Learning, Beyond the Classroom

Together, we can help children achieve their full potential through championing meaningful whole-child learning experiences. 

We begin where academics end

Our goal is to maximize every child’s potential with non-academic, experiential education that supports the whole-child

Nature-Based Learning

Nature-Based Learning

School Gardens, Edible Forests, Camp Experiences and Nature-Based Education take kids out of the classroom and into the world.

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Healthy Habits

Healthy Habits

Learning new skills like swimming or bicycling and understanding the importance of hydration helps kids make their health a lifetime habit.

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Essential Life Skills

Essential Life Skills

Financial literacy, reading, etiquette, exposure to the arts, and confidence-building all round out a child’s education with essential skills they will be able to use for life.

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About Audacious Foundation

Empowering Every Child’s Potential

The Audacious Foundation is a grantmaking organization that serves as a catalyst for empowering and defending the importance of childhood in Santa Barbara County. We partner with nonprofit allies that serve children beyond the classroom, ensuring all children have access to programming that enriches the whole child. We fund proven programs with simple execution and minimal reporting.

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What We Do

Making Your Work Possible, Together

We’re a grantmaking organization focused on collaborating with nonprofits serving children in Santa Barbara County. We seek to fund projects that support low-income children in programs focused on play, nature-based learning, healthy habits, and essential life skills. We believe positive childhood experiences help children grow into healthy resilient adults. 

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We Begin Where Academics End

Our goal is to maximize every child’s potential with non-academic, experiential education that supports the whole child.

Nature-Based Learning

Nature-based learning and nature-based play can positively impact children’s physical and mental health. We support organizations that promote access to safe outdoor environments for children to thrive in, including school gardens and edible forests.

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Healthy Habits

Making healthy decisions early on can lay the foundation for a lifetime of healthy habits. We partner with organizations that promote physical, social and emotional wellness in childhood, including sports-, movement- and play-based activities that engage students beyond the classroom.

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Essential Life Skills

Building real-world skills early on can help children develop into confident and capable adults. From confidence-building, financial literacy, ropes courses, mindfulness, and dance and movement, our partners offer meaningful programming that helps children develop skills that will last a lifetime and harness their potential.  

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Champions of Whole-Child initiatives

The Audacious Foundation funds programs and partners that ensure low-income children have access to holistic enrichment opportunities beyond academics. Our programs encourage children to build healthy habits, have fun, and develop real-world skills.

Ventura Land and Trust

Ventura Land and Trust

St. Vincents

St. Vincents

LifeSource Landscape Inc. / Ramsey Cronk

LifeSource Landscape Inc. / Ramsey Cronk

MOVE Santa Barbara

MOVE Santa Barbara

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Who We Work With

Champions of Whole-Child Initiatives

The Audacious Foundation funds programs and partners that ensure low-income children have access to holistic enrichment opportunities beyond academics. Our programs encourage children to build healthy habits, have fun, and develop real-world skills.

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Ventura Land and Trust
Ventura Land and Trust
St. Vincents
St. Vincents
LifeSource Landscape Inc. / Ramsey Cronk
LifeSource Landscape Inc. / Ramsey Cronk
MOVE Santa Barbara
MOVE Santa Barbara
Channel Islands YMCA
Channel Islands YMCA
Community Environmental Council
Community Environmental Council
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Partners We Support

The Audacious Foundation supports a small number of both public and parochial schools as well as out-of-school programs that serve low-income communities, mostly within Santa Barbara County. These schools are selected based upon leadership, and the Principal or leader’s alignment with a “whole child” learning philosophy.

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Programs We Support

The Audacious Foundation works with carefully selected organizations to foster an environment of Whole-Child Learning for all students

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“Children live in the world; let them learn in the world.”

– Paul Orfalea

Our Team

Ventura Land and Trust

Ventura Land and Trust

St. Vincents

St. Vincents

LifeSource Landscape Inc. / Ramsey Cronk

LifeSource Landscape Inc. / Ramsey Cronk

MOVE Santa Barbara

MOVE Santa Barbara

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The Blog

Updates. Press Releases. Stories. See what we've been up to at Limitless!
Blog posts are written by out team and guests.

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New Building!

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How COVID-19 changed our outlook on helping from a distance.
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How COVID-19 changed our outlook on helping from a distance.

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Our First Year

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Teamwork Makes The Dream Work

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