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The Women's Fund of Santa Barbara is honored to award grants totaling $1,275,000 to ten local nonprofits. This year's grantees contribute to our community in critical ways: providing support for infants and toddlers in foster care, services for seniors and adults with disabilities, social-emotional learning for teens, reproductive health care, and more.

We thank each of our 1,400+ members for their generosity in contributing to Change Lives Together.

Click on the photos or titles below to learn more about the purpose of the grants.

AHA! - Attitude. Harmony. Achievement.

Two year gap funding for in-school SEL programs at local junior and senior high schools.

$ 150,000

Angels Foster Care of Santa Barbara

Vehicle purchase facilitating case management for foster children in Santa Barbara County.

$ 60,000

Community Partners in Caring

Partial salaries for Care Coordinator and Volunteer Coordinator and limited south county office expenses.

$ 62,500

Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County

Two year gap funding for in-school therapist services in south Santa Barbara County schools.

$ 200,000

Friendship Adult Day Care Center

Salaries for full-time Transportation Coordinator and part-time Driver; fuel and maintenance costs.

$ 82,500

Mission Scholars

Two years of partial salaries, partial rent, and program supplies for the guidance, mentorship, and career development program.

$ 150,000

Planned Parenthood California Central Coast

Two year gap funding, supporting healthcare services for south Santa Barbara County , low-income residents.

$ 200,000

Santa Barbara Meals on Wheels

Two-year gap funding to maintain meal delivery services to south Santa Barbara County seniors.

$ 100,000

Santa Barbara Rescue Mission

Construct an eight-bed dormitory of stabilization beds for women awaiting entry into recovery programs.

$ 150,000

Veggie Rescue

Vehicle purchase facilitating a 10% expansion of deliveries and clients served.

$ 120,000