Below you
will find a brief description of the Fund for Santa Barbara's
most recent grant recipients (listed in alphabetical order by
grant cycle beginning with the most recent):
Media Justice Grants
Citizen McCaw
- $10,000
Support for this documentary film which chronicles events
since July 2006, when editor Jerry Roberts and five of his colleagues
quit the Santa Barbara News-Press, citing owner and Co-publisher
Wendy McCaw's abandonment of journalistic ethics, which McCaw
denied. Since then, McCaw and dozens of her former staffers have
been engaged in a fierce clash of wills that raises important
national questions of journalistic ethics and media ownership
Santa
Barbara Channels / Making Media Reform Real at the Local Level
- $8,000
Support for Santa Barbara's media access center to attend
the 2008 Media Reform Conference and bring back tools for local
organizations to engage in the critical struggles over media policy
Spring 2008 Grants
Buellton
Is Our Town / Buellton Urban Growth Boundary Initiative Campaign
- $10,000
Support for residents of Buellton to create a ballot measure
that will place a growth boundary for the City of Buellton and
will require development projects to be approved by City residents
Family Resource Educational Service Help (FRESH START) / Civic
Education Classes - $7,270
Support for bilingual workshops in Santa Maria that educate
people on the citizenship process, voting rights, and self-advocacy
Growing
Solutions Restoration Education Institute / Healthy Habitat
Progam at Los Prietos Boys Camp - $5,000
Funding for staff of Growing Solutions to go to Los Prietos
Boys Camp and implement a native plant education & planting
program with incarcerated youth
Isla
Vista Teen Center (Umbrella: Channel Islands YMCA) / Parent
School Improvement Program - $7,840
Support for parents in IV to learn about the local educational
system and to become better advocates for their families
Just Communities Central
Coast / CommUnity Leadership Institute Change Agent Network
for Dismantling Oppression - $7,800
Staff to support graduates of the CLI Summer Institute to
continue working on various social justice issues in their own
communities
National
Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) / Lompoc Family to Family
Education Class - $3,950
Funding for classes in Lompoc of, by & for people coping
with a family member with mental illness
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
(NAPF) / Santa Barbara, A Peace Community - $7,000
Support for community members to become peace leaders &
educate people on the impact of nuclear weapons & their negative
effects
ySTRIVE for Youth / 4REAL
Project - $10,000
Support for a youth-run employment education program working
with La Cuesta Continuation School youth
PUEBLO / Neighborhood Committee
Campaign - $10,000
Funding for organizers to educate & mobilize low-income
residents in Santa Barbara County on neighborhood issues
Los Padres ForestWatch / General
Operations - $6,000
Support for a local organization that protects the Los Padres
National Forest through clean-up efforts, education & legal
advocacy
2008 Multi-Year Grants
Community Action Commission of
Santa Barabra County (CAC) / Los Compadres Program - $10,000
(Year 1) / $8,000 (Year 2) / $6,000 (Year 3)
Multi-year support for a program that works with primarily
young men of color on self-esteem, cultural pride, pregnancy &
gang violence
Conflict Solutions Center-Community
Mediation Program / Restorative Justice Partnership Initiative
- $8,320 (Year 1) / $5,000 (Year 2) / $5,000 (Year 3)
Multi-year support to continue promoting & implementing
restorative justice practices with youth in the court system in
Santa Barbara County
Centro Binacional para
el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueña / General Operations
- $6,550 per year for 2 years (Year 2)
Support to maintain an office in Santa Maria that provides information
to the Oaxacan community in Spanish and indigenous dialects
Apoyo para mantener una oficina en Santa Maria que proporciona
información a la comunidad Oaxaqueña en español
y dialectos indígenas
Just
Communities (formerly NCCJ) / Building Just & Inclusive
Communities Initiative - $10,000 Year 1 & $2, 000 Years 2
& 3 (Year 2)
Seed funding for county-wide bilingual workshops to engage people
in discussions of multiple forms of oppression and ways to take
action
Financiación de semilla para talleres bilingües
por todo el condado para involucrar a personas en discusiones
de múltiples formas de la opresión y maneras de
tomar acción
PUEBLO / North County Organizer
- $10,000 year / 3 years (Year 3)
Funding for a field organizer to build the leadership, power,
and influence of low-income residents of the Santa Maria Valley
Financiamiento para una organizadora para construir el liderazgo,
poder e influencia de residentes de bajo-ingresos del Valle de
Santa Maria
Santa Barbara
Neighborhood Clinics / Promotores de Salud Program - $5,000
year for 3 years (Year 3)
Staff support for the continuation of a health education &
outreach program by and for Latinas
Provea apoyo para la continuación de un programa por
y para Latinas sobre la educación de salud
2008 Emerging Need Grants
WillBridge
of Santa Barbara / Homeless Outreach Project and Foot-Washing
Event- $3,000
Funding for a community event bringing together clergy, service
providers, and the broader community to wash the feet of local
homeless in the hopes of breaking down barriers & stereotypes
and creating access to services
2008 Donor Advised Grants
City At Peace
/ Training for Community-Based Peace-Makers - $9,600
Funding to provide mediation training to gang members, former
gang members, and youth to maintain the relative peace created
by the emerging gang truce in Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara County Action
Network / General Operations - $5,000
