California Community Foundation Awards $5 Million in Grants

The California Community Foundation has announced priority grants totaling almost $5 million to forty-three nonprofits serving low-income communities in Los Angeles County.

Most of the grants were awarded for operating and new initiative support to organizations working in CCF's core program areas — affordable housing, art, education, health care, and human development. Additional grants were awarded to a number of civic engagement programs and through the foundation's ten-year El Monte Community Building Initiative.

Grant recipients included the Community Health Councils, Inc., which was awarded $125,000 to organize and train a consumer advisory board comprised of uninsured, low-income patients willing to advocate for improvements in health care in South L.A.; the Southern California Leadership Network, which received $100,000 to expand existing programs and create a leadership development program to broaden the pipeline of civic leaders in the region; the Partners in Care Foundation, which was awarded $50,000 for specialty care medical education and to support an orthopedic trauma care program serving low-income children and adults in the San Fernando Valley; and the I Have a Dream Foundation, which received $50,000 to support Latino and African-American students and parents in Boyle Heights and South L.A.

"The California Community Foundation invests in Los Angeles-based nonprofits to address some of the county's toughest challenges," said CCF president and CEO Antonia Hernández. "We are striving to build a better future for everyone in Los Angeles through strategic grantmaking and multi-year commitments to excellent nonprofits — systematically, consistently, and despite the economy."

For a complete list of priority grant recipients, visit the California Community Foundation Web site.

“Community Foundation Awards $5 Million to L.A. Nonprofits.” California Community Foundation 3/31/11.

Primary Subject: Community Improvement/Development
Secondary Subject(s): Education, Arts and Culture, Human Services, Health
Location(s): California, Los Angeles County

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