Source: Foodbank SBC
Jacob and Joseph Mansbach of Santa Barbara, teen brothers behind the “Join Jacob” fund-raising triathlon team, received the Santa Barbara Association of Realtors Community Service award. The brothers raised more than $100,000 for the Santa Barbara County Foodbank over eight years of running triathlons in Santa Barbara and Carpinteria.
Jacob is 16 and a sophomore at Anacapa School, and Joseph, 13, is an eighth-grader at La Colina Junior High.
“Their sustained effort on behalf of children and families who do not have enough healthy food to eat is impressive and a tremendous help to the work of the Santa Barbara County Foodbank,” Foodbank spokeswoman Judith Smith-Meyer said.
For information about the Foodbank, visit www.foodbanksbc.org.
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Great job helping the community boys!
This is great news for the Foodbank – a charity that does so much for our community.
The Foodbank is the one place I donate to. With every dollar they can buy $7.00 worth of food, really stretches the donation.
This is so inspiring–$100K! Go, boys! I wonder if they are grandchildren of Larry Mansbach, who was my kids’ pediatrician, a wonderful doctor.
Wow! They worked really hard for that money to help the poor Good Kids!!!
The Mansbachs are such awesome volunteers and inspiring people! Many charities could make more efficient use of that kind of money than the Foodbank, but the Foodbank is lucky to have them and will feed many people.