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Peter and Karen Brill The Brill Family Foundation announced What is LOVE as the recipient of their $20,000 Future Bender Fellow Award to continue its work with vulnerable teens. Over the past few [...]

SOURCE: NOOZHAWK Leaders in Transition, a program of the Santa Barbara Education Foundation, helps high-achieving, low-income students get into college and beyond By Ann Pieramici “Learning what you don’t want to do,” “saying yes to opportunities” [...]

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) is pleased to announce that Pedro Paz has been named Executive Director of the nonprofit devoted to enriching the academic, artistic, and personal development of Santa Barbara students. Paz [...]

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Santa Barbara Education Foundation has been well-known for the opportunities it provides Santa Barbara Unified students throughout the school year.  However, many may not know that it also provides opportunities for students during the summer. [...]

Speaking to community members at the Elings Park Amphitheater, Santa Barbara Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Hilda Maldonado and students addressed the community during the State of Our Schools presentation. In years past, the event [...]

Last month, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation selected Santa Barbara High School senior Larry Bermudez as a recipient of its prestigious Gates Scholarship. Bermudez, who plans to study mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, is [...]

Santa Barbara Education Foundation has worked to support the needs of students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District since 1985. One recent focus of the organization is the We Care campaign, a drive focused [...]

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Over 140 donated instruments from the Keep the Beat Instrument Drive fill the SBEF office. Last month, 99.9 KTYD dedicated all of February to the Santa Barbara Education Foundation’s Keep the Beat Instrument [...]

Source: Montecito Journal By Sara Miller McCune Two years ago, COVID-19 was simply an outlier, something that seemed to be impacting “others” and not destined to alter life as we all know it. Some 23 [...]

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation recently elected Veronica Binkley to its Board of Directors as Santa Barbara Unified School District's principal representative. Binkley is the principal of the Harding University Partnership, which serves around 400 [...]

Source: Santa Barbara Independent By Jun Starkey South Coast Youth Band, an after-school music program, has kicked off its first season to give Santa Barbara students the opportunity to keep playing music through the COVID-19 [...]

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation recently elected Melissa White to its Board of Directors. White is currently the Project Director in Innovation Studies at WestEd, where she leads research, evaluation, and technical assistance projects focused [...]

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