Around Town: Newport foundation helps launch fund for coronavirus relief

The Newport Beach-based Orange County Community Foundation, along with the St. Joseph Health Community Partnership Fund, Charitable Ventures and regional funding partners, have launched the OC Community Resilience Fund to tackle the immediate impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus on the community’s most vulnerable members.

The fund, which aims to raise $2 million by March 31, will award grants ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 to community providers that support people such as veterans, low-income senior citizens, households living under the poverty line, immigrants and refugees, children of all ages and their families, and those who are homeless, disabled or underinsured.

“Countless nonprofit organizations are facing unprecedented challenges in caring for extremely vulnerable residents whose well-being and basic needs are most affected by COVID-19,” Shelley Hoss, president and chief executive of the Orange County Community Foundation, said in a statement. “When we work together, leverage our efforts and stay flexible in an ever-changing environment, we can help keep our community strong.”

The OC Community Resilience Fund will provide three types of grants to local nonprofits:

• Support community clinic operations to provide preventive and medical services for those affected by COVID-19, especially those caring for uninsured or underinsured patients to offset the costs of uncompensated care.

• Support emergency grants to individuals affected by COVID-19 due to quarantine, business closures and/or layoffs and school or other community program closures and/or layoffs.

• Support community-based organizational operations for nonprofits serving vulnerable populations directly effected by the medical or economic effects of the pandemic.

A review committee of staff from the foundation, the St. Joseph Health Community Partnership Fund and OC Grantmakers will review applications and make funding decisions. Charitable Ventures will administer the fund, which will have rolling grant cycles and work to respond to applicants on a monthly basis. All administrative costs will be covered by the foundation and the St. Joseph Health fund.

For more information or to donate to the fund, visit charitableventuresoc.org/resiliencefund. Questions about the grant opportunities can be directed to ResilienceFund@charitableventuresoc.org.

Local groups named community partners for Komen O.C.

Susan G. Komen Orange County has named Costa Mesa-based Share Our Selves and the Fountain Valley-based Vietnamese American Cancer Foundation as two of its 2020 community partners.

The nonprofit will be giving the two groups, and five others in Orange County, a portion of nearly $400,000 in grant funding toward women’s breast health programs.

“We are fully supporting our community partners who are on the front lines in the fight against breast cancer,” Komen Orange County Chief Executive Megan Klink said in a statement. “During this public health crisis, that means giving them the grace and the space to prioritize care and operations around preventing coronavirus spread and having flexible timelines around meeting grant deliverables.”

O.C. United Way starts new relief fund

Orange County United Way has founded a pandemic relief fund to support low-income individuals and families at imminent risk of homelessness, according to a news release.

The fund also will provide support to the public health response and economic impacts of COVID-19 through emergency support such as rental, utility and emergency assistance.

Donations can be made at gofundme.com/f/pandemic-relief-fund.

New businesses headed to Pacific City

Two new tenants have been announced for the Pacific City shopping center in Huntington Beach: Beverly Hills Rejuvenation Center and Klarif.

Both are expected to open this summer.

The Beverly Hills Rejuvenation Center will have a 2,000-square-foot space providing anti-aging, wellness, hormone replacement, aesthetic treatments, weight loss and nutrition services, according to a news release.

Klarif, founded in 2013, is an Anaheim-based cosmetics brand that specializes in nontoxic, vegetarian face, hair and body products, as well as perfumes and soaps.

Segerstrom Center announces 2020-21 Broadway show lineup

The Segerstrom Center for the Arts this week announced its 2020-21 Broadway series consisting of six productions that are coming to the Costa Mesa venue for the first time, starting in November.

Scheduled for Segerstrom Hall are “Ain’t Too Proud — The Life and Times of the Temptations,” “The Cher Show,” “Frozen,” “Pretty Woman: The Musical” and “To Kill A Mockingbird.”

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