Support for SB CAN's on-going work in support of fair and
affordable housing, open space preservation and effective public
transportation
Fall 2007 Grants
Alliance for Pharmaceutical Access (APA) / Outreach & Staff
- $9,000
Ongoing support to outreach and train bilingual volunteers &
Staff to assist and train monolingual Spanish-speakers to obtain
medications online
Apoyo continuo para entrenar a voluntarios y personal
bilingües a poder a entrenar personas de hable español
monolingües en como obtener las prescripciones sobre el Internet
Arts Mentorship
Program (AMP) / Staff - $5,000
Support for youth staff to organize & promote various
teen street art events to encourage youth in creating different
forms of traditional & non-traditional art
Apoyo para el personal juvenil para que organicen y prometen
a varios eventos de arte para jóvenes y alentarlos a crear
diferentes formas de arte tradicional y moderna
Bici Centro of Santa Barbara
/ Start Up - $5,660
Seed funding to start a local do-it-yourself bike kitchen
to train community members on how to fix their bikes, promote
alternative forms of transportation, and reuse materials
Fondos para la creación de un centro de reparación
de bicicletas en donde la comunidad esta entrenada a reparar sus
bicicletas al mismo tiempo pro motando formas alternativas de
transportación y materiales que se vuelven a usar
Cesar
Chavez Charter School / Padres Adelantes - $5,950
Funding for parents of students at Cesar Chavez School to
empower themselves to become advocates for their children in the
different levels of the educational system
Apoyo para que los padres de los estudiantes de la Escuela
Cesar Chávez puedan aprender como abogar para sus hijos
sobre los diferentes niveles del sistema de educación
COAST / Coalition
for a Fair Measure D (CCFMD) - $5,000
Continuing support for a county-wide coalition to assure inclusion
of alternative transportation in Measure D 2008
Apoyo continuo para una coalición representando
a toda el condado para asegurar la inclusión de medios
alternativos de transportación en la Medida D del 2008
CAC of Santa Barbara County
/ Los Compadres Program - $8,000
Funding for staff to work with young men of color in Lompoc
around issues of pregnancy prevention, violence & gangs
Fondos para que el personal pueda ayudar a los jóvenes
varones de color sobre cuestiones de como prevenir el embarazo,
la violencia y pandillas en la ciudad de Lompoc
Community Health Centers of the
Central Coast (CHCCC) / Hispanic Leadership Program - $7,600
Funding for the development of a leadership program of, by
and for farmworkers at the Self-Help Las Adobes Farmworker Housing
Complex in Santa Maria to become advocates on various personal
& civic issues
Apoyo para la creación de un programa de liderazgo
hecho de y para los campesinos en el Self-Help "Los Adobes
Farmworkers Housing Complex" en Santa Maria, para que puedan
abogar por uno mismo en varios cuestiones personales y cívicos
ILRC / Feel the
Power of the Disability Vote - $8,108
Funding for education, registration & get out the vote
efforts of people with disabilities
Fondos para la educación, registración y los
esfuerzos para el voto de gente incapacitado
North County Rape
Crisis & Child Protection Center / Bilingual Self Defense
Project - $5,100
Staff support for self-defense courses in Spanish in Santa
Maria & Lompoc
Apoyo para el personal habla-hispana para clases de autodefensa
en Santa Maria y Lompoc
Pacific Pride
Foundation (PPF) / LGBT Community Council - $9,952
Support for the creation of a county-wide council consisting
of diverse LGBT people to guide PPF in their programs & services
Apoyo para la creación de un concilio que representa
a todo el condado que consiste de gente diversa de LGBT para que
guien a PPF en sus programas y servicios
Santa
Barbara Don Riders / Start Up - $2,170
Seed funding for a high school club that teaches skills, promotes
higher education & tackles stereotypes of young Latin@s through
the creation of customized bicycles
Sexual Assault
Response Team (SART) / Accessibility Equipment & Training
- $10,000
Funding for the purchase of accessible equipment & training
to serve survivors with disabilities
Fondos para adquirir equipo accesible y entrenamiento para
poder a servir a sobrevivientes de asalto sexual incapacitados
Central Coast Alliance
United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) / Grassroots &
Women's Regional Power Building - $4,250 (Supported by the
Atterbury Foundation)
Funding for Santa Barbara County residents to gain skills
in organizing & campaigning for economic justice & women's
issues
Fondos para que los residentes del Condado de Santa Bárbara
puedan e obtener la habilidad y conocimiento práctico en
organizando una campaña para la justicia económica
y de la mujer
La Casa de La Raza
/ Youth Leadership Development Program - $8,000 (Supported
by the Atterbury Foundation)
Funding for the creation of a youth advisory council to implement
programs at La Casa around current & emerging youth issues
Financiación para la creación de un concilio
asesora de jóvenes para implementar programas en La Casa
de La Raza alrededor de temas actuales o que emergen en la juventud
Youth Media Project
/ Shape of Voice - $10,000 (Supported
by the Atterbury Foundation)
Continued funding for a newspaper written by youth,
about youth issues for local youth
Apoyo continuo para un periódico escrito por jóvenes
sobre los temas que afectan a la joventud local
Spring 2007 Grants
Art From Scrap / Guadalupe
Community Connections - $8,150
Support to collaborate with
the Guadalupe Cultural Arts & Education Center to implement
an environmental advocacy program with 4th-12th graders
Apoyo para colaborar con el Centro de Arte y Educación
de Guadalupe aplicar un programa ambiental con estudiantes de
los grados 4 - 12
Citizen's
