Feel Good News

Santa Barbara Humane successfully rehomed a deaf dog and his bonded companion. 

The Foundation House is a triplex that will house 12 young adults, ages 18 to 24, who are in unstable living situations. 

Eighteen museums across Santa Barbara County have joined Museums for All to encourage people of all backgrounds to visit museums regularly and build lifelong museum-going habits.

Organic Soup Kitchen hosted a Crab Boil last month raising $30,000 to support low-income cancer patients, seniors, and chronically ill who have been placed on the organization’s waiting list.

Heal the Ocean reports a large abandoned homeless camp was recently cleaned from Haskell's Beach.

An edhat reader shares a story of a random at of kindness at Trader Joe's this week.

A neglected Lhasa Apso-mix named Ziggy was given a second chance at the Santa Barbara Humane Society.

More than 35 volunteers and members of the commercial fishing community removed lobster traps from the sand between Ellwood Beach and Haskell’s Beach on Saturday and filled a 40-foot dumpster with the metal debris.

Amid a historically turbulent year, Mission Scholars achieved its goal of 100% four-year college enrollment for the Class of 2021, duplicating the success of last year’s inaugural cohort.

People’s Self-Help Housing is participating in the nationwide awareness campaign ‘NeighborWorks Week,' to build creative campaigns around the ideas of neighborhood revitalization.

The Santa Barbara County Veterans Collaborative will formally launch on Thursday to improve the wellness of local veterans and families.

A group of Santa Barbara County nonprofits and community organizations announced they have joined forces to help family caregivers self-identify and find supportive services.

Heal the Ocean rallied forces to remove a trawler boat that became beached off the Montecito coast.

Sixteen global shipping companies slowed cargo ships for 181,000 nautical miles in 2020 program off California coast to protect blue whales and blue skies 

Through the United Way of Santa Barbara County’s Critical Needs Fund, groups are working towards vaccine equity. 

Today, Rep. Salud Carbajal announced the winners of the fourth annual Congressional Women of the Year Award.

People’s Self-Help Housing staff and students left on a three-day tour of colleges and universities all throughout the state of California. 

Ten local nonprofit agencies were awarded grants totaling $750,000 from a record-breaking pool of member donations collected by the Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara during 2020.

Students in the Orcutt Union School District summer gardening program received free potting soil from Engel & Gray and seedlings from Plantel Nursery to commemorate Earth Day.

Clark Bushnell, a long-time People’s Self-Help Housing resident, marked his 101th birthday this week with a very special celebration.

Alycia Rasmussen, a student from the People’s Self-Help Housing Camino Scholars program, has accepted admission to University of California, Davis to pursue a Ph.D in Microbiology.

The SBCC Foundation and Explore Ecology received a $100,000 EPA Grant to create the Santa Barbara Ecological and Edible Garden Project.

Santa Barbara Channelkeeper's Watershed Brigade will host a dispersed clean-up event April 24-25 to complement local Earth Day celebrations.

The United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County has launched a series of new programs to help students get back on track.

The Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara honored the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County as their 2020 Outstanding Community Partner of the Year.

The Los Padres Forest Association has continued the quest to reopen the North Cold Spring and Blue Canyon Trails located on the backside of the Santa Ynez Mtns directly behind Santa Barbara.

Volunteers with the Los Padres Forest Association helped clear forty trees on the remote Madulce Trail within the Dick Smith Wilderness.

Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network's 52nd patient was a great horned owl who came from a ranch in Santa Ynez. 

Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network’s 205th patient of 2021 is a Western meadowlark that was discovered in the streets of Carpinteria. This small songbird wasn’t flying, so a citizen rescuer brought it into the Center to receive care. 

Last month, 99.9 KTYD Morning Mojo's Lin Aubuchon and Bill Pesso fundraised over $30,000 to support local school music programs.