Grant Awards – Spring 2020
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Bike Ventura – $12,500 for the Pedal Poder youth program to teach youth in Ventura about bike safety and mobilize them and their community for safer bicycling infrastructure. www.bikeventura.org |
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CAUSE – $40,000 (second year of a 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, and advocacy. www.causenow.org |
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Council on American-Islamic Relations – $15,000 for Civic Engagement and Empowerment programs to promote civic engagement, advocacy, and leadership within the Muslim community in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. www.cair.com |
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Cuyama Valley Family Resource Center – $20,000 a year for two years for the Promotores de Cuyama and the Cuyama Cultural Competency Initiative, to develop leadership capacity of Latina leaders and advocate for racial justice. www.cvfrc.org |
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Diversity Collective Ventura County – $7,500 to empower LGBTQ community advocates to create change in Ventura County through local and state advocacy campaigns. www.diversitycollectivevc.org |
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Encampment for Citizenship – $15,000 for the Environmental Justice Learning and Action Program, to engage students in efforts to create pesticide-free schools and parks in Ventura County. www.encampmentforcitizenship.org |
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Families ACT! – $20,000 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 |
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Future Leaders of America – $35,000 (second year of a two-year grant) for core support of programs that train youth to advocate, mobilize, and organize around local issues affecting their communities in Oxnard and Santa Barbara. www.futureleadersnow.org |
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Gold Coast Veterans Foundation – $20,000 for GRAVITAS (Grass Roots Advocacy for Veterans In Temporary Affordable Structures), to establish a task force, including homeless veterans, to advocate for, and eliminate barriers to, low-cost housing for veterans in Ventura County. www.gcvf.org |
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Just Communities Central Coast – $40,000 (second year of a two-year grant) 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 and Ventura Counties. www.just-communities.org |
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Pacific Pride Foundation – $15,000 (second year of a two-year grant) for LGBTQ+ Advocacy programs that train and support the LGBTQ+ community to change systems that perpetuate the oppression of LGBTQ+ residents of Santa Barbara County. www.pacificpridefoundation.org |
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Pesticide Action Network (Californians for Pesticide Reform) – $25,000 for Organizing to Reduce the Pesticide Threat, to build a local movement and political leadership to reduce pesticide exposure of farm workers and students in farming communities in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. www.pesticidereform.org |
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Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition – $25,000 (second year of a two-year grant) for public engagement to bring diverse local constituents into the transportation planning process for safer bicycling infrastructure in Santa Barbara County. www.sbbike.org |
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Santa Barbara Friends Meeting – $20,000 (second year of a two-year grant) 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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Transitions-Mental Health Association – $18,000 for the Lived Experience Advocacy Development (LEAD) program, which recruits and trains individuals with mental illness and engages them in political advocacy and community collaborations in Lompoc and Santa Maria. www.t-mha.org |
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Westminster Free Clinic – $25,000 a year for two years 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 |
Census Mini-Grants: |
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| Family Service Agency (Little House by the Park) – $5,000 Peoples’ Self-Help Housing – $3,000 VC LULAC (Padres Juntos) — $3,000 |
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Other Grants: |
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California Lutheran University (CLU) – $25,000 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, training workshops, and other support to nonprofit organizations in Santa Barbara County. www.fundforsantabarbara.org |
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Fund for Santa Barbara – $10,000 for a Regional Equity Profile of the California Central Coast. www.fundforsantabarbara.org |
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Future Leaders of America – $7,000 for operating costs for 805 UndocuFund. www.805undocufund.org |
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Leading from Within – $10,000 for Leading for Community Impact, a leadership development program for nonprofit leaders in North Santa Barbara County. www.leading-from-within.org |
Total Awarded: $441,000
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.
