Become a Hero for a Head Start campus.

Supply Hero

• Help us refresh and expand our art, toy, and music supplies to keep the children engaged.
• Create a reading corner and we’ll name it after you! Your donation will enable us to purchase a cozy chair, or rug, and books which the children can read at school or check out to take home. The majority of books are bilingual (English and Spanish).

Teacher Appreciation Day Hero one campus

• Teacher Appreciation Week is in May each year.
• Your sponsorship will help us provide a special breakfast celebration for the teachers at one campus, plus we will provide them with a small gift card.
• Let’s show them the love!

Back-to-School Hero

• Backpacks are expensive and so are new shoes. We’d love to be able to equip all of our children transitioning out of Head Start to TK or kindergarten with these items.
• Our teens who are headed back to school also need backpacks, school supplies, and sometimes new shoes or a new outfit.
• Your sponsorship will empower these children and youth as they return to school. Kids that feel better about themselves do better.

Teacher Appreciation Day Hero all campuses

Same as the Teacher Appreciation Day Hero for one campus, but you would enable us to shower all of our teachers across the county with gratitude and appreciation by sponsoring this need.

Staff Health and Well-Being Hero regional

• Support for our teachers and our Family Service Advocates — includes gift cards and/or a holiday lunch for the teachers, and underwriting trainings such as self-care and trauma support that are outside of standard National Head Start paid curriculum.
• We will stretch this gift to include as many teachers and staff as possible.

Farm to Table Hero

• Your sponsorship will allow us to purchase family farm box subscriptions from local growers such as Talley Farms, or provide produce vouchers.
• Offer on-site cooking demonstrations with local chefs and nutrition experts that are focused on low-cost, easy-to-prepare and healthy meals.
• Teach our parents how to adapt recipes using ingredients they are familiar with, and we’ll provide printed copies of those recipes in the appropriate language.

Parent Wellness Fair Hero regional

This will enable us, once a year, to provide a day when parents can take care of themselves. Staff will do child care and meals for the children, while parents can take part in activities such as:

• Massage therapy
• Free haircuts
• Art workshops
• Sound baths
• Facials
• Breath work / guided breath class
• Yoga or stretch lab
• Share a delicious meal together
• Or just have some free time

Experience the World Hero

Our children and their families would love to do more experiential learning. Your sponsorship will help us do more field trips to places like the Santa Barbara Zoo, the Natural History Museum, the Santa Maria Discovery Museum, the Guadalupe Dunes, MOXI, and the Santa Barbara Marine Center.

Art & Music Hero

Sponsor a stipend for a music teacher or an art teacher who can come into our classrooms 1–2 times per week to teach, excite, and inspire our children.

Diaper Hero

Diapers are expensive! They cost an average of $25 per package, so $10,000 = 400 diaper packages, enough to diaper one family’s infant or toddler for a full year, or to help cover the needs of one of our infant/toddler classrooms. Our parents will thank you!

Safety-first Hero

Help us furnish our Head Start centers with at least one extra car seat that can be loaned out to families in case of an emergency (such as ICE raids that prevent a parent from picking up their child) or pick up by an authorized family member who may not have a car seat.

Fund a Child Hero

Funds the cost for one child to attend Head Start for one year.

Can be paid in monthly installments.

Farm to Family Hero

Includes all the benefits listed in the Farm to Table sponsorship level, PLUS:

• Provide families (or one of our Head Start centers) with take-home container gardens, or raised beds/planters, soil, seeds, seedlings, adult and child-safe gardening tools, plus the “Grow with your Child” gardening guide.
• Teach harvest activities kids can do at home.
• Teach cooking on a budget with fresh foods, how to entice picky eaters and toddlers to eat more fruits and vegetables, teach parents how to read food labels and how to stretch their CalFresh benefits at farmers markets, provide grocery store gift cards, farmer market vouchers, and local food co-op credits.
• Outings to farms, harvest mazes, or other food-related experiences that encourage healthier eating for children and families and teach where their food comes from.