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Mission Scholars celebrates the end of application season and welcomes the Class of 2024. As 2022 drew to a close, Tim and Ginny Bliss issued a challenge to Mission Scholars and the Santa Barbara community: raise $75,000 dollars from other sources, and the Bliss Family Foundation would match it dollar for dollar. It [...]

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of Nina Dunbar to serve as Donor Advisement Officer. Dunbar brings with her decades of experience in both the nonprofit sector and arts administration and advocacy.  She most recently served as Opera Santa Barbara’s first Director of Development, where she successfully led the organization’s [...]

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation will award 71 grants to SB Unified teachers totaling $100,000 to help meet the needs of their students. Since 2018, the Santa Barbara Education Foundation has offered SB Unified teachers grants between $250 to $5,000 to promote innovative teaching and purchase classroom supplies. With this grant cycle completed, SBEF has [...]

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