Allan Hancock College is your community college located in North Santa Barbara county. For the past 90 years, we have been the doorway to higher education for thousands of area residents. As a local community college, we have defined ourselves by the many faces and needs of those students who have passed through those doors. Whether the student was seeking job skills, training, transferring to a four-year college/university, or taking course work for personal enrichment, they found a home at Allan Hancock College. As we look to the future, our greatest challenge will be keeping that doorway open wide, welcoming and providing the same opportunities that have benefited more than eight decades of alums. Through the work and mission of the AHC Foundation, we invite you will help us to keep the tradition alive. Allan Hancock College -- Start here. Go anywhere. The mission of the Allan Hancock College Foundation is to operate for the advancement of education by raising funds and building community support to meet the needs of the college in the areas of scholarships, capital/infrastructure projects and program support.”