Channel Islands YMCA, 3/18/20, Vol. 35

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

OUR SCHOOLS

VISUAL IDENTITY

VISUAL IDENTITY

Santa Barbara Education Foundation promotes private support of SB Unified, serving over 14,000 students in 18 schools.

This past year has been challenging for local students. Santa Barbara Education Foundation is committed to working alongside SB Unified to best meet student needs.

TEACHER GRANTS The Santa Barbara Education Foundation funds grants once a year to support the purchase of much-needed supplies and tools and encourages the development of creative and innovative teaching in SB Unified. In 2020, we awarded over $110,000 in grants to 56 SB Unified teachers.

➤ SBEF has awarded over $275,000 in funding to SB Unified teachers over the last three years.

THE LITERACY PROJECT Santa Barbara Unified School District has identified literacy as one of its top three priorities. Each year students enter Santa Barbara classrooms who display characteristics of dyslexia or have extremely low reading proficiency. According to the California Department of Education, 90% of these cases can be remediated with early intervention. SB Unified has implemented a program to help students with low reading proficiency get up to grade level using researchbased methods in a small group instructional setting. We are committed to assisting SB Unified in expanding this critical intervention to serve more struggling readers in our local elementary schools.

➤ One in five are affected by dyslexia. ➤ It costs four times as much to deliver interventions to remediate after the third grade.

SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS We offer a variety of summer programs ranging from robotics and game design to band, strings, and drums. These camps allow students to beat summer learning loss and explore STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) and music in a fun and supportive environment. We constantly fundraise for scholarships for these summer programs to ensure that all students have access to these unique summer learning opportunities.

➤ Over 2,000 aspiring student musicians have participated in the Nick Rail Summer Band Camp, with some even going on to play music professionally.

STUDENT ONLINE & ACADEMIC RESOURCES (SOAR)

School closures have exposed the prominent role that our public schools play in the community. Even with a return to in-person learning, internet access will continue to be an essential learning tool. Through SOAR, we have provided financial assistance with internet service costs to over 2,300 SB Unified families who have faced increasing financial challenges due to the pandemic. The investment from our community donors has been more than $217,000, and the need for financial assistance with internet costs continues to exist due to the current economic hardships.

KEEP THE BEAT

OUR STUDENTS A SNAPSHOT OF SB UNIFIED DEMOGRAPHICS

30%

VISUAL IDENTITY

EMERGENT MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS

SB Unified elementary students who are English language learners

54%

SOCIO-ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED

Includes students from households that are low income, neither parent has a high school diploma, foster youth, or are considered homeless.

13%

HOMELESS

SB Unified students who are homeless or living in a distressed housing situation.

OUR IMPACT

$1,837,082 FUNDS RAISED DURING THE 2019-20 SCHOOL YEAR From music teachers to instruments, SBEF has been raising funds to support music education in local schools since 2003. Today, all 5000+ elementary students learn to play an instrument during their school day. An originating partner in the Pianos on State project, SBEF also runs a year-round instrument drive.

➤ SBEF has collected over 1,500 instruments to repair and place directly into the hands of students in SB Unified music programs.

GET INVOLVED

We couldn’t do our work without you! There are so many ways to support SB Unified students. Here are a few that you may not have considered.

➤ ATTEND AN EVENT

➤ BECOME A MONTHLY DONOR

Choose to make a difference year-round by giving monthly. It’s easy! Visit our website and click the donate button. You can then choose to make a recurring donation.

It’s an ideal way to engage with fellow education advocates in the community while making a positive impact on our community.

STATE OF OUR SCHOOLS Tuesday, March 30, 2021 | 9:30 a.m.

Santa Barbara Education Foundation will host Superintendent Hilda Maldonado of the Santa Barbara Unified School District for a virtual presentation on today’s local education issues. This will be a wonderful opportunity for community members and supporters to learn about the State of our Schools during this challenging time.

➤ DONATE AN INSTRUMENT

Do you have a musical instrument gathering dust? Donate it today and we’ll place it directly into the hands of an SB Unified student.

➤ LEAVE A LEGACY

Forward-thinking donors can ensure that our schools continue to provide a quality education for all of our students, not just today, but for generations to come by including a simple provision in your estate plans that names Santa Barbara Education Foundation as a beneficiary.

HOPE AWARDS Thursday, April 29, 2021 | 4:00 p.m.

Honoring Nick Rail & Craig Price SBEF honors local heroes of public education at the annual HOPE Awards.

This year we will go virtual to honor Craig Price, a local attorney who spent nine years on the SBEF Board of Directors, and Nick Rail, founder of Nick Rail Music, who has quietly supported music education in our schools for the past 30 years.

➤ JOIN AS A BUSINESS INVESTOR

OR SPONSOR AN EVENT

Business owners and their customers can team up to help our local schools. Show your customers that your business supports our students.

➤ DONATE STOCK

This is an easy way to donate with an added bonus of potential income tax savings.

For more information about donating to SBEF, please contact Margie Yayhavi at (805) 570-0985 or margie@santabarbaraeducation.org.

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