Celebrity Softball Scores $47,400 for Youths

The fifth annual Celebrity Softball benefit on June 14 for Neighborhood Youth Assn. at Pepperdine University, Malibu, netted $47,400. The game, sponsored by Kemper Securities Inc., was chaired by Norris Bishton. NYA provides comprehensive services to troubled youth and families from low-income areas in the Western and Harbor regions of Los Angeles County.

Santa Monica Playhouse, a nonprofit educational corporation, celebrated its 30th year June 28 at Lincoln Middle School, honoring founder/director Ted Roter. The event, hosted by Friends of the Santa Monica Playhouse, raised more than $10,000. An anonymous donor underwrote the evening’s expenses.

IDEAS (Identity in Existence Artwork Shops) Associates, a group formed in 1990 to help create work for people living with HIV/AIDS, artists and others, and to provide other services, netted $6,700 at a June 13 party. Michael Fletcher is president.

National Conference of Christians & Jews’ 44th Annual Regional Humanitarian Awards Dinner June 15, at the Beverly Hilton, honored James A. Collins, Dick Poladian and Carmen Warschaw. The gala netted $100,000. Co-chairs were Thomas Gregory and Marshall H. Mathison.

Lowman & Miller Schools for the Handicapped received $36,000 from a May 9 chili cook-off benefit at the Canoga Park Elks Lodge. Proceeds will be used to purchase special equipment. Harry Coleman chaired the event.

Aviva Center has received a $100,000 grant from the Burton G. Bettingen Corp. The center provides counseling, therapeutic foster home placement, individualized special education and residential care.

Heritage Pointe, Jewish Home for the Aging, netted $14,000 May 4 at its annual Golf and Tennis Classic at the Mesa Verde Country Club in Costa Mesa. Jack Levin, Stan Sackler and Marvin Udkoff co-chaired the benefit and Monty Hall hosted.

Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Los Angeles chapter, raised $5,000 at a celebrity brunch at Prego Ristorante, Beverly Hills. Proceeds will help provide research.

South Bay Free Clinic, Manhattan Beach, announced receipt of a $200,000 grant from the state Office of Family Planning. The money will be used for a new program designed to reduce teen pregnancy rates through contraceptive information, expanded counseling and other services.

Public Counsel, Korean Health Education-Information and Referral Center, Chinatown Services Center, Central American Refugee Center, Idyllwild Arts Foundation (ISOMATA), High Performance Magazine, CBK Holiness Deliverance Ministries and Creative Learning Institute will share grants totaling $115,500 from California Community Foundation. Funds will provide assistance to families and individuals living in the areas torn by the April riots. CCF also awarded $230,400 in grants to 17 public and/or private organizations offering HIV prevention programs through its Los Angeles Community AIDS Partnership program. Those grants will provide technical assistance.

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles received more than $15,000, net proceeds raised June 6 at the Santa Monica Pier Carousel. The party was sponsored by This Little Light, an organization of young professionals recently formed to support the hospital. Funds will benefit the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Division.