January 9, 2011
A Calif. Community Fund Moves Beyond Merely Making Grants
The California Community Foundation has been working to revitalize El Monte, a poor neighborhood in California. The blossoming of the neighborhood attracted the attention of the artist Lois Keller, who designed this poster for the city's transportation system.
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The California Community Foundation has been working to revitalize El Monte, a poor neighborhood in California. The blossoming of the neighborhood attracted the attention of the artist Lois Keller, who designed this poster for the city's transportation system.
When the California Community Foundation celebrated its 75th year in 1990, the Los Angeles Times described it as a low-key, behind-the-scenes organization.
It was known during most of its history as a “typewriter foundation” because it specialized in making small grants to cover basic office equipment or one-time expenses of charities in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
Today, as its second century approaches, the California Community Foundation, one of
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