Mission Statement
CAB Foundation seeks to enhance the educational experience of UCSB students by issuing grants for ongoing service-based programs or projects that foster greater awareness regarding social, educational, economic, and environmental issues. These programs must engage UCSB undergraduate students as volunteers or leaders as well as strive to have meaningful and lasting impact on the greater Santa Barbara community.
Four Guidelines-
1.) Enhance Educational Experience
The CAB Foundation seeks to encourage a range of programs that will broaden students’ outlooks and perspectives, and introduce them to ideas and experiences that will educate them and better prepare them for their adult lives. We seek programming that instills in participating students a better understanding of the greater Santa Barbara community and involves interactive education that cannot be matched by a classroom lecture.
2.) Foster Greater Awareness
The CAB Foundation holds that there are important issues in the greater Santa Barbara community that go neglected by the general student body. The CAB Foundation expects formal and active outreach to the student body by its grant recipients. This may include, but is not limited to, presentations, panels, conferences, and other active attempts at outreach. In this way, we seek projects that will foster greater awareness of community issues in students that are not currently a part of the program, and allow such students an opportunity to volunteer and participate in the project.
3.) Engage Students as Volunteers and as Leaders
The CAB Foundation aims to provide assistance to student-involved community programs and/or projects. This aim includes aiding students who are looking to create or develop a volunteer service project. We hold that fostering such projects through financial and social support will enable larger avenues of community service for students, benefit the greater community, and empower a future generation of student leaders.
4.) Strive to Have a Meaningful and Lasting Impact
The CAB Foundation seeks projects that are forward-looking, which entails a desire for future growth and expansion while also taking measured steps to ensure the program’s long term sustainability. Grant applicants must have a target demographic in mind that will directly benefit from the project’s activities, and an openness to modify their practices in the future if such a benefit is not achieved to the degree aspired for. The CAB Foundation is looking to fund projects that demonstrate a unique vision that is comprehensive and distinguishable from direct practices of charity.
If interested in joining, please contact Kristy Perez via email at ascab.foundation@gmail.com.