Isla Vista Tenants Union (IVTU)
Introduction
The Isla Vista Tenants Union‘s mission is to empower the tenants of Isla Vista through education, advocacy, and grassroots organizing, as well as promoting tenant interests and act against violations of tenants’ rights.
Rental Seminar
IVTU hosted a rental seminar in February to provide students with information regarding all aspects of choosing and renting housing in IV and beyond. Lease and contract obligations were foremost concerns, including how best to insure that security deposits are returned!
Isla Vista GIVE Drive
As a fitting end to a year of serving the IV community, several A.S. groups, including IVTU, CAB and CAB Foundation, IVCRC, Business Services Committee, and Finance Board, participated in the annual IV GIVE drive. The event, which is also sponsored by GIVE Isla Vista, Housing & Residential Services, Office of Student Life, Marborg Disposal, Inc., Goodwill Industries, and The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF), is the culmination of a week of collecting items ranging from furniture to non-perishable foods from students moving out at the end of the year. These items are sold and all proceeds benefit local community service agencies. Items left over from the sale are donated to local The food goes to stock the shelves of the A.S. Food Bank. This year GIVE raised $37,260.24. 138 volunteers worked 1,314.5 hours collecting about 30 tons of student donations. This included over 1289 pounds of food for the A.S. Food Bank, and hundreds of pounds of E-waste for A.S. Recycling. 100% of the proceeds were distributed to 14 IV community non-profits, including:
Adopt-a-Block Program: Isla Vista Recreation & Park District
Associated Students Food Bank
Breakfast Optimist Club of Goleta
Isla Vista Elementary School Science Camp Scholarship Fund
Isla Vista Initiatives Fund, i.e. Isla Vista Community Network
Isla Vista Teen Center
Isla Vista/UCSB Liaison Scholarship Fund at the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara
Isla Vista Youth Projects
Optimist Club @ UCSB
St. Brigid Outreach Program
Santa Barbara Student Housing Coop
St. Michael and All Angels Church
THRIVE Isla Vista
Viva el Arte de Santa Barbara/Isla Vista