Support the Next Generation of Environmental Stewards
New! EE MAKERSPACE TRANSFORMATION
Explore Ecology is excited to be embarking on a revisioning of our Art From Scrap workshop. Building upon 30 years of creative reuse programming, the new EE Makerspace will elevate our potential for transformational artmaking. Community members of all abilities and backgrounds will utilize the redesigned Makerspace to explore, rethink, and reuse.
Now more than ever we need your support to ensure that the new EE Makerspace becomes an awesome community resource.
Help us fulfill our mission of empowering our community to protect and preserve the environment. With your support, over 35,000 children a year will receive free environmental education lessons and field trips at Art From Scrap, the Watershed Resource Center, and at thirty School Gardens throughout Santa Barbara County.
Your gift of any amount is greatly appreciated and allows us to more effectively serve our community and continue our important work of educating the next generation of environmental stewards. You can ensure that students have access to a garden, spend time outdoors, and continue to learn about science, art, and ecology.
Explore Ecology s a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, a non-profit in the State of California. Federal Tax ID #20-4944165.
OTHER WAYS TO DONATE
Donate By Mail
You can mail a check with the memo “Donation” to:
Explore Ecology
302 East Cota Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Please include your mailing address and email.
For assistance with your donation, contact Melissa or call her at 805-884-0459 x13.
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Become a Sponsor
Explore Ecology holds many events throughout the year. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please email Melissa or call her at 805-884-0459 x13.
Planned Giving
Your gift to Explore Ecology will support our sustainability into the future.
A planned gift ensures that Santa Barbara County youth will continue to learn, grow, and explore in School Gardens, at Art From Scrap, and on fieldtrips to the Watershed Resource Center at Arroyo Burro Beach. Your support helps us educate the next generation of environmental stewards and also allows us to expand our programing to adults in our community.
Planned giving makes it easy for you to continue your donor legacy by arranging a donation that will be allocated at a future date and is most often donated in a will or trust. Planned gifts can be a monetary donation, real estate, stock, retirement accounts, or life insurance.
For information and to set up a meeting about a planned gift, please email Melissa or call her at at 805-884-0459 x13.
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AmazonSmile is operated by Amazon with the same prices, products, and shopping features as Amazon.com. When you shop on AmazonSmile, 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products is donated to the nonprofit of your choice. AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way to support Explore Ecology every time you shop, at no cost to you.
Eva grew up in Berkeley, CA and is a recent graduate of UCSB, where she studied Aquatic Biology and German Language. During her undergrad, Eva worked as an aquarist at UCSB’s Research Experience and Education Facility (the REEF), where she managed the aquarium facility and found a love for science communication and conservation.
Rachel Palmer
Nicole is a mixed media artist and vintage goods specialist who has been managing Art from Scrap since 2020.
Veronica grew up in San Diego and spent four years in San Luis Obispo studying Animal Science at Cal Poly. As an undergrad she learned lots about livestock, agriculture, and wildlife.
Lydia
Lindsay Johnson
MELISSA BROOKS
Jenny joined Explore Ecology first as an Environmental Educator, then as a Program Coordinator, and most recently moved into the newly created Programs, People & Culture position. Prior to Explore Ecology Jenny worked in science research and consulting, however her passion has always been science education and outreach. Jenny loves all things related to the ocean, especially free diving, and enjoying the beauty and wonder that is the underwater world. Her greatest life passion is traveling, which she hopes to do more of again soon.
Lu’s love of all things Earth began at James Madison University in Virginia, where they got their Bachelor’s degree in Biology. Lu has a Master’s degree in Spatial Ecology- the study of how creatures interact across landscapes- from East Carolina University, where they studied rock pools along a river and the critters that dwell in them.