Healthier Plants. Healthier Planet.
Healthier Plants. Healthier Planet.
KALOS AGATHOS FOUNDATION
Building the Leaders of Tomorrow, Today!
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"The Kalos Agathos Foundation is committed to advancing mind-body health in young people through the continued support of events and awards that promote the arts, athletics, and environmental awareness."
LAGUNA FOOD PANTRY
Support for Laguna Beach’s hungry and poor.
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By serving everyone in our community by providing free, nutritious groceries and connecting them to resources to improve their lives, the Laguna Food Pantry shares the values of our foundation. We are honored to support their great effort and work for providing for those who are in need.
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Promoting the Arts
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Through our predecessor organizations, the Kalos Kagathos Foundation, and the New Jersey Committee, we have sponsored the fine, dramatic, and performing arts worldwide since 1953, with grants, commissions, prizes, and cultural exchanges.
Promoting Athletics
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We have a decades-long track record of sponsoring and supporting athletics internationally including swimming, surfing, diving, water polo, outrigger canoeing, and others, on every continent except Antartica.
Promoting Environmental Awareness
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We have worked tirelessly for decades and continue today to support measures that will help protect our natural environment. This includes the health of the Pacific Ocean and coastal lands in and around Laguna Beach, California, other parts of the world where we have been and continue to be active.'
Notable Distinctions of Kalos Kagathos Foundation
Starting the Laguna Beach High School and Thurston Middle School Surf teams in the 1980s.
Commissioning numerous beach murals for beautification of the City of Laguna Beach, and signs for the lifeguard stands that read “Keep Laguna Beautiful”.
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Funding environmental research that closed down the Laguna Beach sewage pump station in 1971 for polluting the ocean, as well as the gas station at Thalia Street in 1981.
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Introducing legislation to ban smoking at Laguna Beach city council and school board meetings in the 1970s.
Co-founding the Laguna Beach Arts Committee in the 1970s.
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Championing girls’ athletics by organizing and coordinating with the CIF the first girls’ high school swimming and diving competition at Beverly Hills in 1971.
Organizing the first ever international junior surf competition at Kuta Beach in Bali in 1989.
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Working with the ISHOF, NISCA, and others to start a K-12 mandatory learn to swim program that has now grown to nearly 2,000 schools nationwide.
Co-founding as executive board member the IGHOF in Oceanside, California in 1987.
Conceiving of and funding the Impact Award with the JEA to recognize outstanding high school student journalists each year.
Conceiving of and administering public forums, groups, and publications to promote arts, aquatic sports and environmental awareness.
Support the Kalos Agathos Foundation
Through Your support we are able to continue the legacy of Mr. Bruce Hopping.
Our Foundation directs all contributions toward the furthering of Art, Athletics, and protecting the Environment in our community.
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Together we can build a stronger future.
Pledge for the Kalos Agathos Foundation & the Legacy of Bruce Hopping
