Shortly before dying from terminal cancer six years ago, Gary began filming videos with his four-year-old daughter Bailey. The hope […more…]

It’s a sunny August morning, just a couple days before California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) starts its 2021-22 school […more…]

It took visits to several doctors before anyone noticed that Evelyn Stone had Alzheimer’s disease. By then, it was already […more…]

When Lillian Taylor Converse was diagnosed with cancer in 1948, she knew the odds of a recovery were long, but […more…]

On the day of the great 1925 earthquake, George Fox Steedman was visiting Santa Barbara from St. Louis, Missouri, reviewing […more…]

Clay Studio Founder and Executive Director Patrick Hall has acquired a lot of ceramics memories since he fell in love […more…]

The 70 miles of coast spanning Lake Casitas to Point Conception, and including Carpinteria, Montecito, Santa Barbara, and Goleta, is […more…]

Mariela Marin gets anxious any time they look at the waitlist of people seeking mental health services. On a typical […more…]

People in the nonprofit world often talk about “A Tale of Two Santa Barbaras” to describe the county’s gaping wealth […more…]

Anne was a senior at Hollywood High School hoping to become a veterinarian. But the daughter of a single mom […more…]

For many nonprofits in Santa Barbara and around the nation, the height of the COVID pandemic was a time to […more…]

With school back in session, it’s an exciting time of the year for many children, but, sadly, there are thousands […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…]

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation’s 2020 Tiara Ball, one of the more popular annual black-tie galas in a town with […more…]

The Endowment for Youth Committee is one of the oldest nonprofits serving the needs of African American students and the […more…]

Now that Summer is in the air, the buzz to “get out there” and engage with our greater Community is […more…]

Community members that are experiencing homelessness could often use a path to help guide them from the street into a […more…]

Realities that became clear in 2020 and, by all accounts, will prevail for the next few years, have informed how […more…]

2020 was a year like no other, and it confirmed for us that nothing – not even a worldwide pandemic […more…]

To say that the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County has been busy is an understatement – the nonprofit distributed 9,708,944 […more…]