(Editor’s note: This story is being co-published with Impact Alpha.) As a parting challenge to his successor, outgoing Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced in April the settlement of a longstanding lawsuit over homeless housing. Their responses to the homelessness crisis may well determine the winner of next week’s primary election for mayor of the nation’s second-largest city. The frontrunners are Rick Caruso, a successful developer, and U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, who made Joe Biden’s short list for vice [...more...]
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Giving List Matching Challenges
Accessing Higher Education
Anne was a senior at Hollywood High School hoping to become a veterinarian. But the daughter of a single mom […more…]
Imagine it’s your senior year of high school. You are excited to apply to college. But, you don’t have a […more…]
Animals to the Rescue
Criminal Justice
In the wake of horrifying—and horrifyingly common—gun violence tragedies like those in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas, our basic […more…]
Born and raised in Oakland, California, David Muhammad faced his fair share of challenges, finding himself both in the juvenile […more…]
Environment
The cosmetics industry generates approximately US$ 341.1 billion annually—and 120 billion units of plastic packaging, most of which are not […more…]
In what is being heralded as a historic win for advocates working to tackle the plastic pollution crisis, parties to […more…]
For the Cohen sisters, taking on the embodiment of the fossil fuel and climate crisis – plastic – started with […more…]
EVENTS
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Family Ties
Echo offers a unique trauma-informed, compassionate lens to better understand ourselves and others. We celebrate the resilience of trauma survivors […more…]
Inspired by their experiences adopting children and visiting Russian and Kazakhstani orphanages in the early 1990s, Randi Thompson and her […more…]
The Violence Intervention Program (VIP) was founded in 1984, as the Center for the Vulnerable Child, the first Child Advocacy […more…]
For the Children
In 1979, an article appeared in the Los Angeles Times depicting how unsupervised children growing up on Skid Row were […more…]
“Being part of this collective really just validated my feelings that us youth matter,” said Adria Marin, a 17-year-old photographer […more…]
Judging from the number of skills and hours Andre T. Moore, Sr. contributes to the well-being of our Los Angeles […more…]
For the Youth
Aimee was referred to The RightWay Foundation by Long Beach City College. She had recently emancipated from the foster care […more…]
Crystal was in the foster care system since she was a little girl, after being removed from her home due […more…]
Franco Vega knows the hardships kids in South Central Los Angeles often face, because he himself went through it. Growing […more…]
Fostering Care
Margaret Coyne and Jan Sherwood were both attorneys working in California’s juvenile dependency system when they met in the early […more…]
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Giving Challenges
Aimee was referred to The RightWay Foundation by Long Beach City College. She had recently emancipated from the foster care […more…]
Margaret Coyne and Jan Sherwood were both attorneys working in California’s juvenile dependency system when they met in the early […more…]
Imagine it’s your senior year of high school. You are excited to apply to college. But, you don’t have a […more…]
Health Specialties
The University of Southern California’s Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI) is using research and analysis to slow the ever-growing Alzheimer’s […more…]
Some 37 million people – more than 15 percent of the adult population – suffer from chronic kidney disease, according […more…]
Homelessness and Workforce
Human Rights
Please check out the HIAS Ukraine Crisis Response page, which includes how to donate and our useful Ukraine FAQ page. The needs have never been greater […more…]
HIAS, founded in the 1880s as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society to assist Jewish refugees arriving in the United States, […more…]
For more than 40 years, Human Rights Watch has investigated human rights abuses, exposed the facts, and demanded change in […more…]
Justice for All
The Social Justice Learning Institute (SJLI), based in Inglewood, has taken a three-pronged approach to fighting the inequity since it […more…]
After years of negative portrayals of Muslims in American entertainment, a growing number of young American Muslims are heading to […more…]
Liz Vogel’s least favorite class while growing up in New Jersey was history. Memorizing facts and dates from the past […more…]
Leading the Way, Social Change
Brady released a new report and a webpage on the “Origin of an Insurrection: How Second Amendment Extremism Led to […more…]
Preventing gun violence] is the number one issue for me.” — Coach Steve Kerr Thirty-six years ago, Golden State Warriors […more…]
Founded in San Francisco in the wake of World War II by attorney W. Donald Fletcher and investment counselor Van […more…]
Legal Advocacy
The mental health and wellness app offers digital tools to manage stress, build resilience, and combat the unprecedented mental health […more…]
The Children’s Law Center of California is the nation’s largest nonprofit law firm exclusively representing children – including those who […more…]
In the fraught world of child welfare, the 30-year-old Alliance for Children’s Rights has always found a way to discover […more…]
Nonprofit Partners
“Being part of this collective really just validated my feelings that us youth matter,” said Adria Marin, a 17-year-old photographer […more…]
Please join us for our next free Continuing Education event! Did you know that when you volunteer with A Home […more…]
In 1979, an article appeared in the Los Angeles Times depicting how unsupervised children growing up on Skid Row were […more…]
Social and Emotional Wellness
As a volunteer for the first hospice team at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the early 1990s, Jo-Ann Lautman comforted patients […more…]
In the 1960s, there were few services available to parents who were raising children with Down syndrome. Refusing to accept […more…]
Social Sector Leaders
City National has always been about doing business differently, one relationship at a time. The company always places people and […more…]
It didn’t take long for Darrell Booker to impact one of the largest tech corporations in the world: Microsoft. In […more…]
When John Armour joined Capital Group Private Client Services more than 20 years ago, one of his first assignments was […more…]
South Los Angeles
Fernando Pullum was always told he’d end up in prison. But the trumpet player, raised by his great-grandmother, discovered music […more…]
The young Black man with the ear-length dreads is wearing a brand new, white sweatshirt with MOREHOUSE emblazoned across his […more…]
In the wake of horrifying—and horrifyingly common—gun violence tragedies like those in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas, our basic […more…]
Teach the Children Well
Mentors 4 College, a unique, one-to-one college mentoring program for high school students and their parents, announced today that it […more…]
When Robin Detterman took a job 15 years ago as a special education teacher at Pathfinder Academy – a school […more…]
TGL Features
Foundation CFO Valerie Red-Horse Mohl is on a Mission to Change the Energy of Money While at UCLA undergrad, Valerie […more…]
The Arts
Opera is a timeless art form. Each night as the lights dim and the curtain rises, audiences share in a […more…]
When John Armour joined Capital Group Private Client Services more than 20 years ago, one of his first assignments was […more…]
The Fourth Estate
The government running the world’s fifth largest economy spends more than $300 billion a year and disburses billions more in […more…]
The best journalism often tells the stories that no one else sees. Stories that have the power to change minds, […more…]
For the past 11 years, Boyle Heights Beat has offered a unique brand of bilingual journalism in an often neglected, […more…]
To Your Health
In spring 2020, the University of Southern California’s Keck Medicine of USC launched a comprehensive program called Care for the […more…]
One of Southern California’s oldest and most innovative hospitals, Adventist Health Glendale (formerly Glendale Adventist Medical Center) was founded in […more…]
Venice Family Clinic began in 1970 in a storefront dental office when Drs. Philip Rossman and Mayer B. Davidson saw […more…]