Report2007-2008 to the Community Community Foundation for Monterey County Inside

Our History ... 2 New Funds Received ... 3 Special Programs, Projects, and Initiatives ... 6 Awards and Honorees ... 10 Recent Grant Highlights ... 12 2007 Donors ... 14 2007 Financial Summary ... 22 2007-2008 Board of Directors ... 24 Offices ... 28 In Memory of ... 29

Our Mission

We improve the quality of life in Monterey County by raising, managing, and distributing charitable funds to qualified organizations and by creating positive connections between donors and their interests.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY Serving the community since 1945

QUICK FACTS ABOUT 2007 • Total assets grew to $143.7 million, a 9.7% increase over 2006. • The Foundation received $10.4 million in new contributions. • The Foundation awarded $7.5 million in grants, a 9.3% increase over 2006. • The Foundation’s pooled investments achieved a total return of 8.03%. • Operating expenses for all programs combined were 1.8% of total assets.

© 2008 Community Foundation for Monterey County • Cover Photo Kira Carrillo Corser

Community foundations have lots of moving parts. Unlike a private foundation, which can tightly focus its work on a small geographic area or even a specific grantee, community foundations have to develop a grants program that covers the whole spectrum of community need. We also must have a representative Board with limited terms, so there is an annual renewal 2007-2008 process of fresh ideas on the Board as some Board terms come to a close and new Board members Highlights are elected. We can create partnerships with an ever-changing roster of other funders who share our proposal forms available online, and Todd Lueders our interests, including private foundations, civic committed to making larger grants, including President/CEO groups, local cities and public agencies, national a higher proportion of general operating interest groups and consortia, corporate giving grants. The Board of Directors also created David Armanasco programs, and of course our donor advised funds a special Opportunity Fund by setting aside Chair of the Board and those at a number of commercial firms. an annual amount from the General of Directors Our Literacy Campaign is a good illustration Endowment to respond, at the discretion of of how we have built a coalition of concern our Board, to unexpected community needs around the issue of adult literacy in Monterey and special opportunities that fall outside County. Although the Community Foundation is the usual parameters of our competitive the major source of new grants for literacy service grants program. providers, we are proud to also have the support Another challenging aspect of the of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, community foundation’s work is managing the Grover Hermann Foundation, the Monterey our investments to maintain a generous, Peninsula Foundation, the Dunspaugh-Dalton active portfolio of grants while protecting the Foundation, the Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation, principal value of the more than 280 funds that First 5 Monterey County, the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. we administer. Needless to say, this has not Foundation, and several of our donor advised been an easy job in the past 18 months, funds in this effort. We can report that more but we can report that our commingled than 700 new adult learners have signed up for assets had a total return of 8.03% in 2007. both community-based and more formal literacy Our Investment Committee has maintained classes in 2007 alone, and a high-level group of a substantial cash position during the past professionals in the literacy field has developed several quarters in anticipation of more a model of a sustainable system of literacy stable markets later this year. programs for the future. It is an exciting time to be a volunteer or The past year also gave us the opportunity a paid professional in this field of community to implement some major changes in our development. We are grateful to all of our competitive grants program. Although grants donors, Board and committee members, from our General Endowment are some of our community members, and of course the most important “moving parts”, the application talented grantees whose work we support, process was overdue for some streamlining. for making the Community Foundation a Therefore we eliminated application deadlines respected, accessible partner in building so that proposals could be submitted all year communities on the Central Coast. On behalf long, asked for Letters of Interest by December 1 of all those who have carried out the mission so that the demand for grants in the new year of the Community Foundation for more than could be gauged more accurately, made all of 63 years, we remain “Here for Good”. L ike the proverbial cat with multiple lives, As of the end of 2007, the Foundation the Community Foundation has taken three had total assets of $144 million and awarded entirely different forms since it was established over $7 million annually to more than 200 in 1945. Just before the end of World War agencies throughout the Central Coast. Our History II, a group of community leaders including We are the largest grant making foundation Col. Allen Griffin and S.F.B. Morse became of any kind between San Jose and Santa Over 63 Years concerned about the increasing pressure to Barbara. Now we are large enough to of Community “develop” Monterey at the expense of some provide a unique range of special programs Service of the city’s historic adobes. They formed the in addition to grants from our own resources, “Monterey Foundation” in order to purchase such as the Management Assistance and such notable adobes as the Fremont Adobe, Neighborhood Grants Programs. We have Casa Gutierrez, and Casa Abrego. The also taken on multi-year initiatives including properties were then donated to preservation the Poder Popular Program (with The groups such as the Monterey History and Art California Endowment) and Communities Association or the State Parks Historic District Advancing the Arts (with the James Irvine to preserve them for the enjoyment of the Foundation and the David and Lucile public – and Monterey thus became and still Packard Foundation). We see our role as is the most historic city in California. a “catalytic convener” for high-priority The Foundation’s second incarnation community issues, as illustrated by the dates from the mid-1970s, when the focus Literacy Campaign, in which the Foundation changed to open space preservation on the is the lead funder. Monterey Peninsula. On a project-by-project There is no limit to what the Community basis, the Foundation raised funds to acquire Foundation can do. We have grown fast important open space in areas such as Pebble and tried to be agile in adapting to ever- Beach (the Indian Village and Navajo tracts, changing community needs and new the S.F.B. Morse Cypress Grove, and Pescadero trends in charitable giving. Thanks to the Point) and Monterey (the First Theatre Garden thousands of donors who have come to trust and the top portion of Jacks Peak Park). Once the Foundation as a flexible, objective agent again, the goal was to save these properties for community development, we are proud for future generations, and eventually they of our past and confident in our future. were all donated to preservation groups like the Del Monte Forest Foundation and others. The catalyst for the third stage in the Foundation’s life cycle was a commitment by the Board of Directors in 1981 to hire full- time staff and begin the process of building permanent endowments to benefit the full range of community needs. By 1984, the endowment had grown to $1 million, and the Foundation became the “Community Foundation for Monterey County” to reflect its county-wide service area. Since that year, the Foundation has dedicated about half of its competitive grants to agencies that serve either the entire county or primarily the Salinas Valley.  

