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WHY DONATE TO TEACHER GRANTS?
We believe that a lack of creative teaching tools and basic supplies shouldn’t keep them from doing their jobs. Nationally, teachers spend between $500 and $750 of their own funds for classroom needs. This is especially challenging for our teachers due to the high housing costs in the Santa Barbara Unified School District. The Santa Barbara Education Foundation’s Teacher Grants Program sends your donations directly into classrooms supporting teachers’ requests.
Thanks to donors like you, SBEF has supported teacher-initiated grants totaling $888,000 since 2018. These grants fund critically needed updated teaching supplies and tools, classroom libraries, and seed money for new projects and field trips.
Help us meet our goal is to send $200,000 a year into classrooms. We keep overhead low and track results. Every grant request is reviewed by an independent panel to ensure that your funds are supporting projects that will make the biggest impact on students’ learning experiences.
Make a single, monthly, or multi-year gift to Teacher Grants today. Our teachers will never run out of good ideas for their classrooms. Let’s make their dreams a reality!
This was the beautiful Collaboration Puppet Show with Elizabeth Brook’s Kindergarten class from Adams Elementry
and Kat Ross’ Soft Sculpture class from Santa Barbara High School.
“When I saw the expression on his face and how much fun he was having, I was crying! It made my heart sing!… Words can not express my excitement watching this transformation…it was like watching a caterpillar turn into a beautiful butterfly”.– Elizabeth Brooks Kindergarten Teacher at Adams Elementary.
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Margie Yahyavi Fund for Excellence in Music Education
We lost one of our communities greatest advocates for education when Margie Yahyavi, our former SB Education Foundation Executive Director (2009-2022), died in 2024. She left a long list of victories in bringing critically needed funds and programs to Santa Barbara schools. One of Margies most enduring accomplishments was prioritizing music education in grades K-6 and building enrichment programs in junior high and high schools to support emerging musicians. Today, Santa Barbara Unified is one of the few districts in California where students in grades K-6 receive one 30-45 minute lesson each week with a credentialed music teacher with a curriculum that aligns with the California Standards for Visual and Performing Arts. Music education remains a top priority of the SBEF thanks to Margie.
SBEF donors annually support programs like Keep the Beat and Bravo! Now we have a Teacher Grant exclusively dedicated to fostering high-quality music education.
Established with the support of her family and dedicated donors, the Margie Yahyavi Fund for Excellence in Music Education continues her legacy. Educators can now apply for dedicated funding to support creative and cultural programming that promotes student engagement and collaboration in the classroom and community and foster student concerts, workshops, and other musical events.
School budgets will never fully fund the needs of inspired music teachers and the students they serve. The Margie Yahyavi Fund for Excellence in Music Education is dedicated to ensuring that music teachers can apply for a music-specific funding request that helps them take their work–and their students to the next level. You can make a restricted gift to the Margie Fund below or by calling SBEF’s Development Office at 805-284-9125, ext. 705.
THANK YOU TO OUR 2023-24 TEACHER GRANT DONORS
Community Donors
Arnesen Family Foundation
The Beth & Richard Rogers Family Foundation
Edner Family Gift Fund
The Gainey Foundation
The Gretler Foundation
Hohbach-Lewin Inc
The John C. Mithun Foundation
KBZ Architects Inc.
Lazy Acres Market
M. F. Strange and Associates
The McCune Foundation
The Mithun Family Foundation
The Stone Family Foundation
Individual Donors
Brianna Aguilar
Shelly Algeo
Teresa Allison
Rosa Alvarado
Rebecca and Ian Anderson
Debbie and Jim Arnesen
John Ogilvie and Brook Ashley
Lin Aubuchon
Michael Baker
Ellen Barger
Demian Barnett
John Becchio
Melissa Brooks
Roxane Byrne
Jan and Randy Campbell
Michael and Marni Cooney
Davis Darnall
Naomi Dewey
LynneRae Dunn
Winston and Karen Dutton
David Edelman
Selden and Judy Edner
Nadra Ehrman
Tisha Ford
Dennis Forster
Kelly Fresch
Yoseline Gonzalez
Mat and Jean Gradias
Molly Green
Geoff Green
Nina Hunt
Rachel Johnson
William Jones
Matthew Mooney and Victoria Juarez
Cydney Justman
Celeste and Dvir Kafri
Elke and Josh Kane
Jennifer Kelly
Dawn Ziemer and Brett Larsen
Patricia Madrigal
Hilda Maldonado
Deanna Marchiando
Albert Martinez
Lorraine McDonnell
Daniel Meisel
Jeffrey Milem
Michael Mowers
Brian Naughton
Steve and Amber Ortiz
Britt Ortiz
Austin Payne
Bibi Moezzi and Bill Pesso
Lois Phillips
Karen Poythress
Craig and Tricia Price
Stephanie Ramirez Zarate
Lynn Rodriguez
Veronica Rodgers
Susan Salcido
Ken and Jo Saxon
Leslie Meadowcroft-Schipper and Frank Schipper
Michele Schneider
Jarrod Schwartz
Gary Simpson
Tammy Sims-Johnson
Jen Smith
Linda Stafford Burrows
Irene and Bob Stone
Peter Schuyler and Lisa Stratton
Katie Szopa and Adam Graham
Kai Tepper
Dennis Thompson
Frances Tiliana Contreras
Micheal Garrigan and Deanna Elizabeth Timm
Louis Torres and Amy Plesetz
Tracy Womack
Glen and Lisa Wysel
Homa Yahyavi
Andre Yahyavi
Katina Zaninovich
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