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LEARN MOREYou can select your preferred investment option for your fund at the Santa Barbara Foundation. Click “learn more” on one of the four options below, listed left to right from lowest volatility to highest volatility, for more information. Learn more about our current performance, the foundation’s investment process and Investment Policy Statement If you have any questions, or would prefer to invest using cash, please contact Cheri Savage, Director of Investments, at csavage@sbfoundation.org or (805) 880-9384.
The Focus Income Blend Portfolio is invested in a diversified mix of liquid assets designed to provide more stable capital appreciation on a total return basis.
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The Long Term Endowment Portfolio is designed to achieve a total return equal to or greater than the foundation’s spending needs plus inflation.
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The Focus Growth Blend Portfolio is designed to achieve a total return equal to or greater than the foundation’s spending needs plus inflation.
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The Socially Responsible Investment Portfolio (SRI) seeks to achieve risk-adjusted market rates of return while incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations in the investment decision making process.
LEARN MOREThe Santa Barbara Foundation established the Max & Clara Legacy Society as a way to thank the forward-thinking individuals who have made a gift through their will or estate plan. As part of the Society, you will be honored as one of the foundation’s closest supporters who have made a commitment to our future work through a legacy gift. Contact us to learn more.
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Featured in 2018 Second Quarter Report: Helping Our Youth Thrive In June 2018, The Hancock Promise opened its program to high school graduates in the Allan Hancock Joint Community College District. This district spans high schools from Lompoc to Santa Ynez, Cuyama and the Santa Maria Valley. Students from these high schools who immediately enroll […]
Whether supporting Santa Barbara’s nonprofit sector or hiking through the Maya forest in search of a stream, Ford’s commitment to helping the community is what anyone would call pure, big-hearted magic.
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