The Day of Caring is coming!  Be a part of this community experience on Saturday, September 17, 2005.  The day starts with a kick-off breakfast at the Page Youth Center before the volunteers head off to their agency sites. 

One of our best volunteers!

Be one of over 1,000 volunteers who will help our community and local people in need by completing a variety of projects at over 35 charitable organizations in Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria. Projects include sorting contributed food, painting classrooms, landscaping a teen or community center, making home play learning kits for disadvantaged children, and much more!

United Way is also looking for organizations and individuals to help sponsor the Day of Caring with a financial donation or gift in kind.  Partnering with Santa Barbara County's United Way on this event is the perfect opportunity to position your organization as a socially responsible leader our community has grown to respect and rely on.

For more information, go to www.unitedwaysb.org/dayofcaring.  Or, you can email us or call 805-965-8591 if you have any questions.   

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The leader of the clowns

Mirror mirror on the wall!

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A pause in practicing for a group picture

The MERIT (Music Education Reinforces Intellect and Talent) Program, a two-week summer program that matches talented young local student musicians with Music Academy expert mentors, held its final concert on Sunday, July 17, 2005 in Lehmann Hall on the Music Academy campus.  Santa Barbara County's United Way founded and has supported the program every year since its inception eight years ago. 

One of the many groups at the final performance

Each of the local students is paired with a Music Academy artist in a mentoring relationship.  The mentors benefit by sharing their experiences, knowledge, and talent with a promising young student.  The students learn by observation, participation in chamber music groups and in private lessons.  The program brings together the best of community outreach and music education.

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Heritage Club members Mike and Betty Noling

The award winning restaurant, bouchon santa barbara hosted United Way's 20th Annual Heritage Club Luncheon on Wednesday, June 8, 2005.  Thirty-eight Heritage Club members and guests were honored for leaving their legacy to this community, during this extraordinary wine country dining experience which was specially prepared by Chef Josh Brown and his staff.  

Judy Goodbody with event sponsors Marcy Burton and Joanne Funari

Our thanks to Mitchell Sjerven and his staff for hosting this very special luncheon, and our sincerest gratitude to Partnervest Financial Group LLC and Business First National Bank for their generous sponsorship of this event.

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Marilyn D. Anticouni, Esq.

Accustomed to being self-reliant, after retirement many elderly individuals are dependent on highly complex entitlement and benefit programs, such as Medicare and Medi-Cal.  If the elders are frail or infirm, they may be vulnerable to financial or physical abuse, or commercial exploitation.  

This program will focus on how  powers of attorney for financial management, Advance Health Care Directives, Medi-Cal planning, together with more traditional estate planning techniques, can allow an individual to maintain more control over their own assets and destiny.

Seating is limited so please make your reservations early by calling Judy Goodbody at 965-8591 ext.120, or e-mail jgoodbody@unitedwaysb.org or visit our website at www.unitedwaysb.org/endowment.html.

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Dennis Cagan

Santa Barbara County's United Way would like to welcome Dennis Cagan to the Board of Directors!  Dennis Cagan has been in the high technology industry as an active and successful entrepreneur for over 38 years, having founded over a dozen different companies. 

Dennis has been an investor and professional board member (over 40 boards) for more than 25 years.  Most recently, he is the founder, Chairman and CEO of the Santa Barbara Technology Group, LLC.

Dennis is a nationally recognized authority on information technology, including: Internet, software, hardware, and communications, in the disciplines of strategy, sales, marketing, services, and distribution channels.  He has authored dozens of articles and has spoken widely at industry conferences and to paying corporate audiences such as Microsoft.

Dennis with his wife Angelia

Dennis is a native Californian and attended the University of California at Los Angeles where he majored in economics.   He has an honorable discharge from the USMC.  Dennis and his wife Angelia have three daughters and a foster child, and live in downtown Santa Barbara.

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