Planning Foundation / Public Process & Community Involvement
Workshop Series - $5,000
Support for bilingual county-wide community education workshops
to educate people on various public processes and how to get involved
Apoyo para talleres bilingües por todo el condado para
educar a personas en varios procesos públicos y cómo
involucrarse
Citizen's
Planning Foundation / Outreach Materials - $3,650
Funding for the creation of new outreach materials in English
& Spanish for distribution county-wide
Financiación para la creación de nuevas materias
en ingles y español para distribución por todo el
condado
Coalition
for Sustainable Transportation (COAST) / Measure D 2008 -
$6,000
Continuing support for the county-wide campaign to include alternative
transportation in the development of the Measure D renewal
Apoyo continuo para la campaña por todo el condado para
incluir el transporte alternativo en el desarrollo de la renovación
de la Medida D
Conflict
Solutions Center - Community Mediation / Restorative Justice
Community Organizing - $10,000
Continuing support of the development of county-wide Restorative
Justice Task Forces to promote holistic approaches when dealing
with juvenile offenders
Apoyo continuo para el desarrollo de grupos por todo el condado
trabajando por Justicia Reconstituyente para promover los enfoques
holísticos cuando tratando ofensores juveniles
Community
Action Commission of Santa Barbara County / Las Comadres Program
- $8,500
Support for the development of former participants into volunteer
peer educators to educate young women in Santa Maria & Lompoc
in pregnancy prevention, healthy relationships, and confidence
Apoyo para el desarrollo de participantes anteriores en educadores
voluntarios para educar mujeres jóvenes en Santa Maria
y Lompoc en la prevención del embarazo, el las relaciones
saludables y en la confianza
Families ACT / Start Up - $8,100
Seed funding for families and individuals affected by the loss
of dually diagnosed individuals to advocate for more compassionate
treatment instead of incarceration
Financiación de semilla para familias e individuos afectados
por la pérdida de individuos doblemente diagnosticados
para recomendar el tratamiento más compasivo en vez de
la encarcelación
Harding
Elementary School / School Cafeteria Project - $5,900
Support for the creation of a Parent Education Program by Latin@
parents to empower themselves in building knowledge about health,
nutrition, and use of local fresh foods
Apoyo para la creación de un Programa de Educación
por padres latin@s para autorizar a sí mismo acerca de
la salud, la nutrición y el uso de alimentos frescos y
locales
IDEAS / Central Coast AB-540 Network - $5,250
Seed funding for group of UCSB students to create a network of
resources for undocumented students who qualify under AB-540
Financiación de semilla para un grupo de estudiantes
de UCSB para crear un red de recursos para estudiantes sin documentación
que califican bajo AB-540
Isla
Vista Teen Center / General Support - $10,000
Funding to employ a Grant Writer to solicit and implement a fundraising
plan
Financiación para emplear un Escritor de Becas para
solicitar y aplicar un plan de recaudación de fondos
Prop. 63 for Me (Umbrella: Independent Living
Resource Center) / General Operations - $6,000
Continuing support for group of clients receiving mental health
services to be self-advocates in the implementation of Prop. 63
Apoyo continuo para un grupo de clientes que reciben los servicios
de sanidad mentales ser auto-abogados en la implementación
del Propósito 63
Santa Barbara
Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF) / Platicas en Español
- $4,550
Funding of six performances featuring Latin@ artists to educate
and unite Latin@ communities through the discussion of issues
relating to arts and culture
Financiación de seis desempeños que representan
artistas latin@s para educar y unir las comunidades latin@s por
la discusión de los asuntos que relacionan a artes y cultura
2007 Multi-Year Grants
Centro Binacional para
el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueña / General Operations
- $6,550 per year for 2 years (Year 1)
Support to maintain an office in Santa Maria that provides information
to the Oaxacan community in Spanish and indigenous dialects
Apoyo para mantener una oficina en Santa Maria que proporciona
información a la comunidad Oaxaqueña en español
y dialectos indígenas
Just
Communities (formerly NCCJ) / Building Just & Inclusive
Communities Initiative - $10,000 Year 1 & $2, 000 Years 2
& 3 (Year 1)
Seed funding for county-wide bilingual workshops to engage people
in discussions of multiple forms of oppression and ways to take
action
Financiación de semilla para talleres bilingües
por todo el condado para involucrar a personas en discusiones
de múltiples formas de la opresión y maneras de
tomar acción
PUEBLO / North County Organizer
- $10,000 year / 3 years (Year 2)
Funding for a field organizer to build the leadership, power,
and influence of low-income residents of the Santa Maria Valley
Financiamiento para una organizadora para construir el liderazgo,
poder e influencia de residentes de bajo-ingresos del Valle de
Santa Maria
Santa Barbara
Neighborhood Clinics / Promotores de Salud Program - $5,000
year for 3 years (Year 2)
Staff support for the continuation of a health education &
outreach program by and for Latinas
Provea apoyo para la continuación de un programa por
y para Latinas sobre la educación de salud
2007 Emerging
Need Grants
Santa Barbara UNA-USA / Many Voices,
One Song - $1,150
Funding for outreach and publicity
for this celebration in music and spoken word. Four distinct styles
of music from four groups, ranging from Gospel to Mexican/South
American, to American Folk, to European Classical Vocal, unified
in the theme, “Thresholds to a Culture of Peace.”
