Build Partnerships
We partner with grassroots groups, non-profit organizations, public agencies, researchers, Indigenous advisors, and businesses. We listen to community members and bring what we've heard to public agencies and other decision-makers to turn community priorities and experiences into more responsive local climate plans and projects.
Our Partnerships
Regeneración serves as an equity advisor to the Monterey Bay
Climate Adaptation
Action Network, or MBCAAN, a network of partners across the Monterey Bay taking collective action to prepare communities, ecosystems and economies for the impacts of climate change.
Regeneración leads the Community Advisory Group on Climate Resilience and Adaptation-a group of local organizations and community leaders- to ensure community voices shape regional priorities.
Monterey Bay Area Climate Justice Collaborative
The Collaborative aims to improve both climate and equity outcomes in Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties while increasing the region's competitiveness for grant funding. The Collaboratives's activities, such as peer exchanges across sectors, ensure community representation on decision making bodies, working groups and co-creating equitable climate projects and grant proposals aregrounded in a shared vision to center the voices of those most impacted by climate change.
Research Partnerships
In partnership with UCSC Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, Javier Gonzalez-Rocha, PhD, Regeneración has been working on developing air quality resources for the Pajaro Valley focused on residents’ local areas of air quality concern and informing them about air quality issues arising from prescribed burns and other pollution emitting events. Dr. Gonzalez-Rocha and Regeneración were recently awarded funding for a research and community pilot project from the UC San Francisco Eco-Health Center.
Matt Sparke, PhD and the UC Santa Cruz Global and Community Health Program have partnered with Regeneración and other CBOs over the years on several grant opportunities including the Campo Sano project which led to the development of the Campo Sano map app.
Art and Action
Karolina Karlic is an Associate Professor of Arts at UC Santa Cruz and is partnering with Regeneración by advising and supporting the 2025 and 2027 Pajaro Valley Photovoice projects through the University of California Climate Action Arts Network.
Assistant Professor of Science Education at UC Santa Cruz Emily Reigh, PhD is a consistent supporter of Regeneración and has served as an advisor to the Photovoice projects and the evaluator of the 2025 Pajaro Valley Youth Photovoice Project.
