Gala Nets $360,000 for L.A. Free Clinic

Friends of the Los Angeles Free Clinic netted $360,000 at its 17th annual dinner honoring Suzanne De Passe at the Regent Beverly Wilshire. The Dec. 2 gala also honored Mimi and Bernie West for their 22 years of volunteer service and financial support of the clinic. Barbara Corday is president of Friends. Honorary chairs were Quincy Jones, Berry Gordy, Jeff Sagansky, Jim Wiatt, Tom and Ellen Hoberman, and Bernie and Deborah Brillstein.

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Project Angel Food received proceeds of $25,000 from its holiday gift-wrapping fund-raiser Nov. 26 to Dec. 24. With the sponsorship of the Beverly Center, volunteers wrapped more than 3,000 gifts and sold holiday cards to fund preparation and delivery of meals to homebound people with AIDS.

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AIDS Healthcare Foundation held its KCAL Telethon Dec. 12, raising more than $1 million. The foundation operates two hospices, the Chris Brownlie Hospice in Elysian Park and the Carl Bean AIDS Care Center in South Central Los Angeles. It also has clinics in Downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood and Sherman Oaks.

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Childrens Hospital Los Angeles received a three-year grant totaling $555,000 from the Good Hope Medical Foundation to establish the Digestive Disease Center. The new center will provide comprehensive care to children with digestive, liver and nutritional disorders.

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Methodist Hospital’s Auxiliary raised $54,000 at its 38th annual Holiday Homes Tour Dec. 10 in Arcadia. Proceeds will help fund a surgical intensive care unit. Carmen Thibault was event chairwoman.

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Amie Karen Cancer Fund at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center announced receipt of $6,000, net proceeds of the Rainbow Guild’s luncheon at Citrus. Funds will help children with life-threatening blood disorders, cancer and AIDS.

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San Fernando Valley Child Guidance Clinic received $3,000 from the Amgen Foundation to support child abuse prevention and treatment programs at the clinic’s Family Crisis Center in Panorama City.

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Inner-City Arts raised $67,000 at its annual fund-raiser Dec. 7 at Hotel Inter-Continental. Proceeds will provide operational expenses and renovation work at the organization’s new headquarters at 720 S. Kohler St.

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Assistance League of Southern California, Nine O’Clock Players Auxiliary, received a $17,000 gift from the Walter Lantz Foundation in the name of Walter and Gracie Lantz. The funds will purchase new equipment for the auxiliary’s Theatre for Children, which provides live theater for needy young people and their families and for physically and mentally challenged children.