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Southern California Program
2008
Civic and Community

Recipient  Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest County
City  Temecula, CA
Description  To expand youth development programs by constructing a new clubhouse.

Recipient  Union Rescue Mission
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To provide long-term transitional housing for homeless women and their children by renovating facilities at Hope Gardens Family Center.

Health Care

Recipient  Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand acute and trauma pediatric care by constructing a state-of-the-art hospital building.

Precollegiate Education

Recipient  Unite-LA
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To increase high school graduation, career preparation and post-secondary education among LAUSD students by supporting the development of small learning communities and small schools.

2007
Civic and Community

Recipient  Alliance for Children's Rights
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To support a two-year collaborative effort to ensure that eligible, disabled youth leaving foster care receive Supplemental Security Income.

Recipient  Boy Scouts of America, Los Angeles Area Council
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To increase camping opportunities for inner-city Los Angeles youth by rebuilding the scout camp at Lake Arrowhead.

Recipient  Children's Planning Council
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To improve school readiness and academic outcomes for Los Angeles County's foster care and probation youth by implementing Expecting More, the Education Coordinating Council’s blueprint for change.

Recipient  East Los Angeles Remarkable Citizens Association, Inc.
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To provide social, medical, and therapeutic services to adults with developmental disabilities by building a new multipurpose center in the City of Bell.

Recipient  Loyola Marymount University
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand Loyola Law School's Center for Juvenile Law and Policy,which represents youth in the Los Angeles juvenile justice system and trains law students in child advocacy.

Recipient  Penny Lane
City  North Hills, CA
Description  To consolidate and expand child welfare, family support and mental health programs in the Antelope Valley by building a new Family Center.

Recipient  Project Angel Food
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand the meal delivery program to clients with serious, life-threatening illnesses by acquiring and renovating a new facility.

Precollegiate Education

Recipient  Para Los Ninos
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand a charter elementary school and after-school and family support programs by purchasing and renovating a new facility.

Recipient  Parent Institute for Quality Education, Inc.
City  San Diego, CA
Description  To increase the number of minority, low-income students who attend college by supporting a parent involvement program in collaboration with the California State University system.

Recipient  Saint Mary's Academy
City  Inglewood, CA
Description  To enhance science and math education for girls by modernizing facilities and equipment and revising the curriculum in partnership with Mount St. Mary’s College.

Arts and Culture

Recipient  Armory Center for the Arts
City  Pasadena, CA
Description  To provide free after-school art classes and weekend workshops for children, youth and families in the Madison neighborhood of Pasadena.

Health Care

Recipient  Mission Community Hospital
City  Panorama City, CA
Description  To provide dental service in partnership with UCLA to low-income residents of the northeast San Fernando Valley by constructing a dental teaching clinic.

Recipient  St. John's Well Child & Family Center
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To establish an integrated care center for chronic and environmentally-based diseases by renovating a building in south Los Angeles.

2006
Arts and Culture

Recipient  Children's Museum of Los Angeles
City  Van Nuys, CA
Description  To provide educational and creative experiences for children by fabricating interactive exhibits for the museum's new facility.

Recipient  Henry E. Huntington Library
City  San Marino, CA
Description  To preserve the art collection and expand educational programs by renovating and upgrading the Huntington Gallery.

Recipient  Southern California Public Radio
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand programming in science and technology, the cultural arts and public affairs by purchasing and renovating a new digital broadcast and production facility.

Civic and Community

Recipient  Boys & Girls Clubs of the Los Angeles Harbor
City  San Pedro, CA
Description  To expand academic and enrichment programs for teens in Wilmington by constructing a new facility.

Recipient  Heart of Los Angeles Youth
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand after-school programs for youth by renovating the community center at Lafayette Park in partnership with the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.

Recipient  Ocean Park Community Center
City  Santa Monica, CA
Description  To expand and consolidate programs for low-income and homeless individuals by constructing two new facilities in Santa Monica.

Recipient  Public Counsel Law Center
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand free legal services to low-income families in the greater Los Angeles area by renovating a new headquarters facility.

Health Care

Recipient  Children's Clinic
City  Long Beach, CA
Description  To expand access to quality health care for low-income children and families by equipping a new facility in Long Beach.

Recipient  Los Angeles Free Clinic
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To establish a comprehensive health program for low-income, uninsured children and families by renovating the Hollywood-Wilshire Health Center.

