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Santa Barbara County now has its first - and currently only - fully accredited Department of Justice representative.

The Courthouse Legacy Foundation announced Phase 1 of the courthouse great arch restoration project is now complete.

The Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation has created Season of Hope, a campaign that aims to help give these families a joyful holiday season and support them with basic needs going into 2021.

Peoples’ Self-Help Housing welcomed 78 new households home to their new affordable housing properties just in time for the holidays.

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation awarded a total of 55 grants to SB Unified teachers totaling over $109,000 to meet the needs of their students.

The Community Environmental Council (CEC) is proud to announce it has been selected as a 2020 California Nonprofit of the Year by District 37 Assemblywoman Monique Limón.

November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and National Family Caregivers Month. To mark these events, the Alzheimer’s Association is encouraging people to lend a helping hand to more than 1,624,000 California family members and friends serving as Alzheimer’s caregivers.

Nearly 300 area residents participated in this year’s Santa Barbara Walk to End Alzheimer’s on November 7.

The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County is asking community members to donate 4,000 fresh or frozen turkeys and chickens to provide healthy holiday meals to local families who cannot afford them.

The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County is building awareness about hunger and food insecurity throughout the community and raising funds to end hunger in Santa Barbara County with Empty Bowls 2020.

The Johnson Ohana Foundation has awarded Santa Barbara nonprofit Explore Ecology a $10,000 donation for general support of their School Gardens Program.

The Land Trust received its second accreditation renewal from the Land Trust Alliance Commission, the gold standard for land trusts conserving land forever and demonstrating solid, trustworthy financial management.

The Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation’s Gold Ribbon Campaign raises awareness for Pediatric Cancer throughout September and highlights the Vargas family.

Community Action Commission of Santa Barbara County, a non-profit social services organization with a six-decade legacy of helping provide solutions for people living in poverty, has changed its name to CommUnify.

Therapy Dogs of Santa Barbara announces the passing of Sandy, one of its beloved therapy dogs and the matriarch of the organization, and is honoring her with a children's book.

Community Environmental Council and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation announced the launch of Born This Way Foundation’s third annual #BeKind21 Campaign.

The Santa Barbara Humane Society offers tips to dog owners on water safety to keep their pups safe.

Mi Vida, Mi Voz, a collaboration of local Latino-serving organizations, is providing critical resource information for the Spanish speaking community during COVID-19.

The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network is caring for their 3,201st patient: a baby opossum.

Doctors Without Walls – Santa Barbara Street Medicine has been nationally recognized for its healthcare efforts to benefit the homeless in the Santa Barbara community.

PATH continues to grow its capacity to serve the homeless population in Santa Barbara through grassroots partnerships with Trader Joe’s, Starbucks, Holehouse Construction and Bucket Brigade, among other volunteer-led efforts

A group of volunteers with the Santa Barbara Channelkeeper called the Watershed Brigade has been cleaning up and protecting nature access areas.

A new local non-profit releases practical tools and resources for free to empower people during current global crisis.

A father of a diabetic son is bicycling 2,200 miles to raise funds for the Sansum Diabetes Research Institute and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Since shifting to remote work in March, The Alzheimer’s Association, California Central Coast Chapter began offering free virtual support groups and education programs to help all local caregivers and their families.

Transition House is offering solutions to homelessness for families and needs help purchasing supplies.

The SBC Mask Network Online Marketplace is now open, offering a clearinghouse for local sewists and retailers selling cloth face coverings to the general public.  

C.A.R.E.4Paws’ Safe Haven program ensures domestic violence victims can find safety for their pets when they leave an abusive situation.

The Organic Soup Kitchen donated gallons of soup to the medical staff at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital during the COVID-19 crisis.

The Community Action Commission is looking for volunteers after seeing a 30% increase in their Senior Nutrition Program during the COVID-19 outbreak.