With graduation season fast approaching, many high school seniors are excitedly making plans to continue their studies in the fall. This sobering statistic should give them – and their parents – pause: About 40 percent of the students who start… Read More
While the perils of mounting student loan debt are well known and remarked upon, another education crisis is receiving comparatively little attention, despite the threat it poses to long-term economic health.
I am referring to the nation’s dismal …
Scholarship Foundation President and CEO Victoria Juarez (left) was a featured guest on KZSB’s ‘Arts and Antiques Radio Show’ this morning (February 15). Joining her and host Elizabeth Stewart were San Marcos High School senior Camille Lubach and her mother,… Read More
The Scholarship Foundation honored 24 student artists at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on Thursday, January 24. Selected as winners of the Foundation’s 2019 Art Scholarship Competition, the students will each receive a college scholarship for the 2019-2020 academic… Read More
Sometimes it can seem as though we are awash in dispiriting news about young people. Pick up any newspaper or turn on the television and you’re invariably confronted with a headline about social media excesses or online bullying by teenagers…. Read More
The 40th annual Art Scholarship Exhibition and Reception will take place January 24 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Family Resource Center.
The Scholarship Foundation is accepting donations for a new scholarship fund established in memory of UC Santa Barbara Research Professor Emeritus Jacob Nissim Israelachvili. The Jacob N. Israelachvili Honors Science Scholarship Fund will support graduate and undergraduate students in chemical… Read More
Many thanks to the incredible donors, volunteers, and other supporters who attended our Community Leaders Luncheon on Friday, December 7. I was honored to meet many of you and look forward to deepening our acquaintance. Our event speakers, Miguel Cruz… Read More
As many of you know, the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara will soon have a new leader. Victoria Juarez, who currently serves as executive director of Girls Inc. of Carpinteria, will assume her new duties as president and CEO of… Read More
Casa Dorinda is famous the world over for its magnificent architecture and gardens. Less well known is its longstanding, generous support of the many college students in its midst…