There are a number of reading programs for students in Santa Barbara, including several administered by nonprofits. Tina Hansen McEnroe […more…]

Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley (FBSMV) does some very important and impactful work. Since its founding in 2003 as a […more…]

Santa Barbara’s leading social and emotional intelligence program, AHA!, has announced the appointment of Brandon Battle as Director of Programs, […more…]

Melissa has been foundational in the evolution of AHA!, having started with the organization in 2011 and contributed as grant […more…]

Community Based Literacies in the Schools This video is a multimodal, melodic synthesis of a reflection activity that our Harding […more…]

When California’s Surgeon General announced in January that the state was adding “access to nature” to its list of seven […more…]

Many nonprofits like to throw around the word grassroots to describe their organizations, but few do the term justice as […more…]

On a wall next to the entrance of Edwin Weaver’s office at Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley (FBSMV) hangs a […more…]

Endowment for Youth Community (EYC) President Guy R. Walker is well known for his politeness. Even before the interview began, […more…]

For the organization known as AHA! (which stands for “Attitude, Harmony, Achievement”), 22 years is long enough to have had […more…]

When she talks about education, Tina Hansen McEnroe likes to invoke Irish poet W. B. Yeats: “Education is not the […more…]

It was just about a month into the pandemic when the United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara (UBGC) […more…]

Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara has had plenty on its plate since the pandemic altered almost everything back in […more…]

I wasn’t much of a hiker before the pandemic. But being cooped up inside for days and weeks on end, […more…]