Background of the Community Foundation

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Since its incorporation in 1977, the City of Rancho Cucamonga has established a positive reputation for quality housing, outstanding park facilities, first-rate recreation and community service programs and the best in safe and responsive public services. Rancho Cucamonga is still a young and dynamic community with an exciting future.

To ensure that Rancho Cucamonga community will continue to flourish and to enrich the quality of life, the City established the Rancho Cucamonga Community Foundation as a non-profit 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation in April 1987.

The purpose of the Community Foundation is to raise and manage funds to assist the City in improving the cultural and recreational services to the citizens of Rancho Cucamonga. The support, promotion and advancement of these services by the Foundation is in addition to existing City conducted programs.

Areas of emphasis supported by the Foundation include:

• Cultural and performing arts
  
  
• Visual arts
  
  
• Recreational services

The existing goals of the Foundation include:

• Support the operations of a Community Theater facility and develop an annual series of Community Performing Arts programs within the theater.
  
  
• Plan and conduct a large biennial “Foundation Signature Event” to raise funds for one or more of the Foundation's identified projects.
  
  
• Conduct programs and activities to raise funds that will be used directly for designated new and/or expanded community wide events.
  
  
• Promote and receive community donations and distribute funds in accordance with the Foundation’s objectives and desire of donors.

In realizing its goal of enriching the quality of life for our community the Foundation has provided valuable support to a wide variety of programs and organizations. A few of the programs sponsored by the Community Foundation include:

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