Edhat Staff
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Last week the Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara awarded grants to seven local nonprofits totaling $535,000 from funds collected from membership donations during 2017.
The community-run nonprofit stated this was the largest amount awarded solely from members’ donations since the founding of the Women’s Fund.
Below are the 2018 grant recipients:
- CADA – Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse: $ 75,000 to provide mental health support to help prevent possible reoffending and incarceration of Teen Court youth.
- Children’s Resource & Referral: $ 65,000 to provide quality child care and business development training for in-home Family Child Care providers and $ 50,000 to expand a pilot program to remediate the effects of dyslexia in K-3 students in the Santa Barbara School District.
- Early Childhood Classroom Behavior Intervention Programs: $ 50,000 to expand a program to respond to disruptive classroom behavior for 3-5 year olds in the Goleta Union School District.
- Foodbank of Santa Barbara County: $ 95,000 to partially fund a refrigerated truck to collect, store and distribute fresh food.
- Santa Barbara Rescue Misson: $ 100,000 to increase the number of beds and build bathroom facilities for women needing emergency shelter.
- United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County: $ 100,000 to replace and rebuild sections of a leaking roof for a clubhouse that serves low-income youth in Carpinteria.
The Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara is a volunteer-driven collective donor group that enables women to combine their charitable dollars, providing grants focused on the critical needs of women, children, and families in south Santa Barbara County. It remains committed to the simplicity of the original model: members pool their charitable donations, research critical community needs and then vote on which agencies will receive funds collected during the year.
More information can be found at womensfundsb.org
