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SBCC’s $20 Million Misadventure

by Denice Spangler Adams

Feb 23, 2026
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Santa Barbara City College is once again in the national spotlight for the wrong reasons. Even Fortune magazine has picked up the story on the mishandling of Jeff Bezos divorcee Mackenzie Scott’s trust-based 2021 philanthropic donation of $20 million to SBCC, the largest such gift in the school’s history. Coincidentally SBCC Foundation CEO Geoff Green s…

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