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Pasadena Community Foundation

Regular Grants

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The following grants were awarded in 2011 through the Regular Grants program of the Pasadena Community Foundation.

2011 Regular Grants
Grants of up to $10,000 for small capital or equipment needs.

Assistance League of Pasadena
$6,120- safety repairs to parking lots: paving, sealing & restriping

Aveson
$6,557- 6 waste sorting stations & yard waste tilt truck & laminating machine for signage

Babe Ruth League of Pasadena
$6,500- artificial turf halo kit for home plate at Jackie Robinson field

D’Veal Family & Youth Services
$9,874 - 9 laptop computers for use by clinical & behavioral field staff

Foothill Creative Arts Group
$3,493- replace vinyl flooring in two classrooms, office & gallery

Grandview Foundation
$10,000 - canopy with enclosure for outdoor patio

Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services
$9,708 - used van or car to transport kids to residential programs and appointments

Hillsides Education Center
$10,000 – 20 student desks, 24 student chair, 10 desktop computers

Journey House
$3,710- washer / dryer, dishwasher, 2 computers

NAMI San Gabriel Valley
$6,333 – 2 computers, 1 digital copy machine, 1 laser printer

Parson’s Nose Productions
$4,906 – sound equipment & audio-visual equipment

Pasadena City College Foundation
$9,283- software upgrade to allow disabled students option of using software at home &work-web enabled

Pasadena Community Orchestra
$3,431- 1 laptop, 1 all in one printer, software, website design, video camera, street banner

Pasadena Education Network
$1,848 - 1 laptop, 1 lcd projector and case

Pasadena Heritage
$9,600 - repairs to basement door & back door, interior wall & ceiling replaster

Pasadena Museum of California Art
$9,598 - E Tapestry fundraising software

Pasadena Police Foundation
$9,384 - digital fingerprinting system, 75 bike helmets for children

Rosemary Children’s Services
$9,914 – re-pipe water lines

Salvation Army Pasadena
$7,500 – heated food storage units

Scholarship Audition Performance Prep Academy
$2,195 – 10 guitars, 10 keyboards

Southwest Chamber Music
$6,988 – 7 telephones & master unit

Union Station Homeless Services
$10,000 – security upgrades

URDC
$8,583- 12 twin mattress sets, 1 computer, printer, router, refrigerator, playground/playhouse

Villa Esperanza
$10,000- equipment for adult day care program

Walter Hoving Home
$9,719 – 4 commercial grade washer/dryer units

The following grants were awarded in 2010 through the Regular Grants program of the Pasadena Community Foundation.

2010 Regular Grants
Grants of up to $10,000 for small capital or equipment needs.

AIDS Service Center
$10,000- high capacity copier with scanner

American Red Cross- SGV Chapter
$9,600- 6 new radios- FCC compliant

Armory Center for the Arts
$10,000- 2 laptop computers, portable stage, table saw & slide scanner

Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena
$10,000- emergency lighting fixtures and battery packs

Child Care Information Service
$8,188- 18 new office chairs

Foothill Family Service
$10,000- 7 laptop computers for clinical staff

Friends of the Levitt Pavilion
$9,515- sound equipment & merchant pop-up booth

Haven House
$4,934- copy machine

Heritage Housing Partners
$9,980- 1 desktop computer, 1 laptop computer, software upgrade, file server & database software

Huntington Memorial Hospital
$5,725- paging system for ambulatory care center

IDEPSCA
$9,782- commercial refrigerator

Lightbringer Project
$9,783- photography equipment

Pacific Asia Museum
$10,000- 100 auditorium stacking chairs, 28 folding tables & 3 locking storage cabinets

Pasadena Arts Council
$1,528- 1 computer, 1 printer, Microsoft office & QuickBooks software

Pasadena Conservatory of Music
$9,610- 4 computers, printer & folding machine

Pasadena Mental Health Center
$8,003- office furnishings

Pasadena Museum of History
$7,235- exterior lighting

Pasadena Pro Musica
$2,855- 36 music stands, lights & 3 mobile storage carts


Pasadena Scottish Rite L.D. Center
$2,877- 2 computers & file cabinet

Public Works (Learning Works Charter School)
$10,000- 2 smart boards, LCD/HDTV player

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California
$9,645- copier/printer, 3 computers & software

Side Street Projects
$9,924- 1 trailer with lights

Women At Work
$7,979- 8 desktop computers & 8 Clean Slate licenses

YWCA of Pasadena
$9,918- 10 desktop computers & software