Newport Beach-based Pacific Life Foundation, the giving arm of Newport Beach insurer Pacific Life Insurance Co., donated $3.3 million in grants, ranging from $2,500 to $152,000, to 200 nonprofits in Southern California. Irvine-based Illumination Foundation, an organization that fights homelessness, received $25,000. Pacific Life Foundation also awarded $715,000 in grants to 10 nonprofit health and human service agencies as part of the company’s economic impact grants program. Recipients of the grants were AIDS Services Orange County, Camino Health Center, Children’s Health Initiative of Orange County, Community Services Program, the Orange County chapter of the Council on Aging, Healthy Smiles for Kids Orange County, Interval House, Laguna Beach Community Clinic, Lestonnac Free Clinic and Nhan Hoa Comprehensive Health Care Clinic.
Santa Ana-based WisePlace raised $100,000 at a fundraiser presented by the Anaheim Ducks and Honda Center. The event was held at the Mesa Verde Country Club in Costa Mesa. Proceeds will help women going through financial hardship, emancipated youth from the foster care system and victims of domestic violence.
Wells Fargo & Co. provided $60,000 in grants to five local nonprofits. Organizations were chosen based on voting by customers and employees. Recipients were Children’s Hospital of Orange County in Orange, Second Harvest Food Bank in Irvine, the local chapter of the American Red Cross in Santa Ana, Orangewood Children’s Foundation in Santa Ana and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in Irvine. Wells Fargo also gave $50,000 to the Illumination Foundation. The money will provide housing and services to homeless families with children.
Bank of America Corp. gave $10,000 to Tustin’s Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County to support its school-based programs in San Juan Capistrano.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County in Tustin received $4,000 from the Tappan Foundation of Newport Beach and the Robinson Foundation of New Jersey. The Robinson Foundation donation specifically supports Big Brothers Big Sisters’ work at school sites. The Vintage Chevrolet Club of America’s local chapter in Orange donated $2,600 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County. The money was raised from the club’s fifth Annual All-Chevy Car Show held at the Enderle Center in Tustin.
Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp. donated $20,000 to Orange County United Way to help the nonprofit provide basic necessities and education to people in need.
The Anti-Defamation League of Orange County/Long Beach’s Marcus Kaufman Jurisprudence Awards raised $165,000 for the league, which is a human and civil rights group. The event, held at The Island Hotel Newport Beach, was attended by about 450 people. Winners of the awards were Mark Minyard, managing partner of Minyard & Morris LLP, Martha Gooding, a partner at Howrey LLP, and William O’Hare, administrative partner of Snell & Wilmer LLP.
Moms Orange County in Santa Ana received $18,000 from the Irvine Health Foundation under its technology/IT initiative. Moms helps women and their families have healthy babies by offering healthcare services, education and access to community services.
The cast members of Disney’s California Ad-venture theme park recently performed “Flashback,” a Broadway-style musical, at Hyperion Theatre in Los Angeles. The performance raised $10,000, which was donated to Discovery Arts in Orange, an organization that brings theatre arts to children with cancer.
Garden Grove-based Earth Friendly Products donated $55,000 worth of cleaning supplies to Oklahoma City, Okla.-based Feed the Children Organization. Donated items included laundry detergent, toilet bowl cleaner and hand soap.
