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After Seeing LA Wildfires From the Air, Foundation CEO Mobilizes $100 Million Recovery Effort
Nearly 50,000 donors contributed over $100 million to support wildfire survivors with immediate relief, advocacy, and innovative financial solutions amid prolonged recovery challenges.
- About a year after the fires began Jan. 7, 2025, the California Community Foundation raised over $100 million from nearly 50,000 donors, according to Santana.
- The Palisades and Eaton fires killed 31 people and destroyed 17,000 structures, leaving an estimated 7 in 10 survivors displaced with only 10 houses rebuilt across both footprints.
- CCF convened survivors and local leaders, including Evan Spiegel, co-founder and CEO of Snap, and formed the Department of Angels to track survivor experience via quarterly surveys of over 2,000 survivors.
- Many survivors are running out of insurance proceeds shortly, and philanthropy has raised $30 million but California still awaits billions from the federal government.
- As the second year of recovery begins, Miguel Santana, CCF CEO, urged Angelenos to support vulnerable survivors and called for federal government aid matching local needs.
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A community foundation raised $100 million after the LA fires. Here's what they learned spending it
When fires broke out across Los Angeles in January 2025, Miguel Santana, CEO of the California Community Foundation, saw the devastation firsthand.
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