2007 Donor Advised Grants
Alliance For Justice / "Worry-Free Advocacy" Training
- $1,765
Sponsorship of & scholarships for this full-day training
for local nonprofit organizations on the ins & outs of effective
lobbying and advocacy
International Documentary
Association / "The
Naked Option" Film Project - $1,000
Pre-production support for this feature length documentary
which reveals how local women in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger
Delta use “stripping naked”, a serious cultural taboo,
to fight environmental and cultural ruin by the world’s most
powerful corporate giants
"Bringing
King To China" Film Project - $10,000
Pre-production support for this film documenting how the work
of of Martin Luther King, Jr. is experienced by and relevant to
the experiences of young people in China and the United States
Light
Blue Line Project / General Operations - $5,000
Support for the start-up of this public art project
highlighting the practical effect of what a 7 meter sea level
increase would mean to Santa Barbara's shoreline
Santa Barbara County Action Network
/ General Operations - $10,000
Support for SB CAN's on-going work in support of fair and
affordable housing, open space preservation and effective public
transportation
Santa Barbara Women's Political
Committee / Diversity & Inclusion Project - $5,000
Funding for a series of workshops & retreats focussed on making
the Santa Barbara Women's Political Committee more inclusive to
women of color
Fall 2006 Grant
Awards
Alliance for Pharmceutical Access
/ General Support - $7,000
Continuing support of bilingual
and bicultural staff to train volunteers & clients to access
medications online in Santa Maria
Apoyo continuo de personal bilingüe y bicultural para
entrenar voluntarios y clientes para conseguir acceso a las medicinas
sobre el red
Environmental Defense Center's
Central Coast Environmental Health
Project / Train the Trainers Pesticide Education Program -
$9,135
Support to develop and expand a peer-based Train the Trainer program
that educates farmworkers about pesticide-related health risks
in northern Santa Barbara County
Apoyo para desarrollar y ensanchar un programa de Entrenrar
el Entrenador que educa a campesinos acerca de riesgos de pesticida
a la salud en el Condado septentrional de Santa Bárbara
Community Action of Santa Barbara County / Los
Compadres Young Mens' Retreat - $4,505
Young men's retreat educating and empowering young men to make
informed decisions on relationships, education & personal
responsibility
Una retirada de jóvenes que educa y autoriza a jóvenes
sobre haciendo decisiones informadas en relaciones, la educación
y la responsabilidad personal
La Casa de La Raza / Alliance
for Immigrant Rights - $3,900
Continuing support for staff to coordinate events which challenge
stereotypes and frame immigrant rights as human rights in Santa
Barbara
Apoyo continuo para el personal para coordinar los acontecimientos
que desafían los esterotípos y encuadran los derechos
de inmigrante como derechos humanos en Santa Bárbara
Lompoc Health Awareness / Obesity Health Awareness Campaign
- $6,080
Support for emerging group providing bilingual education on obesity
and health to students and their familias
Apoyo para grupo emergente para propocionar educación
bilingüe sobre la obesidad y la salud a estudiantes y sus
familias
Lompoc
High School Gay-Straight Alliance / General Support - $1,500
Continuing support for high school students creating a more accepting
environment for LGBT students at Lompoc High School
Apoyou continuo para estudiantes preparatorias que crean un
ambiente más aceptando para estudiantes LGBT en la preparatoria
de Lompoc
Los
Padres ForestWatch / National Forest Awareness Campaign -
$4,000
Staffing for campaign focused on increasing individual and green
business support for protecting the Los Padres Forest
Personal para campaña enfocó en aumentar apoyo
de individuos y negocios verdes para proteger el Bosque Los Padres
North
County Rape Crisis & Child Protection Center / Bilingual
Volunteer Advocates - $5,000
Support to hire bilingual staff to outreach and train bilingual
volunteer advocates throughout northern Santa Barbara County
Apoyo para emplear personal bilingüe para solicitor y
entrenar abogados bilingues voluntarios a través de el
Condado septentrional de Santa Bárbara
Santa Ynez Valley People Helping
People / Organización de Familias Latinas Parent Education
Workshops - $6,000
Continuing support for Latino parents at Santa Ynez Valley Union
High School to empower themselves to be better advocates for their
families
Apoyo continuo para padres Latinas en la preparatoria Santa
Ynez Valley Union para autorizar a sí mismo ser mejores
abogados para sus familias
Prop.
63 for Me / Client Empowerment - $5,000
Support for emerging group of clients receiving mental health
services to be self-advocates in the implementation of Prop. 63
Apoyo para grupo emergente de clientes que reciben los servicios
de sanidad mentales ser auto-abogados en la implementación
del Proposición 63
Independent Living
Resource Center / Santa Barbara County Network of Mental Health
Clients Start-Up - $5,000
Seed funding for group of mental health clients to provide skills
for self-advocacy, stigma busting and mutual support
Financiamento de semilla para grupo de clientes de servicios
mentales de salud para proporcionar las habilidades para el auto-abogar,
desafíar de stigma y apoyo mutuo
Santa Maria
Peace Coalition / Speakers & Educational Events - $1,500
Continuing support for peace group in Santa Maria to provide alternative
information and perspectives on US foreign policy
Apoyo continuo para el grupo de la paz en Santa Maria para propocionar
información y perspectivas alternativas en la política
exterior de EEUU
Santa Ynez Valley Union High School Gay-Straight Alliance /
Awareness Campaign - $1,000
Support for emerging group of students at Santa Ynez Valley Union
High School creating a more accepting environment for LGBT students
Apoyo para grupo emergente de estudiantes en la preparatoria
de Santa Ynez Valley Union que crean un ambiente más aceptando
para estudiantes LGBT
Spring 2006 Grant Awards
Centro Binacional
para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño / Frente
Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales Office Staff
- $9,000
To hire bilingual staff who will provide information to the Oaxacan
community in Spanish and indigenous dialects
Para emplear personal bilingüe que proporcioné
información a la comunidad Oaxaqueña en español
