Foundation steps in for fire victims
Foundation: McCune Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Ventura County Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation
The Ventura County Community Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to a community based partnership providing relief and recovery support...more

Foundation steps in for fire victims
Foundation: McCune Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Ventura County Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation
The Ventura County Community Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to a community based partnership providing relief and recovery support...more

Outside funders give LA Unified under new Supt. Beutner a $3 million vote of confidence
Foundation: California Community Foundation, California Endowment, Weingart Foundation
The funds will be administered by the California Community Foundation, which is one of the donors, and the group Southern California...more

Wilderness Youth Project Adds Amy Schneider to Board
Foundation: Santa Barbara Foundation, Weingart Foundation
Schneider is an experienced grant-maker and nonprofit professional with knowledge of Santa Barbara County's philanthropic and nonprofits sectors. Her specialties include philanthropy/grant-making,...more

Beloved Los Angeles Arts Space Buys a Place of Its Own
Foundation: California Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation
Self Help secured $2.8 million to invest in the purchase through a $2.05 million loan from the California Community Foundation and a $250,000 loan from the Weingart Foundation, as well as two...more

In California, These Funders Want to Keep Kids Out of the Criminal Justice System
Foundation: Liberty Hill Foundation, California Endowment, Weingart Foundation, California Wellness Foundation
There are a lot of big funding partners involved in this collaboration and an increasing interest in why so many young people of color are embroiled in the juvenile justice system. A few months ago,...more

Philanthropy Seeds University Center to Help Community Address Poverty
Foundation: Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, Weingart Foundation, Irvine Foundation
In partnership with university researchers, three foundations have made seed donations to help establish the Center for Social Innovation at the University of California, Riverside. The Irvine...more

UC Riverside Launches Research Center to Drive Inland Empire Innovation
Foundation: James Irvine Foundation, Weingart Foundation, Irvine Foundation, Central Valley Community Foundation
Nearly 150 state and local leaders attended the center's launch event, including James Irvine Foundation President and CEO Don Howard, Weingart Foundation President and CEO Fred Ali, Central Valley...more

Inland Empire could get boost from UC Riverside's new Center for Social Innovation
Foundation: James Irvine Foundation, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, Weingart Foundation, Irvine Foundation
Three institutions provided a total of $1.9 million in grants: The James Irvine Foundation, Weingart Foundation and Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, ... “The Inland area has experienced significant...more

LA Justice Fund Spent Millions To Help Fight Deportations
Foundation: California Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation
Efrain Escobedo, a vice president with the California Community Foundation, told the Immigrant Affiars, Civil Rights and Equity Committee that the 500 cases the fund had provided lawyers for so far...more