First published in the May 5 print issue of the Pasadena Outlook.
The Rotary Club of Pasadena has announced the 2022 Community Grants arts and culture awardees.
Since 2004, through its Community Grants program, the Rotary Club of Pasadena has awarded more than $765,000 to 152 organizations in Pasadena.
This year the committee reviewed applications from nonprofit (501)(c)(3) organizations that serve residents in the Pasadena area in arts and culture with a focus on organizational recovery from the impact of the pandemic.
Co-chairs Deborah Lewis and Scott Vandrick, on behalf of President Cory Brendel, announced the 13 recipients who received grant awards at the Rotary Club of Pasadena’s Community Grants luncheon on Wednesday, April 27. Awardees included:
A Noise Within: $4,000
Armory Center for the Arts: $5,500
ArtCenter College of Design: $5,500
Boston Court Pasadena: $3,000
Light Bringer Project: $5,500
Lineage Performing Arts Center: $5,000
Los Angeles Children’s Chorus: $5,000
Makoto Taiko: $1,000
MUSE/IQUE: $3,000
Parson’s Nose Theater: $6,000
Pasadena Conservatory of Music: $3,000
Pasadena Heritage: $4,500
Pasadena Symphony and POPS: $6,000
The Rotary Club of Pasadena is the oldest and largest community service group in the San Gabriel Valley. In 2020, Pasadena Rotary celebrated its Centennial year and raised more than $180,000 to support Union Station Homeless Services as well as a number of other local projects.
The club has more than 200 members who meet at the University Club of Pasadena with dozens of committees contributing to the well-being and growth of the community, region and world.
Current Pasadena Rotary committees include: Fight to Erase Polio, Adopt-A-Meal; Christmas Project; Community Grants; International Projects; Done In A Day; Shop with a Cop; Human Trafficking Awareness; Business Alliance; Rotary Readers; Program and Teachers of Excellence.
For more information, visit pasadenarotary.com.
