July 15, 2014 –By Donna Jones / Santa Cruz Sentinel Kiva chips in to fund Watsonville cookie company El Pajaro CDC partners with online microfinance nonprofit

El Pájaro Community Development Corporation says “Thanks for INVESTING in our community!!!”

A BIG THANK YOU to all lenders!!! At El Pájaro Community Development Corporation we are very grateful for the tremendous support that you all given to Tia. We are very proud of her and are looking forward to seeing her selling thousands of her amazing cookies! For those of you who are nearby she will be selling at the “made in Santa Cruz stand” During the Strawberry Festival in Watsonville, CA August 2 and 3, 2014.

July 29, 2013 –By Donna Jones / Santa Cruz Sentinel Kitchen cooks up economic opportunity

Tia Meyer of the San Lorenzo Valley, talks about her three-chocolate cookies with pecans and brown sugar at Monday’s grand opening of El Pajaro Community Development Corporation’s incubator commercial kitchen in Watsonville. (Dan Coyro/Sentinel) ( Dan Coyro )