“What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours,” Dinah Washington sang in 1959. “What a difference a day made, […more…]
Last summer, just a couple of months before Montecito Journal’s 2nd annual The Giving List book was published, Clean Coalition’s […more…]
The COVID crisis has been quite a challenge for nearly everyone in the world. But for Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary […more…]
Laura Bridley comes by her affinity for Casa del Herrero honestly. A native of Montecito, Bridley has a lot of […more…]
The Cancer Center of Santa Barbara was founded 73 years ago based on the simple concept that a city that […more…]
The Santa Barbara coastal region has largely escaped any major disasters in the past year, save, of course, for the […more…]
The statistics on Alzheimer’s Disease are staggering. Someone in the United States develops the devastating disease every 65 seconds. More […more…]
It might seem like bad timing to be writing about Unity Shoppe in the last week of the year, considering […more…]
ShelterBox’s reason for being is because human displacement is one of the biggest issues plaguing our planet, one that’s increasing […more…]
It was just three months ago that the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) celebrated the completion of a six-year, […more…]
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics operates eight clinics in Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Isla Vista, largely located in neighborhoods where healthcare […more…]
To many, the 2021 Music Academy of the West Summer School and Festival was nothing short of a miracle. Despite […more…]
Montecito Firefighter Lucas Grant is too young to have personal memories of what it was like when local firefighters were […more…]
It’s purely coincidence that this week’s Montecito Journal hits newsstands the same day the Granada Theatre officially unveils Plaza Granada, […more…]
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, UCSB Arts & Lectures, like every establishment across the country, was forced […more…]
Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation (TBCF) was founded by Nikki Katz back in 2002 after hearing of the financial and emotional […more…]
Peruse the list of RAINN supporters online or in the 2020-21 inaugural The Giving List book and you’ll find a […more…]
In its short 13-year history, Leading From Within — which was founded in 2008 as the Courage to Lead program […more…]
Anyone who’s visited Lotusland over the past quarter-century knows that the gorgeous botanical garden in the Montecito foothills boasts 37 […more…]
It’s just a coincidence that World Mental Health Day falls right in the middle of the circulation for this week’s […more…]
It was just about a month into the pandemic when the United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara (UBGC) […more…]
Santa Barbara City College Foundation CEO Geoff Green is understandably proud of the SBCC Promise, the innovative program he spearheaded […more…]
For many nonprofits in Santa Barbara and around the nation, the height of the COVID pandemic was a time to […more…]
Just Communities (JC), the nonprofit whose mission includes “dismantling all forms of prejudice, discrimination, and oppression,” works towards its vision […more…]
Direct Relief has been so efficient at serving as one of the country’s most effective humanitarian assistance organizations that it’s […more…]
The Lobero Theatre is by far the oldest performing arts venue in Santa Barbara. In fact, it’s actually the longest […more…]
Montecito Union School’s Nature Lab, its interactive 2.5-acre space that’s beginning to take shape on the Upper Village campus, has […more…]
Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara has had plenty on its plate since the pandemic altered almost everything back in […more…]
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation’s 2020 Tiara Ball, one of the more popular annual black-tie galas in a town with […more…]
Women’s Economic Ventures has been helping women start and run businesses for more than 30 years, helping in a variety […more…]
I wasn’t much of a hiker before the pandemic. But being cooped up inside for days and weeks on end, […more…]
For a relatively large and well-established nonprofit organization in our community, United Way of Santa Barbara County over the last […more…]
Santa Barbara has been all awash with talk about the reopening of public schools ever since the pandemic shut them […more…]
It’s not too big of a stretch to suggest that a lot of people probably felt like they might never […more…]
The COVID pandemic was surely a challenge for just about everyone in Santa Barbara and all around the world, but […more…]
The Endowment for Youth Committee is one of the oldest nonprofits serving the needs of African American students and the […more…]
For more than 40 years, Human Rights Watch has enjoyed an international reputation for taking on and often accomplishing its […more…]
The Friendship Center serves an often overlooked, but much-needed niche for the aging adult community — providing a daytime home […more…]
Ensemble Theatre Company (ETC) executive artistic director Jonathan Fox was already talking about reopening when he was interviewed for the […more…]