y en los dialectos indígenas
Club Cahuayaxi de Santa Maria / Guelaguetza Festival
- $1,500
Continuing support of indigenous Mixteco communities to organize
the 2nd Annual Guelaguetza Festival
Para continuar el apoyo de comunidades indígenas Mixtecas
para organizar la segunda Guelaguetza anual
Conflict Solutions
Center (formerly Community Mediation Program) / Restorative
Justice Community Organizing & Education - $7,740
For a part-time staff person to coordinate a community coalition
working within the juvenile justice system to promote restorative
justice in the courts and local CYA facility, FitzGerald
Para personal de medio tiempo para coordinar una alianza comunitaria
trabajando dentro del sistema juvenil de justicia para promover
la justicia reconstituyente en los tribunales y CYA facilidad
local, FitzGerald
Good Samaritan Shelter / Lompoc Expansion - $5,000
To expand locally-based services for those living with addiction
in Lompoc through a series of community workshops
Para engrandecer los servicios localmente-basados para esas
personas viviendo con problemas de adición en Lompoc por
una serie de talleres de comunidad
La Casa de La Raza / Sembrando Semillas Organizational
Development - $7,500
To build on the 35 year legacy of La Casa by building capacity
amongst its board, staff, and volunteers
Para elaborar en el 35 año legado de La Casa construyendo
la capacidad entre su mesa directiva, personal y voluntarios
League
of Women Voters of the Santa Maria Valley / Family Planning
Outreach - $2,000
To create a bilingual pamphlet and community forums promoting
low-cost medical and reproductive information and services
Para crear foros comunitarias y folletos bilingües para
promover información y servicios de bajo-costo médicos
y reproductivos
Santa
Ynez Valley Alliance / Outreach Project - $4,800
Funding for a staff person to support Santa Ynez Valley residents
to have a voice in local environmental, development, and housing
issues
Financiamiento de personal para sostener a residentes del Valle
de Santa Ynez para tener una voz en los asuntos ambiental, el
desarrollo y viviendas
Santa
Barbara Neighborhood Clinics / Teen Health Advocates - $9,000
Staff support for a health advocate program by and for teens in
local high schools focusing on various health & social issues
Provea apoyo para el programa de abogar de salud por y para
jóvenes en las preparatorias locales que enfocan en varios
asuntos de salud y social
Transitions-Mental Health
Association / Lompoc Drop-In Center "Building Bridges
for Employment" - $5,000
Support to a peer-run, peer-governed resource center for people
living with mental disabilities to educate local businesses and
employers to reduce discrimination in employment & hiring
Apoyo a un centro de recurso social humanitario gobernado y
manejado por semejantes para personas viviendo con incapacidades
mentales para educar los negocios y empleadores locales para reducir
la discriminación de empleos y empleados
UCSB Center for
Black Studies / Dr. Shirley Kennedy Documentary Project -
$3,000
Seed funding for a documentary film about the life of local activist,
educator, and leader Dr. Shirley Kennedy
Financiamiento de semilla para una película documental
acerca de la vida de activista, educador y líder local
Dra. Shirley Kennedy
2006 Multi-Year Grants
PUEBLO / North County Organizer
- $10,000 year / 3 years (Year 1)
Funding for a field organizer to build the leadership, power,
and influence of low-income residents of the Santa Maria Valley
Financiamiento para una organizadora para construir el liderazgo,
poder e influencia de residentes de bajo-ingresos del Valle de
Santa Maria
Santa Barbara
Neighborhood Clinics / Promotores de Salud Program - $5,000
year for 3 years (Year 1)
Staff support for the continuation of a health education &
outreach program by and for Latinas
Provea apoyo para la continuación de un programa por
y para Latinas sobre la educación de salud
Good Samaritan Shelter, Inc. / Art Therapy Program - $3,500
per year for 3 years (Year 3)
Staff support for an art program for clients as a means to educate
the general public on alcoholism and homelessness in Santa Maria
Personal para un programa artístico para los clientes,
para educar al público en general en Santa Maria sobre
alcoholismo y el no tener dónde vivir
National
Conference for Community & Justice (NCCJ) / Social
Change Leadership Institute (SCLI) - $7,500 per year for 3 years
(Year 3)
Support for the establishment of an SCLI program as a resource
for local organizations to challenge and ultimately dismantle
oppression of all kinds
Apoyo para establecer el programa de liderazgo como recurso
para las organizaciones locales para retar y desmantelar la opresión
de todo tipo en sus agencias, su trabajo y sus vidas
2006 Emerging Need / Immigrant
Justice Grants
Coalition for Sustainable
Transportation (COAST) / Coalition for a Fair Measure D -
Measure D Renewal - $3,000
To support a multi-issue coalition of environmental and social
justice organizations to advocate for the passage of a tax measure
on the November 2006 ballot supporting alternative transportation
La Casa de La Raza / Week of the Immigrant Events -
$3,000
To support a week of activities around Immigrant Justice issues
throughout Santa Barbara during "The Week of the Immigrant"
which began with the May 1st Rally & March
Just
Communities Central Coast (formerly NCCJ) / Week of the Immigrant
Events - $3,000
To support a week of activities around Immigrant Justice issues
throughout Santa Barbara during "The Week of the Immigrant"
which began with the May 1st Rally & March
PUEBLO / Week of the Immigrant
March on May 1st - $3,000
Funding for logistical support of the May 1st march and
rally in downtown Santa Barbara
2006 Donor Advised Grants
Alternatives to Violence Project
/ AVP in the Prisons - $7,000
Support to train and educate community members from throughout
Santa Barbara County in non-violent communication and to enter
prisons throughout the state to facilitate workshops
Grassroots Institute
for Fundraising Trainging (GIFT) / Scholarships To Local Organizers
- $2,080
Support for 20 local activists to attend this intensive 2-day
trainng on grassroots fundraising strategies
Committee For Social Justice / Homeless Calendar Project -
$2,500
Production support for this 2007 calendar featuring the photography
and graphic artwork of work of several of the residents of the
Casa Esperanza who also participated in the 2004/2005 People's
