Earlier this month the local nonprofit Foothill Center received a grant from the Ahmanson Foundation to renovate their unhoused kitchen and add much needed additional offices at their Monrovia site.
“Foothill Unity Center is grateful to The Ahmanson Foundation for their continued support of their capital campaign over the last several years,” the group said in a release on Tuesday.
The Center began its capital campaign in 2016 with the goal to raise $6.2 million. Currently the Center is a little over $1 million away from their goal of owning their Monrovia location outright.
Foothill Unity Center was founded in 1980 as an emergency food pantry, operating out of a church closet in Monrovia, to assist the low-income, disadvantaged and underserved.
The church closet was soon too small to meet the growing needs of the community.
After a few moves, in the 1990s, the organization landed a site in Monrovia, slowly expanding our service area to nearby cities.
“In 2004, we opened our second site in Pasadena. In 2018, Foothill Unity Center moved into a significantly larger facility in Monrovia at 790 W. Chestnut, with the help of its capital campaign, which had launched two years earlier,” the group said.
Foothill Unity Center’s target population is the Foothills portion of SPA 3, which includes Altadena, Pasadena, Arcadia, Azusa, Baldwin Park, Bradbury, Duarte, Irwindale, Monrovia, Sierra Madre, South Pasadena and Temple City.
In 2022, the organization served 13,580 unduplicated individuals with 212,000 services with our core programs: Food, Housing and Homeless, Health, Job Development and Crisis Case Management.
If you would like more information as to how you can support and contribute to the capital campaign or name a room in honor of yourself or a loved one, please contact, Julie Anne Swayze at 626-358-3486 x204 or Julie@foothillunitycenter.org.
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