Two Native American tribes in Southern California have made major philanthropic gifts to entities in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.
The Pechanga Tribal Council has given the city of Lake Elsinore a grant of up to $100,000 to help handle crowds drawn to the area's super bloom of wildflowers.
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March 21
We hope that you like this new weekly update of selected news events related to social entrepreneurism in Southern California.
Nominations for the James Irvine Foundation's Leadership Awards are now open!
Three months ago, my team at TOMS embarked on a journey to help reduce gun violence. We’ve committed $5 million dollars to organizations that support the communities affected by gun violence, and used our website as a tool for the public to urge their Representatives to pass universal background checks, something 90% of Americans agree on.
Does your organization help to improve trails in the Southern California foothills or deserts? Does it help to clear chaparral or cleanup after fires? Does it help to restore or expand our natural parklands?
If so, it may qualify for the ExtremeTerrain Clear Trail Grant program.
ExtremeTerrain, a company that sells Jeep parts, established the program in 2015 to demonstrate its respect for "the integrity of the landscape we live, drive and play on" and its intention to "leave the trails we enjoy better than we found them."
Like many Southern Californians, I am horrified and saddened by the burgeoning number of individuals who are homeless in our community. According to the Los Angeles Times, the number has grown to 60,000 a 23% increase over last year.
Why?
Lisa Gaeta, is the founder and chief executive officer of IMPACT Personal Safety-SoCal, a nonprofit whose classes offer assertiveness and awareness skills, boundary-setting, verbal strategies, and full-force physical assailant defense to people of all ages.
But Lisa was considering early retirement from a job—really a cause—about which she is passionate--due to excruciating pain, compromised mobiliy, and the fact that she had no medical insurance to pay for the necessary surgery.
Can you imagine forbidding your children to play in their yard due to poisons in the soil that could damage their brains? Or knowing that if you do allow the kids to play outside, they would likely suffer from learning disabilities or lower IQ? Of course not.
Yet, that is the life that the residents of 7,500 properties in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles.
