BEVERLY HILLS — The Beverly Hills Police Foundation (BHPF) launched a new website to provide increased access to the local community. The website designed by Snowden Industries is www.bhpolicefoundation.org and provides information on the Foundation’s history, mission statement, opportunities for involvement and ways to contact.
The Beverly Hills Police Foundation is a tax-exempt non-profit charity organization founded in 1987. Its purpose is to provide financial assistance in the form of immediate emergency grants to those who have family members in the Beverly Hills Police Department (BHPD), both police officers and civilian professionals.
Recipients of the grants include BHPD spouses, widows/widowers or dependent children. Their needs may include medical costs, college tuition, vocational training or insurance coverage. When members of the BHPD undergo death, injury, illness or other disastrous circumstances, their families often lack the resources to pay for those needs.
Since 2007, the Foundation has awarded $241,416 to police family members. “We are proud of the fact that 91 percent of all our funds are used directly to fund grant programs,” said Chief Dave Snowden of the BHPF in a press release.
The grants, which do not require repayment of any kind are based on merit and are awarded by the BHPF’s board of directors and comprised of members of the local community, who evaluate the needs of the recipients. For more information about the BHPF, contact Commander Erick Lee at 310-285-2110.
