
of Greater Santa Barbara
Annual Report 2020
StrongHER Together
People
At Girls Inc., our girls grew StrongHER together in 2020.
Girls
At Girls Inc., our girls grew stronger together in 2020. While the COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted the number of girls who came to gymnastics practice or logged onto Zoom for Core Curriculum programs, it could not stop our strong, smart, and bold community from learning and growing together. That’s why youth like Roz and Jazmin thrive in the Girls Inc. Experience and learn valuable skills that mold them into tomorrow’s leaders.
Who They Are
Youth Served
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2020 saw a 28% reduction in the number of youth served from the average number of youth served from 2017-2019 in both Core Curriculum and Gymnastics programs due to COVID-19.
Family hardships – reduced employment, mandated social distancing and quarantine, and other difficult extenuating circumstances – stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in this reduction.
Girls in Core Curriculum Program
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47% of girls enrolled in Core Curriculum programming in 2020 came from lower- and middle-income households. From 2017 to 2019, 66% of Core Curriculum participants came from lower- and middle-income households.
Girls Inc. Girls are:

Socially Responsible
Future-Minded
Curious
Resilient

of Girls Inc. girls and teens say they would offer support to a friend who is sad, stressed or depressed. COVID may have forced us apart this past year, but our Girls are showing us all that they are StrongHER.
Staff
Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara staff are the people who make the Girls Inc. Experience inspiring and engaging. They foster a pro-girl environment built on mutual respect that encourages creativity and builds a strong, smart, and bold community of girls. Their strength and inspiration helped move our organization and our girls through one of the hardest years imaginable, and we know they only made our organization StrongHER for whatever lies ahead.
Girls Inc. staff completed 76,156 in-person service hours in 2020, representing a 68% decrease in the average number of hours completed by staff between 2017 and 2019.
Service Hours Completed
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Girls Inc.’s doors were closed from March 16, 2020 to July 2020 in line with mandates from Santa Barbara County health officials.
Socially distant in-person programming resumed in the summer session and has since continued.
The decrease in service hours is attributable to mandated reduced capacities for in-person programming and not hosting programming at the Santa Barbara Center.
The reduction in service hours is also attributable to losing staff positions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Girls Inc.
staff members are:
Dedicated
Girls Inc. staff and volunteers completed 76,156 in-person service hours in 2020. The vast majority of these hours came during the COVID-19 pandemic in socially distant settings with proper protocols as established by the CDC, State of California, and Santa Barbara County in place.


Respected
Caring
Advocates
Encouraging


Trusted
Supportive
Places
The Girls Inc.
Places are:
Creative
The United Way Collaborative Grant served 47 girls in 2020. This grant creatively transformed the Goleta Valley Center and Santa Barbara Center into a full-day learning and enrichment center in response to mandated reduced capacities amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Overall, 179 girls received virtual programming or learning support in 2020.


Community-based
Girls Inc. served girls from 25 elementary schools in the Santa Barbara Unified, Goleta Union, and Hope School Districts.
Inclusive
Safe

Programs
The COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity for Girls Inc. to successfully develop and implement virtual programming for girls and teens. Girls Inc. programming bridged the digital divide and equipped all participants with the skills they need to be strong, smart, and bold, all while continuing to engage in community-building.
Classes Offered
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Girls Inc. offered 251 total classes during 2020, a 53% increase from the average number of classes in 2018 and 2019. While in-person classes decreased, our number of virtual classes increased in both our core and gymnastics programs.
While in-person programming returned in July 2020 for summer session, after-school and other programs were quickly moved to virtual formats.
Virtual programming and classes were a defining feature of the Girls Inc. Experience in 2020.
The quick pivot to offering virtual programs and classes was crucial to Girls Inc. meeting the needs of girls across greater Santa Barbara during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Girls Inc.
Programs are:
Inspiring
Empowering


Skill Building
FUN
Community Building
Influential

Financials
Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara provides a Girls Inc. Experience that features empowering programs facilitated by supportive staff in safe places that are welcoming to all girls and teens. Whether the money is raised from generous donors, collected from program fees, or secured through grants, every dollar we spend is reflective of that mission. We are incredibly proud of the successes we see in our girls through our strong investments in our people, place, and programs. View our 2020 Form 990