LOS ANGELES : $1 Million in Grants Given to Youth Sports Groups
More than $1 million in new grants has been awarded by the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles to 23 youth sports organizations operating throughout Southern California.
In the past decade, the foundation has “invested more than $60 million to provide more than a million youngsters with sports opportunities,” said David L. Wolper, chairman of the foundation’s board.
Kids in Sports Inc., which operates 11 sports clubs throughout Los Angeles’ inner city, was awarded a $599,754 grant.
The Southern California Tennis Assn.’s National Junior Tennis League, which provides tennis instruction at 115 sites, received a $125,000 grant. Three Southern California velodromes--at Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson, in Encino and in San Diego--will share $71,577.
Among other grants announced this week, Keep Youth Doing Something, a San Fernando Valley sports program, got $47,000.
The Amateur Athletic Foundation is endowed with Southern California’s share of the surplus from the 1984 Olympic Games.
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