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One day after school in 2019, Arthur peeked into the library at Watts Learning Center, the elementary school where he […more…]
Makes history as Friends LA’s largest gift ever from individual donor Friends LA is thrilled to announce that it has […more…]
We’re thrilled to invite you to our next free Community Workshopon Thursday, August 24th from 10am-12pm PDT featuring keynote speaker […more…]
The White House announced today that the Department of the Interior will reduce and eventually phase out the sale of […more…]
Preventing gun violence] is the number one issue for me.” — Coach Steve Kerr Thirty-six years ago, Golden State Warriors […more…]
In the wake of horrifying—and horrifyingly common—gun violence tragedies like those in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas, our basic […more…]
Please join us for our next free Continuing Education event! Did you know that when you volunteer with A Home […more…]
Larry is 19 years old. Smart and motivated, he is a foster youth, touched by the criminal justice system when […more…]
CYS youth participants often have a talent that is revealed during mediation and provides a springboard for a meaningful restitution. […more…]
17-year-old Nicole T. was facing felony weapons charges when referred to CYS by LA County Sheriff’s deputies for assessment and […more…]
Judging from the number of skills and hours Andre T. Moore, Sr. contributes to the well-being of our Los Angeles […more…]
Evacuees in Ukraine call Kidsave’s team there “Angels of Hope.” What started as a small, rag-tag group of civilians, orphan […more…]
The mental health and wellness app offers digital tools to manage stress, build resilience, and combat the unprecedented mental health […more…]
Aimee was referred to The RightWay Foundation by Long Beach City College. She had recently emancipated from the foster care […more…]
“Being part of this collective really just validated my feelings that us youth matter,” said Adria Marin, a 17-year-old photographer […more…]
The government running the world’s fifth largest economy spends more than $300 billion a year and disburses billions more in […more…]
In what is being heralded as a historic win for advocates working to tackle the plastic pollution crisis, parties to […more…]
Please check out the HIAS Ukraine Crisis Response page, which includes how to donate and our useful Ukraine FAQ page. The needs have never been greater […more…]
Mentors 4 College, a unique, one-to-one college mentoring program for high school students and their parents, announced today that it […more…]
The cosmetics industry generates approximately US$ 341.1 billion annually—and 120 billion units of plastic packaging, most of which are not […more…]
GRACE, End Child Poverty in California and Liberation in a Generation Urge Lawmakers to Pass the Bill, Which Would Pave […more…]
Crystal was in the foster care system since she was a little girl, after being removed from her home due […more…]
The largest database of ATF gun store inspection reports ever released to the public, exposing gun stores cited for breaking […more…]
Brady released a new report and a webpage on the “Origin of an Insurrection: How Second Amendment Extremism Led to […more…]
The Violence Intervention Program (VIP) was founded in 1984, as the Center for the Vulnerable Child, the first Child Advocacy […more…]
Franco Vega knows the hardships kids in South Central Los Angeles often face, because he himself went through it. Growing […more…]
When Robin Detterman took a job 15 years ago as a special education teacher at Pathfinder Academy – a school […more…]
Anne was a senior at Hollywood High School hoping to become a veterinarian. But the daughter of a single mom […more…]
A stunning one in 10 households in the United States currently faces hunger. MAZON’s focus is to expose this reality, […more…]
Founded in San Francisco in the wake of World War II by attorney W. Donald Fletcher and investment counselor Van […more…]
The Children’s Law Center of California is the nation’s largest nonprofit law firm exclusively representing children – including those who […more…]
By her own description, Leslie Gilbert-Lurie had a sheltered middle-class childhood in suburban Los Angeles. Her family ate dinner together […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…]
Long before she got sick, Lyndsey McMorrow believed it was possible for people to be conscious stewards of the earth. […more…]
Venice Family Clinic began in 1970 in a storefront dental office when Drs. Philip Rossman and Mayer B. Davidson saw […more…]
Some 37 million people – more than 15 percent of the adult population – suffer from chronic kidney disease, according […more…]
In spring 2020, the University of Southern California’s Keck Medicine of USC launched a comprehensive program called Care for the […more…]
The University of Southern California’s Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI) is using research and analysis to slow the ever-growing Alzheimer’s […more…]
Sick and injured children entering UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital are not only met by a 60-foot welcome wall with messages […more…]
Imagine it’s your senior year of high school. You are excited to apply to college. But, you don’t have a […more…]
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…]
Echo offers a unique trauma-informed, compassionate lens to better understand ourselves and others. We celebrate the resilience of trauma survivors […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…]
Every Saturday, a then-five-year-old Ghuan Featherstone would put on his cowboy outfit, sit in front of the TV, and tune […more…]
Susan Dempsey’s son Mark was in college when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. The illness changed his life, causing him […more…]
The year was 2003, and the philanthropic sector was going through a period of significant evolution. Every day, new technologies […more…]
Former film executive and entrepreneur Romi Lassally’s children were in high school when she began envisioning a career mentorship program […more…]
Anyone who doubts the benefit, nay, necessity of the arts in public schools should meet Dr. Kristen Paglia. Within minutes, […more…]
When Point Foundation’s founders, longtime friends, got together in 2001, one alarming statistic rang out: Nearly one-third of all lesbian, […more…]
Although you’ll seldom see them in comic books, search dogs are the closest thing to real life superheroes. Not only […more…]
The mission of LA Family Housing can be summed up in one sentence, according to President and CEO Stephanie Klasky-Gamer: […more…]
From its roots as a shelter for adolescent Latinos in 1989, Jovenes has become a leading provider of support services […more…]
“Helping kids in foster care reach their full potential.” The lightbulb went off, as it often does, during a walk. […more…]
There’s no secret that there’s power in music. At the Los Angeles-based Harmony Project, giving children the power to play […more…]
For the millions of American kids who get to go year after year, summer camp exists on its own special […more…]
For more than a century, Goodwill Southern California has educated, trained, and helped find work for more than one million […more…]
Joanne Reyes knows firsthand how important a college education is in building opportunity and wealth in immigrant and disadvantaged communities. […more…]
Mayra E. Alvarez – who leads The Children’s Partnership (TCP), where she works to put California’s children front and center […more…]
When Jessica Ellis explains why she works at Centinela Youth Services (CYS), she can’t shake the memory of an 11-year-old […more…]
Charity Chandler-Cole was locked up in juvenile hall twice – once for stealing underwear for her baby sister and again […more…]
CalMatters was founded to fill the gap left by a shrinking press corps in order to empower people to engage […more…]
Like many teens, 15-year-old Stephan Abrams was devastated by the 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. […more…]
The racial wealth gap isn’t just a problem for individual African Americans, but for Black-led organizations (BLOs) as well. “Black-led […more…]
Philanthropy can be, should be, and often is so much more than writing checks. At its best, it can change […more…]
To support incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, the Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) not only offers rehabilitative programming, job training, housing access, […more…]
A child comes into your life. Your response is an unqualified commitment to them – no matter what they say […more…]