Shelter Partnership Inc., a nonprofit organization that...
Shelter Partnership Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides technical, development and material assistance and public policy support to 160 homeless shelters in Los Angeles County, received a check for $16,111 from Benson & Hedges Blues. From every ticket sold for concerts held June 4 through June 10, Benson & Hedges Blues donated $1 for the Partnership. Proceeds will be used in the program to combat homelessness.
* Palos Verdes Junior Women’s Club’s 17th annual spring auction, “Carousel of Dreams” held April 21 at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton, netted $151,000. Proceeds will be distributed to 19 philanthropic organizations such as Rainbow Services, Community Helpline, Richstone Family Centers, Retired Seniors Volunteer Programs and 18 outstanding scholars. President d’Aulan Gentry, Becky Freer and Jerrie Short chaired the event.
* Rainforest Foundation received a check for $50,000, net proceeds from a June 18 “Gathering of Conscience” benefit attended by 200 guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel and hosted by Sebastian International, an environmentally active hair care and cosmetics company. To date, Sebastian has raised more than $150,000 for the foundation’s environmental work. Co-founders of Rainforest Foundation are filmmaker Jean-Pierre Dutilleux and musician Sting.
* Jewish Homes for the Aging of Greater Los Angeles took over a performance of “Love Letters,” starring Lee Remick and Tom Skerritt at the Canon Theatre June 21 and filled the theater with 300 guests. The event netted $10,000 to be used in the Alzheimer’s disease special care unit. Claudia Hamburger and Eleanore Foonberg were co-chairwomen.
* Daniel Freeman Hospitals were presented a $257,000 check by the Auxiliary Guild at its installation of officers event at the Marriott in Marina del Rey June 25. Daniel Freeman Hospitals in Inglewood and Marina del Rey are not-for-profit medical facilities sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Mary Smith Hughes is the newly elected auxiliary guild president.
* National Kidney Foundation of Southern California received a $43,000 check from Arby’s Roast Beef at a luncheon June 27 at Sportsmen’s Lodge, Sherman Oaks. The money was raised by 35 Arby’s stores in Southern California through a discount coupon sales campaign. Proceeds will be used to send children with kidney disease to the foundation’s “kidney camp.” Over the last six years, Arby’s has raised almost $250,000 for the Kidney Foundation.
* Bar-Ilan University in Israel will receive $40,000 raised June 28 at a gala dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel sponsored by The Young Leadership Circle of the West Coast Friends. Proceeds will help fund cancer research at the university. Honorees were sisters September and Heidi Sarno, founders of Young Leadership. Chairs were Joanie Black and Rochelle Atlas Maize.
* Hathaway Children’s Services received a $10,000 contribution from the Los Angeles Times Fund on May 7 to be used for dining room expansion. Hathaway, a nonprofit multi-service agency, provides programs designed to meet the needs of severely emotionally, disturbed, abused and neglected children and their families.
* Jeffrey Foundation for the Handicapped raised more than $9,000 at its ninth annual bridge luncheon, chaired by Blanche Greer, at the Beverly Hills Hotel on June 20. All proceeds will benefit the new Multi-Purpose Daycare Center at 5464 W. Washington Blvd. in South-Central Los Angeles.
* Airport Marina Counseling Service on June 20 received $1,200 from the Alpha Gamma Chapter 570, net proceeds from the 10th annual “Blast to the Past” fashion show luncheon. For the past 10 years chapter members Markie Theriot, Linda Capp, Janet McMaster, Mildred Hanson, Jody Hagen and Maggie Hanson have raised funds for AMCS, a nonprofit mental health clinic.
* Venice Family Clinic, on Aug. 1, will initiate a free comprehensive health care program for low-income pregnant women, consisting of 10 to 13 checkups, tests that monitor the health of the mother and fetus, as well as nutrition and childbirth education. A $60,000 grant from the James Irvine Foundation, major supporters of preventive and improved health care, has funded the new program.
* American Oceans Campaign, a nonprofit environmental group based in Santa Monica, received $2,100 from the J & B On The Rocks national fund-raising tour. Volunteer “corporate climbers” in downtown Los Angeles paid $5 to attempt to scale a traveling 30-foot-high rock wall for charity.
* American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, honored Sherry Lansing with the “Woman of Valor” award at a benefit luncheon June 13 at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel with more than 500 guests attending. The event netted $50,000 to be used to provide scholarships for Russian immigrants. Vidal Sassoon was master of ceremonies. Author Ruth Gruber was speaker.
* Harbor Regional Center, a Program of Harbor Developmental Disabilities Foundation, in a two-month campaign raised $10,000 to provide summer camp scholarships to South Bay-area children and adults with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities. A $5,000 grant was received from McDonnell Douglass West, as well as contributions from the Los Angeles Times Summer Camp Fund, Epson America, Mobil Oil Corp.-Torrance Refinery, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. and private donors.
