If you ask Sue Eisaguirre what NatureTrack is really about, she won’t begin by talking about trails or field trips. She’ll tell you about a child. Maybe it’s the student who had never seen the Pacific Ocean before stepping onto a NatureTrack field trip. Or the child who crouches beside a tidepool, eyes wide with [...more...]
Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County (LAFSBC) remains the only provider of free civil legal services for survivors of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, and related crimes throughout the county. The critically [...more...]
Giving List Matching Challenges
Youth Development
Nature's Advocates
The Gulf of California holds more than a third of all the marine mammal species on earth. UNESCO calls it […more…]
For one survivor, escaping domestic violence wasn’t the end of the story. It was the beginning of building a new […more…]
From the Los Padres National Forest to the Channel Islands, the Central Coast of California contains some of the most […more…]
Homelessness & Housing
On a vacant parking lot in downtown Santa Barbara, a village of small, private rooms rose during the pandemic, built […more…]
It has been a perfect storm. Santa Barbara County’s unsheltered count has been rising. Santa Barbara County’s public health department […more…]
The phone calls all ended the same way. Older adults who desperately needed to move would ask about the cost, […more…]
Homelessness
Health & Wellness
Going to the doctor can quickly become going to several doctors, several offices, and several appointments. Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics […more…]
For more than 80 years, Hillside has been home to 59 adults with significant intellectual and developmental disabilities, the only […more…]
Joan was a 78-year-old woman in Santa Barbara County living on the street. Joan’s medical condition made unsupported independent living […more…]
For the Environment
For the Children
A writer doesn’t usually become a farmer. A one-time literature professor doesn’t often spend his mornings working rows of lettuce, […more…]
Ten years before the World Cup came to Los Angeles, the Play Equity Fund was already asking a question most […more…]
The grandmother started crying almost as soon as she walked into Storyteller’s pantry. She had recently gained full custody of […more…]
For the Arts
For the Animals
A man recently walked into Santa Barbara Humane, prepared to make a heartbreaking decision: surrender one of his two dogs. […more…]
Bowie had been in a rescue’s care for five months when dog trainer Anthony Sorosky got the call. The German […more…]
As the largest generation in American history moves into assisted living, more senior dogs than ever are landing in shelters, […more…]
Emergency Services
Education
Connor was only eight months old when he had his first debilitating seizure. His mother rushed him to the emergency […more…]
It is not a classroom moved outdoors. No conventional lesson plan just transplanted onto a patch of grass. At Hope […more…]
If you ask Sue Eisaguirre what NatureTrack is really about, she won’t begin by talking about trails or field trips. […more…]
Earth First
Most people picture plastic pollution as floating islands of trash in the ocean or sea turtles tangled in six-pack rings. […more…]
Steelhead trout are the canary in the coal mine of Southern California creeks. They are the harbingers of watershed health. […more…]
Heal the Ocean built its reputation by going after the sources of ocean pollution: failing septic systems, leaking oil wells, […more…]
Critical Response & International Impact
When disasters strike, power is often the first thing communities lose — and one of the most important things they […more…]
When a recent earthquake devastated Venezuela, the Los Angeles County Fire Department sent six teams to help sift through the […more…]
Kerri Murray keeps a photograph that has stayed with her. It’s the face of Esther, a young Nigerian woman whose […more…]
Creative Endeavors
“Anytime anybody voices a concern about the quality of life that we’re going to be leading, we’re called environmentalists. And […more…]
Every year, UCSB Arts & Lectures brings some of the world’s most celebrated artists and speakers to Santa Barbara, creating […more…]
For 85 years, Santa Barbara Museum of Art has united people of all ages through inspiring art experiences. Located in […more…]
Community Resilience
Bright Futures
Sometimes the problem isn’t a shortage of well-meaning nonprofits. It’s that those nonprofits tackling the same problem don’t have the […more…]
In 1969, a young father in Santa Barbara, unequipped and overwhelmed with his new parental role, shook his six-week-old child […more…]
Advocacy
In 2012, Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen launched a fundraiser that they called Hilarity for Charity (HFC). The memorable […more…]
Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County (LAFSBC) remains the only provider of free civil legal services for survivors of […more…]
Currently gun violence is the #1 cause of death for children in the United States. Read that again if you […more…]