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…]
Anthony Edwards, who collected three SAG Awards and a Golden Globe for his role as Dr. Mark Greene on the […more…]
Just about everything Hillside does is for its residents, the 59 people who live at the facility that have developmental […more…]
The Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday is still a month away, but the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of […more…]
For a decade, the Organic Soup Kitchen (OSK) hosted community meals on Christmas Day at the Veterans Memorial Building on […more…]
Palmer Jackson Jr. comes by his fondness for philanthropy honestly. In fact, the concept of giving back through donating dollars […more…]
The holiday season, as the Andy Williams song goes, is the most wonderful time of the year. But for some […more…]
Across Santa Barbara County, as is true around the country, more children and adolescents are experiencing challenges to emotional well-being, […more…]
To get a clear picture of what the World Business Academy does, it’s a good idea to zoom out far […more…]
As five-year-old Sky finished a run down from the top of Mammoth Mountain on a recent December morning, an adult […more…]
Sansum’s excellence in imaging stands out in October October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual effort to raise awareness […more…]
There are a number of reading programs for students in Santa Barbara, including several administered by nonprofits. Tina Hansen McEnroe […more…]
Regenerative agriculture has the potential to provide meaningful work and living wages to farmers while feeding millions of people, sequestering […more…]
Not surprisingly, Special Olympics of Southern California (SOSC) took a little longer than most organizations to return to in-person activities, […more…]
Santa Barbara Beautiful plants trees. A lot of trees. Thirteen thousand of them in its 57-year history, so far. They […more…]
It’s no accident that Rodney Gustafson landed in Santa Barbara to launch his State Street Ballet dance company almost three […more…]
The Santa Barbara Library Foundation’s director Lauren Trujillo is in a celebratory mood. The foundation’s $5.4 million capital campaign to […more…]
Everything seems to move quickly these days, but the speed of growth and expansion of the Santa Barbara County Food […more…]
Exactly one month from this issue’s publication, the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) will be having a 45th anniversary celebration at […more…]
The Santa Barbara Symphony is proud of its upcoming 2022-23 season, which marks the organization’s milestone 70th anniversary. Understandably so, […more…]
Sanctuary Centers has been around for 46 years, and while the nonprofit’s array of services and team of experienced clinical […more…]
John Daly was in his mid-60s and had already enjoyed a highly successful career as an international event producer who […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…]
Estimates say that there are nearly 2,000 nonprofits in Santa Barbara County, each with a mission of supporting the local […more…]
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” Shakespeare […more…]
In one of the funnier moments in the famous 1967 film The Graduate, a friend of Ben’s parents takes him […more…]
Clay Studio Founder and Executive Director Patrick Hall credits working with clay for a dramatic shift in his life from […more…]
When we connected last week, Santa Barbara RiteCare center director and speech-language pathologist Julie DeAngelis was particularly excited to talk […more…]
Freedom 4 Youth Development Director Dylan Griffith likes to toss out a quote his mentor once told him that sticks […more…]
Less than three weeks after this issue of the MJ hits newsstands, Sansum Diabetes Research Institute will mark an incredible […more…]
Head Start, the federal early childhood education program, was established in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on […more…]
It’s not hard to get a clear picture of the breadth of the age range served by the Montecito Library. […more…]
Lots of people in Santa Barbara might have only become more aware of Hospice of Santa Barbara (HSB) over the […more…]
Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley (FBSMV) does some very important and impactful work. Since its founding in 2003 as a […more…]
Back in 1955, Hillside House relocated to what was then a state-of-the-art facility capable of housing and caring for children […more…]
In the quarter-century since its founding, Dream Foundation, the only national dream-granting organization serving terminally-ill adults, has provided end-of-life Dreams […more…]
You’d be hard-pressed to find nonprofits with an origin story more organic and homespun than NatureTrack. The organization was founded […more…]
Back in 2006, the year before horse slaughter in the U.S. ceased for good, the last three such stateside slaughterhouse […more…]