Tim Willert
GLENDALE -- The Glendale Community Foundation has allocated more than
$40,000 in grant money among 21 local charitable organizations.
The Glendale/Crescenta Valley chapter of the American Red Cross
received $7,000 for disaster relief equipment, training, supplies and
materials. Holy Family High School received $5,000 toward the purchase of
31 personal computers and related equipment for the school's technology
teaching lab.
The grants are for youth development, human services, arts and culture
and education, and come from the the foundation's unrestricted and
donor-advised funds.
The Glendale Unified School District received $4,320 for its Latino
Student Initiative, which will pay for field trips for Hispanic students
at Toll and Roosevelt middle schools.
Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times received $3,000 to sponsor four
Glendale children with cancer at a weeklong camp experience near
Idyllwild.
Brand Library and Art Center, the Glendale Community College Art
Gallery, and Verdugo Woodlands Elementary School each received $2,000
from the foundation.
Agencies including Foothill Family Services, Glendale Family YMCA, New
Horizons Family Center and YWCA of Glendale also received grants.
The foundation makes grants to local nonprofit organizations in
Glendale, La Canada Flintridge, La Crescenta, Montrose and Verdugo City.
