Huge news! Everybody Dance LA’s gala celebration, hosted on June 12 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, was […more…]

Join us as we celebrate reaching an important milestone in pursuing our mission to transform lives and communities through the […more…]

The Los Angeles philanthropic community braved the traffic and turned out in droves for The Giving List’s 2023 Launch event […more…]

We are thrilled to present you with this year’s edition of The Giving List Los Angeles. Los Angeles is a wonderfully diverse tapestry of people and communities and locations and causes. In many ways it’s a microcosm of everything that is both great and complex about our country. And nothing creates a more important safety net for the pieces of the complicated puzzle that is L.A. than the region’s nonprofit sector. The Giving List was created out of the belief that storytelling, one of the most powerful tools we have as humans, is vastly underutilized in educating donors on the [...more...]

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

“Ne Tentes Aut Perfice.”  This is the Latin motto that students and faculty at Dunn School, a private co-ed college […more…]

When two children got lost during a hike in rural New York with oncoming rain commingling with the darkening night, […more…]

As the first person of color to serve as Head of Dunn School in Los Olivos, California, Kalyan (“Kal”) Balaven is, in many ways, a long way from his youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, where his family found itself houseless, surviving on what Balaven calls community wealth.  From an ethnic perspective, Balaven says that he’s always thought of himself as “other.” An outsider identification that informs his work today as the head of an esteemed private residential school with a rich history that didn’t always include leaders (or many students) that looked like him. “The idea of being [...more...]

We’re sharing news about our recent in-person event held at the Microsoft Lounge in Los Angeles.  The event was hosted […more…]

The Giving List was created to make it easier for you to navigate the dizzying array of worthwhile causes and […more…]

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