Date: Saturday, June 6, 2026

Time: 11:00 am

Location: The Gottlieb Native Garden (Beverly Hills) - exact location will be sent to attendees closer to the event

The Cornell Club of Los Angeles (CCLA) Scholarship Fund, in partnership with Jackie Kassorla, MS 77, CEO and Founder of Eden Green Living LLC, welcomes you to a private tour of the Gottlieb Native Garden located just a couple of miles from Rodeo Drive in the heart of Beverly Hills. As guests arrive and gather before the tour, we’ll serve mimosas along with a crudité and cheese platter. Susan and Dan Gottlieb’s garden features a wondrous, drought-tolerant, and biodiverse ecosystem with more than 200 hand-selected native plant species and nearly 1,500 documented wildlife species.

It has the national distinction of being both a National Wildlife Federation certified Backyard Wildlife Habitat and a Xerces Society designated Pollinator Habitat.  In addition, the garden is one of the crown jewels of the annual Theodore Payne Foundation native Plant Garden Tour.  Embodying Susan’s and Dan’s shared passion for the Southern California landscape-including all the plants and animals that call it home-the Gottlieb Native Garden is their astounding love story dedication to the state’s subtler natural beauties.

Take an intimate journey while you explore the richness and variety of life on earth.  This 90-minute event includes a personal tour of the garden by its founder, Susan Gottlieb together with a renowned wildlife specialist, who will answer any questions you may have.  Learn how to bring climate friendly beauty to your own homes! Plant local, plant light, and plant well will be your new mantra as we strive to make a difference with biodiversity and climate change.

***Please make sure that you wear comfortable walking shoes if you are attending this event***
 

Space is limited, so sign up soon!
 

Cost:

$60 per person for CCLA Members

$75 per person for Non-Members

MORE ABOUT THE CCLA SCHOLARSHIP DINNER PROGRAM
How can you simultaneously have a wonderful meal, meet new Cornellians and help provide much-needed scholarships for deserving Los Angeles Cornell students?  The Club’s annual series of Scholarship Dinners & Events offers you a chance to have a great time while benefiting CCLA’s Scholarship Endowment.  Over the past 25 years, scholarship dinners have been CCLA's principal means of building our Scholarship Endowment. Our donations from this fund to help Los Angeles-area Cornell students over the years have totaled more than $300,000, all thanks to our dedicated alumni who attend these events. The University uses our annual donation to supplement the financial aid needs of about a dozen students from L.A.  Note that 100 percent of all donations are going to the Endowment and your tax adviser can explain how your contribution may be deductible. 

Contact: For questions about the event, please email Jackie Kassorla (jkassorla@gmail.com).