The mission of LA Family Housing can be summed up in one sentence, according to President and CEO Stephanie Klasky-Gamer: “Our goal is to permanently end homelessness in people’s lives.” Since the 1980s, the organization has lifted economically disadvantaged people out of poverty and homelessness. Doing so has entailed everything from paying off back rent [...more...]
LA Family Housing
I really hope I can help inspire others to gain the confidence of your self-worth. I had to go through a lot of bumps in the road to get what I have now. Im beyond thankful for LAFH with their housing support and family resources to help me get back on my feet with my beautiful daughter Destiny. Now we live peacefully inside our new home. At the end of the tunnel, theres light. Theres hope and theres life. If you stay consistent and not give up, you can move forward.
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…]
Joanne Reyes knows firsthand how important a college education is in building opportunity and wealth in immigrant and disadvantaged communities. […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
Although you’ll seldom see them in comic books, search dogs are the closest thing to real life superheroes. Not only […more…]
Every Saturday, a then-five-year-old Ghuan Featherstone would put on his cowboy outfit, sit in front of the TV, and tune […more…]
Criminal Justice
Philanthropy can be, should be, and often is so much more than writing checks. At its best, it can change […more…]
When Jessica Ellis explains why she works at Centinela Youth Services (CYS), she can’t shake the memory of an 11-year-old […more…]
To support incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, the Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) not only offers rehabilitative programming, job training, housing access, […more…]
Environment
For the Cohen sisters, taking on the embodiment of the fossil fuel and climate crisis – plastic – started with […more…]
Long before she got sick, Lyndsey McMorrow believed it was possible for people to be conscious stewards of the earth. […more…]
Philanthropy can be, should be, and often is so much more than writing checks. At its best, it can change […more…]
Family Ties
The Violence Intervention Program (VIP) was founded in 1984, as the Center for the Vulnerable Child, the first Child Advocacy […more…]
Evacuees in Ukraine call Kidsave’s team there “Angels of Hope.” What started as a small, rag-tag group of civilians, orphan […more…]
Echo offers a unique trauma-informed, compassionate lens to better understand ourselves and others. We celebrate the resilience of trauma survivors […more…]
For the Children
GRACE, End Child Poverty in California and Liberation in a Generation Urge Lawmakers to Pass the Bill, Which Would Pave […more…]
Mayra E. Alvarez – who leads The Children’s Partnership (TCP), where she works to put California’s children front and center […more…]
Alarming numbers of children in South Los Angeles were suffering from asthma and lead poisoning, and a community clinic needed […more…]
For the Youth
Since 1998, South Los Angeles nonprofit Peace4Kids has connected youth in foster care to a community they can count on […more…]
Janay Eustace found herself in the foster care system as a new high school freshman, juggling her duties as class […more…]
Former film executive and entrepreneur Romi Lassally’s children were in high school when she began envisioning a career mentorship program […more…]
Fostering Care
Please join us for our next free Continuing Education event! Did you know that when you volunteer with A Home […more…]
Margaret Coyne and Jan Sherwood were both attorneys working in California’s juvenile dependency system when they met in the early […more…]
Charity Chandler-Cole was locked up in juvenile hall twice – once for stealing underwear for her baby sister and again […more…]
Giving Challenges
“Being part of this collective really just validated my feelings that us youth matter,” said Adria Marin, a 17-year-old photographer […more…]
For the past 11 years, Boyle Heights Beat has offered a unique brand of bilingual journalism in an often neglected, […more…]
Crystal was in the foster care system since she was a little girl, after being removed from her home due […more…]
Health Specialties
Often a cancer diagnosis makes people feel like their world is about to collapse. At UCLA Health cancer clinics, patients […more…]
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
Susan Dempsey’s son Mark was in college when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. The illness changed his life, causing him […more…]
For more than a century, Goodwill Southern California has educated, trained, and helped find work for more than one million […more…]
From its roots as a shelter for adolescent Latinos in 1989, Jovenes has become a leading provider of support services […more…]
