Pasadena Child Health Foundation and Pasadena Community Foundation Partnership. Photo courtesy Mother's Club

Photo courtesy Mother's Club

The Pasadena Child Health Foundation (PCHF) is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Pasadena Community Foundation (PCF), which took effect January 1, 2015. PCHF and PCF share a commitment to serving the local communities of Pasadena, Altadena, and Sierra Madre through grants to non-profit agencies. This arrangement will strengthen PCHF by enabling the foundation to better collaborate with other philanthropists in the area, which will in turn allow us to better serve nonprofits making positive contributions to the health of children.

The Pasadena Child Health Foundation will retain its status as an independent private foundation wherein governance, fiduciary oversight, and granting decisions remain with the board. PCHF’s mission also will not change: we continue to financially support local organizations and programs that aim to reduce disparities that adversely impact the health of children residing in the greater Pasadena area.

Over the past 10 years, PCHF has granted more than $2.7 million dollars to local agencies. Grants are made in four focus areas: Healthy Infant Development, Family and Community Connections, Healthy Weight, and Access to Health Benefits. PCHF invests in prevention and early intervention strategies and activities that incorporate the principles of collaboration, leveraging existing resources, and expanding capabilities to improve the health and well-being of Pasadena-area children.

At the end of 2014, PCHF awarded grants to eight local agencies totaling $275,000. One of those went to Pasadena’s Mothers’ Club Family Learning Center to help enhance their Afternoon Two-Generation Learning Program. Says Mara Leong-Nichols, Mothers’ Club Development Manager: “For the families we serve, parents can’t afford child care, and many moms don’t have the skills they need to get jobs. As a result, most of our moms would be at home with their young children, isolated and often depressed. Mothers’ Club provides a welcoming, safe, and nurturing environment where families can thrive – side by side.”

Mothers’ Club’s Two-Generation Learning is set up so that parents and children simultaneously acquire new skills and knowledge that result in positive outcomes for both generations. PCHF’s 2014 grant will allow Mothers’ Club to offer education, mental health support, leadership training, health and wellness workshops, and healing arts classes.

List of Grantees:

2014 Pasadena Child Health Foundation Grant Recipients

Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena
Flintridge Center
Girls on the Run of Los Angeles
Learning Works Charter School
Mothers’ Club Family Learning Center
Pasadena Educational Foundation
Rose Bowl Aquatics
Young & Healthy

For more information on Pasadena Child Health Foundation, please contact Pasadena Community Foundation at (626) 796-2097 or visit http://www.pasadenacf.org/.