Highlights of 2007 and through June, 2008 2008 June, through and 2007 of Highlights

The Lino and Teri Belli Family Fund was established by Salinas architect Lino Belli of the Belli Architectural Group, Inc. and his wife Teri Belli, CPA to support agencies in the Salinas Valley in their areas of interest. NEW FUNDS Received from The Anthony and Lary Lynn Muller Fund has broad interests in education, animal welfare, health, the arts, and community and social services. The Mullers July 1, 2007 to have a special interest in helping talented young students from disadvantaged June 30, 2008 families achieve their highest possible educational goals.

NEW The James M. Shade Memorial Fund was created Donor Advised by the family of James Shade (his wife Carol and Funds sons Randall and Corey) by terminating a charitable remainder trust after his death to establish a new donor advised fund in his memory.

Bill Robinson and Karen Kadushin James M. Shade

The Kadushin Robinson Fund was created by Karen Kadushin, the former Dean of the Monterey College of Law and former Executive Director of the Community Foundation’s Women’s Fund, to honor the memory of her husband, former attorney, arbitrator and mediator, Bill Robinson, who passed away in 2007.

The E. R. McCown Family Fund was created by Dr. Elizabeth Langstroth to support local and national animal welfare and environmental agencies. Dr. Langstroth is a well-known marine researcher and photographer. The fund’s advisor, Elizabeth Langstroth, named her daughters, Jean McCown, Ann McCown, and Faith McCown Clendenen, as successor advisors.

NEW W hen retired social worker Maureen Bradford of Carmel Valley passed Field of away in 2007, she left a portion of the remainder of her estate to the Community Interest Fund Foundation to establish the Maureen Bradford Fund, a field of interest fund that will assist agencies in Monterey County that provide services to needy children and abused women.