Early Learning Program

Recipient  Mothers' Club Community Center
City  Pasadena, CA
Description  To expand early childhood and parenting programs by purchasing and constructing the agency's first permanent headquarters.

Recipient  Options - A Child Care & Human Services Agency
City  West Covina, CA
Description  To expand access to quality preschool opportunities for low-income children by renovating a former church school building in Pomona.

Precollegiate Education

Recipient  Alliance for College Ready Public Schools
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To establish a charter middle and high school in Pico-Union by purchasing and renovating a new facility as part of a network of small, high-performance schools.

2005
Arts and Culture

Recipient  California Science Center
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To establish the World of Ecology gallery as part of the master plan to create a new kind of public institution to make science accessible and engaging.

Recipient  Skirball Cultural Center
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To develop exhibits and curriculum for Noah's pArk galleries for young children and families.

Civic and Community

Recipient  Chrysalis Center
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To enhance employment services for homeless and low-income adults by purchasing and renovating a new facility in Santa Monica.

Recipient  Hillsides
City  Pasadena, CA
Description  To support Youth Moving On, a supportive housing program for youth transitioning out of the foster care system

Recipient  Homeboy Industries
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand job training and placement programs for ex-gang members from throughout the County by constructing a new facility in downtown Los Angeles.

Recipient  Meet Each Need With Dignity
City  Pacoima, CA
Description  To expand supportive and educational services for disadvantaged families by constructing a new facility in Pacoima.

Recipient  YMCA of Greater Long Beach
City  Long Beach, CA
Description  To expand the Youth Institute, an academic, leadership and job readiness program, for youth ages 14-18.

Early Learning

Recipient  Children's Bureau of Southern California
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To establish a Family Support and Development Center near Pico-Union for children and families at risk of abuse or neglect by constructing a new facility.

Recipient  KCET-Community Television of Southern California
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To partially support the local broadcast of a new series for caregivers, A Place of Our Own/Los Niños en Su Casa,for three years.

Health Care

Recipient  Arroyo Vista Family Health Center
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand health care to low-income families in Lincoln Heights by constructing a new clinic.

Recipient  East Valley Community Health Center, Inc.
City  West Covina, CA
Description  To expand health care to low-income families in the East San Gabriel Valley by constructing a new clinic.

Precollegiate Education

Recipient  Pueblo Nuevo Development
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To establish a college-preparatory charter high school for disadvantaged students in the MacArthur Park area by constructing a new facility.

Special Projects

Recipient  KCET-Community Television of Southern California
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To continue exclusive underwriting of the local broadcast of Sesame Street for three years.

2004
Arts and Culture

Recipient  Henry E. Huntington Library
City  San Marino, CA
Description  To further scholarly research and educational activities by equipping a new research center.

Recipient  Inner-City Arts
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To provide arts education programming to an increased number of disadvantaged children by expanding the agency's campus in downtown Los Angeles.

Recipient  Shakespeare Festival/LA
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand Will Power to Youth, an arts-based youth development, literacy and employment program for disadvantaged teens and young adults.

Civic and Community

Recipient  Center for Nonprofit Management
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To improve the nonprofit sector's ability to serve low-income populations by enhancing and supporting the Healthy City Asset Mapping Project.

Recipient  Church of Our Saviour
City  El Monte, CA
Description  To expand after-school programs for disadvantaged youth by furnishing and equipping the new Kids' Campus Youth Center and providing support for start-up operations.

Recipient  Downtown Women's Center
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand and enhance services to mentally ill and elderly homeless women by providing support for improvements to its facilities and program.

Recipient  Florence Crittenton Center
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand the agency's capacity to provide services for abused and neglected children, though a comprehensive fundraising program.

Recipient  Painted Turtle
City  Santa Monica, CA
Description  To support a camping program for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families by underwriting cabin construction costs and start-up operations.

Recipient  Sheriff's Youth Foundation of Los Angeles County
City  Monterey Park, CA
Description  To expand a comprehensive after-school program for disadvantaged children by constructing a new Youth Activity Center.

Recipient  Toberman Settlement House, Inc.
City  San Pedro, CA
Description  To expand academic and family support programs by constructing new facilities in the Los Angeles Harbor area.

