Artists Create Intergenerational Art with PCF Funding

One year ago, Pasadena Community Foundation awarded its inaugural Arts & Culture Grants with funding to 18 local arts organizations. Side Street Projects used its funding to support an Artist Residency Program that brings the community together with artists who center collective and intergenerational healing from trauma in their work. Two artists were selected to…

Honoring Queer Ancestry with a PCF Arts Grant

Two individuals - a Black woman and a white woman - stand arm in arm smiling and facing the camera. Behind them is a portrait of the Black woman.

Kate Muehlemann Cataldo is an artist with a unique ability to bridge her longtime work in health and hospice care with intimate portraiture. She is one of two artists who were selected for Side Street Projects’ 2023-24 Artist Residencies. Pasadena Community Foundation funded each Residency through an Arts & Culture Grant to Side Street Projects…

2024 Arts & Culture Grants Announced

A theater cast in full costume and makeup and moody light line the stage in rows looking intensely at the camera.

Pasadena Community Foundation (PCF) is proud to announce the nonprofit recipients for its 2024 Arts & Culture Grant Program. The 16 selected nonprofits represent both emerging and established organizations, and the grants, totaling $302,000, provide flexible support in addressing ongoing challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.  See complete list of 2024 Arts & Culture grantees below….

Coexistence with Cougars – A PCF Grant Will Further That Goal

A mountain lion walks across a natural path in the mountains and looks directly at the camera from the side. Dramatic clouds, mountains, and blue sky are behind the animal

The Cougar Conservancy, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit, is helping to fill a gap in conservation research: It helps humans coexist with cougars. Using science-based management and innovative community outreach programs, the Cougar Conservancy builds awareness, understanding, appreciation, and tolerance of cougars. A recent Animal Welfare Grant from Pasadena Community Foundation (PCF) will help the organization…

Perinatal Program at Elizabeth House Gets PCHF Grant Boost

The Elizabeth House is a nonprofit that has been providing comprehensive care and support to women and children in the Pasadena area for 30 years. It is the only organization in Los Angeles and Orange counties that welcomes pregnant mothers and their children under the age of five into their residential program, creating a haven…