$341,000 Given to Youth Programs
Grants worth more than $341,000 were awarded Tuesday to 15 programs that aim to improve day care and provide enrichment programs to children, the Thelma Pearl Howard Foundation said.
The gifts included $20,000 for the Deaf West Theatre Company of North Hollywood to provide workshops and storytelling sessions for deaf youths and their parents, $12,000 for integration workshops for students at the Lokrantz Special Education Center in Reseda, and $20,000 for the Los Angeles Conservation Corps to expand an arts and music program for low-income children and their parents in South-Central Los Angeles and the Pico-Union area.
The donor, a fund of the California Community Foundation, was established by the estate of Thelma Pearl Howard, a live-in cook and housekeeper for Walt Disney.
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