The National Marine Mammal Foundation is creating pathways to careers in ocean conservation and research. 🌊🦭 Funding from our Youth Workforce initiative will enable the NMMF to offer paid career opportunities. Learn more: heyor.ca/TT55s4 #NationalMentoringMonth #OceanConservation

Community health clinics, like the UC San Diego School of Medicine Student-Run Free Clinic Project, are transforming the lives of thousands in our community by providing vital care. 🏥💙 Support their work and learn more at heyor.ca/xDThkM #SanDiego #FreeClinic #CommunityCare #SanDiegoNonprofits

Wishing you a peaceful holiday season. 🎇✨ We’re especially grateful for the moments of connection and the shared commitment to strengthening our community over the last year. We look forward to continuing this important work together in 2026🌟  Happy holidays! #HappyHolidays #SanDiego

Immigrants are foundational to the vibrancy, strength, and prosperity of San Diego County. We’re proud to stand with The California Endowment and 30 other California foundations to submit public comment in opposition to the proposed changes to the Public Charge regulation. #HumanRightsForAll

During the Month of Giving, we're celebrating the power of philanthropy—because our region thrives when we can all reach our full potential. Our work is helping more people achieve financial security, health, empowerment, and connection. Visit heyor.ca/qkg59N to learn more. #MonthofGiving

We are thrilled to announce the promotion of Crystal Page to VP of Communications. 👏🙌 In this new role, Crystal will continue to guide communications strategies and work across public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉 Learn more: heyor.ca/YpHhRb #SanDiegoNonProfit

👏 👏  Congrats to our CEO, Grant Oliphant, Managing Director, Mike Krenn, Board Members Constance Carroll and Mary Walshok, and Chairman of the Board, Dan Yates for being included in the San Diego Business Journal's 500 Most Influential People in San Diego for 2025. Read more: heyor.ca/SNotxu

Everyone deserves access to trusted care. Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest is making that possible every day in San Diego. 💙 We proudly support their work as part of our initiative to strengthen community clinics. Learn more: youtube.com/watch?v=P4RNo9pPPgY #PlannedParenthood

How can a foundation use all its resources to support a thriving region? In this special episode, Gil, our own CFIO, unpacks how the foundation’s investment strategy works in tandem with our grantmaking to advance health, creativity, and economic opportunity. www.prebysfdn.org/gilalvarado

Denim or Leather? 🤔  We chatted with Claudia Biezunski-Rodriguez of Sew Loka to find out her fashion picks during the first-ever Slow Fashion Day. This incredible event celebrated sustainability in our community with upcycling workshops. 🪡🧵 #SlowFashionDay #SewLoka #SanDiego #Upcycling

Challenge Center is dramatically improving people’s quality of life and saving the medical system millions of dollars a year. 💙 Honor International Day of Persons with Disabilities today by learning more at challengecenter.org/ #InternationalDayofPersonswithDisabilities #IDPWD

We have the power to make a real difference for our community. 🌎 You can celebrate Giving Tuesday by signing up to volunteer your time or donate funds to these local nonprofits in need of our support. ☞ Learn more: heyor.ca/Z4otvR #Volunteer #MonthofGiving #GivingTuesday

Vista Community Clinic provides HIV education, screening, and support year-round to anyone in our community. They treat more than 70,000 patients annually by creating a space where all community members can feel empowered to choose health. Learn more: ➡️ vistacommunityclinic.org #WorldAIDSDay

Creative Cures: How Art and Science Enhance Health and Wellbeing. 🎨🧑‍🔬 Explore the transformative impact of art on our mental and physical health in this talk from our 2025 WAVES Festival. 📹 Watch more at heyor.ca/7xwquJ #WAVESFestival #SanDiego #ArtsAndCulture #Sciences #Theatre

"La primera vez que puse mi altar fue en 1960. Tuve un par de gemelitos el 26 de octubre y ellos fallecieron el día que nacieron—solamente vivieron dos horas. Cada vela representa uno de mis familiares, a cada uno se le dedica una calaverita y una vela." prebysfdn.org/susana

🤝Collaboration wins when everyone is at the table. In our latest episode of Stop & Talk, we explore how Walking Shield partners with tribal nations, federal agencies, and nonprofits to build roads, water wells, electrical line, and pathways for self‑determination. www.prebysfdn.org/walkingshield

