Grey Bears

Local, vital and multifaceted, Grey Bears promotes good nutrition, activity and social connection as the perfect recipe for healthy aging. Since 1973, the Healthy Food program has delivered 100 million pounds of fresh produce, healthy staples and supplies to Santa Cruz County seniors, families and farm workers. Through pandemic, economic hardship and fire recovery, our food deliveries, ways to volunteer and socially connect, resource conservation and recycling programs make our community stronger and healthier while reducing our collective carbon footprint. Grey Bears was named one of President Bush's "Thousand Points of Light," voted Organization of the Year by the Aptos Chamber and a Be the Difference Award by the Volunteer Center, and Best Nonprofit by readers of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Good Times Weekly and Santa Cruz Waves Magazine.

https://www.greybears.org/