New Festival Team Revealed! First Time in Goleta at Fairview Theatre and Return to Los Olivos! Submissions Open Now - Calling for Nature-Centric Films! Celebrating the return of the beloved NatureTrack Film Festival (NTFF) for its fifth year is cause to break out the champagne. Lots of exciting news to reveal like new co-directors for the fest, addition of a development director to the team, add in a new location, official dates, plus call for [...more...]
Explore Ecology is looking for environmental heroes to honor at this year's Earth Day Festival. Do you know someone who protects and preserves the environment and inspires others to do the same? Nominations are now [...more...]
Giving List Matching Challenges
Youth Development
Santa Barbara native Kevin Haeberle has been a self-described “gearhead” ever since his dad taught him how to work on […more…]
At first blush, Yaskin Solano may seem like a typical native of Santa Barbara. He grew up here, and he […more…]
Kevin Haeberle, the Santa Barbara native who heads a nonprofit called The Community Hot Rod Project and the self-described “gearhead,” […more…]
The Arts
Music is the soundtrack of our lives. From the morning radio alarm, to the headphones fueling your run, to your […more…]
The stage is set, the curtain has been raised, and live performances are back for UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) […more…]
Out of Joint: Joan Tanner is now on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, February 12, 2023 – […more…]
Senior and Speciality Compassion Care
Getting to Know Hillside, the complimentary lunch-and-learn program, returns on Wednesday, February 15. It will continue each month at 12:00 […more…]
Just about everything Hillside does is for its residents, the 59 people who live at the facility that have developmental […more…]
If ever a well-known Latin phrase epitomized a venerable Santa Barbara organization, “in loco parentis” (“in place of a parent”) […more…]
Nourishment
Malnutrition is one of the most common – and most serious – side effects of cancer and its treatment. It […more…]
Santa Barbara, CA, March 1, 2023: Organic Soup Kitchen has received the 2023 Platinum Seal of Transparency from Guidestar (formerly […more…]
For a decade, the Organic Soup Kitchen (OSK) hosted community meals on Christmas Day at the Veterans Memorial Building on […more…]
Homelessness & Housing
New Beginnings Executive Director Kristine Schwarz swung into action after learning that a nursing home was about to release one […more…]
When your mission is to end homelessness in California, watching the number of unsheltered people continue to climb across the […more…]
Healthcare
For nearly three decades, VNA Health has operated Serenity House, the largest nonprofit facility of its kind in California providing […more…]
It took a little while to reach Sharon Allen of the World Telehealth Initiative (WTI) to arrange an interview last […more…]
Esperanza was 19 years old and living in Malawi when she faced a serious health crisis. While giving birth to […more…]
Global Reach
Don’t ever ask Director of Human Rights Watch Santa Barbara Lis Leader to pit one human rights crisis against another. […more…]
Tikkun olam, translated as “repairing the world,” is one of the most important social justice concepts of contemporary Judaism. The […more…]
In 1945, William Zimdin, an Estonian immigrant who had fled fascism to California, dedicated his fortune to sending relief parcels […more…]
Giving Paws
When two children got lost during a hike in rural New York with oncoming rain commingling with the darkening night, […more…]
Back in 2009 when Isabelle Gullö co-founded C.A.R.E.4Paws, she knew there was a desperate need locally for programs that reduce […more…]
While shelters along California’s Central Coast do their best to provide care for abandoned dogs and cats, the facilities can […more…]
Giving Paws
Over the last couple of months (and as recent as this week), Montecito residents have been repeatedly reminded of the […more…]
For the Children
Camp Chit Chat is a fun and socially interactive camp for preschool age children with mild-moderate speech and language delays. […more…]
While statewide data lags, it is clear that the number of children entering foster care in Santa Barbara County has […more…]
Julie DeAngelis helps children to speak clearly. Even those who still want to wear COVID-19 masks to hide their language […more…]
Family Well-Being
“People Helping People is about an outpouring of generosity from community people volunteering to help people in the community,” says […more…]
Santa Barbara came together to celebrate Unity in Our Community at the Annual Unity Telethon. This 36-year tradition entertains, warms […more…]
Many people think of “hospice” purely as end-of-life medical care. In fact, hospice care is so much more. Hospice of […more…]
Environment
This year, with more than 11 billion snow crabs disappearing from the sea floor, the Alaskan snow crab fishing season […more…]
White Buffalo Land Trust has a vital purpose: to restore the ecosystem through agriculture and in the process directly address […more…]
Explore Ecology is looking for environmental heroes to honor at this year’s Earth Day Festival. Do you know someone who […more…]
Education
As 2022 drew to a close, Tim and Ginny Bliss issued a challenge to Mission Scholars and the Santa Barbara […more…]
The Santa Barbara Education Foundation will award 71 grants to SB Unified teachers totaling $100,000 to help meet the needs […more…]
New Festival Team Revealed! First Time in Goleta at Fairview Theatre and Return to Los Olivos! Submissions Open Now – […more…]
Community Resilience
What happens when the people driving a nonprofit organization providing community support get burned out and need support themselves? Leading […more…]
The origin story of the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade is the stuff of legend – and for good reason. In […more…]
The 70 miles of coast spanning Lake Casitas to Point Conception and including Carpinteria, Montecito, Santa Barbara, and Goleta, is […more…]
Advocacy
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast (PPCCC) is one of scores of affiliates across the country that share a vision of […more…]
Civil legal representation is expensive. Even basic legal services cost thousands of dollars. If you are struggling to pay rent, […more…]
The Fund for Santa Barbara, founded in 1980, has always drawn together diverse communities and organizations with the goal of […more…]