On Sunday, February 5th, Holocaust Museum LA’s staff members and curators of the traveling exhibition “Hidden History: Recounting the Shanghai […more…]
On Saturday, December 17th, Everybody Dance LA! hosted family and friends for the annual Winter Raffle Performance. This event celebrated […more…]
Stephanie M. Tombrello, LCSW, CPSTI, Executive Director Emeritus of SafetyBeltSafe U.S.A. has been involved in child passenger safety since 1970. […more…]
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…]
We launched The Giving List to help the nonprofit organizations featured in this book spend less time fundraising and more […more…]
The Giving List was created to make it easier for you to navigate the dizzying array of worthwhile causes and […more…]
Anthony Pico was homeless, unemployed, and had aged out of the foster care system when he started seeing a therapist […more…]
The Bail Project, a national nonprofit based in Los Angeles, provides free bail assistance and pretrial support to low-income people […more…]
Bayan Islamic Graduate School, operating since 2011 in partnership with a leading Christian theological seminary, is the United States’ first […more…]
As news deserts expand across the country, the tight-knit historic immigrant community of Boyle Heights is home to a groundbreaking […more…]
The long tail of the pandemic has students still struggling to catch up. Isolation and fitful reintegration have led to […more…]
In contemplating the scope and destruction wrought by gun violence, it is understandable to despair. But inaction won’t save your […more…]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, education advocate Kristina Brittenham was searching for free college counseling services for LAUSD students. Her friend […more…]
Pauline, a 19-year-old in Los Angeles’ extended foster care program and a new mother, drew the unwanted attention of the […more…]
In elementary school, Jennifer knew she was a smart kid. But, admittedly, she liked to talk back to teachers and […more…]
Abused children can grow up believing that violence is a solution. Childhood trauma can lead to imprisonment. When a child […more…]
When a Metro light rail line running through Crenshaw Boulevard was announced years ago, it sparked fears of displacement and […more…]
Leo* heard about free pizza after school. The middle schooler happily got a slice and listened to a pitch about […more…]
Of the more than 66,000 unhoused people living on Los Angeles County’s streets, over 20,000 are women. One of them […more…]
“Ne Tentes Aut Perfice.” This is the Latin motto that students and faculty at Dunn School, a private co-ed college […more…]
Yasmin Delahoussaye grew up in kinship care, which is as close to foster care as you can get. The relatives […more…]
Forty years ago, Liz Herrera was studying to become a social worker at UCLA. Herrera told her field advisor that […more…]
On the night their 13-year-old daughter Emily was murdered, Michel and Ellen Shane thought of a way to memorialize her […more…]
At 13, Sophia Vasquez moved from Mexico to Los Angeles with her family. Sophia struggled to assimilate into the new […more…]
As a kid, Nilda Palacios was sexually abused at home and at school. She tried to escape into a relationship, […more…]
For most kids, summer equals fun. Vacations. Camp. Exciting adventures with families and friends. But that is often not true […more…]
Well before Silicon Valley’s diversity problem routinely made headlines, The Hidden Genius Project began to tap into the talents of […more…]
In spite of the tragic outcomes that impact the majority of children raised in foster care, Serita Cox beat the […more…]
As a boy, Spencer Hawk loved school field trips to a playground where he could soar on the swings, slip […more…]
Back in college, Joe Blackstone and his wife, Jamie Mohn, volunteered to read storybooks to elementary school kids. It was […more…]
When Felicia Cates first sought help through JVS SoCal’s career readiness and job placement centers in the Los Angeles area, […more…]
Since 2016, the U.S.-based nonprofit Kidsave has been in Ukraine working to find older kids living in orphanages and institutions, […more…]
Matt, a Los Angeles teenager living in foster care, was “mad, irritated,” and most of all “disappointed” when his social […more…]
Los Angeles County is usually synonymous with entertainment, but the Los Angeles County Fire Department Foundation is giving Silicon Valley […more…]
Determined to make the world a better place, Dave Bauer vowed to give 10% of his net income to people […more…]
According to the World Health Organization, significant orthopaedic injuries account for more patient cases worldwide than cancer and HIV-AIDS combined. […more…]
The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), founded in 1996 in Long Beach, California, is the only accredited Museum in […more…]
What has the pandemic taught us? Never take good health or access to healthcare for granted. This is the backbone […more…]
When two children got lost during a hike in rural New York with oncoming rain commingling with the darkening night, […more…]