California Community Foundation Announces Linda Wong as New Director of Civic Engagement

Los Angeles — The California Community Foundation announced today that it has appointed respected nonprofit leader Linda Wong as its new director of civic engagement. Wong will oversee the community foundation’s efforts to convene nonprofit and community leaders in fields related to the foundation’s priority grantmaking areas — including early education, health care and neighborhood revitalization — to learn about and help solve the challenges faced by the nonprofit organizations working in these fields.

“In creating a civic engagement department at the community foundation, our goal is to provide a collaborative, noncompetitive setting where nonprofit, government and community leaders and the foundation can come together to find solutions to the challenges facing the Los Angeles community,” said Antonia Hernández, president and CEO of the California Community Foundation. “Linda’s tremendous knowledge of Los Angeles and experience in community economic development makes her ideally suited for this role.”

Previously, Wong worked as a program director at the Community Development Technologies Center, which focuses on community development issues in Los Angeles, general counsel and CFO of Rebuild LA, an economic development nonprofit that was formed in the aftermath of the 1992 civil unrest, and executive director of the Achievement Council of Los Angeles.

Among her board activities, Wong was a member of Merrill Lynch’s California Partnership for Economic Achievement, a past chair of the Community Advisory Board for Union Bank of California and a past trustee of the Educational Testing Service. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Southern California.

Established in 1915, the California Community Foundation is one of the largest and most active philanthropic organizations in Southern California, with assets of more than $760 million. In partnership with its donors, the foundation supports nonprofit organizations and public institutions with funds for health and human services, affordable housing, early childhood education, community arts and culture and other areas of need. To learn more, visit the California Community Foundation on its Web site.