No one knows how Rudolph lost his eye—or how an 8-year-old Australian Shepherd with severe hearing loss, pneumonia, and canine covid ended up alone on the streets of Los Angeles. What is known is how close he came to being forgotten. Rudolph before surgery Rudolph arrived at the West LA Animal Shelter as a stray. [...more...]
“When people think about adopting, they typically think about adopting a baby. But every child deserves a family. At Kidsave, we specialize in finding forever homes for foster youth 9 to 18 years old,” says [...more...]
For the Children
Ten years before the World Cup came to Los Angeles, the Play Equity Fund was already asking a question most […more…]
For Jorgette, foster care was a generational cycle. “My grandmother and mother were in foster care, my sisters were in […more…]
Sergio Carrillo was 10 years old the first time he was arrested; his brother bailed him out of jail because […more…]
Bright Futures
Every community has a place people instinctively turn to when the ground shifts beneath them. In Boyle Heights, that place […more…]
For 80 years, Pacific Oaks College has expanded access to high-quality education while preparing graduates for meaningful careers that strengthen […more…]
At a First Star gathering of 30 Los Angeles women this past February, alumna Amy Duarte spotted First Star CEO […more…]
Advocacy
Ask Shane Murphy Goldsmith what Liberty Hill Foundation is, and she does not begin with its programs. “Liberty Hill Foundation […more…]
Currently gun violence is the #1 cause of death for children in the United States. Read that again if you […more…]
Human Rights
Kanthi Salgadu doesn’t want you to think of her as a victim. She is a survivor of human trafficking, certainly. […more…]
Peggy Callahan thought Abraham Lincoln had taken care of slavery. Then Callahan, a former television journalist and filmmaker, learned that […more…]
Creative Endeavors
The American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) is the largest ceramics museum in the country, but its reach extends well […more…]
On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights in downtown Los Angeles, there is a free live concert in the lobby of […more…]
Earth First
When the Eaton Fire tore through the Altadena foothills in January 2025, it melted two of the three wildlife cameras […more…]
Education
Twelve-year-old Celeste walked into the Neighborhood Music School in Boyle Heights in 2019 wanting to belt out Broadway tunes. Seven […more…]
The loneliness epidemic. Toxic social media. Teen depression and worse. These are modern problems. But the unmet needs that drive […more…]
Based at UC Berkeley, the Greater Good Science Center (GGSC) explores the roots of happy and compassionate individuals, strong social […more…]
Health & Wellness
When Pamela Hirsch’s daughter discovered she couldn’t carry a child after years of failed procedures, each ending in miscarriage, the […more…]
Every child who walks into Rifkin Raanan Cosmetic Dentistry on a clinic day gets what the Beverly Hills clientele gets […more…]
In 2012, Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen launched a fundraiser that they called Hilarity for Charity (HFC). The memorable […more…]
Housing & Homelessness
Adoris, U.S. Army Veteran and former Lockheed Martin welder, struggled with the lasting effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and turned […more…]
For most incoming freshmen, moving into their first dorm means parents, a packed car, and hours spent on Target runs […more…]
In 1985, when Reagan-era homelessness had become a crisis in the country, Steve and Iris Lazarian, and friend John Perkins, […more…]
Critical Response & International Impact
Kerri Murray keeps a photograph that has stayed with her. It’s the face of Esther, a young Nigerian woman whose […more…]
Direct Relief began during a time of war, geopolitical tension, political division, and global economic instability. More than 80 years […more…]
When a recent earthquake devastated Venezuela, the Los Angeles County Fire Department sent six teams to help sift through the […more…]