ONE World. ONE Team. ONE Heart.
The Heaven on Earth Project
As kids, our parents taught us an invaluable lesson: Life is about service to others. Our father demonstrated this by co-founding Athletes Serving the Community (ASC)—an innovative, award-winning nonprofit that united thousands of student athletes to serve the Greater Boston area.
Upon moving to Santa Barbara, we wanted to follow in his footsteps. We leveraged decades of experience in sports and community service, while injecting an innate zest for disruption and innovation.
We launched in 2014 at the Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival under the auspices of The Heaven on Earth Project, naming it “Santa Barbara Hustlers”. With a flip chart and Coors Light tent (sadly, no beer) nearly 100 caring, curious citizens joined our social experiment. Our community service team was ready to play! Now what?
“Help one person at a time, and start with the person nearest you.”
~Mother Teresa
Serving Santa Barbara
Our first opportunity to serve was the SB Food Bank’s annual “Fork and Cork” gala. We emailed our list, and exactly one person joined us! We set up chairs, greeted guests, and advocated kids food programs as if we were part of the Food Bank team ourselves. We had a blast!
Word soon spread. With an inclusive team environment and playful spirit, we recruited hundreds of caring citizens to serve thousands of hours and raise millions of dollars for worthy causes across our town—from youth education to girls empowerment, human rights issues, the arts, mental health, planetary activism, and of course, consciousness itself.
Along the way, H4H has grown and in ways we never imagined. We realized it was never meant to be defined. That’s why it has become an ever-evolving platform for humanity to unite as ONE.
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