NEWS: Today, the Lucky Duck Foundation and the Prebys Foundation announced the launch of the United for Youth initiative with a $5M, joined by the David C. Copley Foundation to unite 40+ orgs to support 500 current & former foster youth over the next 2 years. luckyduckfoundation.org/unitedforyouth

Veterans make up 9% of San Diego's population. They're our neighbors, friends and family members. @workshops4warriors.bsky.social is creating fulfilling career paths for over 1,600 U.S. veterans through CNC machining and welding training programs and credentials. Learn more: wfw.org/ #Veterans

NEWS—Prebys is proud to award over $4 million to more than 20 community health organizations strengthening access to healthcare and improving well-being in San Diego—to extend care through mobile units, longer hours, and new collaboration models. More at www.prebysfdn.org/4mcommunityh...

NEWS—Today we announced a $3M grant to Feeding San Diego & the San Diego Food Bank to expand emergency food distribution, support local farms, and ensure equitable access to nutritious food as federal resources diminish. Join us and donate to the San Diego Unity Fund at SDFoundation.org/unity

San Diego is forever greener with more spaces for connection and healing, thanks to Kate Sessions. 🌿 🌳 Celebrate Kate Sessions Day at the free tree planting event on Nov. 7th: sandiego.gov/event/kate-sessions-day-planting-event Photo credit: San Diego History Center #SanDiego #KateSessions

Barry Edelstein, Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director of The Old Globe Theatre, leads an inspiring conversation on how Shakespeare and the theatre can serve as a ​“hub” where diverse people come together to reflect, imagine, and connect. Watch more: heyor.ca/7xwquJ #SanDiego #OldGlobeTheatre

Artist and playwright Thelma Virata de Castro's work is uniquely shaped by her experience growing up in the Filipino community. Celebrate #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth by listening to Thelma tell her story on our Stop and Talk podcast at heyor.ca/W8yPe6 #FilipinoArtists #SanDiegoArts

Prebys is proud to invest $5 million in San Diego-based startups advancing medical research and patient care. One more way we’re strengthening our region’s workforce and health ecosystem, attracting more capital, and investing in the future of San Diego prebysfdn.org/PrebysVentur...

United for San Diego is a partnership betwen Prebys Foundation, Price Philanthropies, San Diego Foundation and the Price Family—working together to help keep San Diegans housed, fed and healthy. www.sdfoundation.org/community-im...

As the Tijuana River pollution continues to close their shoreline, South Bay kids are losing access to their beaches. Thankfully, nonprofits like Outdoor Outreach, Un Mar de Colores, and Paddle for Peacer are driving youth to cleaner beaches. Read more: heyor.ca/AuFr5q

Arts venues and spaces are vital for our community. 🌎🎨 Our $13.4M Arts Ecosystem grant supports arts organizations so they can keep their doors open for all—fostering connection, creativity, and cultural expression. Read more: heyor.ca/XhZfB7

Together, we’re building a San Diego where no one is left behind. United for San Diego is one of the largest collaborative philanthropic efforts in our county's history supporting our community's access to food, housing, and healthcare. 🤝 Donate now at SDFoundation.org/Unity

We’re proud to stand with the resilient arts organizations bringing hope, connection, and possibility to San Diegans. As local nonprofits face existential challenges amid funding cuts, the Prebys Foundation is investing $13.4M in emergency support. 🌟

"Training with GRID connects with me on a personal level because in Iraq, we didn’t have power all 24 hrs. So, we used to save it for later in the day. So, It’s important to me, what GRID Alternatives is doing to connect people to solar power." Check out Wisam's story www.prebysfdn.org/wisam

The Southern Indian Health Council is helping generations of families thrive through holistic care. ☀️🪶 This Indigenous Peoples' Day, we celebrate their growing impact. Learn more: sihc.org/about #IndigenousCulture #IndigenousPeoplesDay #Wellbeing

Did you know it's World Mental Health Day? 🌎 People of all ages in our community struggle with mental health issues, but Resounding Joy uses music therapy to help reduce anxiety and stress and improve their quality of life. Learn more: resoundingjoyinc.org #WorldMentalHealthDay #MusicTherapy

📣 Join the Prebys team! We're looking for an outstanding Business Operations Administrator to fill this new role. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact as we work on groundbreaking initiatives. ➡️💻 Apply now: heyor.ca/zJDL7O #WereHiring #SanDiegoJobs

