Sick and injured children entering UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital are not only met by a 60-foot welcome wall with messages […more…]
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The Social Justice Learning Institute (SJLI), based in Inglewood, has taken a three-pronged approach to fighting the inequity since it […more…]
Founded by attorney Frederick Nicholas in Los Angeles in 1970, Public Counsel has grown to become the nation’s largest public […more…]
For the Cohen sisters, taking on the embodiment of the fossil fuel and climate crisis – plastic – started with […more…]
Since 1998, South Los Angeles nonprofit Peace4Kids has connected youth in foster care to a community they can count on […more…]
Liza Bray remembers a mother and child walking into a Partners for Children South L.A. (PCSLA) partner agency clinic desperate […more…]
In 1979, an article appeared in the Los Angeles Times depicting how unsupervised children growing up on Skid Row were […more…]
As a volunteer for the first hospice team at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the early 1990s, Jo-Ann Lautman comforted patients […more…]
Born and raised in Oakland, California, David Muhammad faced his fair share of challenges, finding himself both in the juvenile […more…]
After years of negative portrayals of Muslims in American entertainment, a growing number of young American Muslims are heading to […more…]
It didn’t take long for Darrell Booker to impact one of the largest tech corporations in the world: Microsoft. In […more…]
The Learning Rights Law Center exists for a singular purpose: To ensure that no child will suffer from the tragic […more…]
Opera is a timeless art form. Each night as the lights dim and the curtain rises, audiences share in a […more…]
Inspired by their experiences adopting children and visiting Russian and Kazakhstani orphanages in the early 1990s, Randi Thompson and her […more…]
Jewish World Watch (JWW) envisions a future without genocide and mass atrocities; a world that does not stand idly by […more…]
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…]
California is the world’s fifth-largest economy, but it is also the state with the largest number of children living in […more…]
The best journalism often tells the stories that no one else sees. Stories that have the power to change minds, […more…]
Fernando Pullum was always told he’d end up in prison. But the trumpet player, raised by his great-grandmother, discovered music […more…]
Liz Vogel’s least favorite class while growing up in New Jersey was history. Memorizing facts and dates from the past […more…]
Alarming numbers of children in South Los Angeles were suffering from asthma and lead poisoning, and a community clinic needed […more…]
Destination Crenshaw, is a potential game changer for South Los Angeles. Once complete, the 1.3 miles of Destination Crenshaw will […more…]
City National has always been about doing business differently, one relationship at a time. The company always places people and […more…]
When John Armour joined Capital Group Private Client Services more than 20 years ago, one of his first assignments was […more…]
Janay Eustace found herself in the foster care system as a new high school freshman, juggling her duties as class […more…]
The young Black man with the ear-length dreads is wearing a brand new, white sweatshirt with MOREHOUSE emblazoned across his […more…]
For the past 11 years, Boyle Heights Beat has offered a unique brand of bilingual journalism in an often neglected, […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…]
Margaret Coyne and Jan Sherwood were both attorneys working in California’s juvenile dependency system when they met in the early […more…]
One of Southern California’s oldest and most innovative hospitals, Adventist Health Glendale (formerly Glendale Adventist Medical Center) was founded in […more…]
In the 1960s, there were few services available to parents who were raising children with Down syndrome. Refusing to accept […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…]
When Friends of the Children approached foster youth advocate Thomas Lee for help launching its mentoring program in Los Angeles, […more…]
Silverlake Conservatory of Music (SCM) was founded in 2001 by Flea (real name Michael Peter Balzary) of the Red Hot […more…]
Often a cancer diagnosis makes people feel like their world is about to collapse. At UCLA Health cancer clinics, patients […more…]
Driving real, lasting social change requires clear vision, an ability to articulate that vision, and then the ability to ensure […more…]
Imagine leaving prison with only $200 and a bus ticket. No identification, no social security card, no place to go, […more…]
For underperforming public schools across the country, the myriad challenges are plain to see. Too often, for students in those […more…]