Along with gearing up for the Spring Grant Cycle (focused on downtown Bakersfield), the Foundation has been busy funding other interesting projects from Kern County nonprofits.
Here’s what we’ve been up to so far this year:
• $1,800 to the Sterling Head Start School’s garden, via the Afford Foundation.
• $3,500 for scholarships to students studying Communications at CSUB.
• $8,000 to the Kern County Museum for the “adoption” of the Havilah Courier building, part of their Pioneer Village exhibit.
• $50,000 to the Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Foundation, to help in their purchase of a SimMan3G, a medical training tool. This was a matching grant. The funds were dependent on the Hospital raising their own $50,000 — which they did in record time!
Looking forward to the spring and more worthwhile projects focused on improving downtown Bakersfield.
Bakersfield Californian Foundation 