In 1897, Frank Church, editor of The New York Sun, responded to eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon, who wrote to the newspaper to ask “is there a Santa Claus?” More than a century later it remains the most reprinted editorial ever to run in any newspaper in the United States. “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus….
Roger and Gloria Villalobos Mullendore Endowment for Hunger
The Roger and Gloria Villalobos Mullendore Endowment for Hunger is a PCF Endowment Builders Fund and will help organizations that provide food assistance to individuals and families facing food insecurity. Roger was first introduced to the Foundation at a Local Heroes breakfast – he attended as a board representative for the Pasadena Conservatory of Music,…
PCF Human Services Endowment
This field of interest endowment supports human services in the Pasadena area.
Friends Outside in LA County Endowment
Friends Outside in LA has been serving people with incarcerated family members and the “re-entry population” for over 40 years. The organization has served thousands of people with services that range from helping inmates get into substance abuse treatment in lieu of incarceration, to providing an after-school program for children of prisoners, to helping released…
Cornelia L. Eaton Endowment for Assistance to the Elderly
Cornelia Eaton lived in a modest house in Pasadena in the path of what is now the 210 freeway. At her death in 1995, she left her entire estate to the Pasadena Community Foundation, a bequest valued at $816,225. She specified that the funds would be used to support charitable organizations that serve seniors in…