Feel Good News

United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County partnered with Lane Farms to recreate a pumpkin patch at each of their clubs.

A Santa Barbara-based nonprofit publisher created a fundraiser to provide books to local preschool-age children as their families navigate a lack of access to early childhood learning opportunities due to COVID-19.  

The Coastal Quilters Guild of Santa Barbara and Goleta donated a little over 1,100 child/youth masks and 175 adult masks to the United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County.

Santa Barbara County residents picked up nearly 4,000 pounds of trash during the month of September for Coastal Cleanup Month.

The Isla Vista Youth Projects has raised funds to purchase lap desks for local students who need them.

Smiles are so important these days, and the Santa Barbara Assistance League is helping make sure that children in our community are able to give big ones.

A Dos Pueblos High School teacher has won $50,000 in a nationwide contest for Teaching Excellence in Skilled Trades.

The Santa Barbara County Fire Department reports an injured eagle was rescued by firefighters in Sisquoc on Friday.

The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network has released a Great Horned Owl into the wild after mending its wings.

The 2020 Senior Expo of Santa Barbara will transition to a flu clinic for at-risk seniors to provide free vaccines.

Governor Newsom signed a bill that limits the use of certain rodenticides that linger in the food chain for weeks, killing not just the targeted rodent, but also their predators and scavengers.

The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network's patient of the eek is a big brown bat with a broken wing. 

Jane and Paul Orfalea/the Audacious Foundation have donated $100,000 to the Wilderness Youth Project and issued a $50,000 matching challenge grant to encourage other donors.

The County of Santa Barbara and United Way of Santa Barbara County are offering the COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance program to provide limited rental assistance grants to eligible residents.

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation and the Santa Barbara Unified School District created a new campaign to raise the necessary funds so students will have the extra help they need for success in the classroom from afar. 

Volunteers and trail crews rolled up their sleeves and got to work on the restoration of the Murietta Trail this summer thanks to public support and funding through the Thomas Fire Trail Fund.

A local dog is a finalist in the nationwide "Walk and Wag Photo Contest" that could earn prize money and a pet food for the Santa Barbara Humane Society.

In partnership with the County of Santa Barbara, the cities of Santa Barbara and Goleta, United Way of Santa Barbara County is offering rental assistance and other disaster response grants to eligible individuals and families.

First 5 Santa Barbara received its first shipment of the most requested and hard to secure supplies for childcare providers caring for the children of our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Santa Barbara teenagers with AHA! created inspirational notes with artwork for elderly residents in a local convalescent hospital.

The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network is caring for a Great Blue Heron who had a fractured femur.

Coastal Cleanup Month, formerly known as Coastal Cleanup Day, starts Saturday and community members are encouraged to participate by cleaning up litter close to home and in their neighborhoods on four Saturdays in September. 

Funds from community partners and individual contributions help support PATH’s COVID-19 and ongoing response efforts and provide life-saving services to those most in need.

The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network is taking care of a rescued baby raccoon that was found on Alta Vista Road.

A successful shoreline cleanup marks the launch of Goal: Clean Seas on the Channel Islands as it removes 131 lost lobster traps.

Santa Barbara MTD recently installed 14 new ChargePoint Level 2 electric vehicle chargers to provide infrastructure for a new fleet of all-electric light-duty vehicles consisting of 14 2020 Chevy Bolts. 

Community Environmental Council announces a new pilot program aimed to foster community resilience and support climate justice efforts by responding to the immediate needs of frontline communities.

Santa Barbara Foundation and County of Santa Barbara announced the availability of grant funding for small businesses located within the unincorporated portions of Santa Barbara County.

Local organizations partnered together to handout free PPE for businesses in Goleta on Wednesday and Thursday.

The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network has released a Western Screech Owl after making a full recovery.