[20 Jan 2009 | No Comment | ]
Current Vision

Our organization has been growing and growing. The three main concerns identified in our early November ‘99 survey from the Isla Vista residents were Food for Families, Education for their children, and Physical and Emotional Health Programs that can alleviate some of their vulnerability from lack of health insurance.
We are thankful to our Lord and Master Jesus Christ that the programs we have been able to initiate are making a profound difference. Even though we are meeting some of these needs, it is still a weekly challenge to fund them.

To …

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Featured, IVTC »

[3 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
2009 Thank You Tutors Event

The IVTC students and the IVTC coordinator have been working hard preparing for this “IVTC Tutors Thank You Event”. But they were not alone in the planning. All students’ parents joined them to have a nice dinner for the IVTC Tutors. The Friendship Manor Conference Room was prepared for this Event. Colorful table clothes and Happy-Face balloons were distributed all around. Our IVTC kids were joyful thinking in the surprise dinner that they and their parents will have for those people that week after week, throughout the year, came to …

Girls of Purpose »

[16 May 2009 | No Comment | ]

The G.O.P [Girls of Purpose] members were working hard the last months to get funding to go to watch Christian Concerts and have fun at Great America in Santa Clara, CA. The girls did garage sales, food event, and door-by-door fund raising events to get the funding needed to spend a night in Santa Clara and enjoy the day in the Great America park’s recreations and then the Christian concerts. NicoleO – 11 yeaers old – said “it was the best ever concert of my life”. FabiolaR and LizbethR concur …

EScrip »

[2 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]
3 Easy Ways to earn for our Group with EScrip

Our organization has been working with EScrip for several years! We want to encourage you to use this link to help us to keep our Programs running! You just need to click on top of the image, and it will open another page where you can sign-up with EScrip and select our Organization as a beneficiary. Thank you again for thinking about us!

IVTC »

[23 Feb 2009 | One Comment | ]
Snacks for our IVTC kids

I am so excited to share with all of you about this recent donation from the Community Covenant Church – Elderberries Group. This is the second year in the row that this group help deliver healthy snack for our kids.
Thank you, CCC Elderberries!

OnLine Donations »

[23 Feb 2009 | One Comment | ]
New Online Donation feature

We are very excited to add this ‘Online Donation’ capability to our web site.
This is a convenient secure connection with PayPal, that will deposit your donation directly to the SBCDC  Bank account.
The Santa Barbara Community Development Center is a tax-exempt Nonprofit Organization. All donations are deductible to the maximum amount allow by Law.
To make a donation, please ‘click’ in the ‘Donate’ button below and follow the instructions in the new PayPal page. You will need to login to PayPal’s web site to complete the transaction. If you don’t have a …