The Santa Barbara Foundation is the largest community foundation in the region and Santa Barbara County’s go-to resource for investment and capacity-building as well as a key convener of people and organizations. The foundation has provided support to nearly every Santa Barbara County nonprofit organization and essential community project in its 90-year history. Connecting those who give, with those in need and all who dream of a better community. To learn more please visit SBFoundation.org.

Alpha Resource Center is a multi-faceted service center providing support and information for families of children with developmental disabilities of all ages, teen and adult recreation, and life skills training for adults. Today Alpha serves over 2200 families. Alpha also owns and operates 3 thrift stores which support our services. Alpha Resource Center is committed to Empowering Individuals, Supporting Families and Building a Community that values the contribution of all people.

The Santa Barbara Rescue Mission has served the county and city of Santa Barbara for over 50 years, providing emergency services and long-term recovery for the homeless and addicted. We are the only emergency shelter that is open 365 nights of the year from Santa Maria to Ventura. In 2016, we provided 143,051 meals and 51,627 safe nights of shelter for individuals with no place else to turn. Because substance abuse has a sizable impact on our community and is often a contributing factor to homelessness, we focus 85% of our resources on recovery efforts employing both outpatient and residential modalities. The Mission’s 12-month residential recovery program aims to bring individuals from decades of addiction, institutionalization, and homelessness back to sobriety, health and wholeness. Certification through the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs ensures that participants receive the highest standard of treatment in a non-medical facility. The recovery programs are operated in two separate gender-specific locations for 45 men and 24 women. In 2016, 44 people completed the recovery program, joining over 723 graduates since 1997. Our most significant accomplishment is the long-term change we see in our graduates. In contrast to national statistics that show only 21% of those who complete addiction recovery programs not returning to dependency within five years, more than 53% of our graduates maintain recovery over this same time period.

VISION All resources invested in food and agriculture systems enhance our collective well-being. MISSION We amplify the impact of philanthropic and investment communities in support of just and sustainable food and agriculture systems. VALUES collaboration • the action of working with someone to produce or create something equity • fairness and justice in the way people are treated respect • to hold in esteem or honor stewardship • the responsible overseeing and protection of something considered worth caring for and preserving integrity • the state of being whole and undivided

JAMES S. BOWER FOUNDATION is a nonprofit organization management company based out of 26 W. MICHELTORENA ST., SANTA BARBARA, CA, United States.

At the Linked Foundation, we invest technical and financial resources to develop and scale social enterprises that improve the health of communities throughout Latin America and the United States. We bring a gender lens to all of our work, in particular through our support of organizations that focus on women, who are important agents of change as health and economic decision-makers. By investing in scalable, market-based solutions, focusing on outcomes, and creating strong cross-sector partnerships, we can ensure long-term, sustained impact. We often engage in a “blended capital” approach, co-investing with partner organizations in the form of grants, debt financing and technical assistance to catalyze growth and social impact. At the Linked Foundation, we invest technical and financial resources to develop and scale social enterprises that improve the health of rural communities throughout Latin America. We focus on women, who are important agents of change as health and economic decision-makers; and by investing in scalable, market-based solutions, we can ensure long-term, sustained impact.

Visit Ventura is responsible for promoting our coastal community as an attractive leisure and business travel destination and enhancing its public image as a dynamic place to live and work. Tourism supports a more sustainable Ventura by promoting travel to our natural resources, hotels and local businesses; we strengthen the economic vitality and help sustain and increase the quality of life for our community. Through the impact of travel, we strengthen the economic position and support increasing the quality of life for our community.

As a 501(c)3 nonprofit public benefit corporation, World Telehealth Initiative (WTI) provides sustainable medical expertise to the world's most vulnerable communities to build local capacity and deliver core health services. By leveraging telehealth technology, WTI's network of philanthropic healthcare professionals provides world-class expertise and medical training to its partner clinics and hospitals in underserved areas of the world. WTI collaborates with and holistically supports our host program site partners, addressing both the current need for medical/surgical intervention and increasing future capacity by working to strengthen the local healthcare delivery infrastructure. Our mission is to provide medical expertise to the world’s most vulnerable communities to build local capacity and deliver core health services, through a network of volunteer health care professionals supported with state-of-the-art telehealth technology.