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Premier Active Aging Fair Takes Place October 4, 9AM to 1 PM Senior Expo of Santa Barbara County is back […more…]

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) is pleased to announce its upcoming Love of Literacy Luncheon, a free event that […more…]

Join Ritecare for a beautiful 2-hour coastal sunset cruise with live music aboard the Condor Express! Have a drink and […more…]

Savie Health opened its doors in June of 2022 as Santa Barbara County’s first and only free health clinic for […more…]

5th Anniversary Yields a Wealth of Stories about Water and Experiential Adventures Caught on Film From the untapped beauty of […more…]

There’s no doubt that The Granada Theatre has played a vital role in developing and extending Santa Barbara’s thriving music […more…]

The Oct. 13 event will celebrate United Way’s 100th anniversary in Santa Barbara County Join United Way for a celebration […more…]

Cue the fanfare! LotusFest is coming back to Lotusland, the spectacular public gardens nestled in the Cold Spring neighborhood of […more…]

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation recently elected Victoria Juarez to its Board of Directors. With an extensive background in nonprofit […more…]

An art show at a downtown Santa Barbara gallery might seem to have little to do with a nonprofit working […more…]

Distribution of donated school supplies and new backpacks continues at United Way’s summer learning program To ensure that local students […more…]

Savie Health, a free medical clinic for low-income people without health insurance, is pleased to welcome a new behavioral health specialist […more…]

Jacob Collier makes his Santa Barbara debut on Sunday, October 1 at 7 p.m. at Campbell Hall.Opening night festivities kick […more…]

Craig Lewis was as horrified as any of us to hear of the Maui wildfires that have caused so much […more…]

Hospice of Santa Barbara’s (HSB) 11th annual Heroes of Hospice luncheon – back in person for a second year following […more…]

Ortiz is Among First of Four Local CEOs to Serve on Worldwide Board Steve Ortiz, president and CEO of United […more…]

There’s no doubt that the Granada Theatre is one of the crown jewels in Santa Barbara’s enviable and outsized arts […more…]

You may not have noticed, but Unity Shoppe, one of Santa Barbara’s oldest nonprofits, had a significant change in its […more…]

Single (non-subscription) tickets for UCSB Arts & Lectures’ 2023-2024 season go on sale Friday, August 4 at 10:00AM. UCSB Arts […more…]

The Fund for Santa Barbara’s Development and Communications Manager – Alina Rey Keswani – is understandably proud that Bread & […more…]

Mike and Betty Noling gave $500,000 to support the United Learning Center tutoring program   United Way of Santa Barbara […more…]

Organic Soup Kitchen (OSK) provides nutrition and food security to cancer patients, chronically ill, and low-income individuals throughout Santa Barbara […more…]

The NatureTrack Film Festival was created as an extension of the NatureTrack Foundation, the nonprofit that combats “Nature-Deficit Disorder” by […more…]

Kim Colby Davis, director of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Santa Barbara County, one of 900 local programs that […more…]

Congressman Salud Carbajal and his team have awarded Organic Soup Kitchen with a Congressional Award of Honor. The award was […more…]

Santa Barbara Symphony held the final fundraiser in celebration of our 70th year. An Evening With Sinatra: The After Party! […more…]

After leading the Fund for Santa Barbara for more than eight years, Executive Director Dr. Marcos Vargas plans to retire […more…]

You might wonder how a chowder festival has anything to do with providing free, high-quality legal services to low-income and […more…]

Big plans are in store for Hillside, the residential facility for 59 people with developmental disabilities, including intellectual disabilities, cerebral […more…]

The program will serve a record 430 students and their families, including an expanded campus in Guadalupe.  United Way of […more…]

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) recently elected Eva Maria Catalan to its Board of Directors. As the Associate Program Director […more…]

Hillside celebrated its 19th Annual Sunset Soiree on Saturday, June 3rd.  The event took place at the Cabrillo Pavilion with […more…]

Sunday, June 18, 2023 is a Day to Reflect on the Significance of Fathers Happy Father’s Day cards extol the […more…]

From DakhaBrakha and The Linda Lindas to Lang Lang and Ballet Preljocaj, UCSB Arts & Lectures’ 2022-2023 season included a […more…]

The nonprofit recognized its community partners at the milestone event Over 200 community partners, volunteers and supporters celebrated a century […more…]

When New Beginnings began serving Santa Barbara as a nonprofit half a century ago, providing confidential, therapeutic psychological testing, assessment, […more…]

Speaking to a full house at the Carrillo Recreation Center, Santa Barbara Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Hilda Maldonado addressed […more…]

Santa Barbara nonprofit Community Environmental Council has long been on the forefront of the environmental movement ever since its founding […more…]

