Just Communities Central Coast records, approximately 1997-2020

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Summary

Abstract:
This collection contains materials documenting the activities of the Santa Barbara-based organization Just Communities (Communidades Justas), a Social Justice non-profit that served California's Central Coast from the 1990s through 2021, offering cultural competency, leadership, and organizational change training through workshops, lessons, educational materials, and customized consulation.
Extent:
12 Linear Feet (12 cartons)
Language:
English, Spanish; Castilian.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Just Communities Central Coast records, CEMA 214. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection documents the work of Just Communities (Communidades Justas), a Santa Barbara-based Social Justice non-profit organization that served California's Central Coast from the 1990s to approximately 2021, offering cultural competency training to organizational leaders, education seminars for the general public, leadership training institutes for students and teachers, and customized consultation to local agencies for diversity and organizational change initiatives.

The materials in this collection span from the 1990s through 2021, and include administrative records, budget documents, grant reports, brochures, flyers, fundraising records, correspondence, and clippings featuring Just Communities. A large component of the collection features materials from the cultural competency trainings and other lessons and workshops that the organization produced, as well as those of other, often related, Social Justice organizations and initiatives, such as THRIVE Westside, Safe Schools, Community Leadership Institute (CLI), Padres para la Inclusion, Diversidad y Accession (PIDA), and Building Bridges, among many others.

Acquisition information:
Gift of former Just Communities board member and UCSB professor Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, 2024.
Processing information:

The boxes comprising this collection have been arranged in loose chronological order according to the date range of their contents.

Physical location:
Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.

All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assigns for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Just Communities Central Coast records, CEMA 214. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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