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Pasadena Community Foundation (PCF) announces its first round of Eaton Fire relief grants to 20 nonprofit partners in Altadena and Pasadena. The grants, totaling $533,000, are the first distribution from PCF’s Eaton Fire Relief & Recovery Fund, which was created last week and has raised more than $4 million to date thanks to the incredible outpouring from individuals, foundations, and corporations.
PCF’s first round of funding will help nonprofits swiftly provide cash assistance, food, shelter, emergency childcare, and medical care to the community. “The situation in Altadena and north Pasadena is dire, with thousands of residents impacted by the loss of homes, workplaces, and community,” says Jeannine Bogaard, PCF’s Director of Community Impact. “We also know that the capacity of many nonprofits has been deeply impacted as their facilities, their leadership, and their staff have suffered losses.”
Jennifer DeVoll, PCF’s President & CEO, is working with local leaders to assess additional needs like temporary housing and mental health services. She also recognizes that PCF will have a role in the long-term recovery and rebuilding of the Altadena community. “We will work to unlock government resources and engage local input and expertise to preserve the diversity and beauty of Altadena and to ensure that generational Black and Latino families can rebuild their homes and their lives, that the creative and artistic community can thrive, and that small businesses can reopen.”
Eaton Fire Fund Grant Awards
Altadena Library Foundation
Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena
Casa Treatment Center
Door of Hope
Families Forward Learning Center Five Acres
Flintridge Center
Foothill Family
Foothill Unity
Impact House
Learning Works
MPYD (Mentoring and Partnership for Youth Development)
My Tribe Rise
NDLON (National Day Laborers Organizing Network)
PACTL
Pasadena Humane
Pasadena Village
Shepherd’s Door
St. Vincent de Paul at St. Elizabeth Church
Young & Healthy
PCF is grateful to the 1,500 individual donors and the substantial support from local and national foundations and corporations that have allowed us to move resources into the community so quickly. However, our community’s needs are immense and will be ongoing for months into years. If you would like to donate to the Eaton Fire Relief & Recovery Fund, please visit www.pasadenacf.org/donate.
About the Pasadena Community Foundation: Founded in 1953, Pasadena Community Foundation (PCF) is a tax-exempt public charity created by and for the people of Pasadena. Managing more than $161 million in charitable assets, PCF
works with individuals, families, and organizations to establish philanthropic funds, create and build endowment funds, and distribute charitable gifts to nonprofit organizations. Learn more at www.pasadenacf.org.
Philanthropy California is an alliance of Northern California Grantmakers, Southern California Grantmakers, and Catalyst of San Diego and Imperial Counties. They partner with the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) to support immediate disaster relief and long-term recovery efforts. Philanthropy California monitors wildfires & natural hazard events and provides individual and institutional funders with vetted funds, resources, and events.
The Eaton Fire Relief and Recovery Fund is on the vetted list to help direct resources to funds supporting non-profits active in place-based relief and recovery efforts.
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