Program:
Arts
- Budget:
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$1,933,888
- Category:
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Arts, Culture & Humanities
- Population Served:
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Ethnic/Racial Minorities -- General
Program Description:
<div>Focus: Increasing participation in the arts among underserved communities and supporting individual artists. We support small and midsize, community-based arts organizations so that they can in turn provide local, affordable and accessible arts opportunities for community members to participate, create and engage in art that is relevant to their lives.</div>
Program Long-Term Success:
<div >
<p >Since 2006, both the number of CCF-funded arts organizations and people served annually have increased — from seven to 32 organizations and 208,408 to 555,569 served. The increase in funding is due to the availability of resources from the <a href="http://www.calfund.org/give/jplegacy.php">Palevsky Endowment for the Future of Los Angeles</a> and a grant from the James Irvine Foundation.</p>
<p >In its 21st year, the <a href="http://www.calfund.org/receive/fellowships.php">Fellowships for Visual Artists</a> program has supported 144 artists.</p>
</div>
Program Short-Term Success:
<ul>
<li>Since 2006, both the number of CCF-funded arts organizations and people served annually have increased — from seven to 32 organizations and 208,408 to 555,569 served. The increase in funding is due to the availability of resources from the <a href="http://www.calfund.org/give/jplegacy.php">Palevsky Endowment for the Future of Los Angeles</a> and a grant from the James Irvine Foundation.</li>
<li>In its 21st year, the <a href="http://www.calfund.org/receive/fellowships.php">Fellowships for Visual Artists</a> program has supported 144 artists.</li>
</ul>
Program Success Monitored by:
<a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/staffbios.php#Leslie_Ito">Leslie Ito</a>, arts program officer
Program Success Examples:
Top-performing grantees include: <strong><a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/unsung_heroes_honorees.php">Cornerstone Theater Company</a>,</strong> a mid-size, multi-ethnic, ensemble-based company brings together people who would not normally interact to produce a play. Recently, the theater group explored how laws shape and disrupt communities and focused on such issues as illegal immigration, incarceration and reproductive rights. <strong><a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/unsung_heroes_honorees.php">East West Players</a></strong>, a professional theater group for underserved Asian Pacific American communities, draws 35,000 attendees each year through its four educational programs and its main stage season. <strong><a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/unsung_heroes_honorees.php">Social and Public Arts Resource Center (SPARC)</a></strong> promotes public art as an organizing tool for addressing contemporary issues, fostering cross-cultural understanding and promoting civic dialogue. It is working with the city of Los Angeles to address the issue of murals across L.A. that are deteriorating due to increased graffiti.
Program:
Education
- Budget:
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$2,600,000
- Category:
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Education
- Population Served:
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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Children Only (5 - 14 years)
Program Description:
<div>Focus: Ensuring children from low-income families are prepared for kindergarten; improving K–5 student performance in math and literacy; and reducing the gaps in achievement among underserved populations. We support programs that offer quality early childhood education, family literacy or parent education, increase parent engagement and provide quality teacher professional development.</div>
Program Long-Term Success:
<ul>
<li>Superintendent Ramon Cortines incorporated the <a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/CCFNewsforCommunityFeb2009_lausd.php">LAUSD report card</a> as a tool promoting accountability in reform efforts.</li>
<li>36 active grantees served 26,211 children, engaged 24,313 parents and trained 1,027 teachers.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.calfund.org/octnews_grantmaking.php">Geographic distribution of grants</a> has expanded to all areas of L.A. County during the last three years.</li>
</ul>
Program Short-Term Success:
<ul>
<li> Distributed 21 grants for $2.6 million, an increase of $200,000 over the previous year.</li>
<li>CCF’s grantees provided 5,532 parents with trainings and workshops on how to support their children’s learning and academic achievement.</li>
</ul>
Program Success Monitored by:
<a href="mailto:privera@ccf-la.org">Peter Rivera</a>, education program officer
Program Success Examples:
Top-performing grantees include:<strong> <a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/unsung_heroes_honorees.php">Mothers’ Club Family Learning Center</a> </strong>helps at-risk children and their parents get a better education.Each year, the center serves about 100 children and their families, who are low-income, primarily immigrant and English learners living in northwest Pasadena. <strong><a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/unsung_heroes_honorees.php">Mar Vista Family Center</a></strong> is a full service family center that emphasizes parents as partners in their children’s education. The center serves nearly 1,000 children, youth and adults annually, including 17 children who graduate from preschool ready to succeed in elementary school. Mar Vista’s parents have also formed an advocacy group made up of 22 parents and have taken part in events advocating for early childhood education. <strong><a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/unsung_heroes_honorees.php">Long Beach Day Nursery</a></strong> is one of the oldest nonprofit child development agencies in California. Every year, the center serves nearly 250 children from ages six weeks to six years, offering child care, nutritional meals, kindergarten readiness classes and parent education.
