Santa Barbara Immigrant Legal Defense Center and 805 UndocuFund announced as 2025 giving cycle recipients
SANTA BARBARA — The Latino Community Foundation’s Santa Barbara Latino Giving Circle (SBLGC) awarded Immigrant Legal Defense Center and 805undocufund a total of $32,000 during their annual Grants Night this month.
“Grants Night is the culmination and celebration of our circle’s annual grant cycle,” said Teresa Alvarez, co-founder of the SBLGC. “Our group’s collective funds are gifted to non-profits that our circle members nominated, elected based on our funding priorities which were Immigr ant Rights & Legal Services Power Building. In today’s climate, we are confident that ILDC and 805 Undocufund will maximize these funds immediately.”
The SBLGC was founded in 2019 and started with a dozen local professional leaders that were eager to make an impact on causes that mattered most to them and the communities they know and care for. The group currently boasts 25 members and continues to grow annually.
“We are a group of like-minded community leaders that want our philanthropic dollars channeled to organizations that benefit the Latino community,” said Theresa Huerta, member since 2020. “I initially joined the circle for connection and to make an impact with people that looked like me. Now I stay and continue to give because we’re familia.”
Since its inception the group has donated more than $100,000 to the following Latino-serving or Latino-led non-profit organizations: · 805 Undocufund
· Leading from Within
· Future Leaders of America
· Carpinteria Children’s Project
· Mission Scholars
· Gateway Foundation
The Santa Barbara Latino Giving Circle is one of 21 giving circles supported by the Latino Community Foundation’s Latino Giving Circle Network. For more information, visit: Home – Latino Community Foundation.
About Latino Community Foundation
The Latino Community Foundation (LCF) is on a mission to unleash the civic and economic power of Latinos in California. LCF has the largest network of Latino philanthropists in the country and has raised $100 million to build Latino civic and political power. It is the only statewide foundation solely focused on investing in Latino youth and families in California. In
2023, LCF named former Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Julián Castro as their CEO. For more info, please visit: latinocf.org For questions or to schedule an interview, please contact: sblatinogiving@gmail.com.