The MOCA Contemporaries, a support group of...

The MOCA Contemporaries, a support group of the Museum of Contemporary Art, held its Grand Splash III on Aug. 5 at the Temporary Contemporary. The “Paint the Town Red” event netted the museum $20,000. Claudia Berman and Debra Dresner were co-chairwomen.

* The Pasadena Foundation, in celebrating its 35th anniversary on Aug. 10, announced four grants of $50,000 each totaling $200,000. Five Acres will use its grant to renovate an existing structure as an education planning center to support expansion of its school serving abused and neglected children. The Pasadena Boys Club will open an affordable child-care center. Haven House will expand its “alcohol-free living space for women with children.” Villa Esperanza will rehabilitate two houses to create the only intermediate care facility in Pasadena serving adults who are severely developmentally disabled.

* Los Angeles ORT held a fund-raising event on Aug. 12 at the Improvisation in Santa Monica and netted $9,000. Funds will be used to continue its program of providing vocational and technical education for students in a number of countries.

* The United Scleroderma Foundation held its celebrity brunch, auction and fashion preview by Torie Steele on Aug. 27 at the Bel Age Hotel. Net proceeds of $150,000 will be used to inform the public about the disease and to promote medical research to find a cure. Beverly Sassoon was chairwoman and has served as spokeswoman for the last two years.

* The Global Fund for Women received a grant of $50,000 from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation enabling the group to expand its grant-making work for women in Southern Africa. It is an organization that provides funds to seed, strengthen and link groups that are committed to women’s well-being and work for their full participation in society in all parts of the world.

* The Hadassah Medical Relief Assn., the international arm of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, received a donation of $100,000 from the estate of the late Margarita Aranyos. The funds will go to neonatal medical services and research in Jerusalem.