Institute Art Courses at Casa Esperanza
Fall 2005 Grant Awards
AFFIRM (Adolescent Females For
Intervention Reform Models) / Start Up at El Puente Continuation
School - $8,500
Seed funding for this program for girls in the juvenile correction
system focusing on empowerment, education, and identity
Dinero de semilla para un programa para jovencitas en el sistema
juvenil de correción enfocando en la autorización,
la educación, y la identidad
Alliance for Pharmaceutical
Access / General Operations - $4,960
To train and support bilingual volunteers to assist and train
monolingual Spanish speakers to obtain medications online
Para entrenar y sostener a voluntarios bilingües ayuder
y entrenar a oradores españoles monolingües para obtener
las medicinas sobre el red
Centro Binacional para
el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño-Santa Maria / General
Operations - $5,000
To maintain an office in Santa Maria that provides information
to the Oaxacan community in Spanish and indigenous dialects
Para mantener una oficina en Santa Maria que proporciona información
a la comunidad Oaxaqueña en español y en los dialectos
indígenas
Community School
/ Committee for Social Justice Youth Newspaper - $7,800
For the creation of a newspaper written, edited, and produced
by local youth
Para la creación de un periodístico escrito,
redactado, y producida por juventud local
Gay-Straight Alliance
at Lompoc High School / Start Up - $3,850
For Lompoc High School students to educate themselves and their
school on tolerance and acceptance of LGBT youth
Para estudiantes de la preparatoria de Lompoc para educar a
sí mismo y su escuela en la tolerancia y la aceptación
de la juventud de LGBT
Growing Solutions
Restoration Education Institute / Soil to Oil - $1,950
To cultivate Jathropa plant and create locally-produced biodiesel
at Santa Barbara High School Environmental program
Para cultivar la planta Jathropa y
producir biodiesel localmente para el programa ambiental en la
preparatoria de Santa Bárbara
Santa Barbara County
Action Network (SBCAN) / SB County Progressive Response Alliance
- $5,100
For the creation of a roundtable of progressive organizations
advocating on local policy
Para la creación de una mesa redonda de las organizaciones
progresivas que recomienda en la política local
Santa Ynez Valley
People Helping People / Organización de Familias Latinas
- $7,800
To support Latin@ parents at Santa Ynez HS to become stronger
advocates for their children around education and other issues
faced by teens
Para sostener a padres Latinas de la preparatoria de Santa
Ynez para llegar a ser abogados más fuertes para sus niños
alrededor de la educación y otros asuntos encarados por
jóvenes
UCSB MultiCultural
Center / Race Matters Series - $6,300
Continuing support for this programming series on issues of race,
racism, white privilege, and oppression
Apoyo continuo para esta serie de programas en asuntos de raza,
del racismo, del privilegio blanco, y de la opresión
UCSB Resource Center
for Sexual & Gender Diversity (RCSGD) / LGBT Youth Leadership
& Advocacy Institute - $5,500
Residential institute for LGBT youth at UCSB to educate around
LGBT issues and encourage youth leaders
Un instituto residencial para la juventud de LGBT en UCSB para
educar alrededor de asuntos de LGBT y alentar a líderes
de juventud
Women In Black-Lompoc
/ Lompoc Coalition for Peace & Justice Peace Activities -
$4,000
Continuing support to this anti-war/peace group educating the
public on alternatives to militarism
Apoyo continuo a este grupo contra-guerra/de la paz que educa
el público en alternativas al militarismo
Spring 2005 Grant Awards
Adelante Mujer Hispana
/ La Guelaguetza Indigenous Festival - $6,500
Seed funding for the creation of an indigenous Oaxacan celebration
to educate the public and dispel misconceptions about the Mixteco
community in Santa Maria
Americans for a
Just Peace in the Middle East (AJPME) / Speaker Project - $4,500
Funding to bring experts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to
SB to educate the local community and offer insights traditionally
unavailable to the American public
Clergy & Laity
United for Economic Justice (CLUE) / Organizer - $6,180
Resources to hire a part-time organizer to create coalitions amongst
different local faith & religious communities on issues of
economic and social justice
Coalition for Sustainable
Transportation (COAST) / CoastalRailNow - $3,600
Funding to increase public interest and input into the on-going
community discussion of the feasibility of a commuter rail between
Ventura & SB counties
Indigenous Alliance
/ Indigenous People's Day Celebration - $5,000
Seed funding for the city-wide celebration of Indigenous People's
Day (formerly Columbus Day) to educate people on the historical
context and modern expression of California Native Americans
People To People
TV / "Electile Dysfunction" - $4,000
Funding for the Spanish subtitling of this documentary created
by local filmmakers focusing on election fraud in the 2000 and
2004 presidential elections
Los Padres ForestWatch
/ Community Empowerment Campaign - $3,960
Resources to increase community input and create an action network
focused on protecting the Los Padres National Forest
Our Children's Earth
Foundation / Transportation Equity Project - $4,000
Funding for an organizer to build on the current coalition of
stake-holders in the process of identifying & remedying the
unmet transit needs of farmworkers in the Santa Maria Valley
Para Un San Martin
Mejor / Cultural Events - $6,000
Seed funding for the purchase of instruments to support and encourage
local Mixteco youth in Santa Maria to learn & practice their
Oaxacan culture
Pesticide Awareness
& Alternatives Coalition (PAAC) / Santa Barbara County Organic
Resources Guides - $6,000
Funding for the translation and printing of a local guide to organic
resources of all kinds
Santa Barbara County
Action Network (SB CAN) / North County Civic Engagement Project
(NCEEP) - $5,040
Seed funding for this project focused on developing leadership
and organizing skills amongst community members in Northern SB
County
Santa Barbara Cultural
Development Foundation / Faces from the Fields - $5,000
Funding for local artists to assist local Carpinteria youth in
the creation of photo and video exhibits focused on their migrant
backgrounds to be showcased in Carpinteria, Guadalupe, and Lompoc
Santa Barbara Genetically
Engineered-Free Agriculture (SB GE-Free) / Farmer Advocacy Project
- $4,130
Seed funding (pun intended) to educate and organize local farmers
