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2021 Year In Review: Your Support Made A Difference

As we wind down 2021, everyone at PEF is grateful for the support of our donors, volunteers, and partners. You have enabled us to do great things for our public school community this year. Together we make an impactful difference in the lives of our students and families. Thank you…...

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PTA Council of PUSD – Helping Us Show Our PUSD Pride

Our November/December Volunteer Partner of the Month is our very own PTA Council of PUSD. We are thankful to the council and each of its PTA units for supporting the efforts of the Pasadena Unified School District to offer quality education. PTA support for our public schools takes an incredible…...

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Media Release: PEF Presents $200,000 in Grants to PUSD Teachers at Parade Celebration

More than 100 teachers joined the parade in decorated cars to receive their awards. [Photo gallery available 12/8] PASADENA, CA – Pasadena Unified (PUSD) teachers and principals received $200,000 in grants thanks to the Pasadena Educational Foundation (PEF), College Football Playoff (CFP) Foundation, and Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association at…...

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Local Starbucks Staffers Support PUSD Food & Green Space Equity Efforts

Recently employees from our many Pasadena-area Starbucks stores volunteered to support the efforts of Pasadena Educational Foundation and Pasadena Unified School District to advance food equity and offer more green spaces for our children. Starbucks staffers from around the area stepped up to serve with PEF at several events. That’s…...

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Giving Tuesday: Thank you for 50 years of support!

On this Giving Tuesday, we thank you for all that you have made possible for our Pasadena Unified students and teachers. Throughout our 50 year history of supporting our schools, the generosity of our donors, volunteers, and partners has strengthened and inspired us. We begin our next 50-years as we began our first;…...

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School Harvests: A Farm to School Update

By Brianna Chu Farm to School is a Pasadena Unified School District commitment to sourcing locally grown fruits and vegetables in PUSD school meals. This program takes advantage of the agricultural abundance of California, where we grow more than a third of the US’s vegetables and two-thirds of its fruits…...

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School District to Pandemic Hero PEF: Thanks, Partner

PEF In the News: First published in the Oct. 21 print issue of the Pasadena Outlook. By Camila Castellanos Though the COVID-19 pandemic is not quite in the rearview mirror, the recent strides in reopening public schools and extracurricular and enrichment activities have given the Pasadena Unified School District cause…...

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Learn to Code Opportunities for Summer Students

“A computer science education is literacy for the 21st century.” The Pasadena Educational Foundation is pleased to offer our  PEF Summer Enrichment families some additional expanded learning opportunities this year. Students can learn to code, build new skills in literacy and math, and expand their creativity with free one-year subscriptions…...

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The Nancy Scott Scholarship for Blair High School

Pasadena Unified School District counselor Karen Favor has been at Blair High School almost since she started working for the district in 1983. She’s been a involved in all aspects of the school, not just as a counselor, but also serving as a member of the suicide prevention team, among…...

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From Loofahs to Prolific Fruit Trees: Growing Willard’s Orchard

By Brianna Chu PUSD Master Gardener Jill McArthur had harvested about 70 loofahs from a vine at Pasadena High School and was trying to figure out what to do with them. She was in luck when she asked second grade Willard teacher Stacey Torres and her second grade co-teacher, as…...

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