About PVC
The Pajaro Valley Collaborative (“PVC”) is a collaboration of partner organizations strategically aligned to advance positive outcomes throughout the Pajaro Valley with a priority emphasis on improving health and wellness, economic mobility, and civic engagement.
The PVC, an outgrowth of the South County Triage Group*, continues to meet regularly to coordinate and address long-term priority areas in the Pajaro Valley while responding to emerging immediate needs of the community. Partner organizations commit leadership, organizational resources, staff, and time at various levels to address joint priorities. Having responded to public health emergencies and other disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic and severe flooding, the PVC partners are collectively committed to evolving beyond crisis management to form a permanent collaboration to support health and wellness, economic mobility, and civic engagement in the Pajaro Valley.
At its core, the Pajaro Valley Collaborative is an inclusive collective impact movement grounded in equity and social justice for the Pajaro Valley. We consistently prioritize the well-being of our community over individual organizations, and by doing so foster interdependence and belonging among nonprofits and government agencies to better enable us to achieve a thriving Pajaro Valley.
Members of the Pajaro Valley Collaborative are executive-level professionals with deep roots in the Pajaro Valley and along our Central Coast. Many of these CEOs/Executive Directors serve on local, county, regional, state, and national programs or advocacy teams for disinvested populations. Our collective equity framework seeks to activate representational equity, procedural equity, funding equity, distributional equity, structural equity, and transgenerational equity for the Pajaro Valley.
*Formed in 2020 in response to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Hispanic and Latino communities, the South County Triage Group (“SCTG”) is a network of partners representing healthcare and nonprofit service providers, government, public health, education, emergency food, interpersonal violence prevention and response, behavioral health, other social services, and private companies – the sectors required to collectively improve health and wellness, economic mobility and civic engagement for residents living and working in the Pajaro Valley.
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