to taking collective action to insist on our right to locally-grown
produce free of genetic contamination
Santa Barbara LULAC
Councils - CA District 18 / Leadership Training, Advocacy &
Conferences - $5,000
Funding support for this local Latin@ organization focusing on
civil rights and educational equity in local schools
Santa Barbara Neighborhood
Clinics (SBNC) / Promotores de Salud - $5,000
Staff support for the continuation of a health education &
outreach program by and for Latinas on women's and other health
issues
Santa Barbara Neighborhood
Clinics (SBNC) / Teen Health Advocates - $5,000
Staff support for health advocate program by and for teens in
local high schools focusing on various health & social issues
Santa Barbara Rape
Crisis Center (SBRCC) / Transgender/Genderqueer Inclusion Project
- $6,800
Support for SBRCC to make its services welcoming and accessible
to the TG/GQ community and serve as a model to other community-based
organizations
Tri-Counties Regional
Center / Santa Maria Peer Advocate - $5,000
Support for the creation of a Peer Advocate position in Santa
Maria to advocate for and educate people with disabilities on
accessing social services and developing skills for self-advocacy
2005 Multi-Year Grants
Good Samaritan Shelter,
Inc. / Art Therapy Program - $3,500 per year for 3 years (Year
2)
Staff support for an art program for clients as a means to educate
the general public on alcoholism and homelessness in Santa Maria
National Conference
for Community & Justice (NCCJ) / Social Change Leadership
Institute (SCLI) - $7,500 per year for 3 years (Year 2)
Support for the establishment of an SCLI program as a resource
for local organizations to challenge and ultimately dismantle
oppression of all kinds
PUEBLO / Neighborhood
Committee Program - $7,500 per year for 3 years (Year 3)
Funding for a field organizer and the supplies necessary to build
the leadership, power, and influence of low-income residents of
Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria
2005 Emerging Need Grants
Associated Students
Womyn's Commission / Womyn of Color Conference - High School Component
& Keynote Speaker - $3,000
Support for local high school students to participate in.the annual
Womyn of Color Conference at UCSB and for the securing of keynote
speaker Cherrie Moraga
Kids Speaking Up
/ KSU 'zine - $1,400
Seed funding for the creation of a 'zine by local Goleta Valley
Jr. High students to encourage other youth to become active on
social justice issues
Santa Barbara For
a Living Wage / Coalition Organizer - $3,000
Funding for a part-time organizer to coordinate coalition members'
activities and involvement in the current effort to pass a living
wage in the City of Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara For a Living Wage / Coalition
Organizer (Follow-Up) - $3,000
Funding for a part-time organizer to coordinate coalition members'
activities and involvement in the current effort to pass a living
wage in the City of Santa Barbara
2005 Donor Advised Grants
Our Children's Earth
Foundation / Expert Testimony - $2,200
Funds to secure the testimony of a key expert in a lawsuit which
will establish a key precedent in the on-going effort to of identify
& remedy the unmet transit needs of farmworkers in the Santa
Maria Valley
SBCC Education Foundation
/ Homelessness Series - $10,000
Support for the creation of a five-part series of community forums
on the issue of homelessness and the struggle to end it
Fall 2004 Grant
Awards
Activists for Equal
Representation / La Barda y Sus Ficciones - $4,200
Funding to conduct interviews with day laborers. These interviews
will document the daily conditions faced by day laborers and help
combat "las ficciones" (non-truths and misunderstandings)
of the labor line and the day laborer community.
The Brotherhood
of Santa Barbara / General Operations - $2,990
Office and general operating support to continue voter registration
and education public forums outreaching to the African-American
community.
Committee for Social
Justice / RV Rights Legal Project - $7,500
Legal support to challenge the City of Santa Barbara's laws pertaining
to RV dwellers which have targeted RV's and RV living for the
poor on streets within the city limits.
Community Mediation
Program / Valuing Diversity Work Group & Restorative Justice
- $6,084
Staff support for a bilingual mediator and resources to begin
a Restorative Justice Program in Santa Maria.
Filipino American
National Historical Society (Central California Coast) / Central
Coast Filipino-American Heritage Mural Project - $5,000
Funding for the creation of a mural in Lompoc depicting the contributions
of Filipinos to the community of Lompoc and the Central Coast.
Organización
Campesina Mixteco Unidos - Santa Maria / Programa Sobre Pesticida
y Salud - $5,000
Resources to support two full-time Mixteco organizers to conduct
workshops at worksites and to educate other Mixteco farmworkers
on the dangers of pesticides and the importance of good sanitation
in the home.
Pacific Pride Foundation
/ Families of Pride - $6,270
Staff support, outreach materials, and childcare to support community-building,
advocacy, and political education to same-sex parents and their
families.
The People's Institute
at Casa Esperanza Homeless Shelter / Winter 2005 Program - $3,000
Funding to support classes and seminars at Casa Esperanza Homeless
Shelter organized independently by volunteer teachers, activists,
and homeless.
Transitions-Mental
Health Association / Growing Grounds Organic Farm II - $3,584
Funding to hire a Transitions-MHA client to staff the organic
farm's Saturday Market which sells organic, pesticide-free vegetables
grown by Transitions-MHA clients.
Westside Boys &
Girls Club / Youth DJ Radio Project - $2,060
Funding for local Santa Barbara youth of color to learn the roots
of hip-hop's social awareness and political activism through DJ
clinics and production of their own radio show on KCSB 91.9 FM.
Women In Black-Lompoc
/ Lompoc Coalition for Peace & Justice - $1,650
Continuing support to this anti-war/peace group educating the
public on alternatives to militarism through films, forums, outreach
to local schools, and a public access television program.
Youth Against Oppression
/ Start-Up - $2,650
Start-up support for this youth-led organization consisting of
youth from all over the Santa Maria Valley to educate themselves
on issues of oppression and to then provide workshops for other
youth on social justice issues.
