Santa Barbara Education Foundation

SBEF
Programs

Santa Barbara Education Foundation Bridges the Gap Between School Budgets and Student Dreams

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

SBEF Signature Programs

ARTISTIC

Keep the Beat

Music education for all.

From music teachers to instruments, SBEF has been raising funds to support music education in local schools since 2003.

SBEF Signature Program - Keep the Beat students with their instruments
SBEF Signature Program - Readers are Leaders participants - adult and child reading together
ACADEMIC

Readers are Leaders

Readers Are Leaders is a new early literacy initiative designed to help TK through 3rd grade students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District build strong reading foundations during the years that matter most. By combining the power of trained community volunteers with the expertise of educators, the program ensures young readers receive the time, encouragement, and support they need to thrive.

ACADEMIC

Student Grants

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation is awarding up to $500 to individuals and groups of students in grades 9-11 for student-managed projects that enrich the academic, artistic, and/or personal development of students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

SBEF Signature Program - Student Grant photograph of students beautifying santa barbara junior high school
SBEF Signature Program - Summer Music Camp students holding their instruments
ARTISTIC

Summer Music Camps

Readers Are Leaders is a new early literacy initiative designed to help TK through 3rd grade students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District build strong reading foundations during the years that matter most. By combining the power of trained community volunteers with the expertise of educators, the program ensures young readers receive the time, encouragement, and support they need to thrive.

ACADEMIC

Teacher Grants

In memory of avid performing arts supporter Léni Fé Bland, her dear friend Sara Miller McCune established a fund honoring Léni and her incredible generosity to the performing arts.

SBEF Signature Program - Teacher Grants Students
SBEF Signature Program - We Care students
BASIC NEEDS

We Care

Readers Are Leaders is a new early literacy initiative designed to help TK through 3rd grade students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District build strong reading foundations during the years that matter most. By combining the power of trained community volunteers with the expertise of educators, the program ensures young readers receive the time, encouragement, and support they need to thrive.

Fiscally Sponsored Programs

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Click the link below to learn more about each of The Santa Barbara Education Foundation’s Fiscally Sponsored Programs.

  • Campus Canopy

  • Kind Mind

  • Peer Buddies

  • South Coast Youth Band

  • Unhoused Student Support Fund

  • What is Love

FISCALLY SPONSORED

Campus Canopy

Campus Canopy is a program that’s reimagines what schoolyards can be: places where students learn under the shade of trees and surrounded by native plants.

SBEF Fiscally Sponsored Campus Canopy photograph of people doing garden work at a local school
FISCALLY SPONSORED

Kind Mind

 

Kind Mind teaches and facilitates the regular practice of mindfulness and compassion skills using a nature-based approach and provides social-emotional learning lessons to improve self-awareness, attention and emotion regulation, and social skills.

SBEF Fiscally Sponsored Kind Mind Program photograph of young students smiling
FISCALLY SPONSORED

Peer Buddies

 

PeerBuddies provides social skills training for children and teens with social difficulties through peer mentoring in the community. Children are paired with a typically developing, same-aged or slightly older buddy who teaches and models essential life skills.

FISCALLY SPONSORED Program - Peerbuddies two students studying
FISCALLY SPONSORED

South Coast Youth Band

The South Coast Youth Band is an after-school music program that provides fun band experiences and quality instruction for elementary school students in the 4th, 5th and 6th grades.

FISCALLY SPONSORED Program - students performing with South-Coast-Youth-Band
FISCALLY SPONSORED

Unhoused Student Support Fund

Over 14% of students in SBUSD schools are considered homeless. This fund helps provide students in unstable housing with the essentials to continue their studies and participate in school activities.

FISCALLY SPONSORED program UNHOUSED-STUDENT-SUPPORT-FUND students in a santa barbara school hallway
FISCALLY SPONSORED

What is Love

What is LOVE helps students build healthy loving relationship skills and prevents dating abuse.

FISCALLY SPONSORED program - what is love zoomed in photograph of two people

SBUSD Supported Programs

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Click the link below to learn more about each of The Santa Barbara Unified School District’s Supported Programs.

  • Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)

  • Bravo!

  • Condor Circle

  • Innovate DP

  • International Baccalaureate

  • Youth Intervention Program

  • United Parents/Padres Unidos

SBUSD SUPPORTED

Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation is proud to serve as a fiscal sponsor for Campus Canopy, a program that’s reimagining what schoolyards can be: places where students learn under the shade of trees and surrounded by native plants.

SBUSD SUPPORTED

Bravo!

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation is proud to serve as a fiscal sponsor for Campus Canopy, a program that's reimagining what schoolyards can be: places where students learn under the shade of trees and surrounded by native plants.

SBUSD Supported Program - BRAVO! student playing an instrument
SBUSD SUPPORTED

Condor Circle

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation is proud to serve as a fiscal sponsor for Campus Canopy, a program that's reimagining what schoolyards can be: places where students learn under the shade of trees and surrounded by native plants.

SBUSD Supported Program - Condor Cares Students in front of a condor mural
SBUSD SUPPORTED

Innovate DP

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation is proud to serve as a fiscal sponsor for Campus Canopy, a program that's reimagining what schoolyards can be: places where students learn under the shade of trees and surrounded by native plants.

SBUSD Supported Program Innovate at DPHS Student and teacher working together
SBUSD SUPPORTED

International Baccalaureate

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation is proud to serve as a fiscal sponsor for Campus Canopy, a program that's reimagining what schoolyards can be: places where students learn under the shade of trees and surrounded by native plants.

SBUSD SUPPORTED

Youth Intervention Program

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation is proud to serve as a fiscal sponsor for Campus Canopy, a program that's reimagining what schoolyards can be: places where students learn under the shade of trees and surrounded by native plants.

SBUSD SUPPORTED

United Parents/Padres Unidos

The Santa Barbara Education Foundation is proud to serve as a fiscal sponsor for Campus Canopy, a program that's reimagining what schoolyards can be: places where students learn under the shade of trees and surrounded by native plants.

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Every gift helps SBEF serve more students, teachers, and schools across Santa Barbara.

“Education opens every door it touches”

 

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