The College Football Playoff Foundation is giving $1.2 million to help Altadena’s Eliot Arts Magnet School rebuild after it sustained major damage in the Eaton Fire.
The CFP’s six bowls – the Rose, Cotton, Sugar, Fiesta, Orange, and Peach Bowls – each pledged $150,000 to invest in the school’s rebuilding. The CFP Foundation's Britton Banowsky called it historic.
“They all got together and each one of them said we need to do something to help the folks in Pasadena,” he said.
The CFP Foundation and Pasadena School District officials made the announcement Thursday at McKinley Elementary, which opened its doors to displaced Eliot students shortly after the fire.
Pasadena Educational Foundation's Patrick Conyers thanked the CFP Foundation for recognizing that “buildings are important.”
“Obviously stadiums that these bowl games are played in, including the iconic Rose Bowl, are special places where special things happen,” he said. “This sort of building is also important because this is the way that students can unlock the world of potential inside of them.”
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School officials said it will take multiple years to restore Eliot, which lost its auditorium, a set of classrooms, and administrative offices in the fire.
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