UCI's child Development Center is given a boost with one of the Foundation's first-ever grant awards. The Center, home to a school-based treatment program for children with Attention Deficit Disorder, has since earned national acclaim and achieved breakthrough results. T he Wellness Community, and educational program for cancer patients and their families, opens its doors thanks to the Foundation.
SOS provides food, clothing and referrals to Orange County's homeless.
A foundation grant helps STOP-GAP, a professional theater company, bring its message of substance abuse prevention to Irvine's teenagers. T he Foundation awards the first of several grants to the Orange County Bar Foundation for its ShortStop and Programa ShortStop crime prevention efforts. The programs serve first time juvenile offenders and their families. 1994 U CI's Bonney Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory receives its first Foundation grant to conduct research into the workings of the brain. The Center is internationally-known for its breakthrough achievements.