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California Community Foundation We invest in, partner with, and amplify the power of community toward a good life. We encourage and welcome respectful, professional and friendly discourse.
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Since 1915, we've brought donors, civic leaders & communities together to advance solutions to Los Angeles County’s most pressing challenges and respond quickly to crises. COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
Through our Facebook fan page, we aim to inform, inspire and engage in dialogue with community members who share our values and vision for a better Los Angeles. All statements and materials posted by individual contributors do not necessarily imply endorsement by, nor represent the views of, CCF. As the foundation for Los Angeles County, CCF is a neutral table where diverse groups can come together to develop solutions to our region’s challenges. The goals of this page are to:
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If you have any questions about these guidelines, please contact us at [email protected].

On election night, many of us will check the results before going to bed. By morning, the numbers may have changed. In t...
10/08/2026

On election night, many of us will check the results before going to bed. By morning, the numbers may have changed. In the days that follow, they may change again.

That does not mean something has gone wrong. In California, ballots postmarked by election day can arrive through Nov. 10, and each eligible ballot must be received and verified before it can be counted. The process takes time because it is designed to give more voters the opportunity to be heard.

But the period between election night and the final count is also when misinformation can spread most quickly. An incomplete result can be presented as final. A routine update can be made to look suspicious. Repeated often enough, those claims can cause people to lose faith in the process altogether.

That is why the California Community Foundation is helping launch A Count You Can Trust, an independent, nonpartisan coalition bringing together organizations across Los Angeles County to share accurate information, combat misinformation and help voters understand how the count works.

Trust in our elections is not solely the responsibility of election officials. It is also shaped in conversations among relatives, neighbors and coworkers. Each of us can help by questioning rumors, sharing verified information and reminding the people in our lives that a careful count is a sign of the process working.

Giving often begins with a moment of recognition: This matters to me, and I can help.A donor advised fund gives that int...
10/08/2026

Giving often begins with a moment of recognition: This matters to me, and I can help.

A donor advised fund gives that intention a place to grow. Over time, one act of generosity can become a sustained commitment to the communities and causes a donor cares about, whether here in Los Angeles County or around the world.

On National DAF Day, we thank CCF’s donor advised fund holders for putting their values into action and trusting us to support their giving.

If you have a donor advised fund and are considering a grant today, we invite you to support a nonprofit close to your heart or CCF’s Impact Fund. Through the end of the year, the Impact Fund is focused on helping LA County families access stable housing, health resources and food.

We're excited to share that nine Los Angeles County artists have been selected for the 2026 CCF Fellowship for Visual Ar...
10/08/2026

We're excited to share that nine Los Angeles County artists have been selected for the 2026 CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists, a one-year fellowship that gives them the freedom to invest in their careers where they believe it will matter most.

Meet the 2026 Fellows:

alexandre ali reza dorriz
Ashton S. Phillips
Carla Jay Harris
Carol Zou
Eva Aguila
Kimberly Robertson
Melissa Govea
noé olivas
Reynaldo M. Rivera

Unlike a project-specific grant, the Fellowship is an investment in each artist’s broader practice and long-term career. Selected by a panel of arts professionals based on their artistic merit and commitment to Los Angeles County, Fellows participate in a collaborative artists’ retreat, strengthen the business skills needed to sustain their practice and join a community of more than 300 artists supported through the program since 1988.

Through a curated museum exhibition with Craft Contemporary, they will share their work with audiences across Los Angeles and gain experience engaging with a major cultural institution.

The Fellowship is made possible by the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts and additional CCF funds.

Please join CCF and Getty in congratulating the 2026 Fellows. Over the coming weeks, we’ll introduce each artist and share more about their work.

$357 million is a difficult number to picture. In Los Angeles last year, it looked like help reaching families when they...
10/05/2026

$357 million is a difficult number to picture. In Los Angeles last year, it looked like help reaching families when they needed it most.

After the January 2025 wildfires, CCF distributed $30 million in the first 30 days to help survivors meet basic needs. As families moved toward rebuilding, support continued for those facing gaps averaging $600,000 between their insurance coverage and the actual cost of rebuilding.

When immigration raids separated breadwinners from their families, Angelenos stepped forward again. Through a statewide group of foundation leaders chaired by CCF President and CEO Miguel A. Santana, funders have invested nearly $150 million since January 2025 to support immigrant communities.

Across all of our work, CCF and our donors distributed $357 million in grants last year. That scale of giving was possible because people chose to help, and because funders worked together to move resources where communities said they were needed most.

No one foundation can replace the role of government or meet every need alone. But when donors, nonprofits and funders act together, generosity becomes real help for families across Los Angeles.

