Veterans Groups to Share $298,000

Veterans organizations will share a $149,000 gift from the board of trustees of the Hollywood Canteen Foundation, board president Lew Wasserman said. The Jules and Doris Stein Foundation announced that it will match that contribution, raising the amount donated to 30 Southern California veterans groups to $298,000.

Cara a Cara Latino AIDS Project of the Hollywood Sunset Community Clinic recently awarded $15,000 to underwrite T-cell monitoring for low-income people who are HIV positive. The donation will serve people who have limited access to mainstream medical care, said project director Oscar Reconco.

Lymphoma Research Foundation of America Inc. held a silent auction benefit gala at the Beverly Hilton Nov. 12 and netted more than $125,000. The new foundation was started in 1991 by Ellen Glesby Cohen.

Options--the Family Center was the recipient of a $7,500 donation from In-N-Out Burger. The gift recognized the center’s work in providing counseling and parenting education to families where child abuse has occurred. Funds will be used to continue these services.

Los Angeles Regional Foodbank’s “Freeze Out Hunger” campaign was recently awarded a $45,000 grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation. The campaign raises money to buy freezers for the food bank’s network of charitable agencies.

The Los Angeles Educational Partnership received a $20,000 donation from Dayton Hudson Foundation to be used for a pilot program providing school-based family services. The Minneapolis-based foundation also gave $20,000 to the Friends of the Family in Van Nuys for a two-year intensive parenting program for young mothers.

National NeurofibromatosisFoundation Inc., Los Angeles chapter, raised more than $60,000 at its third annual Harvest dinner and auction Nov. 9 at the Beverly Hilton. Actor John Glover hosted the event. “L. A. Law” Executive Producer David E. Kelley received the foundation’s public service award for the sympathetic portrayal of a person with neurofibromatosis in his production of “God Rest Ye Murray Gentlemen.”

People Assisting the Homeless announced Jan. 10 that funds will be donated to provide about 4,200 meals to homeless people on the Westside. The money was raised by the Century City Shopping Center and Marketplace “Parking for PATH,” a holiday program in which proceeds of valet parking services were earmarked for the charity.

Fulfillment Fund netted about $20,000 from two events, a Dec. 4 screening party at the 20th Century Fox studio and a comic-book art exhibit Dec. 5 at Sotheby’s in Beverly Hills. The fund-raisers were sponsored by Friends of the Fulfillment Fund to help disadvantaged students pursue higher education. Dr. Gary Gitnick is president of the fund.