Get Involved

Join us in creating brighter futures for local youth

How would you like to get involved?

Engage your business

Find the right way for your business to get involved and support local youth:

Give your time and expertise directly to local youth.

Host an Intern

Prepare our future workforce, while benefiting your own workplace.

Volunteer

Looking for ways to give your time or engage your team? Explore opportunities like career coaching, guest speaking, mock interviews, and more.

Help make meaningful learning and career-readiness opportunities possible.

Sponsor an Intern

Can’t hire an intern at this time? Show your support by donating to help local businesses hire and pay Job Readiness completers.

Sponsor an Event

Support programs and events—from Mock Interviews to special events—through sponsorship opportunities that make our work possible.

Explore more ways to strengthen our programs and mission.

Join the Partner’s Council

Join a network of local business leaders in providing critical annual support for Partners in Education’s mission and the future of our community.

Donate/Support

Your support makes so much possible for local youth. Give financially, donate devices, and explore more ways to contribute.

Volunteer

Whether you’re looking to volunteer on your own or engage your team, there are many ways to give your time and talents to support local youth and Partners in Education:

Become a Reading Volunteer

Become a Literacy Volunteer! Readers are Leaders is a new literacy initiative supporting TK–3rd grade students in Santa Barbara Unified schools.

Become a Guest Speaker

Your story makes a difference when you choose to share it with others. Become part of our Speaker Collection today.

Serve as a Career Coach

Guide a small group of high school students through job-related activities and conversations that build career readiness, professionalism, and confidence.

Help high school students practice their new interview skills. This event is the final workshop for participants of our 8-week job Readiness Training Program. For many, this will be their very first interview experience.

Refurbish Donated Computers

Help the Computers for Families team clean and organize computers that will connect students and families in need with essential technology. No experience required!

Hear from our community

Your support helps students and community members build skills, gain confidence, and explore new possibilities. These stories show the difference we make together.

Guest Speakers

“It's important to let kids know about different careers - but it's even more important to tell them it's a journey, work hard and dream big.”

Pilar

Guest Speaker

Mrs. Cruz

Kindergarten Teacher

"Students who previously struggled with foundational phonics skills are now able to blend and read CVC words and independently read and write short sentences."

Mrs. Cruz

Kindergarten Teacher

Job Readiness Training Alumni

“The volunteers for the mock interviews were so sweet and fun to talk to! I felt much more comfortable at that workshop despite feeling nervous at first.”

Job Readiness Training Alumni

Doug

DD Ford

“As a host, one of the huge benefits is that it makes everybody in the company proud that we have an intern, and it is a huge culture-builder. A subsequent benefit is that we find our employees now are more willing to volunteer in other things and it takes our current employees and just fires them up!”

Doug

DD Ford

Citlaly

Dos Pueblos High School

“My favorite part of working at Cottage would be the friends I have made along the way. My time there has led me to become close with the PCTs and even some nurses. Another favorite thing of mine is the one-on-one interactions between me and the patients. Being part of that community and working there has been a blessing and a privilege.”

Citlaly

Dos Pueblos High School

Computers for Families Participant

"I learned to fill out documents online, since I lost many job opportunities from not knowing how to use a computer - thanks to this course I won't let those opportunities pass me by anymore."

Computers for Families Participant

Andrea

Volunteer

“This is a great opportunity to interact with the very people who may be applying at your organization and help them get a leg up. It's also a chance to improve your own interviewing skills because you are not focusing on ‘are they good enough?’ but instead ‘how do I help them understand they are good enough and how to show an interviewer (me) their best skills and qualities in a 15 minute meeting?’”

Andrea

Volunteer