The organizations receiving the latest Foundation grants October 15, 2008 are:

· Mt. SAC Auxiliary Services Relays Youth Days -- $155,000 - for this one-of-a-kind track and field program.

· THINK Together -- $75,000 - the grant will support THINK Together programs at all nine middle schools in the Santa Ana Unified School District which had eliminated after-school sports due to budget constraints. 

· Southern California Speed Skating Association -- $86,630 for its short track ice speed skating program which is the only such program in Southern California .

· Boys & Girls Clubs of Tustin (BGC-Tustin) -- $50,000 - to install a new floor in its gymnasium which is one of the few play spaces in the area and is heavily used.

· Challengers Boys & Girls Club -- $50,000 - to help construct a state-of-the-art track and synthetic soccer field facility.  The club will now be able to offer soccer, track and field and flag football.

· Lennox Educational Advancement Foundation (LEAF) -- $50,000 - for renovation of the track and field facility at Lennox Middle School which is the primary facility for youth sports programming in this underserved area.

The other ten LA84 Foundation grants are to organizations providing a variety of sports programs including:  

Eastside Boys & Girls Club of Los Angeles, East Los Angeles - $20,000
Inglewood Police Activities League - $20,000
LA SCORES, Palms - $32,770 
Hollywood Police Activities League (PALS) - $24,000
United States Synchronized Team Association, Inc., Lakewood - $25,800
Carlsbad Wave Soccer - $10,000
Dubnoff Center for Child Development and Educational Therapy,
    North Hollywood - $6,075
Ivey Ranch Park Association, Oceanside - $10,000;  Mar Vista Family Center (MVFC) - $10,000
West Valley Boys & Girls Club, Inc., Canoga Park - $10,000

About LA84 Foundation: The LA84 Foundation, formerly known as the Amateur Athletic Foundation, was established to manage Southern California's share of the surplus from the highly successful 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The Foundation received $93 million at its inception and, since then, has invested $169 million in sports programs serving more than two million youth in the eight Southern California counties of Los Angeles, Imperial, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura. Its headquarters is located in the historic Britt House near downtown Los Angeles where it houses the world's premier sports library and meeting facilities. The Foundation convenes numerous forums for the exploration of the most pressing issues in sport. For additional information, please visit www.LA84Foundation.org.

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