2024 Local Heroes Celebrates $2.5 Million in Pasadena Community Foundation Grant Awards

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2024 Local Heroes Celebrates $2.5 Million in Pasadena Community Foundation Grant Awards

First Place For Youth

Dec 2, 2024

The greater Pasadena community joined Pasadena Community Foundation (PCF) for an uplifting celebration on Thursday, November 14 — the 25th annual Local Heroes Luncheon, a celebration of PCF’s $2.5 million in grant awards to 100 local nonprofits this year. In attendance at the University Club were more than 200 nonprofit leaders, community partners, civic and education officials, and PCF’s generous donors.

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Thomas Lee represented First Place for Youth, which partnered with PCF and several other organizations to create housing for six transition age foster youth. He was accompanied by Sky Celine Page, a resident in the new housing. Click below to watch the Spotlight Video about this project:

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