When a Metro light rail line running through Crenshaw Boulevard was announced years ago, it sparked fears of displacement and cultural erasure in this largely Black South Los Angeles neighborhood. But community advocates, led by L.A. City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson, asked locals how they could benefit from the influx of visitors the Crenshaw/LAX line would bring. That ultimately led to the creation of Destination Crenshaw (DC), a 1.3-mile cultural infrastructure project with a mix of [...more...]
On Sunday, February 5th, Holocaust Museum LA’s staff members and curators of the traveling exhibition “Hidden History: Recounting the Shanghai Jewish Story” will be speaking at an event in Morgan Hill, along with a 95-year [...more...]
Giving List Matching Challenges
Youth Development
The long tail of the pandemic has students still struggling to catch up. Isolation and fitful reintegration have led to […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
On Saturday, December 17th, Everybody Dance LA! hosted family and friends for the annual Winter Raffle Performance. This event celebrated […more…]
The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), founded in 1996 in Long Beach, California, is the only accredited Museum in […more…]
At 13, Sophia Vasquez moved from Mexico to Los Angeles with her family. Sophia struggled to assimilate into the new […more…]
Social Justice
Abused children can grow up believing that violence is a solution. Childhood trauma can lead to imprisonment. When a child […more…]
The Bail Project, a national nonprofit based in Los Angeles, provides free bail assistance and pretrial support to low-income people […more…]
Public Square
The year was 2003, and the philanthropic sector was going through a period of significant evolution. Every day, new technologies […more…]
As news deserts expand across the country, the tight-knit historic immigrant community of Boyle Heights is home to a groundbreaking […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
One out of every five American women has been the victim of a completed or attempted rape in her lifetime. […more…]
Five-year-old Noah was almost legally blind, pressing his nose against the page to make sense of the words. Then a […more…]
According to the World Health Organization, significant orthopaedic injuries account for more patient cases worldwide than cancer and HIV-AIDS combined. […more…]
Global Reach
“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…]
Since 2016, the U.S.-based nonprofit Kidsave has been in Ukraine working to find older kids living in orphanages and institutions, […more…]
Fostering Care
Ready To Succeed, which has set countless youth exiting the turbulence of foster care on their paths to career stability […more…]
Anthony Pico was homeless, unemployed, and had aged out of the foster care system when he started seeing a therapist […more…]
Matt, a Los Angeles teenager living in foster care, was “mad, irritated,” and most of all “disappointed” when his social […more…]
For the Children
The classroom lights are turned off. The blinds are drawn low. J3 Cozy Reading Club is about to start at […more…]
When the grim results of the National Assessment of Education Progress report came out, teachers across the country were not […more…]
Marc Cohen knows just how catastrophic an incorrectly installed car seat can be. On an otherwise ordinary day, his 21-year-old […more…]
Family Well-Being
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…]
Forty years ago, Liz Herrera was studying to become a social worker at UCLA. Herrera told her field advisor that […more…]
Emergency Services
When two children got lost during a hike in rural New York with oncoming rain commingling with the darkening night, […more…]
Los Angeles County is usually synonymous with entertainment, but the Los Angeles County Fire Department Foundation is giving Silicon Valley […more…]
Education
Bayan Islamic Graduate School, operating since 2011 in partnership with a leading Christian theological seminary, is the United States’ first […more…]
In elementary school, Jennifer knew she was a smart kid. But, admittedly, she liked to talk back to teachers and […more…]
Yasmin Delahoussaye grew up in kinship care, which is as close to foster care as you can get. The relatives […more…]
Community Resilience
When a Metro light rail line running through Crenshaw Boulevard was announced years ago, it sparked fears of displacement and […more…]
When Los Angeles experienced its first COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020, Damián Diaz and Othón Nolasco wasted no time helping […more…]
For years, Los Angeles police have been challenged by how to respond to calls about unhoused Angelenos. Then came CIRCLE, […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…]
Pauline, a 19-year-old in Los Angeles’ extended foster care program and a new mother, drew the unwanted attention of the […more…]