COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

America In Bloom is a program which brings residents who might not normally work collectively on common goals together. They all want to work for the betterment of their town and can maximize their efforts together as they participate in America In Bloom. Their participation often becomes a springboard for positive momentum to do more to improve their cities and pursue grants. Time and time again, America In Bloom has proven to be a catalyst for positive change. Well-tended communities have less crime.

Economic benefits ranging from reducing heating and cooling costs to improving property values, from improving privacy and security to reducing maintenance costs have been documented, as has the potential for deriving new economic benefits from parks, sporting facilities, and increased tourism. 

For more information. For more information, visit www.americainbloomsantapaula.com

Rotary Club of Santa Paula‘s Mission is Service Above Self. The organization provides thousands of dollars to worthwhile organizations in Santa Paula annually.

Each October, Rotary produces one of the biggest and most attended pumpkin patches in Ventura County held at Limoneira Company’s Historic Olivelands Ranch which draws up to 20,000 people from all over Southern California. 

For more information, visit www.santapaularotary.org

Santa Paula Optimist Club is a non-profit service organization that supports the city of Santa Paula and the surrounding areas.

The club's mission: By providing hope and positive vision, Optimists bring out the best in youth, our communities and ourselves. 

Vision: Optimist International will be recognized worldwide as the premier volunteer organization that values all children and helps them develop to their full potential. 

For more information, visit www.facebook.com/SantaPaulaOptimistClub

Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clara Valley was originally founded as a Boys Club by the Santa Paula Police Department in 1949; it was not until 1968 that girls also became members providing daily access to safe, supervised activities that foster children to become productive, responsible and caring citizens. There are ten sites serving the cities of Santa Paula, Fillmore, and the unincorporated area of Piru.

The Club concentrates on five areas of youth development: character & leadership development; educational & career development; health & life skills; the arts; and sports, fitness, and recreation. The Club’s activities primarily take place after school, during school recesses, in the evening, and on weekends. Over 1,650 youth and community members utilize the Club. 

For more information, please visit: www.bgclubscv.org

Santa Paula Latino Town Hall is a nonprofit organization dedicated to working to enhance, promote, mobilize, cultivate, and raise the level of social awareness, interest and concern for the issues affecting the Latino Community in Santa Paula and Ventura County in particular, and California and the United States in general. 

Through the efforts of Santa Paula Latino Town Hall and partnering institutions, our mission is to help: expand educational and economic opportunities for underserved populations  reduce and eventually eliminate poverty, crime, racial tension and prejudices, and discrimination in any form (racial, economic, etc). For more information, please visit: www.sp-lth.org

The Santa Paula Odd Fellows are a fraternal organization which is a part of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. We are located in Santa Paula California. 

For more information, please visit: www.facebook.com/spoddfellows

We are a team of community leaders, doctors, nurses, caseworkers, clergy and specially trained volunteers working together to provide a community support system for the terminally ill and their families. We primarily help them stay in their home and pain free. Santa Clara Valley Hospice provides for the physical, psychological and spiritual needs of the family unit by providing counseling services and physical assistance in many areas.

For more information, please visit: santaclaravalleyhospice.org

Our beliefs are Christian and our service areas are non-denominational and varied. They range from serving a generous, nutritious hot meal each week for 600 people to assisting the community with rental assistance and utility payments, advocacy in Homeless Court, counseling at the Drop In Center for people who are homeless, hungry and lonely. We are approved by Ventura County Sheriff's Department to provide pastoral visits to the jail, we work with parolees and lead the Homeless Count in Santa Paula. 

We are ServSafe Food Certified and adept at food rescue, food pantry services, USDA food distribution and counseling.  We have helped parents with at-risk kids, sponsored outreach programs for kids in the park, the Police Clergy Council, and 12-step efforts. We believe in linking arms with other service providers. We lend a hand to them and lean on them when necessary.  We try not to duplicate services and we work hard to communicate.

For more information, please visit: www.spiritofsantapaula.org

The concept of a community based non-profit shelter was born over lunch in June ,2011. The only condition sought by the initial committee members was that the new shelter would be “no kill”…meaning it would NOT euthanize animals on the basis of overcrowding.

With that commitment, experienced rescuers associated with Canine Adoption Rescue League (CARL), Tiny Loving Canines (TLC), Protect and Promote Animals (PAPA), Rock and Rescue, Inc. and other individuals started meeting on a regular basis to formulate the plans which would eventually become SPARC. Every month new issues were raised and addressed by the committee until a proposed contract was finalized and presented to the city council for vote in March, 2012. With that vote, Santa Paula became “host” to the first and only no kill animal shelter in the Ventura County, providing humane care and treatment for the stray and abandoned animals of the city as well as educational, spay/neuter, vaccination, licensing and other services. Pet over population is a community problem and SPARC presents a humane, community-based solution.

For more information, please visit: www.sparcsaveslives.org