develop new financial and asset building vehicles; and
- lift up and leverage the great work already being done
Our geographic reach encompasses Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties. Ventures is a Latina immigrant led organization.
Organization-Wide Opportunities
Are you passionate about economic justice and the community's wellbeing? Do you have experience in coalition building, advocacy, and program development? If so, we invite you to apply for the position of Power and Community Building Director.
In this new pivotal role, you will lead efforts to co-develop and implement Ventures’ advocacy and community building strategies, working closely with diverse stakeholders to create lasting, impactful change and mutual prosperity. You will play a central role in shaping Ventures' advocacy campaigns, designing community engagement initiatives, and facilitating cross-sector collaboration. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to meaningful, systemic change by advancing social and economic equity on a local, regional, and state-wide scale.
Learn more here:
Power and Community Building Director
In this new pivotal role, you will lead efforts to co-develop and implement Ventures’ advocacy and community building strategies, working closely with diverse stakeholders to create lasting, impactful change and mutual prosperity. You will play a central role in shaping Ventures' advocacy campaigns, designing community engagement initiatives, and facilitating cross-sector collaboration. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to meaningful, systemic change by advancing social and economic equity on a local, regional, and state-wide scale.
Learn more here:
Power and Community Building Director
Cooperative Development Opportunities
Ready to build the future economy that focuses on a shared and mutual wellbeing? At Ventures that is what we focus on - building the change we want to see. This includes worker-owned cooperatives. We're currently hiring team members to help us bring this vision to life though Futuro, a worker-owned cooperative development vehicle based in the Salinas Valley. This community led business structure is focused on supporting Latine immigrant entrepreneurs and opening new market opportunities. Take a look and join us in building the new!
Learn more here:
Futuro Program Director
Futuro Cooperative Manager
Futuro Program Coordinator
Learn more here:
Futuro Program Director
Futuro Cooperative Manager
Futuro Program Coordinator