Los Angeles Times Family Fund
The Mission
The mission of the Los Angeles Times Family Fund is to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and youth in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties.
Each year, the Los Angeles Times Family Fund conducts three fundraising campaigns – the Summer Camp Campaign, the Holiday Campaign and the United Partners Campaign. Los Angeles Times readers and employees, foundations, corporations and concerned citizens make contributions to the campaigns.
Donations and matching funds from the McCormick Foundation are granted through the Los Angeles Times Family Fund to youth-serving nonprofit organizations that provide food, clothing, shelter, early literacy and arts programs, summer camp scholarships, services for developmentally delayed and disabled children and programs to prevent youth violence, teen pregnancy and drug abuse. The Times and the Foundation absorb all administrative and fundraising costs, so 100% of all donations and the entire matching funds are awarded to nonprofit agencies.
Since its inception, the Los Angeles Times Family Fund has awarded 639 youth-focused grants totaling nearly $12.5 million. In addition, the Family Fund has conducted fundraising campaigns and awarded $3.9 million in grants to organizations that provide assistance and relief to victims of September 11, 2001 and the Southern California wildfires in October 2003.
Summer Camp Campaign
Since 1954, Los Angeles Times readers and employees, foundations, corporations and concerned citizens like you have pooled their resources to provide more than 390,000 camp scholarships to disadvantaged children and youth. By providing camp scholarship donations, you help kids, ages 7-17, develop a sense of confidence and control over their lives. Camp is a place where a positive perspective can finally be discovered – an experience thousands of young people will carry with them long after the last nature hike, sing-a-long or marshmallow roast.
Holiday Campaign
In 2000, the Los Angeles Times Family Fund launched an annual Holiday Campaign to raise funds to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and youth. By contributing to the Holiday Campaign, you help low-income children by meeting their most basic needs...food, clothing and shelter. In addition, your donation provides early literacy and arts programs, services for developmentally delayed and disabled children and programs to prevent youth violence, teen pregnancy and drug abuse.
United Partners Campaign
In 2003, the Los Angeles Times Family Fund launched the United Partners Campaign (UPC), an innovative online fundraising program. Nonprofit organizations apply to become UPC participants and selected organizations that meet the Family Fund’s giving guidelines participate. The McCormick Foundation matches contributions 50 cents on the dollar. Since its inception, more than $1.6 million in donations and matching funds have been granted to youth-serving nonprofit organizations.
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