Community Outreach
Each year, we select a variety of groups to which we contribute our time and talent and or gifts, money, or grants from our fundraisers.
Some of the local groups we support include:
Patriots and Paws
Patriots and Paws provide veterans, service members, and reservists with home furnishings and unite them with a rescued companionship animal. For many years, we have contributed 50 Thanksgiving food bags that include the fixings for a complete Thanksgiving dinner plus a $50 gift card. We also participate in annual fundraising events.
Veterans House OC
Veterans House OC provides low-cost housing to veterans in Orange County. They manage houses in Santa Ana, Orange and Garden Grove. Veterans can stay as long as they need housing. Houses include furnished common area, furnished single and shared rooms, high speed internet access, cable TV with sports package, and on-site laundry facilities. Currently there are over 60 veterans living in these houses. Veterans House OC also manages a 6-bed house in the city of Orange for veterans that are in hospice care.
We provide daily bus passes. We continuously collect food for their pantry, clothes and household items, and specific items when requested. We also participate in annual fundraising events.
Fullerton Community College Veterans Resource Center
The Resource Center is a place that Veteran students can commune with other veterans, study, get academic counseling as needed and have a place to relax and just watch TV. There is also a computer room where they can do homework. We provide monthly snacks and drinks for the resources center.
Placentia Veterans Village
The village opened July 2020 at 1945 E. Veteran Way Placentia, CA 92870. Placentia Veterans Village is one of the first all veteran permanent supportive housing facilities in Orange County. Its 49 units (all VASH) are dedicated to housing homeless and/or disabled veterans.
We provide Access bus passes 4 times a year. We provide laundry pods and quarters so veterans can use onsite laundry facilities. And we provide specific items when requested.
11th Marine Expeditionary Unit
The 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (11th MEU) is one of seven Marine Expeditionary Units currently in existence in the United States Marine Corps. The Marine Expeditionary Unit is a Marine Air Ground Task Force with a strength of about 2,200 personnel. The MEU consists of a command element, a reinforced infantry battalion, a composite helicopter squadron and a logistics combat element. The 11th MEU is currently based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California with headquarters in Camp Del Mar. We provide gifts for the Children’s Christmas Party. We collect and package personal items for Marines that are being deployed or coming home.
Meals on Wheels
Placentia Yorba Linda Meals on Wheels delivers nourishing meals at a minimal cost to the homebound, elderly, and disabled individuals who are unable to prepare or obtain adequate meals for themselves. We provide them with a grant for up to $1000 each year. In addition, our Art and Culture Community Service Program create small handmade projects to be added to the meals delivered to homebound elderly and disabled individuals. Delivering smiles and letting them know someone cares about them.
SmileMakers
SmileMakers, as part of the Program of Council on Aging, mobilizes community support to provide holiday gifts to older and disabled adults in skilled nursing homes and residential care facilities. Thousands of older adults are isolated and alone, having no family and friends with whom they share special moments like the holidays. We have provided hundreds of homemade cards, Angel gifts, along with helping to wrap them, to brighten lonely senior’s lives.
Art and Culture
Our club’s GFWC Service Program supports art and culture programs in the community. The goal is to create projects that include crafts and other manifestations of art and culture that develop skills, awareness, and appreciation. It is designed to inspire clubwomen and ignite within them a desire to make the world a more beautiful, thoughtful, and caring place, while having fun. Our program creates small handmade projects to be added to the meals delivered to homebound elderly and disabled individuals (via Meals on Wheels). Delivering smiles and letting them know someone cares about them.
Miss Placentia / Miss Yorba Linda Scholarship Program
This program empowers young women of Placentia and Yorba Linda to achieve their personal, scholastic, and professional goals. We provide our clubhouse for receptions, purchase advertising in the annual program book, provide use of the clubhouse for fundraising, and provide funds for scholarships.
Casa Teresa
Casa Teresa provides support and education for pregnant women and their families, providing hope and a future. We provide monetary donations, baby and mother clothing, diapers, toiletries, personal care items and food for their pantry throughout the year. Special fundraising drives include Christmas “Celebrate a Mom” and Mother’s Day gifts for the moms and babies.
R.E.A.C.H.
R.E.A.C.H. is dedicated to improving health and wellness in underrepresented communities by providing resources, education and research. We provide help to PYLUSD students to solve issues that distract them from their educational development. School secretaries, principals, teachers and nurses make us aware of student’s needs. In the past, we have funded clothing, glasses, school supplies, shoes, medical issues, and student events.
As a Community Partner with R.E.A.C.H., we also support ArtWorks – an in person art exhibition that showcases students of all levels and mediums of artwork; Seat Dedication – supporting the arts with a seat dedication at the Performing Arts Center; and Vintage Prom program – donating and organizing gently used formal wear – dresses & men’s suits for our PYLUSD students so they can “shop” at no cost for prom or graduation attire.
HIS OC
The Homeless Intervention Services of Orange County (HIS O.C.) provides support and assistance to the underprivileged and unhoused to improve their quality of life, and to help them regain stability and hope. For many years we have provided a birthday cake and ice cream to HIS House monthly to help celebrate birthdays.
National Charity League Yorba Linda
This is a group of mothers and daughters who have come together in a commitment to community service, leadership development and cultural experiences. We monetarily support this organization.
Domestic Violence
We are committed to bringing awareness of domestic violence to our community.
We reach out to its members and local businesses and offers resources such as the national domestic violence hotline number, pamphlets from various county organizations, and other local non-profits that assist victims with finding the help they need from trusted and experienced people who care and understand. We provide monetary donations and baby and mother clothing, diapers, toiletries, personal care items and food for their pantry.
If you or someone you know needs help, please call/text 1-800-799-7233 or visit them at:
College Scholarships
We are proud to support our local community by awarding academic college scholarships to PYLUSD seniors and veterans. Last year, we awarded $58,000 in support of these students.
Learn more at Scholarships
Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District
We support the schools by placing ads in the football programs for most of the high schools. We sponsor the El Dorado Theater Program. During COVID, we donated $1500 for canopies for the El Dorado Choir. We donate funds for Melrose School for various projects.
Placentia Police Department
We support our local Police Department by helping in the acquisition of dogs for the K-9 unit.
Placentia Library
We make monetary donations to the library each year to help support our city library and the many programs they offer to our community. Each year we monetarily support the Summer Reading Program and The History Room and donate Easter eggs for the Easter egg hunt.
Love Placentia
Love Placentia is a partnership of the city of Placentia, the Placentia Police Department, faith communities, PYLUSD, non-profits, service organizations, and local residents committed to serving and loving the city in which we live, work, and play. Love Placentia has installed Blessing Boxes in 5 Placentia parks to support those in our community who are in food insecurity situations. These persons may be homeless or be families whose income does not stretch to meet their regular needs. All are welcome to “take what they need and leave what they can” in these boxes.
Our members donate non-perishable foods and we have teams who go weekly to place the collected foods into two Blessing Boxes. Should food donations be low in any month we have a budget which can be used to supplement the donations as needed.
HOBY Leadership
The HOBY Leadership program for the Hugh O’Brien Youth, welcomes school and community nominated students to 3–4-day seminars each spring and summer. These student ambassadors participate in facilitated dialogue and abilities-based workshops to develop awareness of their leadership strengths and an understanding of their leadership values. Through these dynamic activities with their peers, students hone their skills and learn to recognize, amplify, and collaborate with the diverse strengths of others. We provide scholarships to 4 students from the PYLUSD to attend the HOBY Leadership Conference each year.