We'd like to take this opportunity to tell you how humbled and grateful we are to be a part of this community. Here at Pardee Properties we're committed to making a difference locally and have begun a program to give 10% of our net proceeds from each sale to the local charity of our clients choice. Each month our campaign will highlight a different local charity to raise awareness regarding their cause. These charities make the community what it is and we appreciate and support their efforts.
We believe in, support and are grateful to be a part of this community.
SURFRIDER FOUNDATION
The Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit grassroots organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of our world’s oceans, waves and beaches. Founded in 1984 by a handful of visionary surfers in Malibu, California, the Surfrider Foundation now maintains over 50,000 members and 90 chapters worldwide.
HOPE
The HOPE Campaign launched in January 2007 and initially worked to bring the crisis in Darfur, Sudan to the forefront of the media by raising awareness through the creative class and developing projects and funds to help existing educational and social projects move forward in sustainability.
Venice Arts
Venice Arts’ mission is to ignite youths’ imagination, mentor their creativity, and expand their sense of possibility through high quality, accessible media–based arts education programs. Venice Arts also serves as a catalyst for people of all ages, living in low–income or underrepresented communities, to create and share personal and community stories through photography, film, and multi–media.
The Santa Monica YWCA
The YWCA invests in our community's women and girls from infancy to adulthood. Through child development, teen leadership, girls athletics, transitional housing and education, financial literacy, parenting education, health and fitness classes, and cancer support, the YWCA is a turning point for many who seek out our services at different points in their lives to provide direction and support for a next step.
Link to the Santa Monica YWCASaint Mark School
As a part of the Community of Saint Mark in Venice, California, Saint Mark Elementary School first opened its doors to students on September 12, 1949. The original school was comprised of three bungalows, purchased from Saint Augustine Parish, and located on Victoria Avenue. Our initial 150 students were served lovingly by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. More classroom bungalows were added each year to accommodate our growing student body. In 1952, the Community of Saint Mark broke ground to begin the construction of a permanent school site at 912 Coeur d’Alene Avenue. Our current facility opened in October of 1953 with a total enrollment of 658 students in eleven classrooms!
Ocean Park Community Center
OPCC empowers people to rebuild their lives by providing a continuum of care for men, women and children who need assistance in returning to lives of self-sufficiency. In addition to basic emergency services such as food, clothing, showers, bus tokens, etc., the agency’s programs are designed to help individuals access the resources they need to ensure survival, end victimization and improve the quality of their lives.
Link to Ocean Park Community Center
Friends of the Venice Library
The Venice - Abbot Kinney Memorial Library is located at 501 South Venice Boulevard in Venice and was opened on August 12, 1995. It is a lovely place.
Link to Friends of the Venice Library
Friends of Coeur D'Alene Elementary
The Coeur D'Alene Elementary School is located at 810 Coeur D'Alene Avenue in Venice. An association of parents actively supporting academics, arts, and physical education programs in a safe and welcoming environment.
Link to Friends of Coeur D'Alene Elementary
Venice Family Clinic
Mission
To provide free, quality health care to people in need.
History
Founded in 1970 in a borrowed storefront dental office, the Clinic has grown into the largest free clinic in the nation. Founder Phillip Rossman, MD, and co-founder Mayer B. Davidson, MD, called upon friends and colleagues to help. That spirit of volunteerism prevails today with more than 1,500 volunteers and $11.3 million in-kind contributions from hospitals, laboratories, specialty-care providers and pharmaceutical companies.
Programs and Services
The Clinic provides comprehensive primary health care, specialty care, dental care, mental health services, health education and child development services, as well as public insurance enrollment to more than 23,500 patients, including approximately 5,800 children, who make nearly 100,000 visits annually. Prescription medicines are provided at no charge.
Venice 2000 / H.E.L.P.E.R.
The VENICE 2000 / H.E.L.P.E.R organization and its various innovative programs, such as Gang Intervention, Safe Passage programs, Youth Impact sessions and the Amer-I-Can program, which teaches the responsibilities of self-determination to all people, empowering those exempted from power and participation in the mainstream.
Each of Venice 2000/ H.E.L.P.E.R programs provide support for ex-offenders and at-risk-youth which are dedicated to addressing the underlining causes of homelessness, unemployment, violence, crime and most of all under achievement.
The H.E.L.P.E.R. Alliance also offers a variety of services for its clients and potential candidates including employment, vocational training, job development, independent living skills, hard-core gang intervention and prevention, self-help and support groups designed to instill and support values.
It is our belief here at Venice 2000/ H.E.L.P.E.R that by instituting a strategy of support, education and economic independence, participation in mainstream society will ultimately be achieved. Outreach, job development and referral services are also included.
Link to Venice 2000/H.E.L.P.E.R.
Ocean Park Association
The Ocean Park Association is Santa Monica's neighborhood organization representing the Ocean Park community having boundaries from Pico Blvd to the South city border and Lincoln Blvd to the Pacific Ocean. OPA provides a way for residents to meet, share ideas and often talk directly with city representatives.
John Muir Elementary
The John Muir Elementary School is located at 2526 Sixth Street in Santa Monica.