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“You need to learn to be generous.  We learned that from Mommie.”

- Barbara Beckham (Nancy Nash Beckham Endowment Fund for Hunger)

Pasadena Community Foundation

Field of Interest Funds

Donors can create a fund dedicated to an area of interest such as the arts or youth or create a designated fund to benefit a specific non-profit organization.  You identify your personal area of interest when making your gift.  Our board awards grants to community agencies and programs that are making a difference in the area you select.  Field of Interest Funds can also be established through a restricted bequest to the Pasadena Community Foundation.

Call and ask for information on Setting up a Current or Future Fund to support a cause you care about.  Here are examples of Funds currently held by the Pasadena Community Foundation:

Arts and Culture
These funds support cultural enrichment through the arts in Pasadena including music, architecture, visual and theatre arts, arts education and historic preservation

  • Live Orchestral Music Fund

Education
These funds support early childhood and public education, and out of school and lifelong learning educational opportunities; See also scholarship funds

Health
These funds support prevention, education or access to health care including direct care, medical research and training

Seniors
These funds support organization in Pasadena that address the special needs of the elderly

  • Cornelia L Eaton Endowment Fund for Assistance to the Elderly

Social Services
These funds support people with special challenges, such as those who have physical or learning challenges, those who are disabled, the poor and disenfranchised, fragile families, those in recovery or those suffering from abuse or neglect 

Youth
These funds support opportunities of children and teens in our community by supporting positive youth development opportunities and nurturing relationships by caring adults, to help our youth to become tomorrow's leaders, policy makers, workforce, and voters

  • Yes, Virginia Endowment Fund
  • Ralph & Margaret Norrington Youth Endowment Fund
  • Rebecca R. Anthony Endowment Fund for Needy and Underprivileged Children
Nancy Nash Beckham Nancy Nash Beckham Hunger Endowment Fund

Nancy Nash Beckham was proud to be known as the “cookie lady” for 12 years at All Saints Church in Pasadena.  Beginning in 1992, she and her daughter Barbara Beckham took over leadership of the Hunger Ministry at the Church which generates funds through the offering of baked goods for donations every Sunday. 

When Nancy Beckham passed away in March of 2007, Barbara and her sister, Patti Healy wanted to do something to pay tribute to their mother.  It seemed logical to further her legacy of a ministry to the hungry.  So, they set up a fund at the Pasadena Community Foundation named the Nancy Nash Beckham Fund for Hunger.  The fund will make grants to non-profit organizations in the Pasadena area that provide food and shelter programs to the hungry and homeless or to those rebuilding their lives.
 

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