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Pasadena Community Foundation Honored by PUSD For Its Work During Pandemic

Published on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 | 12:13 pm
 
Pasadena Community Foundation President and CEO Jennifer DeVoll accepts the 2021 Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent’s Award from PUSD Superintendent Brian McDonald. (Credit: Pasadena Community Foundation)

The Pasadena Community Foundation (PCF) has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 Pasadena Unified School District’s Superintendent’s Award, the organization announced Wednesday.

The annual award is meant to recognize “organizations or individuals that go above and beyond the normal expectations in supporting PUSD’s students and schools,” the PCF said in a written statement.

PCF President and CEO Jennifer DeVoll accepted the honor on behalf of the organization from PUSD Superintendent Brian McDonald, who started the award five years ago with sponsorship from the Pasadena Educational Foundation (PEF) and the California Credit Union.

“The last year was a time of extraordinary challenges, and it is more important than ever that we honor the outstanding community partners that brought innovative thinking and care to their work for our students and families,” McDonald said.

“PCF has been supporting PUSD in direct and indirect ways over multiple years,” McDonald added. “And this year, when families and students needed help during the pandemic, PCF really came through.”

The PCF has long been a supporter of the PEF, contributing more than $1.8 million in funding since 1974, according to the group.

The organization is also active through “broad grantmaking to local nonprofit organizations, which assist PUSD students and families with food and housing assistance, arts and educational opportunities, health and wellness and so much more,” the PCF statement said.

“As the effects of the pandemic amplified during the last 18 months, PCF dispersed numerous new grants and repurposed those already in place to ensure that the district’s most vulnerable families had the supplies and assistance they needed,” the statement continued.

Efforts to support local schools and students have included securing personal protective equipment for school staff members, operating the Families in Transition Program to aid families of students left homeless during the pandemic, and outreach to improve the Special Education Department’s remote learning and tutoring for students struggling with remote learning.

McDonald thanked the PCF for its longstanding support.

“We cannot do it all ourselves, we need the community to step in where they can,” he said.

DeVoll said the PCF was glad to help.

“The pandemic found PCF at the table with other community partners, which was a new approach for the foundation and one that really made us realize how important collective impact is,” she said. “We are so happy that we as an organization were able to act in tandem with other community partners and to nimbly shift focus to uplift PUSD students and families.”

More information about the Pasadena Community Foundation is available on the organization’s website at pasadenacf.org.

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