As a young person in 1963, E. onja Brown got on a bus at W. 138th in Harlem bound for […more…]
Women’s Economic Ventures (WEV) was founded in 1991 when women earned 56 cents for every dollar earned by a man. […more…]
During 2020, when so many of us were hunkering down as COVID-19 turned our lives upside down, two Santa Barbara […more…]
Nonprofit leaders make it their personal mission to serve others, and in doing so, too often lose sight of themselves. […more…]
By her sophomore year of high school, Sarahi Larios Cruz had already experienced family disruption, racism and systemic inequity, but […more…]
In April of 1999, two high school seniors walked onto the campus of Columbine High School in Colorado with semi-automatic […more…]
Vanessa Scarlett, the science specialist at Montecito Union School, bubbles with excitement at the plans for a 2.5-acre parcel of […more…]
The Santa Barbara Education Foundation is not your normal nonprofit supporting students. Rather it is like an educational Robin Hood, […more…]
The goal was audacious: provide every recent high school graduate in the south coast area of Santa Barbara with two […more…]
Guy R. Walker is President and Founder of Wealth Management Strategies, a boutique financial advisory firm based in Santa Ynez, […more…]
In the 1960s, the Perry Preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan laid the groundwork for our understanding of the value of early […more…]
Bounded by the Pacific to the west and the Sierra Nevada to the east, California is home to over 6,500 […more…]
The double blow of the Thomas Fire and ensuing debris flow in 2018 left no doubt about the increasing threats […more…]
In Montecito, a land of spectacular architecture and pristine gardens, there lies a property like no other: Lotusland. Set across […more…]
In 2011,long before Covid-19 forever changed how we think of nonprofit fundraising events, Santa Barbara-based Heal the Ocean held an […more…]
Firefighters do a lot more than fight fires. On any given day, Montecito Fire’s 33 active duty firefighters wake up […more…]
America’s child welfare court system is imbued with incredible power. Judges routinely make decisions that indelibly alter the course of […more…]
On the second day of her freshman year of college, Aspen Matis was raped. When “mediation” with her attacker failed, […more…]
Dan Meisel was made for his current job running the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Santa Barbara-based Tri-Counties regional office. Raised in […more…]
It has always been important to recognize that injustice and discrimination occurs in the United States and not only in […more…]
In 2017, the Music Academy of the West and its uniquely capable leader, Scott Reed, were the subject of a […more…]
Celesta M. Billeci, UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Miller McCune Executive Director, is on her 12th Zoom call of the day. […more…]
In 2017, Santa Barbara welcomed a new, exciting and wholly unique museum to its ranks: MOXI, The Wolf Museum of […more…]
Finally, after a five-year, $50-million capital campaign to renovate the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, in the spring of 2021 […more…]
While in her late 20s – some 17 years ago – Paloma Espino witnessed death for the first time. She […more…]
Slight and sinewy, Al Falcone clocks into his job as a driver with Easy Lift at 4:30 am. Over the […more…]