For a complete list of the Foundation’s funds, please visit our website at www.cfmco.org.  Every one of the Community Foundation’s were transferred to his donor advised fund. over 100 donor advised funds has a story to The donor’s estate plan includes the gift of tell. Together, donor advised funds make several commercial properties to his fund, up more than a third of the Foundation’s and the Community Foundation will honor total assets, and in 2007, they accounted for his wishes to distribute all of the assets in over 40% of our total grants. The interests of the fund after his death over an approximate Donor the donor advisors run the gamut from local 10-year period to the kinds of agencies that Advised Funds to international programs, and from small he supported during his lifetime. start-up nonprofits to major universities and All of this was made possible by a Powerful Partners in national charities based outside Monterey bequest of $10,000 that he received from Building Community County. his mother many years ago which helped

Photo courtesy of The story behind one of our donor advised launch his many successful investments. National CASA Association funds illustrates perfectly why they can be so His motivation is now grounded in his meaningful. In 2002, a retired engineer and spiritual belief that he should help less inventor from the San Francisco Bay area fortunate others who are in need. He seeks came to visit us at our office. He told us that no formal recognition of his philanthropy, he was at a stage in his life when he wanted does not expect to be feted at major donor to begin a program of charitable giving for banquets, and has no expectation of seeing both local and international needs in the his name on a donor wall. He has come areas of animal welfare and basic safety-net to trust the Community Foundation as his services for needy individuals and families partner in giving back to the community, Court Appointed Special Advocates such as CASA and Lifewater International. and we are privileged to have the honor (CASA) of Monterey County ensure But he did not want to incur the expense to work with him. that abused and neglected children and administrative headaches of creating a are provided with every available separate private foundation, so the donor opportunity to begin a journey advised fund option was the ideal vehicle to into healthy, productive lives by introducing caring, responsible begin his giving plan. adults, trained as advocates, into their lives. Creating Positive Connections Between Donors and Their Interests Since he is a successful businessman, he asked our program staff to help him find agencies that had clean balance sheets, relatively low administrative expenses, and a track record of providing efficient service in his areas of interest. Over time, we have helped him identify a core group of agencies that he has supported with significant, general Photo Karin Schermbrucker support grants, and we have monitored their Lifewater International is committed to performance with annual evaluations that we a world where all people have access scrutinize with him. to safe water, adequate sanitation, and This fund has grown dramatically effective hygiene. By equipping and from the early exploratory days, thanks to training indigenous partner organizations gifts, both simple and complex, of cash, real in Africa, Asia, and Latin America with equipment and training for establishing estate, and retirement fund distributions to and maintaining clean water wells, a separate field of interest fund when that Lifewater seeks to empower local option became available in 2007. In 2006, communities to gain sustainable access the assets in a charitable remainder trust to safe water and improved health. that the donor had planned to terminate  

Highlights of 2007 and through June, 2008 2008 June, through and 2007 of Highlights The Ventana Trails Forever Fund is a permanent new endowment to support the work of the Ventana Wilderness Alliance in the maintenance and restoration of the 320 miles of public trails in the Monterey Ranger District of the Los Padres National Forest and other public trails in the Ventana and Silver Peak Wilderness Region. The Alliance trains and equips volunteers and hires professional trail crews to keep NEW FUNDS the trails open and safe for the public. Received from July 1, 2007 to The Royal Presidio Chapel Conservation Project Fund was June 30, 2008 established by the Diocese of Monterey to hold funds for the conservation and ongoing maintenance of San Carlos Cathedral (built in 1770), a National Historic Landmark which is the oldest building on the Monterey Peninsula and the oldest church in continuous use in California. NEW Restricted Pacific Repertory Theatre, the only year-round professional theatre in Purpose Funds Monterey County, established an operating endowment to hold donations for their ongoing operations. Pac Rep has recently launched a campaign to raise funds for the complete renovation of their home theatre, the Golden Bough Playhouse in Carmel.

Peter Hatton, a retired engineer in Carmel, was the founding donor for A Fork in the Road – A Fund Providing a Path to a Science Career. The new endowment will provide operating support for Science Buddies, a web-based pre-collegiate science fair mentoring and curriculum development agency created by the Hess Family Foundation. Science Buddies also held a separate fund for several years at the Community Foundation until the program established its own nonprofit status in 2007.

