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Become a Heritage Business Member Today!

The Heritage Business and Destination Membership program offers local “heritage” businesses an opportunity to promote their business while also supporting local efforts to promote the rich cultural and natural heritage of the Santa Cruz Valley. Your annual Heritage Business membership connects you with locals and visiting heritage tourists by offering:

  • A link to your website on Heritage Alliance website 
  • Subscription to Santa Cruz Meanderings, the Heritage Alliance’s bi-annual newsletter
  • Article or advertisement in Santa Cruz Meanderings (once per year)
  • A link to your website in one or more editions of our monthly e-newsletter
  • Advertising in our monthly Heritage Business e-newsletter, starting Feb 1, 2011. In addition to our regular e-news sent to our mailing list monthly, we are creating a monthly e-news alert specifically to market our Heritage Business members. These emails can include events at your business, sample recipes, coupons, discounts, or specials, and a live link to your website. We will check in with you each month (or at your request) to see what you would like featured, and the email will go out on the 1st of each month.
  • Listing on our exhibit table at community events - Heritage Business Members will be listed and featured on our exhibit table at community events throughout the year. Your brochure can also be displayed at our exhibit table at each of these events.
  • Priority consideration as a venue for our events.

2011 Spring Special: Check out our special 2011 membership rates and print an application form! (Extended to 2012 until further notice.)

Eligibility: Eligible Heritage Businesses are local businesses that incorporate one of the ten themes of the proposed National Heritage Area by encouraging the preservation, promotion and education of the theme in the daily business operations. There should be a clear and obvious connection to the theme.  Read our list of eligible businesses, or email vanessa@santacruzheritage.org or call (520) 429-1394 for more information about becoming a Heritage Business Member.  If you are not a heritage business, you can still support our mission by becoming a general member. 

Heritage Lodging Membership levels 

1 - 15 room(s)
$100                                
16 - 30 rooms $275
31 - 100 rooms $350
101 - 250 rooms $500
+250 rooms
$1,000

Heritage Attractions & Outings
Visitation +300k/year $500                                                        
Visitation 100k-300k/year $300
Visitation under 100k/year $200
Nonprofit attraction $150

Heritage Foods & Dining*

Restaurant: Under 20 seats                                                                            $100                                                                 
Restaurant: 20-50 seats              
 $150
Restaurant: +50 seats                                
 $250
Family farms/ranches
 $150
Small-scale, local producers of heritage foods (prickly pear nectar; mesquite meal)
 $100
Grocery Stores: Coop $150
Grocery Stores: For-Profit, Local Only $200
Grocery Stores: For-Profit, National $250

Misc. Heritage Consultants:                             $250 

* Heritage Foods & Dining eligibility: Businesses must use, prepare, grow, or feature local or heritage foods. Heritage foods can be described as “locally produced foods tied to the region’s history and cultural identity.” This definition provides for the promotion of wild desert food products, historically cultivated crops, foods that are culturally unique to this region, and modern crops that continue the agricultural traditions of the Santa Cruz Valley. This includes local farmers, ranchers and gardeners, value-added products such as local honey or prickly pear products, grocery stores that sell local foods, or restaurants that highlight local and heritage foods on their menu.