Spring 2004 Grant Awards
Academy Theatre
/ Project at Los Prietos Boys' Camp - $4,500
Support for youth incarcerated at Los Prietos Boys Camp to create
theatrical work based on their experiences
Autism Society of
America - Santa Barbara / Legislative Project for Families with
Disabilities - $7,500
Funding for training and travel of parents and autistic children
to lobby directly to policymakers and participate in stakeholder
meetings
CALPIRG Education
Fund / Affordable Textbooks for an Affordable Education Campaign
- $5,500
Staff for UCSB campaign to change the current practices of textbook
publishers & make texts more affordable for all students
Carpinterians for
Peace & Justice / Lecture Series - $1,100
Resources to educate & bring together residents of Carpinteria
in an effort to promote peace and social justice
Coalition for Sustainable
Transportation (COAST) / Unmet Transit Needs & Farmworker
Outreach - $5,750
Funding for an assessment of transportation patterns and needs
and the creation of an action plan
Community Mediation
Program / CITY@PEACE - $2,500
Resources for a youth-lead theatrical production & performance
team to outreach to other youth
El Congreso de UCSB
/ Ce-Ollin (First Movement) - $998
Support for an outreach program for continuation high-school students
that promotes cultural and political awareness and exposes students
to non-traditional viewpoints of history and current events
El Sabor de México
Ballet Folklorico / Outfits for Dance - $5,000
Outfits for a Lompoc-based performance group consisting of Latino
youth and focusing on cultural heritage and community
Industrial Workers
of the World (IWW) - Santa Barbara General Membership Branch /
Workers' Rights Workshops - $2,240
Funding to provide regular workers' rights' workshops in southern
Santa Barbara County and staff a hotline
Santa Barbara Independent
Media Center / Media Equipment & Training - $3,665
Equipment to provide the Santa Barbara community with the means
to produce alternative, independent media and counter media monopolies
Santa Barbara Neighborhood
Clinics (SBNC) / Promotores de Salud Program - $3,000
Staff support for a part-time bilingual Latina outreach worker
to provide workshops and information for Latina women on women's
health issues
Santa Barbara Rape
Crisis Center (SBRCC) / Transgender/Genderqueer Inclusion Efforts
- $7,500
Support for SBRCC to make its services welcoming & accessible
to the Transgender / Genderqueer community and serve as a model
to other community-based organizations
Santa Maria Peace
Coalition / Speakers' Fees - $1,000
General support for this effort to organize public events focusing
on issues of peace and social justice in the Santa Maria Valley
Santa Ynez People
Helping People / Organización de Familias Latinas - $5,100
Support for parent-led organization of Latin@ parents at Santa
Ynez High School conducting workshops to educate themselves about
youth issues to support their children
Southern California
Steelhead Coalition (SCSC) / Mission Possible Vision, Phase 2
- $2,500
Support for meaningful public participation in the Mission Creek
project design in an effort to protect Steelhead Trout
UCSB MultiCultural
Center / Race Matters Series - $4,500
Funding to continue these public presentations & discussions
of race and racism, discrimination and oppression, and power and
privilege
Women In Black-Lompoc
/ Lompoc Coalition for Peace & Justice - $2,150
Continuing support to Lompoc anti-war/peace group focusing on
issues of peace, social justice, and alternatives to militarism
2004 Multi-Year Grants
Good Samaritan Shelter,
Inc. / Art Therapy Program - $3,500 per year for 3 years (Year
1)
Staff support for an art program for clients as a means to educate
the general public on alcoholism and homelessness in Santa Maria
National Conference
for Community & Justice (NCCJ) / Social Change Leadership
Institute (SCLI) - $7,500 per year for 3 years (Year 1)
Support the establishment of an SCLI program as a resource for
local organizations to challenge and ultimately dismantle oppression
of all kinds in their lives, agencies, and work
PUEBLO / Neighborhood
Committee Program - $7,500 per year for 3 years (Year 2)
Funding for a field organizer and the supplies necessary to build
the leadership, power, and influence of low-income residents of
Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria
2004 Emerging Need Grants
CineMedia Film Festival
/ Youth Project at Carpinteria Camper Park - $3,000
Funding for a Coordinator to assist youth at Carpinteria Camper
Park in the use of media equipment and the production of original
films to be viewed as part of 1st Annual Santa Barbara Latino
CineMedia Festival
Community Planet
Foundation / "9-11: A Closer Look" at Marjorie Luke
Theatre on September 11th, 2004 - $2,000
Funding for a one-day conference to provide a space for people
to discuss the effects of the 9/11terrorist attacks, critique
"official" findings, and create an on-going community
dialogue
Independent Living
Resource Center / Feel the Power of the Disability Vote Campaign
- $850
Funding to support a "Get Out The Vote" campaign created
of, by and for individuals with disabilities to get to the polls
and/or vote by mail in the November 2, 2004 election an begin
to build a base for future efforts
People's Coalition
/ Event at UCSB Campbell Hall "One Year Later: Has the War
on Iraq been Justified?" - $808
Funding for a March 9, 2004 film and panel discussion on the US-lead
occupation of Iraq held at UCSB's Campbell Hall
Veterans for Peace,
Chap. 54 / Arlington West - $2,000
Funding for a coordinator to organize the weekly Sunday memorial
at Stearn's Wharf tracking the American troops killed since the
invasion of Iraq
2004 Donor Advised Grants
PUEBLO / Voter Mobilization
- $10,000
Funding to support the identification, outreach, and turn-out
of low-come residents in Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria
Kurdistan Peace
Initiative / "In The Shadows No More" - $5,000
Support for the completion of a book which follows up on the issues
and people chronicled in the documentary film "Good Kurds,
Bad Kurds"
Barbareño
Chumash Council / "The Crossing: Coming Full Circle"
Return to Limuw - $3,000
Support for a gathering at Limuw (Santa Cruz Island) focusing
on reconciliation of the relationship between culture and land
for the Chumash
Committee for Social
Justice / People's Institute at Casa Esperanza Homeless Shelter
- $2,200
Seed funds to create a series of classes, organized independently
by volunteer teachers, activists, and shelter residents
The League of Women
Voters of Santa Barbara Education Fund / SmartVoter.org Multilingual
Voter Education Materials - $3,000
Support for a comprehensive multilingual non-partisan voter information
website and publicity
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