The Howard and Lynn Classen Endowment was created to benefit CALSTAR (California Shock Trauma Air Rescue), the major nonprofit air ambulance service in California, serving over 400 patients from Monterey and surrounding counties every year. Howard Classen, the former CEO of Natividad Hospital, established the fund in his and his late wife’s name to encourage others to support the operating and special project needs of the two CALSTAR sites in Gilroy and Salinas.

F riends and family of Anthony Narigi established the Anthony Narigi Memorial Baseball Endowment when he passed away in 2007. Anthony devoted much of his passion in life to the sport of baseball. He was a NEW talented pitcher who grew up playing Little League, Pony, Travel, High Scholarship and School and Junior College baseball. Months of conditioning and extra Award Funds training were always part of his routine before each season. He would be thrilled to see other players have the opportunity to pursue their dream, Anthony Narigi utilizing the financial assistance provided by his endowment.

For a complete list of the Foundation’s funds, please visit our website at www.cfmco.org. 

and professional development activities countywide. In 2008, campaign leaders will meet with local and state officials to design an expanded Special system of literacy services. Programs, Our goal is to achieve Projects, and sustained and measurable increases in the number Initiatives of young adults who can read and succeed in their workplaces and their “Some people may get all the breaks in communities. Lives are being changed every life, but I only needed one – learning how to day as people improve their literacy. In 2007, The Literacy read.” That tag line from the TV ads about the over 700 young adults, the parents of 505 Campaign Community Foundation’s Literacy Campaign young children, enrolled in programs funded gets to the heart of our goal with this 5-year by the Literacy Campaign. “Bringing Literacy effort – to increase the level of adult literacy The Foundation is deeply grateful to our Home” in Monterey in Monterey County, especially for adults with Steering Committee, chaired by Dr. Diane County young children. Cordero de Noriega, and to our funding The Community Foundation has set partners and grantees for making the Literacy aside 20% of our unrestricted grants Campaign possible. Together, we are proving budget ($250,000 in 2008) and partnered the truth of the Campaign’s motto – that with the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, “Reading is Power”. the Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation, First 5 Monterey County, the Grover Herman Foundation, S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, several of our donor advisors, and other donors to award $600,000 in grants this year to both community-based and public agencies that provide literacy services. We have also funded a toll-free information and referral line to help people locate learn-to-read programs near their homes, learn about volunteer opportunities, or find ways to participate in community activities around literacy. Local English and Spanish radio and TV stations have aired nearly 1,600 announcements about the Literacy Campaign, and the week of September 8 has been designated every year as “Monterey County Literacy Week” by the Board of Supervisors. A coalition of literacy service providers now meet monthly to coordinate planning  

Highlights of 2007 and through June, 2008 2008 June, through and 2007 of Highlights P oder Popular is a program of the Community Foundation, funded by The California Endowment, the largest health grant making foundation in California. The program works to help improve Special the health and wellbeing of farm Programs, workers, their families and the Projects, and communities where they live, Initiatives

