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March 16, 2020
MARCH 16, 2020
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, CA – The Santa Barbara Foundation, United Way of Santa Barbara County, and the…
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March 16, 2020
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MARCH 16, 2020
Dear Friends,
United Way of Santa Barbara County, the Santa Barbara Foundation,…
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February 14, 2020
If you’d met Insharah last August, after her first year in the Fun in the Sun summer learning program, you would never…
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January 15, 2020
For more than 15 years, Kindergarten Success Institutes (KSI) have been making a huge difference in the lives of 4-6…
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February 21, 2019
Megan* was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as an infant.
The Santa Barbara School District did such an amazing job of…
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February 21, 2019
For many of Santa Barbara’s littlest learners without preschool experience, the transition to kindergarten can be a…
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February 21, 2019
Jackey wrote to tell us about her little brother's experience at Fun in the Sun
My mother worried about my younger…