Recipient  Western Center on Law and Poverty
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To increase the number of skilled advocates in Southern California to help foster children and their caregivers access public benefits and services.

Precollegiate Education

Recipient  California State University, Northridge
City  Northridge, CA
Description  To better prepare aspiring K-12 instructors by developing a Teachers-in-Residence initiative as part of a model teacher education program.

Recipient  Cathedral High School
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To provide a college preparatory education for an expanded enrollment of low-income students by constructing a new building on the school's inner-city campus.

Recipient  Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Foundation
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To establish a Science, Technology and Arts Resource Laboratory to integrate and enhance academic and arts instruction.

Recipient  Rx for Reading
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand Waterford, a computer-based reading program for kindergarten and first grade students, in additional classrooms.

Early Learning Program

Recipient  Lennox School District
City  Lennox, CA
Description  To improve school readiness and enhance educational opportunities for low-income children by constructing new classrooms.

Recipient  St. Anne's
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To establish a Child Development Center as part of a new transitional housing facility for young mothers emancipated from the foster care and probation systems.

Health Care

Recipient  National Health Foundation
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  Joint project with Maternal and Child Health Access and Neighborhood Legal Services to expand health care coverage for low-income children.

2003
Arts and Culture

Recipient  Art Center College of Design
City  Pasadena, CA
Description  To expand arts education programming for the public by establishing a second campus in downtown Pasadena.

Recipient  Ford Theatre Foundation
City  Hollywood, CA
Description  To attract a more diverse audience for the performing arts by expanding the outreach component of the Latino Audience Initiative.

Civic and Community

Recipient  Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center
City  Culver City, CA
Description  To enhance mental health services for children and families by renovating the Center's facility in South Los Angeles.

Recipient  Optimist Youth Homes and Family Services
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand the special education program for troubled adolescents by constructing a new Youth Learning Center on the agency's main campus.

Recipient  Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To serve an increased number of families with critically ill children by expanding the Los Angeles House.

Recipient  Students Run L.A.
City  Reseda, CA
Description  To support a physical fitness and mentoring program for at-risk middle and high school students that culminates in their participation in the Los Angeles Marathon.

Recipient  United Friends of the Children
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To assist youth emancipating from the foster care system by establishing a service enriched transitional housing program.

Early Learning Program

Recipient  Korean Youth and Community Center
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To increase early education and care available to low-income families in Koreatown by developing a new center for 70 children.

Recipient  Para Los Ninos
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To provide an early childhood education program for children in the Pico-Union neighborhood by renovating a building.

Recipient  St. Joseph Center
City  Venice, CA
Description  To add child development spaces for homeless and low-income preschoolers, and expand family support services by constructing a new facility.

Health Care

Recipient  QueensCare Family Clinics
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand the pediatric dental program to additional Los Angeles Unified School District elementary schools by purchasing and equipping a Mobile Dental Clinic.

Recipient  St. John's Well Child & Family Center
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand medical, dental and mental health services by renovating the Compton clinic.

Special Projects

Recipient  Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To plan for the multi-year initiative to reduce the prevalence of obesity and diabetes in two low-income communities, and improve prevention and treatment services for these chronic conditions.

2002
Arts and Culture

Recipient  Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
City  San Pedro, CA
Description  To expand school and public education programs by constructing additional facilities.

Recipient  Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch and Gardens
City  Long Beach, CA
Description  To expand exhibit and program space by constructing an Education Center.

Civic and Community

Recipient  Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley
City  Santa Clarita, CA
Description  To expand after-school programs by constructing a facility on a junior high school campus in collaboration with a local school district.

Recipient  Crescenta-Canada Family YMCA
City  La Canada Flintridge, CA
Description  To expand after-school programs for youth at the Verdugo Hills branch by constructing new classrooms and a multipurpose center.

Recipient  Harbor Interfaith Shelter
City  San Pedro, CA
Description  To help homeless families transition to self-sufficiency by providing start-up funding for a new child care center for young children.

Recipient  Little Tokyo Service Center - Community Development Corporation
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To renovate an historic building in Little Tokyo to create a community computer center, affordable housing, and social service programs.

Recipient  Mar Vista Family Center
City  Culver City, CA
Description  To expand services to a high-need community by constructing a Youth and Senior Center.