Human Rights
For more than 40 years, Human Rights Watch has investigated human rights abuses, exposed the facts, and demanded change in […more…]
HIAS, founded in the 1880s as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society to assist Jewish refugees arriving in the United States, […more…]
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…]
Justice for All
After years of negative portrayals of Muslims in American entertainment, a growing number of young American Muslims are heading to […more…]
The Social Justice Learning Institute (SJLI), based in Inglewood, has taken a three-pronged approach to fighting the inequity since it […more…]
The racial wealth gap isn’t just a problem for individual African Americans, but for Black-led organizations (BLOs) as well. “Black-led […more…]
Leading the Way, Social Change
A stunning one in 10 households in the United States currently faces hunger. MAZON’s focus is to expose this reality, […more…]
Like many teens, 15-year-old Stephan Abrams was devastated by the 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. […more…]
The largest database of ATF gun store inspection reports ever released to the public, exposing gun stores cited for breaking […more…]
Legal Advocacy
Founded by attorney Frederick Nicholas in Los Angeles in 1970, Public Counsel has grown to become the nation’s largest public […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…]
The mental health and wellness app offers digital tools to manage stress, build resilience, and combat the unprecedented mental health […more…]
Nonprofit Partners
Janay Eustace found herself in the foster care system as a new high school freshman, juggling her duties as class […more…]
When Point Foundation’s founders, longtime friends, got together in 2001, one alarming statistic rang out: Nearly one-third of all lesbian, […more…]
In spring 2020, the University of Southern California’s Keck Medicine of USC launched a comprehensive program called Care for the […more…]
Social and Emotional Wellness
In the 1960s, there were few services available to parents who were raising children with Down syndrome. Refusing to accept […more…]
A child comes into your life. Your response is an unqualified commitment to them – no matter what they say […more…]
As a volunteer for the first hospice team at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the early 1990s, Jo-Ann Lautman comforted patients […more…]
Social Sector Leaders
The year was 2003, and the philanthropic sector was going through a period of significant evolution. Every day, new technologies […more…]
When John Armour joined Capital Group Private Client Services more than 20 years ago, one of his first assignments was […more…]
Philanthropy can be, should be, and often is so much more than writing checks. At its best, it can change […more…]
South Los Angeles
Philanthropy can be, should be, and often is so much more than writing checks. At its best, it can change […more…]
Fernando Pullum was always told he’d end up in prison. But the trumpet player, raised by his great-grandmother, discovered music […more…]
Liza Bray remembers a mother and child walking into a Partners for Children South L.A. (PCSLA) partner agency clinic desperate […more…]
Teach the Children Well
When Point Foundation’s founders, longtime friends, got together in 2001, one alarming statistic rang out: Nearly one-third of all lesbian, […more…]
When Robin Detterman took a job 15 years ago as a special education teacher at Pathfinder Academy – a school […more…]
For underperforming public schools across the country, the myriad challenges are plain to see. Too often, for students in those […more…]
TGL Features
The Arts
Silverlake Conservatory of Music (SCM) was founded in 2001 by Flea (real name Michael Peter Balzary) of the Red Hot […more…]
Opera is a timeless art form. Each night as the lights dim and the curtain rises, audiences share in a […more…]
There’s no secret that there’s power in music. At the Los Angeles-based Harmony Project, giving children the power to play […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…]
CalMatters was founded to fill the gap left by a shrinking press corps in order to empower people to engage […more…]
In March 2008, an up-and-coming British singer stopped by KCRW’s studio on the campus of Santa Monica College to perform […more…]
To Your Health
Sick and injured children entering UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital are not only met by a 60-foot welcome wall with messages […more…]
Venice Family Clinic began in 1970 in a storefront dental office when Drs. Philip Rossman and Mayer B. Davidson saw […more…]
One of Southern California’s oldest and most innovative hospitals, Adventist Health Glendale (formerly Glendale Adventist Medical Center) was founded in […more…]