Program:
Health Care
- Budget:
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$3,754,840
- Category:
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Health Care
- Population Served:
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Ethnic/Racial Minorities -- General
Program Description:
<div>Focus: Improving access to a regular, sustainable source of quality health care for low-income adults and children. We support community clinics, a critical segment of the health care safety net for the medically underserved and uninsured. We promote policy and advocacy efforts aimed at strengthening the outpatient safety net, and support efforts to expand health care coverage for uninsured children.</div>
Program Long-Term Success:
<ul>
<li>Seventeen community clinics provided approximately 976,324 patient visits to more than 290,000 low-income children and adults. </li>
<li>Collectively, during the past three years, CCF-funded clinics have provided more than a million patient visits to an average of more than 275,000 patients annually since 2006.</li>
</ul>
Program Short-Term Success:
Distributed 18 grants for $3.3 million. More than half of the organizations funded were <a href="http://www.calfund.org/octnews_grantmaking.php">community clinics serving the San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley, East L.A., Metro L.A., South Bay and South L.A.</a>
Program Success Monitored by:
<a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/staffbios.php#TJones">Tamu Jones</a>, health care program officer
Program Success Examples:
Top-performing grantees include: <strong><a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/unsung_heroes_honorees.php">St. John’s Well Child and Family Center</a></strong> provides low and no-cost comprehensive services to children, adolescents and adults. It operates 11 clinics sites serving downtown, Northeast and South Los Angeles. Each year, St. John’s provides 75,000 patient visits to more than 25,000 clients who are 85 percent Latino, 14 percent African American and 1 percent Asian/Pacific Islander. More than 90 percent of its patients have incomes below the federal poverty level. <strong><a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/unsung_heroes_honorees.php">Community Health Alliance of Pasadena (CHAP)</a></strong> offers affordable health care to people in need. Each year, it provides 25,000 patient visits to more than 8,000 clients primarily to residents in northwest Pasadena and surrounding communities. In 2006, CCF funded CHAP to pilot a chronic disease self-management program for low-income adults with severe diabetes. More than 88 patients completed the program and more than 75 percent of severe diabetics saw their blood glucose levels drop. Because of the program’s success, CHAP established a permanent health education department. <strong><a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/unsung_heroes_honorees.php">University Muslim Medical Association (UMMA)</a></strong>, which gained support from the City of Los Angeles to set up a primary care clinic in South L.A., provides about 6,600 patient visits to 2,400 low-income and uninsured patients each year.
