Adventures in Caring Foundation
$3600 for the Compassion in Action Service Learning Program
Adventures in Caring trains volunteers to visit patients who are sick and lonely in hospitals and nursing homes, and produces materials on communicating with compassion. The Compassion in Action service learning program offers hands-on training in compassion to students planning to become doctors, nurses, social workers, therapists, and other health professionals.
http://www.adventuresincaring.org


AIDS Housing Santa Barbara
$3000 for the Wellness Program
AIDS Housing provides affordable quality housing and compassionate care for low-income individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS. The Holistic Wellness Program offers a combination of alternative treatments that promote positive growth spiritually, emotionally and physically.
http://www.sarahhousesb.org


Boxtales
$4000 for production of Homer's Odyssey
Boxtales is a storytelling theatre company that uses masks, movement, storytelling and live music to present myths and folklore from around the world. This grant supports the production costs to stage Homer's Odyssey and accompanying educational outreach.
http://www.boxtales.org


Community Mediation of Santa Barbara County
$5000 for the Conflict Education Campaign
Community Mediation promotes the respectful resolution of conflicts, by providing public education, training, and mediation services in the community. This grant partially funds the outreach coordinator position.
http://www.sbcommunitymediation.org


Dancing Drum
$3000 for the Roots of Rhythm project
Dancing Drum is an arts education and performance group that focuses on the universal language of rhythm as a tool for building community. Roots of Rhythm is a series of interactive workshops and performances in Santa Barbara County schools.
http://www.dancingdrum.com


Dunes Center
$2000 for the EDEN program
The Dunes Center promotes the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dune Complex through education, research and cooperative stewardship. EDEN (Early Developers Experiencing Nature) is an intergenerational program for children 2-6 years old.
http://www.dunescenter.org


Jewish Federation
$3000 for "Portraits of Survival"
The Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara contributes to the social, educational, cultural and personal needs of all community residents. This grant supports "Portraits of Survival," a permanent exhibit of contemporary portraits and biographical histories honoring survivors and refugees of the Holocaust who are living in the Santa Barbara community.
http://www.jewishsantabarbara.org


Jodi House
$3000 for General Support
Jodi House assists brain-injured adults in their recovery by providing a safe and unconditionally accepting place for them to meet others, receive support, and gain new skills to help them in reintegrating into the community.
http://www.jodihouse.org


Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum
$4000 for "Chumash Through a Child's Eyes"
The Discovery Museum fosters family and youth inspired learning by creating experiences to "explore ourselves, our valley, our world and beyond." "Chumash Through a Child's Eyes," an interactive classroom presentation of the rich history and culture of the Chumash people, is provided to elementary school students in the Santa Maria area.
http://www.smvdiscoverymuseum.org


Speaking of Stories
$2500 for Word Up!
Speaking of Stories promotes the appreciation of literature through live theatrical readings. Its Word Up! program for at-risk youth uses the spoken word as a catalyst to encourage personal self-expression and a sense of belonging within a community, while improving literacy and self-confidence.
http://www.speakingofstories.org


Vanishing Landscapes
$3500 for production of a documentary film featuring Ray Strong
Vanishing Landscapes is a documentary project celebrating local artists and land visionaries working together to save open spaces in Santa Barbara County. Featuring centenarian Ray Strong, landscape painter, environmental activist and culture bearer, the film shows how art can inspire the next generation of land stewards.


Waldorf School
$3400 for General Support
The Waldorf School of Santa Barbara offers a developmentally appropriate, child-centered, vigorous, and arts-rich curriculum, with a goal of preparing the student to enter adulthood with the gifts of self-discipline, independence, mastery of analytical and critical faculties, and reverence for the world's beauty and wonder.
http://www.waldorfsantabarbara.org

A scene from Boxtales' production of "Waters of the Earth."

Photo: Dave Bazemore