The Hub hosts and connects a variety of projects working to promote sustainable living in Santa Cruz and the surrounding region.
They are either:
- On-Site – housed at the hub community center
- Off-Site – a broad network of projects throughout the region
Note that each is fiscally sponsored unless noted otherwise.
On-Site
The Bike Church
The Bike Church is a community bicycle shop and tool collective where people can learn to repair their bicycles with the help of knowledgeable mechanics. We offer sliding scale services and affordable used and new parts. As a collectively run organization, we are committed to honoring the contribution of individuals while recognizing the importance of collaboration.
Hard Core Compost
Hard Core Compost is a worker-owned and operated residential compost collection service that uses cargo bicycles to haul food scraps from your kitchen to local composting sites in Santa Cruz. We believe that the resilience of our communities is inseparable from the health of the land we live on. Transforming our food waste into fertile compost is one small way we can collectively nurture the land in the midst of global environmental crisis, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and sequester carbon in the soil.
Note: Not fiscally sponsored by the Hub.
The Fábrica
Community Textile Arts & Salvage Workshop
The Fábrica is a community workspace where folks can come to learn and share knowledge about textiles arts. This includes Sewing, Knitting, Quilting, Embroidery, Crochet, and Bookbinding, among other arts. The workshop is operated by volunteers and funded by donations from participants. We have sewing machines as well as generous amounts of fabric, zippers, notions, and the other tools and supplies one needs for most sewing and yarn-based-projects.
SubRosa
Community Textile Arts & Salvage Workshop
SubRosa is a collectively run anarchist community space, a place to meet others, challenge our assumptions, and act on our passions. We strive to create a vibrant environment for events, classes, meetings, organizing, performance, art, studying, and more. SubRosa also offers radical literature for sale, and houses the Anarchist Lending Library. We welcome folks to join us in fostering an environment free from coercion, sexism, queer&homophobia, racism, and other hierarchies.
Tenants Sanctuary
Tenant Sanctuary is a Santa Cruz legal-aid organization by tenants for tenants. Volunteers work with an attorney to counsel tenants. We serve all city residents, regardless of immigration status.
Off-Site
Bitter Cotyledons
Bitter Cotyledons is a queer trans asian land-based collective who gathers on the territory of the Awaswas-speaking people. Cotyledons are the first embryonic leaves to emerge from a germinating seed.
[photo of plant from the garden and not a cotyledon]
Santa Cruz Climate Action Network
We are a diverse group of local people who are highly concerned about current and future climate change. Santa Cruz Climate Action Network (SCCAN) seeks to address the current Climate Change Emergency, recognizing that failure to act quickly will have devastating effects on future generations of humans and other life forms.
Santa Cruz Dyke Trans Coalition
The Santa Cruz Dyke Trans Coalition is focused on advocacy, mutual aid, educational programs, cultural events, community outreach, cross-organizational partnerships, and fundraising for Santa Cruz dyke and trans communities. Organizers of the Santa Cruz Dyke Trans March, they’re working to create safer and more welcoming spaces for members of the community.
Santa Cruz Welcoming Network
The Santa Cruz Welcoming Network was formed in 2019 by local residents, many from faith-based congregations. Their mission is to provide comfort and support for people who seek asylum and refuge. Our volunteers connect personally and accompany them as they navigate challenges such as: immigration court, shelter, health care, and work. We find resources that support their goals and healing from trauma. We are committed to the truth that every human being is worthy of a safe place to live and thrive.