Over 200 guests of Family Service Agency attended Dreams in Bloom on Saturday May 13 at the Santa Barbara Woman’s Club at […more…]

Rona Barrett is most famous for her long career as a pioneering journalist, columnist, broadcaster, and producer who covered the […more…]

Kimberly Ray, the founder and CEO of Marine Conservation Network, remembers what it was like to grow up in and […more…]

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the 2023 FREE Summer Cinema line-up: Out of This World, seven nights of space-inspired movies under […more…]

On Thursday, May 5, the Santa Barbara Education Foundation hosted the Hope Awards to celebrate individuals and programs supporting students […more…]

As might be expected with an organization that has been around for 100 years, there have been a lot of […more…]

After a three-year pause during the pandemic, the Cottage Health Volunteer Awards Luncheon was back in person this past April […more…]

Homelessness has been growing in Santa Barbara, where last year nearly 2,000 people were living without shelter, a situation that […more…]

The SBCC Foundation’s 4th annual Spring Forward! Gala will be held on Saturday, May 20, from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. on […more…]

The programming for the Santa Barbara Symphony’s milestone 70th anniversary has resulted in a sensational and supremely successful season, a […more…]

The Santa Barbara hosted its fifth of seven Concert Aperitifs at Seaside Gardens, generously hosted by Drs. Fred & Linda […more…]

Hillside’s inaugural Pickleball Tournament & Expo was an absolute success! Lisa and Jim Wilcox came up with a brilliant idea […more…]

Honoring Local Students and Teachers Explore Ecology is proud to announce the recipients of the 2023 Explore Ecology Environmental Stewardship […more…]

Santa Barbara Education Foundation received a $50,000 grant from Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, for its Teacher Grants program, which provides […more…]

RiteCare Childhood Language Center of Santa Barbara, founded in 1984, is the only nonprofit in Santa Barbara County offering free […more…]

NatureTrack was honored to be an important part of helping veterans experience The Wall That Heals by providing the Freedom […more…]

Model, film star and philanthropist will share the story of her illustrious family and multifaceted career UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) […more…]

The Endowment for Youth Committee (EYC) is one of the oldest nonprofits serving the needs of African American students and […more…]

$150 Million Raised to Fulfill Cottage’s Commitment to Healthcare Excellence Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation’s 7-year philanthropic campaign, Reaching Higher Together: The […more…]

Proceeds benefit countywide family support and mental health counseling programs Join Family Service Agency (FSA) of Santa Barbara County, as […more…]

On April 4th, 2023 The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the Racial Equity Fund recommendations made by […more…]

Organic Soup Kitchen announces the opening of a second location. The new downtown facility will allow the organization to meet […more…]

Lisa and Jim Wilcox came up with a brilliant idea for a new fundraising event for Hillside – an all-day […more…]

The repurposed Santa Barbara store fronts at 4020 Calle Real, Suite 2, are serving our city’s homeless two meals a […more…]

Freedom 4 Youth’s Director of Development & Advocacy Dylan Griffith and Executive Director Dr. Billi Jo Starr knew immediately what […more…]

The executive staff and board of trustees of Ganna Walska Lotusland held their annual meeting last week for Garden members […more…]

Comprehensive free enrichment summer program supports hundreds of Santa Barbara children Enrollment is now open for United Way of Santa […more…]

After a two-year pause, the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation recently welcomed more than 400 guests to its annual black-tie […more…]

Imagine an artistic hub in downtown Santa Barbara brimming with materials, tools, ideas, and creativity, a curated and dynamic gathering […more…]

Our fifth cohort of Leading for Community Impact (LCI) has launched. LCI is a 10-month program that assembles a select […more…]

Over the last couple of months (and as recent as this week), Montecito residents have been repeatedly reminded of the […more…]

Last month, 99.9 KTYD teamed up with the Santa Barbara Education Foundation to promote music education in our schools with […more…]

World Telehealth Initiative’s new program in Kenya is in full swing, expanding healthcare access for a rural community using telehealth […more…]

The Three Bring Experience, Expertise, and Energy to the Board Hillside is pleased to announce the appointment of three new […more…]

Dunn School’s Kalyan Balaven, head of school for the private co-ed college prep boarding and day school in Los Olivos, […more…]

New Festival Team Revealed! First Time in Goleta at Fairview Theatre and Return to Los Olivos! Submissions Open Now – […more…]

Santa Barbara, CA, March 1, 2023: Organic Soup Kitchen has received the 2023 Platinum Seal of Transparency from Guidestar (formerly […more…]

Planned Parenthood California Central Coast (PPCCC) is one of scores of affiliates across the country that share a vision of […more…]

Santa Barbara Education Foundation recently elected Karen Dutton to its Board of Directors as Santa Barbara Unified School District teacher […more…]

