Geoff Green joined the Fund staff in 1997 as Grants Manager, and has served as Executive Director since 2003.

A native of the San Francisco Bay area, Geoff came to Santa Barbara in 1990 to attend UCSB. While there, Geoff was involved in student community organizing around issues of access to higher education, environmental sustainability and affirmative action. Geoff's professional work included positions with the Office of Residential Life, Office of the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, and the Associated Students where he served as President in 1993-94. Geoff's other community work includes more than ten years of programming on KCSB.

In 1994, Geoff was elected to a four-year term on the Isla Vista Recreation and Park District Board of Directors where he served until pursuing a career as a Park Ranger/Naturalist in Yosemite National Park.

Geoff has served on numerous boards and has advised dozens of nonprofit organization and foundations in the areas of Organizational Development, Coalition Building, Board Development, Lobbying and Advocacy, Effective Use of Media, Fundraising, Public Speaking, Executive Searches, Conference Planning (local, regional and national), and Meeting Facilitation.

In 2006 Geoff was honored as a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Club of Santa Barbara North. He was also a member of the 2006-2007 Class of Katherine Harvey Fellows at the Santa Barbara Foundation and served on the Leadership Council of Santa Barbara County's 10 Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness.

Joyce Howerton has been the Northern Santa Barbara County Program director for the Fund since 2001. Prior to that she was on staff at Service Employees International Union, Local 620 (SEIU), and served three terms as Mayor of Lompoc.

Joyce currently serves on the Board of Directors of:
North County Rape Crisis & Child Protection Center
S. B Regional Health Authority Foundation
S. B. County Committee on School District Org.
North County Women's Political Committee
CPA North County Land Use Committee

... and on the Advisory Board of:
Environmental Defense Center
Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County
Domestic Violence Solutions

Alejandra Luna

Diahnna Núñez joined the Fund for Santa Barbara in 2003 as the part-time, temporary Administrative Assistant after taking a quarter off from UCSB to work on the Yes on 52! Election Day Voter Registration Statewide Campaign where she was a field organizer focusing on organizational, student, and Latina/o Get Out The Vote Efforts in Los Angeles County.

Prior to Yes on 52! Diahnna was an intern at the 2002 UCLA Labor Center Summer Internship Program that brought together undergraduate and graduate students from all UC campuses to train and inspire the next generation of Los Angeles labor organizers and researchers. While participating in SIP and learning various labor campaign skills, Diahnna was placed with the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) conducting interviews of LAX Airport Workers affected by the City of Los Angeles Living Wage Passage.

Upon returning to Santa Barbara after her stint in Los Angeles, Diahnna completed her Bachelor(ette) of Arts in Women's Studies and was promoted to Grants Manager in January 2004. As Grants Manager, Diahnna oversees THE FUND's Grant-Making Program that has risen to about $200,000 a year.

As Grants Manager, Diahnna combines the administrative and activist skills she developed while at UCSB from 1998 to 2003 working at the Office of Student Life, Office of Residential Life, Office of Disabled Students and other various campus departments and organizing with Associated Students Womyn's Commission, Aunt Flo & the Plug Patrol, Take Back the Night and as the Women's Studies Undergraduate Representative.

Diahnna continues to hone her skills through participation in both personal and professional continuing education. She is a certified EMT with Santa Barbara County. She is a 2005 graduate of Leadership Santa Barbara and an avid volunteer with the National Conference for Community & Justice's CommUnity Leadership Institute.

For the past 10 years she has served both as the Executive Director, and now as the Associate Director. During her tenure at the Fund she has worked closely with hundreds of local non-profit and grassroots organizations.

In addition to her work on the staff of the Fund for Santa Barbara, Nancy currently provides consulting services to non-profit organizations whose missions fall outside of the range of the Fund's purview. Planning, retreat facilitation, non profit management, community organizing strategy and fund-raising are the main foci.

From 1984 - 1993 Nancy was on the staff of the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center and held a variety of positions including officer manager, community education coordinator, crisis intervention coordinator, self defense instructor, and, ultimately, executive director.

Since 1980, Nancy has served on numerous Boards of Directors, including the founding Board of the Non Profit Support Center of Santa Barbara County, and has volunteered with a diversity of community projects. She is currently the Vice-Chair of the First 5 Children & Families Commission of Santa Barbara County's Advisory Board.

Certifications Nancy has earned include: Non-Profit Board Development Consultant Training Certification, 1998; Mediator, Advanced Community Mediation Training Certification, 1997; Self Defense Instructor, Southern California Rape Hotline Alliance, 1986; Sexual Assault Counselor, Office of Criminal Justice Planning, State of California, 1984. She is verbally fluent in Spanish.

Nancy has been honored as a "Local Hero" from the Santa Barbara Independent Newspaper in 1999; and, with the "Roses Award", for community empowerment and social justice from the Santa Barbara Women's Political Committee in 1999.