Deadline for Community Project Grants

Over the next four years, the California Community Foundation will award $1 million in grants to community groups with projects to improve ethnic relations in the city’s poorest neighborhoods.

The program, called Community Bridges, was developed as a long-term response to the problems underlying last year’s riots.

Applicants for the grants, which generally will not exceed $25,000, must describe each group’s goals and the operation of the project.

Funding will be available for the following types of projects:

* Conflict resolution, dialogue and mediation efforts designed to improve ethnic relations.

* Community organizing and neighborhood-based planning efforts focused on local problems and the needs of ethnically diverse neighborhoods.

* Youth programs that emphasize inter-ethnic cooperation.

Applications will be reviewed by a committee of community leaders.

Founded in 1915, the nonprofit foundation administers charitable funds created by individuals, families, businesses and corporations for the benefit of the greater Los Angeles area. The foundation makes grants to organizations working in education, community development, health and human services, arts and culture and the environment. The deadline for grant applications is June 1.

Information: (213) 413-4042, Ext. 499.