Seventeen-year-old Saachi Pavani is a senior at Irvine’s Portola High School, where she is the three-year captain of the girls varsity tennis team and played a key role in securing Portola’s first CIF championship title. Her work with nonprofits began in 2016, when she partnered with Days for Girls International to create sustainable hygiene kits for girls in developing countries. Laura’s House inspired her to create Portola’s Domestic Violence Prevention club, and the Southern California Hospice Foundation during the pandemic saw her campaign procure 30,000 masks, 7,000+ units of food and more than $3,500 for hospice patients. She also coordinated [...]

For 80 years, Banc of California has served small and medium-size businesses throughout California. Headquartered in the heart of Orange County, the bank has more than 600 employees, 36 offices and 32 full-service community banking branches, extending from San Diego to Santa Barbara. With deep expertise in manufacturing, healthcare, commercial real estate, entertainment and nonprofit sectors, the bank supports industries most integral to California’s economy. As California’s business bank, Banc of California is committed to supporting organizations and initiatives that enhance the quality of life in the communities where their customers and employees live and work, and has a proven [...]

David and Diana Sun immigrated to America from Taiwan in 1977, where they settled in Orange County to pursue a new life with greater opportunity. In 1987, David co-founded Kingston Technology, which became the world’s largest independent manufacturer of computer memory products. In 1999, David and Diana founded the Sun Family Foundation with the vision of sharing their good fortune with local communities by helping underprivileged students attain higher education and supporting the underserved. Each year the foundation grants thousands of scholarships to students in both Orange County and Taiwan. The focus on education is in dedication to David’s mother, [...]

The mission of WISE®, Women Investing In Security and Education, is to provide opportunities and expertise for the financial education of females of all ages so they may: (1) acquire skills, tools and the mindset to improve their financial status and increase their options in life; (2) network with others with similar financial needs and goals; and (3) secure financial freedom. In 1997, founder, Victoria Collins, CFP, PhD and her team, launched the first conference with 500 women attending. The overwhelming success of the conference indicated the need for financial education in a friendly and non-intimidating environment. Today, WISE works [...]

Rancho Mission Viejo resident Eileen Padberg, through Eileen Padberg Consulting, has managed public affairs and political campaigns as well as provided strategic planning and corporate communications for some of the nation’s top corporations for more than 25 years. She has been recognized for her work with women as a community activist, encouraging them to participate as elected officials and providing training programs to help them run and win political campaigns. Her volunteer work with what was then the South County YWCA, now called WISEPlace, began in 1984, when she realized what an impact the nonprofit was making on helping homeless [...]

Born in an Ethiopian refugee camp in Somalia, Meymuna Hussein-Cattan is an executive, entrepreneur and world traveler. For the last decade, Meymuna has been the Founder/Executive Director of The Tiyya Foundation, a local nonprofit that provides economic and educational opportunities for families of refugees, immigrants and indigenous communities residing in Orange County and Los Angeles County. In her work, Meymuna has been helping to transform sentiments and narratives around refugees in Southern California. Her solutions-oriented mindset has led the way on record-breaking initiatives, including the creation of innovative programs and services that impact nearly 1,000 people a year. This includes [...]

Moxie Marketing Agency, a results-driven marketing business, launched in 2014 in Irvine. The company’s core values are integrity, creativity, delivering value, initiative, and giving back. Towards those ends, the company recruits talented marketing professionals who care about making a difference in the local community and operate its Digital Marketing Academy for Nonprofits to provide free marketing resources to nonprofits that cannot afford the company’s services. During the pandemic, the company tapped into its value of giving back to provide pro bono services to its nonprofit clients who could not afford their services and hosted virtual fundraising events to support Orange [...]

Andy Andonian, founder of Discount Tire & Service Centers, is a first-generation Armenian immigrant who immigrated to the United States in 1969. He launched Discount Tire Centers in 1975 by opening his first tire store in Downey, California. He was soon able to acquire multiple new locations, quickly expanding and growing the business through the help of his two brothers. Today, Discount Tire Centers is run by President Sergio Andonian, son of Andy Andonian. Besides having a successful tire business, the company is and has always been dedicated to philanthropic work, as they pride themselves in helping out and giving [...]