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Helping to fund the work of great nonprofits

Partial list of grant successes

Client: Laguna Food Pantry
   • Laguna Board of REALTORS / A Taste for Charity – $12,000 for rent and operating expenses
   • Ebell Club – May 2014 – $2,500 for operating expenses
   • St. Joe Mission Hospital – $25,000 for operation expenses Feb. 2018
   • Laguna Beach Rotary – July 2018 – $1,500 for bulk purchase of peanut butter for hungry families

 
Client: Laguna Live! music presentation 
   • Laguna Beach Rotary – July 2015 – $2,500
 
Client (Pro bono, as board member): Chhahari children’s home in Kathmandu, Nepal
   • Impact Giving – May 2013 – $13,000 to purchase solar panels and battery backup systems for orphanage and nearby  
​      school’s computer room
    • Impact Giving – May 2014 – $13,000 for all educational expenses for home’s 23 children 
 
Client: Helping Hand Worldwide, a mobile food bank
    • Impact Giving – May 2010 – $14,000 for new tires and vehicle maintenance for three refrigerated trucks 
    • Cox Cares – October 2011 – $5,000 from Cox Communications for fuel and operating expenses 
    • Albertsons Fueling Fresh Rescue – August 2009 – $2,500 for fuel and operating expenses
    • Wells Fargo – January 2010 –  $1,500 for refurbishing used computers for partner program Computers 4 Kids. 
    • Laguna Beach Community Foundation –December 2011 ­– $1,000 for truck fuel 
    • McBeth Foundation – April 2008 – $50,000 for part-time salaries for three drivers and truck fuel and maintenance
    • City of Laguna Beach – 2009 – $3,000 for operations in Laguna Beach 
    • City of Dana Point –  2009 – $3,000 for operations in Dana Point
    • City of Aliso Viejo – 2009 – $2,000 for operations in Aliso Viejo
    • Allergan Foundation – 2009 – $2,500 for fuel and general operating expenses
    • Laguna Board of REALTORS – 2009 –  $2,000 for fuel and part-time driver salaries
 
Client: Valley Animal Center – Fresno, California
   • PetSmart grant – Spring 2008 –  $25,000 for spay/neuter program
    • Handsel Foundation – $75,000 total: $25,000 per year for three years beginning 2008 for Clovis, Calif. animal shelter
      rescue program
    • Petco – $50,000 – Spring 2007 – For spay/neuter program and operating expenses
 
 Client: Big Valley Endowment Foundation – Adin, California
   • Shasta Regional Community Foundation – September 2007 – $30,000 for permanent ambulance station and training
     facility in Adin
 
Client: ART4KIDS, Inc.
   • Secured ongoing in-kind donations from nonprofit that supplies art materials to children in distress
 
 

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