Tag Archives: philanthropy
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…]
Back in college, Joe Blackstone and his wife, Jamie Mohn, volunteered to read storybooks to elementary school kids. It was […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…]
When two children got lost during a hike in rural New York with oncoming rain commingling with the darkening night, […more…]
For years, Los Angeles police have been challenged by how to respond to calls about unhoused Angelenos. Then came CIRCLE, […more…]
Five-year-old Noah was almost legally blind, pressing his nose against the page to make sense of the words. Then a […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…]
In addition to her innate style and fashion sense, Elizabeth Faraut is perhaps best known for two things: Her Los […more…]