Giving Day Raises Over $75K For Laguna Area Non-Profits

LAGUNA BEACH, CA - Giving day returned to Laguna Beach, and the Laguna Canyon Foundation and four fellow nonprofits partnered with the Orange County Community Foundation (OCCF) to host Protect and Preserve, a Giving Day to sustain the ecosystems in Orange County, on April 10.

The 24-hour online effort raised $75,685 with the participation of 194 donors for local organizations with a shared commitment of positive impacting the environment.

The five nonprofits that participated in the Protect and Preserve Giving Day included Pacific
Marine Mammal Center, Crystal Cove Conservancy, Laguna Canyon Foundation, Huntington
Beach Wetlands Conservancy and California Trout.

“We’re so thrilled to have been able to partner with these organizations doing such important
work, and so proud to have been part of Giving Day,” said Hallie Jones, Laguna Canyon
Foundation’s Executive Director. “We’re looking forward to more collaborations with both
Orange County Community Foundation and our fellow environmental organizations in the
future.”

The Orange County Community Foundation powered the Protect and Preserve campaign by
providing seed funding to support the marketing assets, campaign resources and collaborative
partnerships. The Protect and Preserve Giving Day is part of a series that will take place in
Orange County throughout 2019 as part of OCCF’s Collaborative Giving Day initiative to boost
the capacity of local nonprofits to meet the community’s needs.

“The success of the Protect and Preserve campaign would not be possible without the support
of our generous community, who came together to sustain our environment,” said Shelley
Hoss, president, OCCF. “We are proud to support our nonprofit partners who are not only
tackling the most important issues facing our county, but collaborating to educate the next
generation of environmental stewards.”

OCCF first challenged Orange County residents to “give where their heart lives” during the
inaugural iheartoc Giving Day in 2015, raising more than $1.8 million through 6,000 gifts to 347
participating nonprofits in just 30 hours.

OCCF nearly doubled those results in 2016 during the second annual iheartoc Giving Day, receiving 7,000 contributions totaling $3.2 million for 418 participating nonprofits. In 2017, OCCF re-envisioned iheartoc as an expanded opportunity for nonprofits to connect with one another in support of their shared missions. The seven collaborative Giving Days held in 2018 raised a total of $1.4 million for local organizations.

Additional collaborative Giving Days will be announced over the coming year. For more
information, please visit oc-cf.org/iheartoc