In a new Q+A with the Los Angeles Business Journal, Miguel shares more about the challenges facing our region and how CCF is pairing immediate response with long-term investment.

Read Miguel’s full conversation with the Los Angeles Business Journal at the link in the comments.

CCF staff came ready to win our Latine Heritage Month salsa competition, bringing delicious entries with names that near...
10/01/2026

CCF staff came ready to win our Latine Heritage Month salsa competition, bringing delicious entries with names that nearly stole the show. 🌶️🏆

After the votes were in, the afternoon shifted from friendly competition to a screening of No Más Bebés. The documentary tells the story of Mexican immigrant mothers who sued after being coerced into sterilization while giving birth in Los Angeles during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their landmark case asserted that the right to have a child is an essential part of reproductive freedom.

The film also carried a special connection to CCF: a young Antonia Hernández appears as one of the attorneys who represented the women.

Seeing her near the beginning of her career offered a glimpse of the commitment to justice she would later bring to nearly two decades of leadership at our foundation.

Jose has lived in Los Angeles since 1986. He lived through the passage of Proposition 187, which sought to deny public s...
09/29/2026

Jose has lived in Los Angeles since 1986. He lived through the passage of Proposition 187, which sought to deny public services to undocumented immigrants. But until federal immigration raids spread fear across the city, he had never been too afraid to look for work.

A painter, Jose usually traveled from Koreatown to Whittier to find jobs. When fear kept him closer to home, he had to rely on his daughter to help pay the rent.

Still, between three kidney dialysis appointments each week, Jose volunteers at Comunidades Indigenas en Liderazgo - cielo’s food distribution in South Los Angeles. Speaking Yucatec Maya with other community members lifts his spirits. At the center, he can relax, smile and welcome families arriving for food.

That sense of safety matters. Indigenous immigrants across LA County speak roughly 37 languages, and isolation was already a reality for many before the raids intensified it. Founded by Zapotec women Odilia Romero and Janet Martinez, CIELO protects language rights while connecting Indigenous communities with food and other support.

During one distribution, word spread that immigration agents had detained someone nearby. Volunteers brought everyone waiting for food inside the fence. Once the scare passed, they returned to handing out boxes filled with squash, peppers, cabbage, beans, potatoes and garlic.

The food was provided by Food Forward Inc. and World Harvest Food Bank. CCF is proud to support CIELO through a grant from our Los Angeles Neighbors Support Fund that assists the food distribution and other urgent community needs.

This Latine Heritage Month, we’re celebrating CIELO and the Indigenous Angelenos whose languages and cultures are an essential part of Los Angeles. For Jose, CIELO is more than a place to receive help. It is a place where he can help other families and feel at home in his own language.

When the Eaton Fire destroyed Thomas and Mary Coleman’s Altadena home, it took Thomas’s professional work tools, Mary’s ...
09/25/2026

When the Eaton Fire destroyed Thomas and Mary Coleman’s Altadena home, it took Thomas’s professional work tools, Mary’s beloved horse and a lifetime of riding equipment. The place they had always turned to for strength, Altadena Fountain of Life Church, had also burned to rubble.

But the church was still there.

Its members brought food and clothes, called to check in and prayed with the Colemans. Pastor Jonathan A. Lewis offered a steady reminder: “We’re never alone.”

“We couldn’t have gotten through this without the church,” Mary said. “It’s our lifeline.”

Through CCF’s Wildfire Recovery Fund, Fountain of Life received a grant that helped the church provide food, clothing, cash assistance and other essentials to members in need. The congregation also stayed connected through online Bible studies and now worships temporarily at Montrose Church’s Pasadena Bresee campus, where these photos were taken.

Fountain of Life was one of six Black churches among at least 15 houses of worship severely damaged or destroyed by the fire. Their recovery is tied to whether the historic Black community that grew around them can remain rooted in Altadena.

At Hillside Tabernacle City of Faith, Pastor G. LaKeith Kenebrew’s congregation has returned after a roof rebuild and other repairs. Fountain of Life is now rebuilding too.

The fire destroyed Fountain of Life’s building, but not the community it held together. Now that community is building a church it hopes will stand with Altadena for another 100 years.

At Alma Backyard Farms, reentry is about more than learning a trade. It is about helping people who are returning home f...
09/23/2026

At Alma Backyard Farms, reentry is about more than learning a trade. It is about helping people who are returning home from prison see themselves as capable of healing and contributing to the communities around them.

CCF is proud to support Alma as it brings this vision to life in Compton and San Pedro. Its farms are helping build safer, more connected communities and move Los Angeles closer to a good life for all.

Read the full story through the link in our bio.

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