Rich Sander Email & Phone Number

Santa Barbara, California

• Founder and Executive Director of SB ACT (also know as Uffizi Order) 501c3 of Santa Barbara, CA.
• Ensures ongoing local programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to.
• Actively engages and energizes SB ACT volunteers, board members, event committees, members, partnering organizations, funders, and supporters.
• Develops, maintains, and supports a strong board of directors; serve as ex-officio of each committee, seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for ongoing local operations
• Leads, coaches, develops and retains SB ACT's high-performance director/management team
• Ensures effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluate program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents

Santa Barbara, California, United States

Since 2006 has grown a private practice offering Strengths Based Development, cultural competency, and peer counseling; offers team, group and/or individual consulting on a sliding-scale fee. In 2010, expanded practice to include life coaching and mentoring, developed program covering personality development and career counseling/consulting. Modified and.

Santa Barbara, CA

Gathered, led, and trained a group of 20 individuals to create the Westside Initiative, a faith-based neighborhood-level community development initiative to support households at risk of homelessness in the lower Westside of Santa Barbara. In October 2016, founded Pueblo Free Methodist Church, a faith community focused on neighborhood-level community.

Santa Barbara, California

Managed 7 state and countywide grants totaling ~$430k for the implementation of drug and alcohol prevention programs in all of the southern SB county Jr. High and High Schools. Partnered with local agencies and student programs to develop a student-led conference, “rispekt” with over 350+ students from San Luis Obispo to San Diego for leadership.