Education Foundations Step Up to Ease Financial Squeeze on Schools

Santa Barbara High School’s Peabody Stadium hosts an Oct. 14 football game between the Dons and Ventura High — a game SBHS lost, 50-21. Members of the school’s foundation have been fundraising for a major stadium renovation project expected to start construction in early 2017. (J.C. Corliss / Noozhawk photo)

By Sam Goldman, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @Sam__Goldman | November 25, 2016 | 12:50 p.m.

Bake sales and car washes may come to mind at the mention of school fundraisers, but many institutions, including those on the South Coast, are increasingly turning to a higher-caliber method for augmenting their funding streams: school foundations.

“They definitely provide a significant amount of resources that supplement what we get from the state to educate the kids,” said Margie Yahyavi, executive director of the Santa Barbara Education Foundation.

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