Past Grants

Grant Awards – Spring 2019

	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
	Cuyama Valley Family Resource Center – $20,000 (second year of two-year grant) for the Latino Engagement Initiative, including a promotora training program and citizen engagement on local issues. www.cvfrc.org
	Diversity Collective Ventura County – $15,000 to engage the LGBTQ community in advocacy efforts including to strengthen HIV/AIDS services and resources and language access, and to build the capacity of LGBTQ youth to participate in advocacy. www.diversitycollectivevc.org
	Families ACT! – $25,000 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
	Future Leaders of America – $37,500 of a two-year grant ($35,000 in Year 2) 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.futureleadersofamerica.org
	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 and Ventura Counties. www.just-communities.org
	Pacific Pride Foundation – $20,000 of a two-year grant ($15,000 in Year 2) 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
	Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition – $25,000/year for two years for public engagement to bring diverse local constituents into the transportation planning process for safer bicycling infrastructure in Santa Barbara County. www.sbbike.org
	Santa Barbara Friends Meeting – $20,000/year for two years 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
	Santa Barbara Response Network – $5,000 for the Immigration Advocacy Collaborative, to develop a crisis rapid response network to support immigrants. www.sbresponsenetwork.org
	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 advocacy in Lompoc and Santa Maria. www.t-mha.org
	VCCOOL (Bike Ventura) – $12,500 for 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
	Westminster Free Clinic – $30,000 (second year of two-year grant) for SALUD (Students Advocating Life-Uplifting Decisions), a project 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:*

	Center for Nonprofit Leadership (CLU) – $17,500 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
	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