Annual AIDS Walk Raises $2.5 Million

* AIDS Project Los Angeles, with the aid of 18,000 volunteer walkers, raised more than $2.5 million Sept. 22 at its seventh annual AIDS walk. Proceeds will help fund more than 20 programs that help nearly 70% of AIDS patients in Los Angeles County. There were 460 corporate teams registered and 130,000 sponsors donating money to walkers. Paramount Pictures hosted the event.

* The Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic, a mental health agency serving the Central and South Central areas, announced receipt Sept. 19 of a $15,000 grant from the Joseph Drown Foundation. Funds will go toward a vocational education program for teen clients.

* Cystic Fibrosis’ Love Match ’91 netted $300,000 Sept. 14 at the Beverly Hills Country Club. Funds will go for research, patient care and treatment centers. The two-day event began with a dinner at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Sept. 13. Sponsors were American Airlines, ASICS Tiger Corp., David Duke Financial, Inter-Continental Hotels, Pantron I Corp., See’s Candies and Ted Slavin.

* Los Angeles Symphonic Jazz Orchestra held its 13th annual garden musicale Sept. 14 at the Playboy Mansion. The event netted about $64,000 to be used for the commissioning and recording of new symphonic jazz works. Fiorenza Courtright Arminio and Ginny Mancini chaired the gala.

* American Cinema Awards Foundation netted $150,000 at its “Donald O’Connor: An American Treasure, a 65th Anniversary Salute,” held Sept. 14 at the Beverly Hilton. Half of the proceeds will build a library at the Actors Fund of America home, with the balance to be used for theater arts, dance and music scholarships and other projects. David Gest produced the salute, and Celia Lipton Farris was executive producer.

* Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills announced receipt of a check for $85,500 from the Holy Cross Medical Center Guild. The money was raised at a May golf tournament at Lakeside Country Club. Other money came from proceeds from the guild’s gift shop and baby photo and leather sales.

* Vital Options, Earthquake Preparedness and Child Life, programs of Olive View Medical Center Foundation, will share $30,000 raised at a Sept. 13 benefit. The foundation provides free community services and programs to encourage preventive health care and to teach effective self-management of illness.