PUENTE Learning Center began over 35 years ago in Boyle Heights. They realized that the children struggling the most in […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…]

In the summer of 2022, Don Howard, the President and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation, penned an essay for […more…]

We are thrilled to present you with this year’s edition of The Giving List Los Angeles. Los Angeles is a […more…]

We launched The Giving List to help the nonprofit organizations featured in this book spend less time fundraising and more […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…]

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…]

When a Metro light rail line running through Crenshaw Boulevard was announced years ago, it sparked fears of displacement and […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…]

As a kid, Nilda Palacios was sexually abused at home and at school. She tried to escape into a relationship, […more…]