501(c)(3) Charitable Foundation

Community Benefit Foundation

“The mission of the Foundation is to benefit the West Valley communities at large in the areas of education and beautification.”

The West Valley · Warner Center Chamber of Commerce Community Benefit Foundation, incorporated in 2011, is an extension of the Chamber. It holds 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit status, which strengthens our ability to raise funds — your donation is tax-deductible. Since 2011 the Foundation has run its own events and contributed directly to the community.

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Beautification

The Beautification Committee identifies and addresses blight across the West Valley. We clean commercial and residential parkways and center dividers, cut weeds, remove litter, and restore locations suffering from graffiti — because businesses flourish in communities that are clean and safe.

The Foundation steps in when city services and private owners cannot remedy a blight problem. We have painted bridges over the Los Angeles River from Topanga Boulevard west to Balboa and Burbank in the Sepulveda Basin, and planted over 500 trees in the West Valley.

We work with the Woodland Hills · Warner Center, Reseda, Tarzana and Canoga Park Neighborhood Councils, and with St. Bernardine's, St. Mel's, Latter Day Saints, Louisville High School, El Camino, Taft and Reseda High School.

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Education

The Education Committee works to make the West Valley a better place to learn and work, through collaboration between business, community and educators. Foundation funds have underwritten Earth Day, tree planting, disaster-preparedness fairs, career and job expos, education and art grants, and candidate forums. Nearly $70,000 has gone to youth organizations here in the West Valley.

Adopt-A-School pairs West Valley businesses with local schools — a $500 minimum cash grant or supplies, with the school giving its business partner exposure in its own community.

Career Days and Get Empowered. Get Employed. prepare young people entering the workforce: interview skills, résumé writing, branding and social-media conduct, with mock interviews run by local business professionals.

See a spot that needs help? Send us the address and what you're seeing, and the Beautification Committee will take a look. Call the Chamber at (818) 347-4737 or send us a note.
Donate

Choose what your gift supports

Give to a specific initiative — the Saturday cleanups, Earth Day, tree planting, a school program — or to the general fund and we'll put it where the need is greatest. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3), so your donation is tax-deductible.

Prefer to give by check, or want to underwrite a specific event? Call the Chamber office at (818) 347-4737 and we'll set it up.