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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.
Help Grow the Cooperative Economy
Futuro is building something powerful: a network of worker-owned cooperatives rooted in community, dignity, and shared prosperity. We’re building an ecosystem that supports cooperative growth through education, market access, business support, and pathways for workers to become owners.
Futuro Cooperative Manager
We're seeking a bilingual (English/Spanish) Cooperative Manager who is passionate about economic justice, worker ownership, and community wealth-building. In this role, you'll support and strengthen worker-owned cooperatives by providing hands-on business management, member coaching, and operational leadership. If you're a collaborative problem-solver who believes in economic equity and the power of cooperative ownership, we'd love to connect with you.
Futuro Member Coordinator
We’re looking for a highly organized, bilingual (English/Spanish) Member Coordinator who is passionate about advancing economic justice and building thriving, equitable communities. Working closely with a collaborative, values-driven team, you’ll balance administrative excellence with meaningful community engagement. If you’re detail-oriented, proactive, and energized by making a difference, we’d love to hear from you.
Futuro is building something powerful: a network of worker-owned cooperatives rooted in community, dignity, and shared prosperity. We’re building an ecosystem that supports cooperative growth through education, market access, business support, and pathways for workers to become owners.
Futuro Cooperative Manager
We're seeking a bilingual (English/Spanish) Cooperative Manager who is passionate about economic justice, worker ownership, and community wealth-building. In this role, you'll support and strengthen worker-owned cooperatives by providing hands-on business management, member coaching, and operational leadership. If you're a collaborative problem-solver who believes in economic equity and the power of cooperative ownership, we'd love to connect with you.
Futuro Member Coordinator
We’re looking for a highly organized, bilingual (English/Spanish) Member Coordinator who is passionate about advancing economic justice and building thriving, equitable communities. Working closely with a collaborative, values-driven team, you’ll balance administrative excellence with meaningful community engagement. If you’re detail-oriented, proactive, and energized by making a difference, we’d love to hear from you.
Strengthening Financial Stability for Families
Familias con Más is dedicated to strengthening financial stability for families across the Central Coast by centering community knowledge, dignity, and collective power. Through culturally rooted education, savings and asset-building opportunities, and community-led engagement, the program supports families in building long-term financial wellbeing on their own terms.
Familias con Más Program Manager
We are seeking a Familias con Más Program Manager to help steward and advance this work alongside our team and community. If you’re passionate about social and economic justice and believe communities already hold the power to drive change, we invite you to apply for our Program Manager role. At Ventures, you’ll partner with families and leaders to advance dignity, opportunity, and shared prosperity.
Familias con Más is dedicated to strengthening financial stability for families across the Central Coast by centering community knowledge, dignity, and collective power. Through culturally rooted education, savings and asset-building opportunities, and community-led engagement, the program supports families in building long-term financial wellbeing on their own terms.
Familias con Más Program Manager
We are seeking a Familias con Más Program Manager to help steward and advance this work alongside our team and community. If you’re passionate about social and economic justice and believe communities already hold the power to drive change, we invite you to apply for our Program Manager role. At Ventures, you’ll partner with families and leaders to advance dignity, opportunity, and shared prosperity.
Early Wealth Building for Santa Cruz County Children
Semillitas is a county-wide children’s savings account program serving every child born in Santa Cruz County. Launched in 2021, Semillitas helps build a brighter future by creating a community of belonging, supporting early childhood development, encouraging higher education aspirations, and fostering lifelong financial wellness through college savings accounts and community-driven investments in children and families.
Semillitas Program Manager
Ventures is seeking a bilingual (English/Spanish) Semillitas Program Manager to steward the execution, partnership, and evaluation of Semillitas. This dynamic role combines program management, community engagement, communications, partnership development, and outreach to help ensure every child in Santa Cruz County has the opportunity to thrive. The ideal candidate is mission-driven, organized, collaborative, and passionate about advancing equity and opportunity for families.
Semillitas is a county-wide children’s savings account program serving every child born in Santa Cruz County. Launched in 2021, Semillitas helps build a brighter future by creating a community of belonging, supporting early childhood development, encouraging higher education aspirations, and fostering lifelong financial wellness through college savings accounts and community-driven investments in children and families.
Semillitas Program Manager
Ventures is seeking a bilingual (English/Spanish) Semillitas Program Manager to steward the execution, partnership, and evaluation of Semillitas. This dynamic role combines program management, community engagement, communications, partnership development, and outreach to help ensure every child in Santa Cruz County has the opportunity to thrive. The ideal candidate is mission-driven, organized, collaborative, and passionate about advancing equity and opportunity for families.