Foster youth nonprofit takes Hermosa Beach foundation’s ‘Quick Pitch’ contest
Heather Wusterbarth, a board member of the Hermosa Friends Foundation, Karen Nowicki, the foundation’s treasurer and co-founder, and Ryan Nowicki, the president and co-founder, present Hermosa resident Robert Smith, a board member of the nonprofit Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), with a check last week. CASA won the Friends Foundation’s first ever Quick Pitch competition. Photo by Kim D. West Photography Robert Smith was nervous sitting in the audience at Hermosa’s Second Story Theatre last Thursday night. But it wasn’t a play or a performance that was getting to him: it was a series of people making a case for their respective philanthropic organizations. Smith, a Hermosa resident and board member of the nonprofit Court Appointed Special Advocates, was in the theater for the first ever South Bay Nonprofit Quick Pitch contest from the Hermosa Friends Foundation. A dozen local nonprofit groups took turns making a four-minute case for a $10,000 donation from the foundation. Smith’s group ultimately prevailed, but he had the unfortunate draw of going 11th. And with each person who spoke, the prize seemed a bit more distant. “I was next to last. I had to sit there and sweat…
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