Pasadena Humane Society & SPCA. "The Pasadena Humane Society &
SPCA is an independent, private, non-profit organization dedicated to the
welfare of our animal friends since 1903. Each year we care for more than
10,000 animals from the seven cities we serve: Pasadena, South Pasadena,
San Marino, La Canada/ Flintridge, Sierra Madre, Arcadia and Glendale. Our
services include animal control, investigation of animal cruelty and
neglect, licensing for La Canada and Arcadia, adoptions, pet behavior help
and training classes, and humane education."
Official Web site for the city of
San Marino, California. "The principal portions of San Marino
were included in a Mexican Land Grant in 1830 to an Indian lady named
Senora Victoria Reid, the widow of an Englishman. She named her Rancho,
Huerta de Cuati. Prior to this grant , the area was part of the San
Gabriel Mission (the "Old Mill" was the grist mill for the Mission), and
before that was occupied by the Gabrielino Indians with their village
located at what is now Huntington School.
In 1852, Mrs. Reid deeded her Rancho to Don Benito Wilson. Later, Wilson
deeded the main portion to J. de Barth Shorb, who named his Rancho after
his grandfather's plantation in Maryland, which in turn had received its
name from the Republic of San Marino, in Italy..."
Huntington Library.
"The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is a
collections-based research and educational institution established in 1919
by Henry E. and Arabella Huntington. Henry Huntington, a key figure in the
development of Southern California in the early 20th century, was also an
active collector of rare books and manuscripts, art, and plants. By the
time he established the institution, he and his wife had amassed an
extensive collection focusing on British and American history, literature,
and art, as well as rare and spectacular plant specimens.
Located 12 miles from Los Angeles in San Marino, California, the
institution serves some 1,800 scholars each year conducting advanced
research in the humanities. The library’s rare books and manuscripts
constitute one of the world’s largest and most extensively used
collections in America outside of the Library of Congress. Researchers who
use the collections produce the leading scholarly books and articles in
their fields. These, in turn, become the basis for the textbooks that are
used in elementary, secondary, and undergraduate education across the
nation. The Huntington also serves some 20,000 school children in the Los
Angeles area, providing informal botanical, art, and library education
through extensive on-site programs. Among the treasures for research and
exhibition are the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, a
Gutenberg Bible on vellum, the double-elephant folio edition of Audubon’s
Birds of America, a world-class collection of the early editions of
Shakespeare’s works, original letters of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin,
and Lincoln, and an unsurpassed collection of materials relating to the
history of the American West..."
VolunteerMatch.org.
"Where volunteering begins...VolunteerMatch is a leader in the nonprofit
world dedicated to helping everyone find a great place to volunteer. The
organization offers a variety of online services to support a community of
nonprofit, volunteer and business leaders committed to civic engagement.
Our popular service welcomes millions of visitors a year and has become
the preferred internet recruiting tool for more than 30,000 nonprofit
organizations. Read more in our latest annual report." Comment: If you want to volunteer, go to http://www.volunteermatch.org and click on Search, key in your ZIP Code, and you will instantly see the
organizations in your area needing volunteers. This is a brilliant
concept that makes great use of the Internet.
