Philanthropy, incorporated for the public good, can and should make all its investments accordingly. In 2021, Senators Angus King (I-Maine) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced a bill to more tightly regulate donor-advised funds, commonly referred to as DAFs. While the Accelerating Charitable Giving (ACE) Act’s reforms were far from sweeping, the bill set off a bitter debate over who controls charitable funds: the donor or the public. The Act’s supporters plausibly argued that wealthy donors [...more...]
The line grew steadily outside the unassuming building on the north side of campus. It was almost closing time on a Thursday afternoon, and the students knew it was their last chance before the weekend [...more...]
Giving List Matching Challenges
Youth Development
Well before Silicon Valley’s diversity problem routinely made headlines, The Hidden Genius Project began to tap into the talents of […more…]
As a boy, Spencer Hawk loved school field trips to a playground where he could soar on the swings, slip […more…]
Alma Castillo was a rising junior in high school in South Los Angeles. A time when students begin making their […more…]
The Arts
At 13, Sophia Vasquez moved from Mexico to Los Angeles with her family. Sophia struggled to assimilate into the new […more…]
The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), founded in 1996 in Long Beach, California, is the only accredited Museum in […more…]
Social Justice
The Bail Project, a national nonprofit based in Los Angeles, provides free bail assistance and pretrial support to low-income people […more…]
Abused children can grow up believing that violence is a solution. Childhood trauma can lead to imprisonment. When a child […more…]
Public Square
As news deserts expand across the country, the tight-knit historic immigrant community of Boyle Heights is home to a groundbreaking […more…]
The year was 2003, and the philanthropic sector was going through a period of significant evolution. Every day, new technologies […more…]
Homelessness and Housing
Of the more than 66,000 unhoused people living on Los Angeles County’s streets, over 20,000 are women. One of them […more…]
At Step Up, which offers permanent supportive housing to the unhoused in Los Angeles, eviction is not an option. Instead […more…]
Health
According to the World Health Organization, significant orthopaedic injuries account for more patient cases worldwide than cancer and HIV-AIDS combined. […more…]
One out of every five American women has been the victim of a completed or attempted rape in her lifetime. […more…]
What has the pandemic taught us? Never take good health or access to healthcare for granted. This is the backbone […more…]
Global Reach
Determined to make the world a better place, Dave Bauer vowed to give 10% of his net income to people […more…]
“Ne Tentes Aut Perfice.” This is the Latin motto that students and faculty at Dunn School, a private co-ed college […more…]
Esperanza was 19 years old and living in Malawi when she faced a serious health crisis. While giving birth to […more…]
Fostering Care
For most kids, summer equals fun. Vacations. Camp. Exciting adventures with families and friends. But that is often not true […more…]
Matt, a Los Angeles teenager living in foster care, was “mad, irritated,” and most of all “disappointed” when his social […more…]
Anthony Pico was homeless, unemployed, and had aged out of the foster care system when he started seeing a therapist […more…]
For the Children
Marc Cohen knows just how catastrophic an incorrectly installed car seat can be. On an otherwise ordinary day, his 21-year-old […more…]
On the night their 13-year-old daughter Emily was murdered, Michel and Ellen Shane thought of a way to memorialize her […more…]
Back in college, Joe Blackstone and his wife, Jamie Mohn, volunteered to read storybooks to elementary school kids. It was […more…]
Family Well-Being
Forty years ago, Liz Herrera was studying to become a social worker at UCLA. Herrera told her field advisor that […more…]
In 1979, the Los Angeles Times published an article about the children of Skid Row. They were hardened by their […more…]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, education advocate Kristina Brittenham was searching for free college counseling services for LAUSD students. Her friend […more…]
Emergency Services
Los Angeles County is usually synonymous with entertainment, but the Los Angeles County Fire Department Foundation is giving Silicon Valley […more…]
When two children got lost during a hike in rural New York with oncoming rain commingling with the darkening night, […more…]
Education
Yasmin Delahoussaye grew up in kinship care, which is as close to foster care as you can get. The relatives […more…]
Leo* heard about free pizza after school. The middle schooler happily got a slice and listened to a pitch about […more…]
White Buffalo Land Trust has a vital purpose: to restore the ecosystem through agriculture and in the process directly address […more…]
Community Resilience
For years, Los Angeles police have been challenged by how to respond to calls about unhoused Angelenos. Then came CIRCLE, […more…]
When Los Angeles experienced its first COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020, Damián Diaz and Othón Nolasco wasted no time helping […more…]
When a Metro light rail line running through Crenshaw Boulevard was announced years ago, it sparked fears of displacement and […more…]
Advocacy
In contemplating the scope and destruction wrought by gun violence, it is understandable to despair. But inaction won’t save your […more…]
As a kid, Nilda Palacios was sexually abused at home and at school. She tried to escape into a relationship, […more…]
When Felicia Cates first sought help through JVS SoCal’s career readiness and job placement centers in the Los Angeles area, […more…]