Concert Raises $28,000 for Counseling

A concert was performed by musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute Dec. 10 at the home of Nancy and Earl A. Powell III, honoring the President’s Club Charter Members of the Community Counseling Service who donate $1,000 or more annually. The $28,000 raised will enable the service to continue providing affordable, quality mental health services to individuals and families.

* More than $300,000 was raised at an awards dinner Jan. 13 at the Bel Age Hotel for the Narconon Chilocco New Life Center at the Chilocco Indian Campus in northern Oklahoma. Honorees were Kirstie Alley and prominent corporations and businessmen. Funds will be used to renovate the drug rehabilitation and education facility and provide housing for 100 patients. Free care and housing will be offered to many American Indians.

* The Inter-Community Medical Center Foundation launched its Campaign ’90 on Jan. 17, pledging a goal of $3.5 million. Chairman Thomas A. Hollfelder announced at the kickoff a pledge of $1.6 million by friends of the hospital. Funds raised will support care for heart, cancer, maternity and emergency patients, as well as complete the Hospice of the East San Gabriel Valley endowment fund.

* Hathaway Children’s Services received a $98,600 grant Jan. 22 from the Jessie Ball duPont Foundation of Jacksonville, Fla. Foundation director George Penick noted that the money will be used to recruit, train and support foster parents in the service’s foster family program, which needs 7,500 foster homes for troubled children.

* The eighth annual Silver Circle ‘90, a gala thank you benefit party for 300 guests Jan. 27, provided celebrity home and art tours and a dinner-dance at the Loews Santa Monica Hotel. The event raised $248,000 for Venice Family Clinic, which offers free health care for the working poor and the homeless. Chairwoman Bernice Wolf, Irma Colen, Freya Ivener, Pat Maslon, Belinda Folsey and others planned the event.

* “Super Sunday,” the Jewish Federation Council’s annual phone-a-thon, was held Feb. 4 to benefit the United Jewish Fund campaign. More than 5,000 volunteers made 25,000 phone calls in the Greater Los Angeles area to help to raise $5 million for humanitarian and social service programs in Los Angeles and abroad. Carol Levy was chair. Charles H. Boxenbaum was fund chair and Harriet Hochman was the fund’s Women’s Division chair. Pledges may still be made by calling Ellen Sevran, (213) 873-6811 or (818) 716-1100.

* “Doing Our Share Because We Care” was the theme for 239 employees of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, who made pledges that totaled $39,768 through payroll deductions for 1990. The fund provides health care and social services to eligible industry members.