opportunities for self expression that have enriched the lives of all involved. Poder Popular The Poder Popular staff also worked to para la Salud cultivate relationships and develop support del Pueblo for the goals of the program among key stakeholders in various sectors such as local (“People Power for government, business (including agriculture), the Health of the education, nonprofits, health providers and Community”) faith based institutions. The residents in each and is based in three communities: Salinas, of the three communities have now joined Gonzales, and Greenfield. with allies in each of these sectors to identify Initialy, the primary focus was to engage and analyze the resources available and work community-based organizations that worked toward developing and implementing plans of directly with farm workers and their families. action to improve community health through By bringing members of these organizations more effective use of existing resources and together in each of the three communities, the the development of new community assets. program staff helped develop leadership skills among the participants and fostered more active civic participation by these residents. Through collaboration with the Foundation’s Literacy Campaign and the nonprofit housing corporation, CHISPA, the Poder Popular program has brought literacy classes to area residents such as members of the indigenous Oaxacan community in Greenfield. In addition, recognizing the importance of culture in the psychological well being of the immigrant population, Poder Popular staff, in collaboration with the Foundation’s Communities Advancing the Arts Program, as well as the Arts Council for Monterey County and First Night Monterey, have brought art classes to residents of Greenfield and East Salinas, and sponsored a poetry competition. This work has helped residents build self confidence and a sense of community, and it has given them  to families at risk of child abuse or neglect. MAP provided organizational assessments, consulting and training for the organizations and their staff. MAP continued to solidify its coordination with other groups that provide training for nonprofits, such as the Special Association for Fundraising Professionals, the Programs, Foundation Center, the ACTION Council and the Nonprofit Alliance for Monterey County Projects, and (NAMC). MAP presented 33 workshops with Initiatives over 540 participants last year, and a highlight was the fall conference co-sponsored with NAMC on integrity and accountability In light of the expected turnover of executive in the nonprofit sector. Management leadership in nonprofit organizations in the MAP awarded $50,000 in Technical Assistance next decade, the Management Assistance Assistance Grants in 2007. These grants Program Program (MAP) developed a comprehensive supported projects to strengthen local plan to develop new leaders, support those organizations such as technology upgrades, in the field and help organizations through strategic planning and board development. periods of executive transition. A pilot Executive MAP continues to provide limited Directors’ Roundtable was highly successful complimentary consultations to local in 2007, and a new planning grant from the nonprofits, referring them to our database David and Lucile Packard Foundation will help of qualified nonprofit expert consultants for develop a professional development program more in-depth assistance. The program also for aspiring nonprofit executives, another key coordinates the Stanford Alumni Consulting aspect of the overall plan. Team and collaborates with local universities to Recently, MAP completed its first fee-for- provide interns to support nonprofits’ needs. service contract, for groups providing support

In 2007, the Women’s Fund brought the Bank and Cal Women’s Business Education and Loan Coastal Rural Program (WBELP) to life. The fund’s community Development Women’s Fund partner, El Pajaro Community Development Corporation Corporation, was engaged to provide technical as partners. of Monterey assistance and training to help no- and low- The County income women start their own businesses. Girls Health Initial funding for the WBELP came from 2008 Women’s Fund Breakfast Initiative, local donors and major grants from Rabobank funded by N.A., the Federal Home Loan Bank of The California Endowment, is a participatory San Francisco, and Comerica Bank. Program research and planning project aimed at participants came from all over the county, improving access to health information including Greenfield, Salinas, Pacific Grove, and health care for preteen and teenage Las Lomas and Marina. The 17 graduates of girls. Girls will take a leadership role in the the program have reported great satisfaction research and development of a new Girls with the course, significant improvement in Health Action Plan for Monterey County. their own business knowledge, and continued The Women’s Fund provided the initial motivation to pursue their business ambitions. funding for a secondary data review and a As part of the WBELP, the Women’s Fund also survey on how preteen and teenage girls  established a micro-loan fund with First Capital access health information. 

Highlights of 2007 and through June, 2008 2008 June, through and 2007 of Highlights In 2007, the Neighborhood Grants Program with First 5 Monterey County, 10 of the groups awarded $90,000 in grants to 28 community- provide direct services to improve the quality based groups throughout Monterey County. of life for children ages birth to five and their Each funded project fell under one of the families. following categories: arts and culture, health, In addition to financial support, the sports, parent education, neighborhood Neighborhood Grants Program provides Neighborhood improvement and school safety. In collaboration ongoing technical assistance to all of the groups Grants in areas such as leadership development, fundraising, planning and membership Program recruiting. All of the groups participated with other groups from their respective areas in technical assistance workshops tailored to meet their specific needs. Recent workshop topics Neighborhood Grants included Developing a Vision and Mission Program Statement, Organizational Self-Assessment, and How to Create an Action Plan. Through continued support from community and business donations, grantees benefited from having direct access to financial and technical support for the successful completion of their projects and visions of better communities.

