All For One, a PARC-sponsored organization providing gang and at-risk youth intervention and mentoring, is expanding its outreach through a newly-implemented computer training program.  This program was aided by a $10,000 WWW Foundation grant through the PARC Foundation, along with many other donations.

PARC received a grant from the Santa Barbara Foundation for $22,000 to purchase a van for the new Mobile Recreation Program for Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation in December, 2007. The Police Activities League (PAL) is donating $12,000 for equipment start up costs. “Fun on the Run” delivers recreation services directly to underserved neighborhoods. The program will address the recreation needs of low income, primarily Spanish-speaking youth, ages 1st through 8th grade, who do not have easy access to recreation programs or facilities after school or during the summer months.  The program begins in June, 2008.

The Santa Barbara Educators’ Roundtable, a consortium of Santa Barbara area museums, agencies and nonprofit organizations, recently joined PARC as a sponsored group.  The Roundtable provides programs geared to elementary school aged children including Passport to Santa Barbara which provides free entry to Roundtable institutions, and the monthly Plugged In page in the Santa Barbara News-Press. Each issue of “Plugged In” is designed by different member collaborators and addresses a different educational topic.

In July, 2007, the Hutton Foundation contributed $10,000 to the PARC Foundation for the Youth Concert Collaborative. Spearheaded by Santa Barbara County First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal and partially sponsored by the City’s Parks and Recreation Department, this program provided free concerts geared toward teens at the Courthouse Sunken Garden in the summer of 2007.