At the southern end of Montecito Union School lies a 2.5-acre property with nearly limitless potential. After a school-wide visioning […more…]

WHO: SBUSD Superintendent Hilda Maldonado will share the status of the district’s schools.  WHAT: Santa Barbara Unified School District State […more…]

Imagine trying to lead a virtual PE class for a group of first-graders while they are stuck inside their homes […more…]

Rachel Simon would be the first to admit she was blessed by the circumstances of her birth.  Her father is […more…]

Sara Miller McCune has been discreetly and powerfully fueling the performing arts, education, social justice, and the Jewish community in […more…]

My parents, Michael and Gail Towbes, moved to Santa Barbara County in 1957, and from the beginning, they were deeply […more…]

Tom Parker has been marinating in Santa Barbara philanthropy since the 1950s when, as a kid, he and his dad […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…]

In 2017, Santa Barbara welcomed a new, exciting and wholly unique museum to its ranks: MOXI, The Wolf Museum of […more…]