Compiled by Roberta Boginis
Grants totaling more than $729,000 were given to 16 community breast health groups by the Orange County affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
The James Irvine Foundation awarded a grant of $600,000 to the Orange County Community Foundation in Irvine for its Communities Advancing the Arts program. The foundation plans to work with Arts Orange County to support small and midsize arts groups and to encourage support of the arts.
The Great Chefs of Orange County, a 19-year-old philanthropic group, raised $90,000 for the National Kidney Foundation at its 2004 fund-raiser in Newport Beach. Newport Beach-based The Peterson Group Inc. contributed $2,500 worth of marketing services for the event.
The Snell & Wilmer Charitable Foundation, a new group at Irvine law firm Snell & Wilmer LLP, awarded a $75,000 grant to Orange County United Way’s “Success by 6” program. The money is set to fund attendance at accredited day care centers.
The Orange County Child Abuse Prevention Center received a $50,000 grant from Walt Disney Co.’s Disneyland Resort and received its “Outstanding Award.” The resort distributed $440,000 in community service awards to 30 local groups as part of “A Dream is a Wish” tour throughout OC. The center will use the funds to increase its service and eliminate waiting lists in child abuse and teen pregnancy prevention programs.
Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County received $30,000 from 2004 events put on by members of The Orange County Associa-tion of Realtors, including the climb-a-thon “Everest 2004,” which was started by OC attorney and association member Daniel Nassie.
The Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana received a $20,000 sponsorship from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for a permanent water conservation exhibit.
Friends of Jazz donated $15,000 to California State University, Fullerton’s jazz program, which provides scholarships and support for young musicians. Cal State Fullerton’s Jazz Combo and Jazz Ensemble earned honors at the Reno Jazz Festival in 2004.
PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. donated $10,000 to Swim With Mike, a fund-raiser benefiting the Physically Challenged Athletes Scholarship Fund, which helps to provide tuition and financial assistance toward housing and books.
Angels Groundskeepers,500 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim fans and volunteers from Vanguard University’s baseball team, Chapman University and Costco workers,helped raise more than $6,000 and 7,700 pounds of food in the “Third Annual Angels Groundskeepers Food Drive” benefiting Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County.
Mission San Juan Capistrano was awarded $4,100 by the Cal-
ifornia Missions Foundation to fund a professional assessment of the wooden beams and corbels of Serra Chapel in an overall renovation and preservation of the mission and its art.
More than 12,000 Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts collected more than 185,000 pounds of food for the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County as part of their Scouting for Food program. Event sponsors were the Orange County Reg-ister, Albertson’s, Papa John’s and ConAgra. The Army Reserve’s 329th Quartermaster Company from March Air Reserve Base in Riverside provided transportation for the food, led by 2nd Lt. Devon McNeil and Sgt. 1st Class Richard Amiot.
Orange County Ronald McDonald House received a fully redecorated and remodeled interior as a result of donations from 30 designers from the American Society of Interior Designers and local businesses.
Aletha Anderson was named Volunteer of the Year and Marica Pendjer and Betty Winek were honored with Cameo Awards by the Orange County Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. The awards recognize leadership, commitment and involvement.
Merrill Lynch & Co., Wells Fargo & Co., the Orange County Affordable Home-Ownership Alliance and Neighborhood Housing Services of Orange County provided funding to promote affordable homeownership for working families in Orange County.
