This summer, California announced the allocation of $3,645,000 to Central Coast anti-hate organizations providing direct, preventative, or intervention services to “Stop the Hate.”
For the years 2022-23 and 2023-24, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) Stop the Hate Program awarded a total of $91.4 million in grants to 173 California organizations, geared toward helping communities harmed by hate incidents and hate crimes statewide.
Among the Central Coast recipients, the Fund for Santa Barbara was awarded $700,000 to support its work with social-justice-oriented groups in Santa Barbara County. They said they’ll use the funding to “advance anti-hate and anti-racist work” in the region, corresponding with the goals of the money’s source: the $165.5 million API Equity Budget, passed in 2021 to address the rise in hate against Asian and Pacific Islander Californians.