THE PRICE IS WRONG
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SHE GOT THE BEAT
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A FINE FLOCK OF FELLOWS
ENDEAVORS OF THE NON-MYOPIC PHILANTHROPIC by Matt Mazza
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ll people are inherently good. Hang on, maybe that’s too much. All Santa Barbarans are inherently good. Still no? Most Santa Barbarans? There, that sounds about right. The truth is that we are pretty damned generous as a group here in town, and we’ve got the wildly robust, non-
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profit do-gooder community to prove it. (Some argue there’s too many trying to help right here in SB, but that’s another topic for another column.) It’s cool, I think, that we’ve been able to develop, cultivate and nurture that philanthropic seed; in fact, it’s something to be proud of. I’d sure rather fall on the over-achieving side of the “doing what we can to help those in need” line than the alternative. In that regard, I counted myself lucky to be selected last year as a Katherine Harvey Fellow (KHF). The KHF program was ...continued p.5
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