$35,000 Grant to Ballona Wetlands
Edison International symbolically awarded a $35,000 grant to the Friends of Ballona Wetlands, Los Angeles' preeminent wetlands education and preservation group, just before the Friends’ regularly scheduled Open House on September 8 .
The grant will continue to provide bus transportation scholarships for schools that cannot afford field trips to the Ballona Wetlands, as well as field tools and intern oversight of school children visiting the wetlands, participating in habitat restoration and other community science educational activities.
Each month, the Friends lead groups of volunteers in restoring native dune habitat at the western border of the 600-acre Ballona Wetlands State Ecological Reserve. The Friends perform this work as stewards under special permits granted by the California Department of Fish and Game.
This is the fifth year in a row that Edison International has awarded the non-profit a grant. “Last year Edison International’s generous gift was used to purchase much-needed binoculars for our outreach and education programs,” said Lisa Fimiani, executive director of the Friends.
“This year we will further expand our K-12 outdoor educational programs into our new Ballona Discovery Park, a 1.7-acre open air public park with science and cultural interpretive displays and a representational model of an interactive watershed exhibit, located in the community of Playa Vista surrounded by the Southern California Edison service territories of Marina Del Rey, Culver City, Inglewood and El Segundo."
Corporate contributions are paid for by Edison International shareholders, and not by utility customers.
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For more information, visit http://www.ballonafriends.org
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