Communities Advancing the Arts (CAA) is Our focus during Phase II will be to help an initiative of the James Irvine Foundation increase the capacity of small to mid-size arts aimed at building new, sustainable funding organizations to cultivate donors and raise Communities streams for the arts in California by partnering the funds they need to sustain and grow their Advancing with selected community foundations. In 2005, organizations. the Arts we were proud to be selected to participate in The Objectives of Phase II are to: this exciting and innovative effort. In the first • Develop and implement a donor three years, of the Initiative we: outreach strategy that highlights the work • Regranted $455,000 to support 56 of local arts organizations, the importance projects with funds from the James Irvine of the arts to community life, and the value Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard of the Community Foundation as a partner; Foundation, and donor advised funds; • Assess the donor development • Offered a variety of technical assistance capacity of each CAA grantee and help opportunities to local arts groups, including them develop and implement a fund the Arts Management Institute; development plan; • Developed Creative Monterey County, • Attract individual contributions to the An Action Plan, in partnership with the Fund for the Arts and to other arts agency Arts Council for Monterey County; endowments held at the Foundation; and • Hosted a variety of social and cultural • Continue to partner with the Arts events aimed at cultivating donors for the Council in promoting collaboration arts; and among arts agencies and advocacy for the Dancers perform at Media Conference • Raised $200,000 for the Fund for the sector, and by addressing the goals of announcing “Creative Monterey County: Arts at the Community Foundation. Creative Monterey County, An Action An Action Plan” The Foundation has recently been selected Plan. to participate in Phase II of the CAA Initiative.  The Community Foundation has presented presents awards for high school and college- annual awards for excellence in teaching on level teachers. The Willemsen Family Fund, the Monterey Peninsula for several decades. a donor advised fund in memory of Mildred These awards honor teachers for outstanding Callister Willemsen, who taught reading for service to their students, their profession, and many years, presents awards for elementary the larger community. The Allen Griffin Fund, and middle school teachers. AWARDS AND established by the late publisher of the Herald, HONOREES 2008 Willemsen Award Winners May Higuera - Colton Elementary Awards for Sally Shafer-Harr - Foothill Elementary Excellence in Patty Brimie - La Mesa Elementary Teaching Kerry Conner - Marina Del Mar Elementary Barbara Thomas - Olson Elementary Gary Williams - Robert Down Elementary Conni Sanchez - Tularcitos Elementary Mildred Callister Willemsen Colonel Allen Griffin Shelly Glennon - Carmel Middle School Valerie-Jean Valdez Rivera - Fitch Middle School Karen Elton - King Middle School Alex Hofsteen - Los Arboles Middle School Brice Gamble - Pacific Grove Middle School 2008 Griffin Award Winners Michael J. Guardino- Carmel High School Brent Silva - Marina High School Marguerite McSween Fearn - Monterey High School Matthew Kelly - Pacific Grove High School CSM Eugene P. Street - Seaside High School Aparna Sreenivasan - CSU Monterey Bay Yan Wang – Defense Language Institute 2008 Teaching Award Winners Jason D. Scorse, PhD - Monterey Institute of International Studies Constance Anne Gamiere - Monterey Peninsula College J.D. Fulp - Naval Postgraduate School

Dr. Leslie Eliason The 2008 Dr. Leslie Eliason Teacher of Excellence Award at the Monterey Institute of Teacher of International Studies was presented to Jean Excellence Award Turner of the Graduate School of Languages and Educational Linguistics. This award is made possible by a grant from the Payne Family Foundation and is awarded to honor the memory of Dr. Leslie Eliason, a member of the faculty in the Graduate School of International Policy Studies. Dr. Leslie Eliason Jean Turner 10 11

Highlights of 2007 and through June, 2008 2008 June, through and 2007 of Highlights Since 1989, the Community Foundation has honored men and women who have made major contributions and shown outstanding leadership 2007 in support of public benefit agencies in Monterey County. The 2007 award recipient was Maggie Downer of Carmel, who saved a number of Distinguished historic buildings in Monterey and founded the Historic Garden League. Trustee Award The Foundation awarded $10,000 in grants in her honor to the Carmel Foundation for general support and to the Monterey History and Art Association for the renovation of the garden at the historic Doud House. Maggie Downer

For the past 21 years, the Lori and Lou Flagg Memorial Youth The Lori Fund, named in memory of two daughters of Morgan and Claire and Lou Flagg Flagg, has awarded scholarships to graduating eighth graders Memorial Youth in every Middle School in Monterey County. The scholarships are held for their use when these promising students enroll in Fund Awards college. The Flagg Fund is a supporting organization of the Community Foundation. Lori and Lou Flagg

Roger Antón and Zandra Jo Galvan Dr. William D. The Dr. William D. Barr Scholarship Fund for Excellence Barr Scholarship in Educational Leadership 2008 Award was presented to Roger C. Antón, Jr., Superintendent of the Salinas Fund 2008 Union High School District, and Zandra Jo Galvan, Award a student in the Graduate School of Education at San Jose State University. This scholarship fund was created to honor the career of Dr. William Barr, who retired in 2006 after 40 years in educational administration, including 16 years as the Monterey County Superintendent of Schools.

