Where do YOU want to Give?
Wherever your passions for giving lie, Giving List nonprofits are on the frontlines of making our community stronger.
Youth Development
The nonprofit recognized its community partners at the milestone event Over 200 community partners, volunteers and supporters celebrated a century […more…]
Comprehensive free enrichment summer program supports hundreds of Santa Barbara children Enrollment is now open for United Way of Santa […more…]
Mike and Betty Noling gave $500,000 to support the United Learning Center tutoring program United Way of Santa Barbara […more…]
The Arts
Music is the soundtrack of our lives. From the morning radio alarm, to the headphones fueling your run, to your […more…]
Considering the caliber of classical music concerts they attract every year to the Granada Theatre and Lobero Theatre, you might […more…]
Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara, aka CAMA, is deservedly well-known and cherished for its commitment and ability to […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…]
The Hillside 6th Annual Shining Light on Abilities is open! All are welcome to visit and experience the festive display […more…]
If ever a well-known Latin phrase epitomized a venerable Santa Barbara organization, “in loco parentis” (“in place of a parent”) […more…]
Performing Arts
Jacob Collier makes his Santa Barbara debut on Sunday, October 1 at 7 p.m. at Campbell Hall.Opening night festivities kick […more…]
From DakhaBrakha and The Linda Lindas to Lang Lang and Ballet Preljocaj, UCSB Arts & Lectures’ 2022-2023 season included a […more…]
Model, film star and philanthropist will share the story of her illustrious family and multifaceted career UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) […more…]
Nourishment
Organic Soup Kitchen announces the opening of a second location. The new downtown facility will allow the organization to meet […more…]
We all know the basic needs of life: air, water, food, and shelter. Here in Santa Barbara County, all four […more…]
Congressman Salud Carbajal and his team have awarded Organic Soup Kitchen with a Congressional Award of Honor. The award was […more…]
Homelessness & Housing
When New Beginnings began serving Santa Barbara as a nonprofit half a century ago, providing confidential, therapeutic psychological testing, assessment, […more…]
Homelessness has been growing in Santa Barbara, where last year nearly 2,000 people were living without shelter, a situation that […more…]
Anthony, an African-American man in his early 60s, began visiting the Fr. Virgil Cordano Center (FVCC) more than a year […more…]
Healthcare
For nearly three decades, VNA Health has operated Serenity House, the largest nonprofit facility of its kind in California providing […more…]
Take a look at any person in front or back of you in line at the grocery store, and chances […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
While statewide data lags, it is clear that the number of children entering foster care in Santa Barbara County has […more…]
RiteCare Childhood Language Center of Santa Barbara, founded in 1984, is the only nonprofit in Santa Barbara County offering free […more…]
Kim Colby Davis, director of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Santa Barbara County, one of 900 local programs that […more…]
Family Well-Being
A Valentine’s Day Message from Family Service Agency “Strengthening your relationship can not only improve your personal happiness, but improve […more…]
“People Helping People is about an outpouring of generosity from community people volunteering to help people in the community,” says […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…]
Environment
Honoring Local Students and Teachers Explore Ecology is proud to announce the recipients of the 2023 Explore Ecology Environmental Stewardship […more…]
The executive staff and board of trustees of Ganna Walska Lotusland held their annual meeting last week for Garden members […more…]
Regenerative agriculture has the potential to provide meaningful work and living wages to farmers while feeding millions of people, sequestering […more…]
Education
Since 2003, the Santa Barbara Education Foundation has kept the beat for school music programs by raising funds to pay […more…]
“Ne Tentes Aut Perfice.” This is the Latin motto that students and faculty at Dunn School, a private co-ed college […more…]
Santa Barbara Education Foundation recently elected Karen Dutton to its Board of Directors as Santa Barbara Unified School District teacher […more…]
Community Resilience
While the world enters its new “normal,” the need to break bread with one another, both metaphorically and literally, is […more…]
Ken Saxon had a clear vision when he founded Leading From Within (LFW), the Santa Barbara nonprofit that supports leaders […more…]
The origin story of the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade is the stuff of legend – and for good reason. In […more…]
Advocacy
The Fund for Santa Barbara, founded in 1980, has always drawn together diverse communities and organizations with the goal of […more…]
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast (PPCCC) is one of scores of affiliates across the country that share a vision of […more…]
Anyone who has ever watched a police drama on television in the last 50 years is familiar with the fact […more…]