On Saturday, December 17th, Everybody Dance LA! hosted family and friends for the annual Winter Raffle Performance. This event celebrated […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…]

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 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…]

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…]

Yasmin Delahoussaye grew up in kinship care, which is as close to foster care as you can get. The relatives […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…]

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…]