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Payden & Rygel seeks to improve the quality of life in its community
by supporting local and worldwide civic, social, educational and cultural
programs. The firm encourages employees to give time and financial aid
to causes of their choice.
Charitable contributions
Payden & Rygel makes donations to a wide range of philanthropic organizations
each year including civic groups, such as nationally recognized children's
programs, schools, hospitals and cultural institutions. The firm's matching
gift program matches employee donations to tax-exempt educational, cultural
and healthcare organizations.
Community service
For more than a decade Payden & Rygel has supported the St. Joseph Center, which has
programs that work with more than 12,000 low-income and homeless men, women and children
in Los Angeles, each year.
Other non-profit organizations that Payden & Rygel supports include:
- Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Zoo
- Union Rescue Mission
Educational support
The firm provides internship programs, mentoring relationships, job placement,
tutoring, and special programs, including:
- Academy of Business Leadership
- Academy of Finance
- St. Anne's
- Teach for America
- Toigo Foundation
- UCLA Student Investment Fund
- Verbum Dei High School Intern Program
Board memberships
Many of the firm's senior managers serve as board members or officers of
Southern California based non-profit organizations, including:
- Amateur Athletic Foundation
- American Heart Association
- Anderson School of Business, UCLA
- Bishop Stevens Foundation
- Boy Scouts of America
- Children's Bureau of Southern California Foundation
- Crystal Stairs, Inc.
- Friends of the Pasadena Public Library
- John Tracy Clinic
- Kids in Sports
- Kidspace Children's Museum
- Occidental College
- Pepperdine University
- Rose Bowl Operating Company
- St. Anne's
- St. Joseph Health System
- University of Southern California
Professional associations
Senior managers at Payden & Rygel also participate at the committee and board levels
in many professional organizations locally, nationally and globally, including:
- National and local
- AECOM Technology Corporation
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- American Society of Corporate Secretaries
- Association of Investment Management & Research
- Automobile Club of Southern California
- California Chamber of Commerce
- California Society of Municipal Analysts
- Center for Investment Policy Studies
- Illinois Labor History Society
- Investment Company Institute
- Investment Management Consultants Association
- Investment Management Counsel Association of America
- Los Angeles Association of Investment Women
- Los Angeles Business Association
- Los Angeles Society of Financial Analysts
- Mutual Funds Education Alliance
- National Association for Business Economics
- National Association of Securities Dealers Committees
- National Futures Association
- Southern California Association for Financial Professionals
- Treasury Association of Southern California
- Treasury Management Association
- International
- Association of Canadian Pension Management
- International Investment Forum
- Financial Services Authority
- Pacific Council on International Policy
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