Program:
Human Development
- Budget:
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$2,976,379
- Category:
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Human Services
- Population Served:
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Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens
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Youth/Adolescents only (14 - 19 years)
Program Description:
<div>Focus: Increasing opportunities that promote self-sufficiency, independent living and community participation for elderly adults and youth that are aging out of foster care between ages 18-25. We support nonprofits that provide comprehensive, community-based support services; policy advocacy efforts that increase public awareness of and support for community-based services; and capacity building efforts that strengthen outcome tracking systems designed to improve service delivery and efficiency.</div>
Program Long-Term Success:
<ul>
<li>This is our newest program area. In 2008-2009, 19 grantees served 662,005* aging adults.</li>
<li>12 grantees served 10,766* transition age youth (*note: These numbers represent clients who were served by more than one grantee and/or provided more than one service.) </li>
</ul>
Program Short-Term Success:
<ul>
<li>Distributed 14 grants for $1.3 million, increasing the number of active grantees that provided senior adult day services to 13. </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.calfund.org/octnews_grantmaking.php">San Fernando Valley received the highest percentage of dollars</a> requested (98 percent) because the area has the highest concentration of aging adults in L.A. County.</li>
</ul>
Program Success Monitored by:
<a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/staffbios.php#Robert_Lewis">Robert Lewis</a>, human development program officer
Program Success Examples:
Top-performing grantees include: <strong><a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/unsung_heroes_honorees.php">Casa Colina Centers for Rehabilitation</a> </strong>provides physical and cognitive rehabilitation services. Each year, it serves about 5,300 people in Los Angeles County, ranging from infants to seniors who suffer from spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries, stroke, developmental disabilities, hearing disorders and orthopedic injuries. Its adult day care and health-maintenance center helps disabled adults – many of whom are aging adults – delay or avoid institutionalization and keeps them connected to the community. The health center met its goal of serving 136 aging adults in the last year, with 129 (94.9 percent) avoiding being placed in nursing homes. <strong><a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/unsung_heroes_honorees.php">Partners in Care Foundation</a></strong> is a health care and social service organization that works to improve the quality of life for vulnerable populations throughout Los Angeles County. It serves 16,000 clients each year and as part of its CCF grant, provided adult day health care services to more than 133 aging adults and their caregiver families. Of those, more than 36 of the clients and their families received intensive diabetic educational counseling. It is also the lead agency for the California Department of Aging to incorporate evidence-based practices into care for seniors across the state. <strong><a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/unsung_heroes_honorees.php">California Youth Connection (CYC)</a></strong> mobilizes and motivates current and former foster youth to engage in effective long-term change so they can influence and improve the child welfare system. Statewide, CYC has 500 youth volunteers as members and 28 county chapters, including the Los Angeles chapter with 30 members. CYC members have testified at policy hearings, facilitated reports on needs assessments and field research and participated in state and local task forces and advisory bodies to articulate issues based on the youth’s perspective and experience in the foster care system.
Program:
Housing and Neighborhoods
- Budget:
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$2,200,000
- Category:
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Community Development
- Population Served:
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General Public/Unspecified
Program Description:
<div>Focus: Providing a stable living environment for low-income families and individuals by increasing the supply of quality affordable housing and access to it in Los Angeles County. We support production and preservation of existing units by Community Development Corporations; expansion of access to capital and technical support infrastructure for housing development; nonpartisan policy analysis and research of affordable housing issues at the state and local level; building of constituencies for legislative and/or regulatory change in affordable housing; and training of residents in community building and leadership techniques around neighborhood redevelopment and land use issues.</div>
Program Long-Term Success:
<ul><li>CCF grantees in L.A. County produced 749 housing units and a total of 1,960 units over the last three fiscal years.</li><li>Added two new legal services grantees that serve those affected by the foreclosure crisis. Those grants extended foreclosure-related eviction legal services to an additional 2,200 low-income households. </li></ul>
Program Short-Term Success:
Distributed 22 grants for $2.3 million, including 13 organizations receiving $1.45 million for core operating support; eight receiving $758,000 for policy/advocacy support; and one receiving $100,000 for capacity building.
Program Success Monitored by:
<a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/staffbios.php#yguevara">Yamileth Guevara</a>, neighborhood revitalization program officer
Program Success Examples:
Top-performing grantees include: <strong><a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/unsung_heroes_honorees.php">A Community of Friends (ACOF)</a> </strong>develops permanent supportive housing for homeless people and families with special needs and works with community-based service agencies to offer on-site support services to promote stability. Over the last 20 years, ACOF has completed 34 projects for more than 1,270 people and families. The agency has an exceptional retention rate among its tenants: 74 percent of tenants maintain their housing for at least 12 months with another 50 percent housed for more than five years. <strong><a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/unsung_heroes_honorees.php">Abode Communities</a></strong> develops affordable housing for low-income and special needs people and to improve neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles County. Since it was founded in 1968, Abode has invested nearly $300 million in real estate development and completed more than 50 affordable housing projects totaling nearly 3,000 units. <strong><a href="http://www.calfund.org/learn/unsung_heroes_honorees.php">Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC)</a></strong> is a comprehensive social service and community economic development agency that serves about 6,000 people annually. It also develops and preserves affordable housing for low-income families in Los Angeles County. During the last 16 years, the agency has developed more than 600 units of affordable rental housing.