Grant Awards – Spring 2021
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Arts Mentorship Program – $10,000 for the Inclusion Coalition, Santa Barbara youth dancers who aim to raise awareness about different perspectives, and create safe and brave spaces to elevate issues surrounding BIPOC, mental health, body positivity, LGBTQ+, feminism, disabilities, and intersectionality. www.ampsb.org |
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CAUSE – $40,000/year for two years for Building Leadership and Organizing in Our Neighborhoods, to empower immigrants and low-wage workers in Santa Barbara County through organizing, leadership development, and advocacy. www.causenow.org |
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Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG) – $20,000 for the Environmental Voices Academy, to train and engage Ventura County students in environmental advocacy. www.cfrog.org |
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Clinicas del Camino Real – $15,000 for Padres Juntos’ Educate and Empower Immigrant Parents Project, a leadership program to educate Latino parents in Oxnard about the education system and prepare them to assume school leadership roles to change barriers to academic achievement for students. clinicas.org |
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Diversity Collective Ventura County – $15,000 for Leadership Empowerment & Development Program (LEAD), to empower LGBTQIA+ community advocates to create and affect change in Ventura County and statewide. www.diversitycollectivevc.org |
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Encampment for Citizenship – $20,000 for the Environmental Justice Learning and Action Program, to mobilize on policy issues that support the health and wellbeing of the community. www.encampmentforcitizenship.org |
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Freedom 4 Youth – $10,000 for empowering youth who are currently or formerly incarcerated to change their personal situations and Santa Barbara County’s juvenile justice system. www.freedom4youth.org |
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Future Leaders of America – $40,000/year for two years for programs that train youth to advocate, mobilize, and organize around issues affecting their communities in Oxnard and Santa Barbara. www.futureleadersofamerica.org |
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Girls Inc. of Carpinteria – $20,000 for the Eureka! Program, which engages teen girls in identifying community issues and advancing social justice through education and advocacy. www.girlsinc-carp.org |
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Just Communities Central Coast – $40,000/year for two years for core support to work with educators, youth, parents, and government and nonprofit agencies to achieve greater educational, language, health, economic and government equity in Santa Barbara County. www.comunidades-justas.org |
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One Community Action of Santa Maria – $15,000 for the Education Equity and Access Community Accountability Project, to organize, train, and amplify community voices demanding policing and juvenile justice policies and practices that are culturally competent and responsive to community needs. www.onecommunityaction.org |
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Pacific Pride Foundation – $20,000 for the Rainbow Roundtable and Youth Advocacy, to train and support the LGBTQ+ community to change systems that perpetuate the oppression of LGBTQ+ people. www.pacificpridefoundation.org |
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Santa Barbara Friends Meeting – $22,000 for Truth in Recruitment, an advocacy group that involves students, families, teachers, veterans and community groups in advocating for school policies that regulate and limit access of military recruiters to students at Santa Barbara County high schools. www.truthinrecruitment.org |
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Westminster Free Clinic – $25,000 (2nd year of a two-year grant) for SALUD (Students Advocating Life-Uplifting Decisions), a project to engage Latino youth in Ventura County in advocating for health and educational equity in their neighborhoods and schools. www.westminsterclinic.org |
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California Lutheran University (CLU) – $30,000 for the Center for Nonprofit Leadership, to provide operating support and scholarships for nonprofits to attend training programs. www.callutheran.edu/centers/nonprofit |
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Fund for Santa Barbara – $25,000 for the Capacity Building Program which provides consulting services, workshops, and other support to nonprofit organizations in Santa Barbara County. www.fundforsantabarbara.org |
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Social Justice Fund for Ventura County – $16,000 for the Social Justice Fellowship Program. www.socialjusticefundvc.org |
Total Awarded: $383,000
Note: Additional grants have also been made in the form of training mini-grants, sponsorships, and discretionary grants by Board members, Committee members, and staff.
