The Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara has received its 10th consecutive four-star rating from nonprofit evaluator Charity Navigator. The rating – Charity Navigator’s highest – indicates superior financial efficiency and transparency in Scholarship Foundation operations. The Foundation has now received… Read More
Commencement speakers commonly extol the value of lifelong learning beyond the classroom. In his 1994 commencement address at Howard University, for instance, Colin Powell advised graduates that they were “entering a life of continuous study and struggle” to achieve their… Read More
Ten standout organizations and individuals were honored at the 2022 South Coast Business & Technology Awards ceremony June 16 at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort. The annual awards celebrate innovation, leadership, and success in the ar…
The Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara, in partnership with the Santa Barbara Foundation, honored hundreds of area students in awards ceremonies at Allan Hancock College on May 24 and the Courthouse Sunken Garden on May 25. The annual events re…
The Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara has awarded college scholarships totaling more than $7.7 million to 2,139 Santa Barbara County students for the 2022-23 academic year. Recipients were notified of their awards on Sunday, May 15.
Of the $…
A video chronicle of this year’s Art Scholarship Competition. Judging took place January 20 at the Scholarship Foundation’s Santa Barbara office, and select student submissions were exhibited at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art from January 27 to Febr…
The year 1962 seems almost impossibly distant today. For those old enough to remember it, the period was literally the better part of a lifetime ago. The rest of us know it only from history books and newsreels.
Nineteen sixty-two was the year of …
Twenty-one local student artists have been crowned winners of the 2022 Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara Art Scholarship Competition. Each will receive a college scholarship for the 2022-23 academic year, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art is …
Despite the cancelation of this year’s Community Leaders Luncheon, the Scholarship Foundation remains committed to thanking and acknowledging our many generous supporters. As a token of our appreciation, we have produced the brief video below. Unlike…
Alex Elliott traces the first stirrings of his passion for science and mathematics to a field trip he took as a sixth-grader.