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President Bartlet is coming to the Santa Barbara beachfront!  The actor and activist Martin Sheen, who won an Emmy Award […more…]

With the NFL football season launching earlier this month, the Santa Barbara Symphony is hosting a kickoff of their own, […more…]

For the first time in six years, Chowderfest, the much-cherished annual fundraiser for the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara […more…]

The halcyon days of Hollywood moviemaking have been showing up in unusual places recently, including as the setting for the […more…]

It’s an indicator of change. Those chain link fences lined with black plastic are popping up in nascent construction sites […more…]

Direct Relief has a new President and CEO, Amy Weaver having taken the reins from retiring Thomas Tighe, who over […more…]

After a nationwide search, UCSB ended up turning to its own backyard to find the new Miller McCune Executive Director […more…]

Summer is often a slower season for NatureTrack, the nonprofit organization which was founded with the goal of creating opportunities […more…]

It was just a year ago that The Horse Project rejiggered their mission after a decade spent simply rescuing, rehabilitating […more…]

“Undermatching” might sound like a snafu on a dating app, but what the concept actually refers to is the unnecessary […more…]

The clichéd image of a random Boy Scout helping grandma across the street to earn points toward a merit badge […more…]

For an organization that’s been around for more than three-quarters of a century, the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse […more…]

Fictional detective Harry Bosch, the star of more than a dozen best-selling books by Michael Connelly and two TV series […more…]

REACH is a small local organization that provides comprehensive transformative support and development opportunities to first-generation college-bound students as they […more…]

April is always a big time of year for the Parkinson Association of Santa Barbara (PASB). That’s when the very […more…]

Chuck Madson knows a lot about the possible consequences of believing that your opportunities are limited. A Central Coast native, […more…]

Jodi House chose this issue to be the focus of this week’s Giving List column because March is National Brain […more…]

There was no doubt that top staff at the nonprofit YouthWell would show up at the sold-out Arlington Theatre last […more…]

Eighteen months ago, White Buffalo Land Trust (WBLT) celebrated the culmination of its year-long pilot of the organization’s Artist in […more…]

Thirty years ago this coming April, FEMA-Certified Canine Search Specialist Wilma Melville and her black lab Murphy spent a week […more…]

Nonprofits understandably like to make a big deal about anniversaries, noting with pride and gratitude how long they have been […more…]

Next year marks the 80th anniversary for Hillside, the residential home for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, who receive […more…]

Earlier this fall, the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County (LAFSBC) marked its 65th anniversary with an early evening […more…]

Kenny Slaught boasts more than four decades of professional experience in Santa Barbara’s real estate industry. The founder and president […more…]

Susan Rose’s decades of experience in public administration, education, and community activism has seen her do everything from advocate to […more…]

Before signing on as a lecturer in the film department at UCSB in 2019, Atlanta native Wendy Eley Jackson spent […more…]

Last month, Sansum Diabetes Research Institute (SDRI) reached a major milestone with its year-long $20 million capital campaign to facilitate […more…]

Organizations don’t last 137 years if they’re not capable of changing with the times.  For Santa Barbara Humane, the local […more…]

On October 2, 2023, Sansum Clinic became part of Sutter Health, a significant milestone that altered Sansum’s then 103-year history […more…]

It was back in 1974 that Dr. Harry Brown founded SEE International to address the global lack of access to […more…]

It’s been a landmark year for major anniversaries in Santa Barbara. The Granada Theatre launched its year-long Granada 100 celebration […more…]

There are 19 RiteCare Childhood Language Centers across California, a program of the California Scottish Rite Foundation that provides life-changing […more…]

Mark your calendar for July 20. That’s the date when the contractors will hand over the keys to the new […more…]

Holocaust Museum LA was founded in 1961 by a group of survivors who met each other in an ESL class […more…]

The RUNX1 gene provides instructions for making RUNX1 protein, which plays a vital role in the production of blood stem […more…]

An impact report is normally more of an obligation or a chore for a nonprofit rather than something to brag […more…]

Dean Noble, executive director of Elings Park, is fond of comparing Elings to some famous public parks in urban areas.  […more…]

Although Summerland had relatively minor flooding and damage following the torrential rainstorm and resulting debris flow in January 2018, the […more…]

NatureTrack has a simple but vital mission: To foster a lifelong fascination with nature through outdoor field trips. The nonprofit […more…]

When M.E.R.R.A.G. was formed in 1987 as Montecito Emergency Response and Recovery Action Group, the uber-local organization started serving a […more…]