Tag archives: Community Environment Council

The Community Environmental Council’s annual Green Gala is giving the first word of the event’s name extra emphasis for this year’s event. The 2026 fundraiser, slated for Saturday, September 19 at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, carries the theme of “Rooted in Hope,” which springs from the concept that hope has roots, and many important […]

Santa Barbara nonprofit Community Environmental Council has long been on the forefront of the environmental movement ever since its founding more than 50 years ago. Among its groundbreaking accomplishments in those early decades, CEC founded one of the nation’s first ecology centers, as well as the first learning and research community gardens. CEC was instrumental […]

Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s courtyard suffered major social gridlock when the Community Environmental Council hosted its spring fundraiser Metamorphosis: An Emergence with 250 guests raising more than $60,000. The boffo bash, a smaller affair than the organization’s annual Green Gala at The Lark, was co-chaired by board member Carolyn Fitzgerald and executive director Sigrid Wright […]