Monterey The 2008 Film Commission Scholarship Awards were presented to County Film Estee Blancher and Anna Veronica Valvillo. This award fund was created to assist local students who show serious interest and significant potential for Commission a professional career in film. The Film Commission promotes Monterey Scholarships County as an ideal, year-round venue for filmmaking.

and Awards Estee Blancher Program and Anna Veronica Valvillo

11 The National Steinbeck Center presented Various cultural voices were represented several public programs including Becoming in the My California program with American: Teenagers and Immigration, a performances ranging from Native American Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibit dance to African folk tales, as pictured here. featuring photographs and written perspectives Funding in support of the School Visits of teenage immigrants from all over the world. program will provide bilingual marketing Recent Grant materials to schools Highlights throughout Monterey Country promoting the Arts, Culture National Steinbeck Center as a relevant destination, & Historic offering transportation Preservation scholarships, and detailing 148 grants how teachers can use totaling $1,812,468 National Steinbeck Center including $497,638 exhibits and resources from Donor Advised to meet state content funds standards.

Photo Kira Carrillo Corser

Community Housing Improvement Community & Systems and Planning Association (CHISPA), working in collaboration with the Center for Social Services Community Advocacy, is training residents of 211 grants the Vista de la Terraza Cooperative to make totaling $1,956,197 decisions about the rehabilitation of their including $858,484 housing development in Salinas. The goal of from Donor Advised the project is to facilitate the process of resident funds engagement to ensure that the property remains an affordable housing development. This young family is one of the proud residents of Vista de la Terraza. Photo Pete Rocha

Animal Friends Rescue behavior training, and then Animal Welfare Project (AFRP) is dedicated working to place them in good, 17 grants to finding lifelong, loving permanent homes. Funding for totaling $366,250 homes for stray, abandoned, focused spay/neuter programs including $344,500 and abused cats and dogs. addresses the pet overpopulation from Donor Advised By networking with other problem by eliminating unwanted animal welfare agencies in litters of kittens and puppies. funds the county, AFRP creates a safety net for animals with Photo Linda Wilsey the least chance of survival by providing veterinary care, temporary foster homes, and

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Highlights of 2007 and through June, 2008 2008 June, through and 2007 of Highlights classroom to demonstrate through its location, construction, operation and maintenance how ecologically designed buildings can protect fragile resources. It is designed as both a laboratory for monitoring resource conservation Environment and a kitchen to teach lessons about 39 grants diet, nutrition and agriculture. The totaling $725,961 Habitat inspires students to understand, including $561,680 appreciate and protect the natural from Donor Advised environment through carefully designed funds Photo courtesy of Moss Media outdoor experiences that connect with The Green Building project of the Hilton academic learning. These students obviously Bialek Biological Sciences Habitat at Carmel enjoy the chance to harvest vegetables from Middle School will construct a dual use the organic garden at the Habitat.

Coastal Kids Home Care is the only the nurses and therapists freestanding nonprofit pediatric home who deliver in-home Health health agency in California. Because and outpatient services, 98 grants children receive competent medical, and helped furnish two totaling $984,801 therapeutic or palliative care and outpatient offices at their including $308,000 treatment at home, the number of in- facility in Salinas. from Donor Advised hospital days is reduced, as is the use funds of emergency rooms. Grant funds provided training and equipment to Photo Wendy Costa

Life Is For Everyone, Inc. (L.I.F.E.) serves elementary Education and middle school students 164 grants in East Salinas with effective totaling $1,386,458 after school programs that including $393,074 demonstrate what can be from Donor Advised accomplished through the funds partnership of neighborhoods, churches and