03/07/2025
Know Your Rights!
Service Providers, Agencies, and Immigration
March 19, 2025 12-2pm & April 2, 5-7pm
A workshop for service providers, agencies, and nonprofits to feel empowered in supporting immigrant rights. We'll discuss what agencies can do and what role they can play, understand the impact of recent policy changes, and discuss care practices for immigrant communities.
Each workshop will cover:
• A general overview of Immigrant Rights tailored specifically for service providers and agencies.
• Understanding what agencies can do, what role they can play, and what impact current anti-immigrant sentiment can have on these agencies.
• Policy landscape updates around what policy changes this administration made and what impact this has on community and agencies.
• Dispelling misinformation.
• Narrative and communications training through a cultural sensitivity lens to learn how we can best communicate with immigrants and about immigrants during these times.
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2025 Central Coast Community Organizing Training
Deadline to Register Extended: Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Three Day Training, April 4, 5, 6, 2025 from 9am - 5pm
Museum of Ventura County, 100 East Main St. Ventura, CA 93001
Intended for new and emerging community organizers, staff at local nonprofits who integrate community organizing practices into their work, and grassroots community leaders and activists with those organizations.
Build the capacity of your organization to form committees of leaders through grassroots organizing, and ensure that your organization’s campaigns center and are led by those most impacted by the problems you’re working to address.
In this workshop, new and emerging community organizers will:
• Strengthen their understanding of how grassroots organizing can shift structures of power and injustice
• Learn the concrete skill of relationship building and recruitment via personal visits, house meetings, classroom presentations, tabling and more
• Be trained in tangible skills including developing strategic campaigns, conducting a power analysis and crafting persuasive messages.
• Gain hands-on experience with door-to-door canvassing and one-one-ones
The training is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. *Up to 3 staff or grassroots leaders allowed per organization/group.
Sliding Scale Cost:
• Tier 2: If your organizational budget is more than $500,000: $200/person
• Tier 1: If your organizational budget is $500,000 or less: $100/person
• Student Discount: $50/person
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Apply Now! 2025 Movement Building Grants
Request for Proposals Now Open through March 28
Register for our last free, virtual Grant Application Workshop
Tuesday, March 11 from 10 am-12:30 pm
The Fund for Santa Barbara is pleased to announce the 2025 Movement Building Grant Cycles request for proposals is now open through March 28th!
The FUND is committed to supporting grassroots community organizations at the forefront of combating inequities and dismantling systemic oppression. We prioritize funding groups and organizations leading movement-building efforts that harness community power to create transformative, systemic, and lasting social change. The FUND defines social change as addressing the root causes, not symptoms, of social inequities—be they economic, environmental, political, or racial—to alleviate and dismantle the conditions that perpetuate and sustain them.
Single-Year Movement Building Grant
The Movement Building Grant supports groups and organizations leading systemic change efforts. We invite applications from organizations whose work aligns with our mission to advance Economic, Environmental, Political, Racial, and Social change within Santa Barbara County. Applicants may request up to $10,000 in funding.
Multi-Year Movement Building Grant
The Multi-Year Movement Building Grant cycle will run concurrently with our Single-Year Movement Building Grant cycle and is available exclusively to pre-existing partners with a funding history of three or more funding cycles in recent history. To meet the current moment, The FUND is expanding our Grantmaking Portfolio.
Pre-existing partners may now apply for up to $20,000 per year for two years, pending staff screening for eligibility. Contact [email protected] to determine your eligibility.
To be eligible for any of our grant programs, applicants must meet our Funding Guidelines and Priorities. Applications will be accepted from February 28 - March 28, 2025.
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Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to attend our last, free grant application workshop, taking place on Tuesday, March 11 which provide valuable guidance on the application process and help applicants prepare their submissions. Spanish interpretation is available upon request by contacting [email protected].
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The Fund for Santa Barbara is a nonprofit community foundation advancing progressive change by strengthening movements for Economic, Environmental, Political, Racial, and Social Justice.
El Fund de Santa Bárbara es una fundación comunitaria sin fines de lucro que avanza el cambio progresivo a medio del fortalecimiento de movimientos por la Justicia Económica, Ambiental, Politica, Racial, y Social.
