ADVISORY BOARD
Marcia Antopol
Principal, Foundation Consulting
Rev. Patricia Farris
First United Methodist Church,
Santa Monica
Joel Glucoft, C.P.A.
Kellogg and Andelson
Arianna Huffington
Columnist/Author
Father Donal Keohane
Saint Martin of Tours Church
Sheila Kuehl
State Senator
Rabbi Sheryl Lewart
Kehillat Israel Synagogue
Gregory Mitchell
President & CEO
California National Bank
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jacqueline Caster, Founder & President
Cynthia J. Alexander, Vice President
Debra Colbert, Secretary
Denise McCain Tharnstrom, Treasurer
Dana Perryman
Principal, LAUSD
Shirley Price
Attorney
Michael Rich
RAND
Nancy Daly Riordan
Children’s Rights Advocate
Mark Sackett
Sackett Design Associates
Toni Stone
Foundation and Non-Profit
Consultant
Elisabeth Tarvin
Educator
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Everychild Foundation
P.O. Box 1808, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
(310) 573-2153 • Fax (310) 573-4207
E-mail: info@everychildfoundation.org
www.everychildfoundation.org ©2004
ISSUE 2
MAY 2004
ISSUE 2 • MAY 2004
Editor: Cynthia J. Alexander
Design: Esse Communications
Lead Writer: Lauren Colbert
Contributor: Susan Purcell
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On November 12, 2003, the Everychild Foundation
selected Optimist Youth Homes & Family Services
in Eagle Rock to receive its Year 2004 grant of
$630,000. This brings Everychild’s total grants to
more than $1.8 million, with over 30,000 children
served since the Foundation’s first grant in 2001.
Optimist provides deeply troubled teens with
a comprehensive array of social and educational
services designed to give them the tools they
need to succeed as adults. This latest grant
award culminated nine months of review by the
Grant Screening Committee, presentations by two
finalists at the annual Grant Hearing, and a final
vote of the foundation’s membership. Fortunately,
for the second straight year there was also good
news for the runner-up, who received a sizeable
grant courtesy of an Everychild member (see
related story inside).
The Optimist grant will be used to build the
new state-of-th