The arts build bridges for connection and are a fundamental part of San Diego’s entire cultural ecosystem and economy. We are investing $13.4M in local arts organizations that have been severely impacted by Federal and state budget cuts, donor fatigue, and rising costs. Learn more: heyor.ca/L8jeeK

Happy #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! Filipino leader Dr. Razel Bacuetes Milo is strengthening our community with life-changing mental health research. Want to learn more about Dr. Milo? Visit heyor.ca/xfucaC #FilipinoCommunity #MedicalResearch #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthResearch

With a $500,000 investment in the County's Immigrant Legal Defense Program, Prebys is supporting this critical effort to help ensure due process for thousands of immigrants and asylum seekers who would otherwise face court alone. prebysfdn.org/legaldefense...

Cesar Chavez Service Clubs are developing leaders for the future. 🌟 As we come to the end of #HispanicHeritageMonth, we want to highlight their work teaching the values of leader Cesar Chavez through leadership development programs in schools across San Diego. Learn more: chavezclubs.org

"This is like therapy for me. It really helps me take my mind off of pain and everything else. Since I've been doing the work and encouraging other veterans to come, I've had people come and say, “you inspire me to keep going.” Check out Reggie's story at www.prebysfdn.org/reggie

Nature has the power to heal us. 🌳 Our Healing through Arts and Nature initiative supports non-clinical approaches to mental well-being by enhancing access to outdoor spaces for underinvested communities. Learn more at heyor.ca/cRpZt8 Source: USDA #SuicidePreventionMonth

CA nonprofits run on staff! 💪 You power our sector every day– now it’s time for your voice to be heard. 📢 Nonprofit workers: Take the CA Nonprofit Employee Survey & help shape the next #CausesCount report to better support nonprofits & the staff that power them. bit.ly/CausesCountEmployee2025

It’s here! USD Nonprofit is conducting the 2025 San Diego Nonprofit Leaders Survey, an annual survey created to better understand the current state of our nonprofit community in San Diego. Take the survey now and share with your colleagues and networks! bit.ly/SONPLeaders2025 #Nonprofits

With support from our Youth Workforce initiative, The David's Harp Foundation, Inc. is giving youth the confidence and freedom to shape their futures. Thank you to @daylightsdnews.bsky.social for the feature. Read the full article at heyor.ca/8aMpJt #ArtsPrograms #YouthWorkforce

The arts are not a luxury — they are essential. We’re making an urgent investment of $13.375 million to support 61 arts and culture organizations across San Diego County. This support aims to protect vital community spaces for creativity and keep programs alive. Learn more: heyor.ca/IDB9z4

When your organization's name gets mispronounced often enough, you learn to have a little fun with it. We asked our staff to share some of the real ways people have mispronounced “Prebys.” From Presbees to Preebus, and even Prebysterian, we've heard it all.

Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth! 🌎 Join us in celebrating and recognizing the local Hispanic & Latino-serving organizations, like San Ysidro Health, providing vital services to our region year-round. Learn more at syhealth.org #SanYsidroHealth #HispanicOrganizations #CommunityImpact #PrebysFoundation

Prebys joins 700+ organizations protecting the right to give in alignment with our values. For Prebys, giving looks like uplifting high quality and accessible healthcare, inclusive and innovative medical research, youth success, and opportunities to heal and grow through the arts and nature.

In the new episode of Stop & Talk, Richard Tate, President and CEO of the California Wellness Foundation, calls on philanthropic leaders to meet the moment by spending up and speaking out. Check out the full episode www.prebysfdn.org/stories/seri...

"LEAD San Diego is just a tremendous program for people like me or any professional looking to take that next step in leadership."- Joshua Meza—Health Manager, Community and Network Development at Rady Children’s Hospital Foundation. Check out Josh's story: heyor.ca/agUyVH

Prebys Foundation CEO Grant Oliphant recently spoke with CBS News correspondent Major Garrett to discuss the current state of giving back in the U.S., and how federal cuts to nonprofits directly impact our country's position as a world leader. Watch the full interview at heyor.ca/bm84F6

Vehicles for Change San Diego is creating brighter futures for all youth in San Diego. We honor Workforce Development Month by celebrating their work and the work of all our Youth Workforce initiative grantees who are transforming young lives in our community. Learn more: vfcsandiego.org/