As a young person in 1963, E. onja Brown got on a bus at W. 138th in Harlem bound for […more…]
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Women’s Economic Ventures (WEV) was founded in 1991 when women earned 56 cents for every dollar earned by a man. […more…]
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During 2020, when so many of us were hunkering down as COVID-19 turned our lives upside down, two Santa Barbara […more…]
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Nonprofit leaders make it their personal mission to serve others, and in doing so, too often lose sight of themselves. […more…]
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By her sophomore year of high school, Sarahi Larios Cruz had already experienced family disruption, racism and systemic inequity, but […more…]
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In April of 1999, two high school seniors walked onto the campus of Columbine High School in Colorado with semi-automatic […more…]
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Vanessa Scarlett, the science specialist at Montecito Union School, bubbles with excitement at the plans for a 2.5-acre parcel of […more…]
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The Santa Barbara Education Foundation is not your normal nonprofit supporting students. Rather it is like an educational Robin Hood, […more…]
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The goal was audacious: provide every recent high school graduate in the south coast area of Santa Barbara with two […more…]
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Guy R. Walker is President and Founder of Wealth Management Strategies, a boutique financial advisory firm based in Santa Ynez, […more…]
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In the 1960s, the Perry Preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan laid the groundwork for our understanding of the value of early […more…]
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Bounded by the Pacific to the west and the Sierra Nevada to the east, California is home to over 6,500 […more…]
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The double blow of the Thomas Fire and ensuing debris flow in 2018 left no doubt about the increasing threats […more…]
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In Montecito, a land of spectacular architecture and pristine gardens, there lies a property like no other: Lotusland. Set across […more…]
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In 2011,long before Covid-19 forever changed how we think of nonprofit fundraising events, Santa Barbara-based Heal the Ocean held an […more…]
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Firefighters do a lot more than fight fires. On any given day, Montecito Fire’s 33 active duty firefighters wake up […more…]
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America’s child welfare court system is imbued with incredible power. Judges routinely make decisions that indelibly alter the course of […more…]
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On the second day of her freshman year of college, Aspen Matis was raped. When “mediation” with her attacker failed, […more…]
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Dan Meisel was made for his current job running the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Santa Barbara-based Tri-Counties regional office. Raised in […more…]
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It has always been important to recognize that injustice and discrimination occurs in the United States and not only in […more…]
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In 2017, the Music Academy of the West and its uniquely capable leader, Scott Reed, were the subject of a […more…]
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