This year the SB CAN Action Fund will be hosting our Oscar Party. 

For more information or to register, click HERE. 

Join us in celebrating Selma Rubin's 95th Birthday

Saturday, March 27, B'Nai B'rith Hall, Santa Barbara - REGISTER NOW 

Master of Ceremony and Guest Speaker 

Gary K. Hart

  Founder of the California State University Institute on Education Reform

and Former Member of the California State Legislaure

For more info and to Register, click HERE

Welcome New Advocacy & Outreach Director, Joyce Howerton

SB CAN is pleased to announce that Joyce Howerton has joined our staff as Director of Advocacy and Outreach.  She will lead in community organizing around SB CAN’s HOT issues of housing, open space, and transportation. 

When it comes to progressive leadership in northern Santa Barbara County, there is probably no one more well-known or well-loved than Joyce.  For over forty years she has been fearless and passionate in her commitment to social justice, civil rights, and environmental causes, working on numerous local and national political campaigns.

Joyce is a founding member of SB CAN and served as North County Vice President for many years.  Most recently she served as the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Fund for Santa Barbara offering technical assistance on effective use of the media, advocacy, lobbying, organizational development, fundraising strategies and building community networks. As a three-term mayor of Lompoc she secured pay equity for women, created a state-of-the-art regional landfill project, and developed the Lompoc Community Center, among many other accomplishments. 

Joyce has served on numerous nonprofit boards and county commissions, including the North County Rape Crisis and Child Protection Center, which she founded in her garage in the 1970‘s.  She was also a founding member of Domestic Violence Solutions and the North County Women’s Political Committee, and served on the Santa Barbara Foundation Board of Directors for nine years. Joyce was the co-founder and main spokesperson for the Coalition Against the County Split, which led the fight to defeat overwhelmingly a ballot measure in 2006 that would have permanently divided Santa Barbara county.

Joyce and Executive Director Deborah Brasket will work together as a team to oversee all SB CAN activities and operations.