P R O G R A M
SPEAKER – ERYN SHUGART
The Santa Barbara Educational Foundation
Eryn Shugart is a Santa Barbara native and holds a doctoral degree in psychology from Claremont Graduate School. She has worked in public service for the past twenty five years with accomplishments including substantially growing the income at Friendship Adult Day Care Center through contracts with the VA, CenCal and Tri Counties Regional Center; serving as an adjunct faculty in psychology and nursing and helping to establish a healthy aging associates degree at Santa Barbara City College; securing a multi-year, half-million dollar government grant as executive director to establish Jodi House as one of 7 state funded sites serving adults with traumatic brain injury; and raising over $1 million annually as senior development and interim executive director at Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation. She currently works as Donor Advisement Officer for Santa Barbara Education Foundation, raising funds for Santa Barbara Unified School District (of which she is a graduate). Shugart is a 2017 graduate of Leading from Withins' Courage to Lead program and is the co-founder of NPRN's Development Director Roundtable. She currently serves as an ambassador to the Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce and sits on the board of directors of Hospice of Santa Barbara, the Montecito Rotary, and the Association for Fundraising Professionals. Shugart lives in Santa Barbara with her husband and has two grown children, and loves to run, lift weights, and mountaineer in her spare time.
The mission of the Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara area.
Eryn gave a brief history of the Santa Barbara School District from the founding in 1866 with 325 students enrolled in the Santa Barbara County school district to the present enrollment of 12,900 in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
She went over some statistics; the state of California is ranked 48 in the United States with funding of schools. The Santa Barbara Unified School District receives less funding than Montecito, Goleta and Hope School Districts. One of the reasons is probably because of distribution of property tax. More than one-half of the population is below poverty level and one-half share English as a second language.
Without the assistance of the Santa Barbara Educational Foundation some programs would not be possible. Eryn thanked Cathy Calabro for Mary Kay’s donations to the Foundation.
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