Street Smarts: State rolls out grant program for smallest businesses affected by pandemic
Columns, Latest news, Law & Goverment, NonprofitsMicrobusiness grants are becoming available for companies with less than $50,000 in revenue that have been impacted by COVID-19. Under a program set to launch March 7, Santa Barbara County is partnering with the Santa Barbara Foundation to launch its program for north and south county businesses. The grants do not have to be repaid. Read More →
Central Coast Innovation Awards publication and event honor groundbreaking companies in the region
Latest news, middle, Top StoriesThe Pacific Coast Business Times is pleased to announce this year’s Central Coast Innovation Award winners. The section, which is now in its seventh year, published with the Feb. 25 print edition and can be viewed online here. The special report highlights five companies and individuals that are pushing the envelope in their work, and Read More →
Atara reports patient death in cancer treatment study
Banking & Finance, Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Tri-County Public CompaniesAtara Biotherapeutics, a South San Francisco-based drug development company with major operations in Thousand Oaks, reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Feb. 18 that a patient died in one of its Phase 1 trials. The patient, who was being treated at a Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center location in New York, suffered Read More →
Street Smarts: St. Patrick’s Day parade returns to Ventura; Wall Street Journal discovers Central Coast
Columns, Latest news, NonprofitsIt’s back, and Nan Drake is in the lead. Entries are now being accepted for the Ventura Elks Club’s 2022 County of Ventura St. Patrick’s Day Parade, beginning at at 10 a.m. on March 12, along Main Street in midtown Ventura. The parade was dark in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID, but it returns Read More →
Portfolio Watch: All eyes on the Fed
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Attorney in UCSB case will lead Nixon Peabody IP team
Higher Education, Latest news, Law & Goverment, TechnologyNixon Peabody, the global law firm representing UC Santa Barbara in its LED patent lawsuit against major retailers, has named Seth Levy, the lead Peabody attorney for UCSB, to lead the firm’s intellectual property practice. Levy, who has been with the law firm since 2012 and is a partner in its Los Angeles office, will Read More →
Good Works: Girls Inc. names new CEO; Vitamin Angels reaches new countries
Latest news, NonprofitsAfter a nine-month nationwide search, Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara has a new CEO. Jennifer Faust was hired in September in a consulting role for the nonprofit and took over in January as CEO, Girls Inc. said in a recent news release. Prior to joining Girls Inc., Faust spent with the Pacific Council on Read More →
