CCC Foundation

Training/education: the Foundation continues its partnership with edison international and support from boeing corporation, butte college and private foundations to provide significant corpsmember training in wildland firefighting, emt training, and physical fitness training. The edison partnership also supported actual firefighting and fuel reduction efforts throughout southern california.the Foundation provided hazardous materials handling instruction and certification for CCC corpsmembers through its partnership with the boeing corporation. The Foundation also continued to enhance the education, training and leadership skills of the corpsmembers through the required advancement of their education in technical training, college and on-the-job training. Corpsmembers learn personal and civic responsibiltiies and receive leadership training opportunities through corpsmember advisory boards (cabs).

Construction has begun on the stormwater capture project at yvonne b. burke sports complex in baldwin park, ca. This project will address the runoff problem onto adjacent city streets as well as prevent runoff into ballona creek. This project will conserve significant amounts of water. During 2022, construction also began on the greening project at grant elementary school. The purpose of this urban greening project is to design and build a multi-benefit space which will revitalize grant elementary school by converting the 30,000 sf of asphalt into a park-like environment with trees, a grass playing-field and drought-tolerant and habitat-rich plantings.

The CCC Foundation funded the annual CCC high school graduation, the annual corpsmember leadership conference, and continues to raise funds for the corpsmember and staff emergencty fund. It contiunues its program to engage foster youth through a series of increasingly more immersive wilderness experience, in order to introduce them and prepare them for joining one of the corp's residential centers. We believe the CCC is an excelllent option for youth exiting the foster care system. In addition, the Foundation continues its women in wilderness program to provide women of color, ages 18-24, with no prior backpacking experience, on an introductory, but immersive, trip into the backcounty. The goal is to provide a great wilderness experience and a pathway to stewardship and employment in natural resource management.