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At 13, Sophia Vasquez moved from Mexico to Los Angeles with her family. Sophia struggled to assimilate into the new […more…]
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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…]
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Back in college, Joe Blackstone and his wife, Jamie Mohn, volunteered to read storybooks to elementary school kids. It was […more…]
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Matt, a Los Angeles teenager living in foster care, was “mad, irritated,” and most of all “disappointed” when his social […more…]
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Determined to make the world a better place, Dave Bauer vowed to give 10% of his net income to people […more…]
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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…]
When Los Angeles experienced its first COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020, Damián Diaz and Othón Nolasco wasted no time helping […more…]
In 1979, the Los Angeles Times published an article about the children of Skid Row. They were hardened by their […more…]
For Nicole, PUENTE Learning Center’s free college program was a lifeline during the pandemic. A first-generation college student who was […more…]
Ready To Succeed, which has set countless youth exiting the turbulence of foster care on their paths to career stability […more…]
At Step Up, which offers permanent supportive housing to the unhoused in Los Angeles, eviction is not an option. Instead […more…]
For years, Los Angeles police have been challenged by how to respond to calls about unhoused Angelenos. Then came CIRCLE, […more…]
If you find your way to Cortney Lofton’s workshop in Northridge, California, you will be transported to a functional winter-wonderland; […more…]
Esperanza was 19 years old and living in Malawi when she faced a serious health crisis. While giving birth to […more…]
Five-year-old Noah was almost legally blind, pressing his nose against the page to make sense of the words. Then a […more…]
White Buffalo Land Trust has a vital purpose: to restore the ecosystem through agriculture and in the process directly address […more…]
Alma Castillo was a rising junior in high school in South Los Angeles. A time when students begin making their […more…]
One out of every five American women has been the victim of a completed or attempted rape in her lifetime. […more…]
The year was 2003, and the philanthropic sector was going through a period of significant evolution. Every day, new technologies […more…]
Long before Allan Pineda Lindo, better known as Apl.de.Ap, would co-found the Black Eyed Peas with William James Adams, aka […more…]
Marc Cohen knows just how catastrophic an incorrectly installed car seat can be. On an otherwise ordinary day, his 21-year-old […more…]