It took a little while to reach Sharon Allen of the World Telehealth Initiative (WTI) to arrange an interview last […more…]

Getting to Know Hillside, the complimentary lunch-and-learn program, returns on Wednesday, February 15. It will continue each month at 12:00 […more…]

Camp Chit Chat is a fun and socially interactive camp for preschool age children with mild-moderate speech and language delays. […more…]

Ken Saxon had a clear vision when he founded Leading From Within (LFW), the Santa Barbara nonprofit that supports leaders […more…]

A Valentine’s Day Message from Family Service Agency “Strengthening your relationship can not only improve your personal happiness, but improve […more…]

Out of Joint: Joan Tanner is now on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, February 12, 2023 – […more…]

Explore Ecology is looking for environmental heroes to honor at this year’s Earth Day Festival. Do you know someone who […more…]

Kevin Haeberle, the Santa Barbara native who heads a nonprofit called The Community Hot Rod Project and the self-described “gearhead,” […more…]

Since 2003, the Santa Barbara Education Foundation has kept the beat for school music programs by raising funds to pay […more…]

Online service provides 24/7 treatment for common conditions  To help increase access to care, Cottage Health is excited to announce […more…]

El servicio en línea que brinda tratamiento de afecciones comunes 24/7 Para aumentar el acceso a la atención médica, Cottage […more…]

When the seemingly endless series of atmospheric river rainstorms drenched the area last month, people from Santa Barbara, Lompoc, or […more…]

Khadiza is from a settlement in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, where she lives with her husband and four children. At age […more…]

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of Nina Dunbar to serve as Donor Advisement Officer. […more…]

As 2022 drew to a close, Tim and Ginny Bliss issued a challenge to Mission Scholars and the Santa Barbara […more…]

While the world enters its new “normal,” the need to break bread with one another, both metaphorically and literally, is […more…]

Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara, aka CAMA, is deservedly well-known and cherished for its commitment and ability to […more…]

In honor of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which is celebrated annually on December 3rd, NatureTrack Film Festival’s award-winning […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…]

Cottage Health has appointed Dr. Miriam Parsa, a board-certified pediatrician and pediatric rheumatologist, to the role of Chief Pediatric Medical […more…]

The Hillside 6th Annual Shining Light on Abilities is open! All are welcome to visit and experience the festive display […more…]

Santa Barbara came together to celebrate Unity in Our Community at the Annual Unity Telethon. This 36-year tradition entertains, warms […more…]

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation will award 71 grants to SB Unified teachers totaling $100,000 to help meet the needs […more…]

The Fund for Santa Barbara is excited to announce that we are partnering with The County of Santa Barbara to […more…]

Just about everything Hillside does is for its residents, the 59 people who live at the facility that have developmental […more…]

Organic Soup Kitchen is hosting its first annual Holiday SouperMarket and Soup Tasting Party on December 10th. The event will […more…]

For a decade, the Organic Soup Kitchen (OSK) hosted community meals on Christmas Day at the Veterans Memorial Building on […more…]

There’s a new crisis in our midst: kids spending too much time indoors and online. There’s even a name for […more…]

New Beginnings Executive Director Kristine Schwarz swung into action after learning that a nursing home was about to release one […more…]

Malnutrition is one of the most common – and most serious – side effects of cancer and its treatment. It […more…]

When your mission is to end homelessness in California, watching the number of unsheltered people continue to climb across the […more…]

“People Helping People is about an outpouring of generosity from community people volunteering to help people in the community,” says […more…]

Jenna Tosh watched the erosion of reproductive rights in America for years and knew Roe vs. Wade would one day […more…]

Long before entertainment news trailblazer Rona Barrett interviewed everyone from Raquel Welch to Tom Cruise, she was a young girl […more…]

Take a look at any person in front or back of you in line at the grocery store, and chances […more…]

Dr. William Sansum, renowned diabetes specialist and Sansum Diabetes Research Institute’s (SDRI) founder, was the first U.S. physician to manufacture […more…]

In 2011, Dr. Ahmad Nooristani had an important realization. Many of the low-income (frequently undocumented) patients he was treating in […more…]

There are 12,700 students within the Santa Barbara School District learning across 19 TK-12 schools and supported by a staff […more…]

Julie DeAngelis helps children to speak clearly. Even those who still want to wear COVID-19 masks to hide their language […more…]

Music is the soundtrack of our lives. From the morning radio alarm, to the headphones fueling your run, to your […more…]

While serving a 13-year prison sentence, Alberto “Berto” Lule started to draw cartoons as an escape. That led to reading […more…]

We all know the basic needs of life: air, water, food, and shelter. Here in Santa Barbara County, all four […more…]

