LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, the official team charity, granted $1.2 million in donations to local nonprofit organizations and made investments of another $1.8 million in its cornerstone programs during 2016.
Those programs benefit underserved youth in the Southland in the areas of education, literacy, sports and recreation and health and wellness.
Since the Foundation's inception in 1995, LADF has distributed over $11 million in grants to the local community.
Among the nonprofits receiving donations last year for education and literacy were the Jackie Robinson Foundation, which provides college scholarships; the Mayor's Fund, which allows 32 parks to stay open at night during the summer; Minds Matter of Los Angeles, which provides intensive college prep for students from low-income families; and Library Foundation of Los Angeles, which provides a summer reading series led by Dodgers players, coaches and alumni.