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…...
Building Bridges and Championing Art in Our Community
Recently Blair High School’s International Academy students studied with writer/visual artist Sehba Sarwar about the history of immigrant communities and race issues in the Pasadena area. Their studies culminated in the creation of original art related to their own personal experiences as refugees, immigrants, descendants of immigrants, and members of…...
Local Grocery Stores Help PEF Nourish our Neighbors
Local Albertsons, Pavilions, and Vons Foundation’s Nourishing Neighbors Community Relief program provided PEF a $15,000 grant to support summer meals for PUSD students. PEF continued to help provide food assistance to Pasadena Unified students this summer with support from the Albertsons, Pavilions and Vons Foundation’s Nourishing Neighbors. Over the past…...
Keeping Students In School Requires Community Help
To support our public schools in this time of unprecedented safety measures, Pasadena Educational Foundation has been asked to support the Pasadena Unified School District’s efforts to test and vaccinate its students and staff for COVID-19. PUSD school board members have voted to require weekly COVID-19 testing for all students…...
Heeding the Call – August 2021 Volunteers of the Month
During the first part of the month, Pasadena Educational Foundation put out an SOS for volunteer help. We needed to assemble welcome packs for Pasadena Unified School District teachers. The district warehouse required additional workers to get books labeled and boxed for delivery to students as quickly as possible. And…...
Celebrating PEF Volunteers: National Volunteer Week 2021
By Nancy Carol Inguanzo, PEF Community Engagement & Volunteer Manager Last week the Los Angeles Times published an article about how hugs are making a comeback post-vaccinations. In the piece, Angelenos shared stories of their first post-vaccination hug. Me? I hugged a volunteer. I’ve worked in-person with volunteers throughout the…...