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art has distinguished itself through its track record of informative and fascinating exhibitions and programs […more…]

The stage is set, the curtain has been raised, and live performances are back for UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) […more…]

United Way of Santa Barbara County (UWSBC) marks its 100-year anniversary in 2023. As the organization celebrates this century of […more…]

Unity Shoppe Executive Director and CEO Angela Miller-Bevan grew up in Santa Barbara and was raised by a single mother […more…]

For nearly three decades, VNA Health has operated Serenity House, the largest nonprofit facility of its kind in California providing […more…]

White Buffalo Land Trust has a vital purpose: to restore the ecosystem through agriculture and in the process directly address […more…]

Esperanza was 19 years old and living in Malawi when she faced a serious health crisis. While giving birth to […more…]

St. Vincent’s is not just a place or an institution. It is Santa Barbara’s longest-running social services organization, woven into […more…]

Tikkun olam, translated as “repairing the world,” is one of the most important social justice concepts of contemporary Judaism. The […more…]

When Herb Scannell took the helm at Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) nearly four years ago, he found himself scribbling […more…]

Don’t ever ask Director of Human Rights Watch Santa Barbara Lis Leader to pit one human rights crisis against another. […more…]

In our divided and bellicose world, peace can seem like an amorphous and unattainable concept. AHA! Peace Builders serves as […more…]

While shelters along California’s Central Coast do their best to provide care for abandoned dogs and cats, the facilities can […more…]

Considering the caliber of classical music concerts they attract every year to the Granada Theatre and Lobero Theatre, you might […more…]

Almost everyone is aware that America’s current cultural climate is perhaps more polarized than at any time since the Civil […more…]

Santa Barbara native Kevin Haeberle has been a self-described “gearhead” ever since his dad taught him how to work on […more…]

“Ne Tentes Aut Perfice.”  This is the Latin motto that students and faculty at Dunn School, a private co-ed college […more…]

The origin story of the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade is the stuff of legend – and for good reason. In […more…]

While statewide data lags, it is clear that the number of children entering foster care in Santa Barbara County has […more…]

The 70 miles of coast spanning Lake Casitas to Point Conception and including Carpinteria, Montecito, Santa Barbara, and Goleta, is […more…]

Our climate is in crisis. Record-setting heat waves. Larger and more destructive wildfires. An historic megadrought, hotter and drier than […more…]

“Through all types of natural disasters, historic challenges, and emergencies, the doors to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (SBCH) have been […more…]

In 1945, William Zimdin, an Estonian immigrant who had fled fascism to California, dedicated his fortune to sending relief parcels […more…]

In the 36 years since the Endowment for Youth Community (EYC) was founded, Santa Barbara’s Black community has shrunk from […more…]

It’s a typical school day and time for an Explore Ecology garden class. Children line up to head outside. When […more…]

Marialena, 73, suffered an incredible loss when her husband passed away several years ago. She spoke little English, had little […more…]

At first blush, Yaskin Solano may seem like a typical native of Santa Barbara. He grew up here, and he […more…]

The Fund for Santa Barbara, founded in 1980, has always drawn together diverse communities and organizations with the goal of […more…]

When The Granada Theatre reopened its doors in October 2021 after a long, dark 18-month closure, did the audiences rush […more…]

If ever a well-known Latin phrase epitomized a venerable Santa Barbara organization, “in loco parentis” (“in place of a parent”) […more…]

Many people think of “hospice” purely as end-of-life medical care. In fact, hospice care is so much more. Hospice of […more…]

What happens when the people driving a nonprofit organization providing community support get burned out and need support themselves?  Leading […more…]

Civil legal representation is expensive. Even basic legal services cost thousands of dollars. If you are struggling to pay rent, […more…]

Nestled on a 37-acre Montecito estate, Lotusland is a Botanical Garden paradise purchased in 1941 by Madame Ganna Walska, a […more…]

This year, with more than 11 billion snow crabs disappearing from the sea floor, the Alaskan snow crab fishing season […more…]

When two children got lost during a hike in rural New York with oncoming rain commingling with the darkening night, […more…]

Anthony, an African-American man in his early 60s, began visiting the Fr. Virgil Cordano Center (FVCC) more than a year […more…]

Regenerative agriculture has the potential to provide meaningful work and living wages to farmers while feeding millions of people, sequestering […more…]

Anyone who has ever watched a police drama on television in the last 50 years is familiar with the fact […more…]

The Supreme Court ruling that reversed the half-century old landmark Roe v. Wade decision had been handed down only hours […more…]

Across the county, financial hardships have either been created or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. For homeowners who experienced reductions […more…]

On Tuesday January 11th, 2022, Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved moving forward with Racial Equity Fund of […more…]