An aerial view of South Pasadena looking north toward the San Gabriel Mountains, ca. 1905. (Photo: Courtesy of Huntington Digital Library.)
$4M pledge pushes Institute on California and the West endowment campaign past halfway mark
The commitment from a longtime friend of the institute supports public outreach and partnerships with professionals outside academia.
The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW), based at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, has received a $4 million pledge toward its $10 million endowment campaign from a longtime friend of the institute who wishes to remain anonymous.
Half of the commitment will support public outreach activities and programs that reflect ICW’s mission to create “new understandings of the past to inform public dialogue in the American West and beyond.” The remaining $2 million will support the institute’s partnerships with nonacademic professionals and practitioners in fields connected to ICW’s research.