Past Grants

Grant Awards – Spring 2018

	CAUSE – $38,000 (second year of two-year grant) for Building Leadership and Organizing in Our Neighborhoods to empower immigrants and low-wage workers in Santa Barbara County through organizing, leadership development, civic participation, and advocacy. www.causenow.org
	Cuyama Valley Family Resource Center – $20,000/yr. for two years for the Latino Community Organizing, Engagement & Leadership Initiative to empower new Latino leaders to address local community issue. www.cvfrc.org
	Diversity Collective Ventura County – $10,000 to support the HIV/AIDS Community Advocacy program to mobilize LGBTQ residents to advocate for their health and social inclusion, and to encourage officials to improve services and resources. www.diversitycollectivevc.org
	Families ACT! – $25,000 (second year of two-year grant) for Beds Not Cells, a community organizing campaign led by individuals and families dealing with mental health and substance use disorders to improve mental health services in the County jail and the community at large in Santa Barbara County. www.familiesact.org
	Future Leaders of America – $38,000 (second year of two-year grant) for core support of programs that develop Latino youth activists in Oxnard and Santa Barbara to impact the community through civic engagement and transform the lives of youth and families. www.futureleadersofamerica.org
	Importa – $17,500 (second year of two-year grant) for an immigrant leadership program to train community members about immigration law and how to conduct outreach and assist fellow immigrants concerned about deportation, citizenship, and DACA for undocumented youth. www.importasb.org
	Just Communities Central Coast – $38,000 (second year of two-year grant) for core support to work with educators and community groups in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties to close the achievement gap, improve social and academic outcomes for all students, and foster language justice. www.just-communities.org
	Pacific Pride Foundation – $25,000 (second year of two-year grant) for LGBTQ Advocacy programs that train and support activists to change systems that perpetuate the oppression of LGBTQ residents of Santa Barbara County. www.pacificpridefoundation.org
	Pesticide Action Network (Californians for Pesticide Reform) – $25,000 for Organizing to Reduce the Pesticide Threat in Ventura County, a collaborative project with CAUSE to build a local movement and political leadership to reduce pesticide exposure of farm workers and students in farming communities. www.pesticidereform.org
	Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition – $24,000 (second year of two-year grant) for Connecting Our Community which organizes activists to bring safe bicycling infrastructure to the South Coast of Santa Barbara County. www.bicicentro.org
	Santa Barbara Friends Meeting – $16,000 for Truth in Recruitment, an advocacy group that involves students, parents, veterans and community members in helping Santa Barbara County students understand the consequences of a military career and alternative options for academic and professional success. www.truthinrecruitment.org
	Transitions-Mental Health Association – $16,000 for the Lived Experience Advocacy Development program, which recruits and trains individuals with mental illness and engages them in advocacy in Lompoc and Santa Maria. www.t-mha.org
	Westminster Free Clinic – $27,000 of a two-year grant ($30,000 in Year 2) for SALUD (Students Advocating Life-Uplifting Decisions), to engage Latino youth in East Ventura County in advocating for educational equity, health equity, and to empower the Latino community to know their immigration rights. www.westminsterclinic.org
*Capacity Building Grants:*
	California Lutheran University – $15,000 for the Center for Nonprofit Leadership to provide operating support and scholarships for nonprofits to attend training programs. www.callutheran.edu/centers/nonprofit
	Fund for Santa Barbara – $25,000 for the Capacity Building Program which provides consulting services, training workshops, and other support to nonprofit organizations in Santa Barbara County. www.fundforsantabarbara.org