Recipient  OPARC
City  Montclair, CA
Description  To provide training and employment opportunities to more developmentally disabled adults by constructing a new facility.

Recipient  PATH
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To establish a new Regional Homeless Center, which includes 19 community-based agencies providing integrated services to homeless people and needy families, and four transitional living programs.

Recipient  Public Counsel Law Center
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To resolve the oldest adoption cases and provide legal services to emancipating youth in the Los Angeles County foster care system.

Recipient  Union Station Foundation
City  Pasadena, CA
Description  To expand comprehensive services for homeless women and their children by constructing the Family Center.

Early Learning Program

Recipient  Accelerated School
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To establish an Early Childhood Development Center as part of the expansion of a charter school in South Central Los Angeles.

Recipient  California State University, Long Beach
City  Long Beach, CA
Description  To support REACH, a collaborative to train and retain early childhood professionals, to better prepare young children for school.

Recipient  Mount St. Mary's College
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To create new quality child care spaces for infants and toddlers, and improve the training of child care professionals by renovating and expanding the Child Development Center.

Recipient  Pasadena Conservatory of Music
City  Pasadena, CA
Description  To expand and enhance "Music for Young Children" through renovation and support for outreach programs to low-income preschoolers.

Health Care

Recipient  Valley Community Clinic
City  North Hollywood, CA
Description  To establish new medical and dental programs for low-income children by acquiring a facility.

Special Projects

Recipient  KCET-Community Television of Southern California
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To continue underwriting the broadcast of Sesame Street for three years.

2001
Arts and Culture

Recipient  Griffith Observatory
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To provide new educational facilities and exhibit space by renovating and expanding the Griffith Observatory.

Recipient  Los Angeles Zoo
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To provide new interactive exhibit and classroom space by constructing the Children's Education Discovery Center as part of the Zoo's master plan.

Civic and Community

Recipient  Aviva Family and Children' Services
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand enrollment in Aviva's non-public school and increase family mental health services through new construction and renovation.

Recipient  Foothill Family Service
City  Pasadena, CA
Description  To provide expanded therapeutic counseling services for at-risk children and families throughout the San Gabriel Valley by renovating the new Family Center.

Recipient  Los Angeles Regional Foodbank
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To improve and increase food distribution to families in need throughout Los Angeles County by renovating and equipping two adjacent warehouses.

Recipient  Los Angeles Retarded Citizens' Foundation
City  Saugus, CA
Description  To provide quality housing for developmentally disabled adults by furnishing new residential facilities.

Recipient  Prototypes
City  Culver City, CA
Description  To expand outpatient and day treatment programs for mothers and their children by constructing a new facility adjacent to the Women's Center in Pomona.

Recipient  TreePeople
City  Beverly Hills, CA
Description  To provide enhanced environmental education programs for school children and the community by constructing the Center for Community Forestry.

Recipient  University of California, Los Angeles
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To provide leadership training for graduate students and practitioners to advocate effectively on behalf of disadvantaged children in Los Angeles.

Early Learning Program

Recipient  California State University, Los Angeles
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand early childhood education programs for low-income children by constructing and equipping new classrooms in the Anna Bing Arnold Children's Center.

Recipient  Eisner Pediatric & Family Medical Center
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand health care, family support and child development services for low-income children and families in downtown Los Angeles through new construction and renovation.

Recipient  John Tracy Clinic
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand parent education and preschool programs for profoundly deaf children by constructing and renovating facilities.

Recipient  Westside Children's Center
City  Culver City, CA
Description  To expand early childhood education programs for low-income children by constructing and equipping a new Child Development Center.

Health Care

Recipient  Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, Inc.
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To expand the Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program for low-income, uninsured Asian and Pacific Islander women.

Recipient  Venice Family Clinic
City  Venice, CA
Description  To expand health care services for low-income, uninsured children, adolescents and adults by renovating and expanding the Clinic's Rose Avenue and Venice Health Center sites.

Precollegiate Education

Recipient  Los Angeles Educational Partnership
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To support Early Intervention Partners, a counseling and support program for at-risk families with young children (K-1st grade) at Project GRAD schools in Pacoima/San Fernando.

Recipient  Pueblo Nuevo Development
City  Los Angeles, CA
Description  To add a new middle school program, parent center and health clinic at the Camino Nuevo Charter Academy by renovating facilities.





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