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2-1-1 Orange County
2-1-1 Orange County was founded in 1984 as People for Irvine Community Health. Since its inception, the agency has been connecting residents in need to critical social services in Orange County such as housing, job placement, food, and health insurance. 211OC is dedicated to building an Orange County where: By building a Coordinated Entry System for the region that offers a single point of entry into the network of services, 211OC helps secure housing for chronically homeless people and help them maintain it. Our trained community wellness and resource navigators help OC residents apply for the CalFresh program. The Point-in-Time count and survey of the homeless population in Orange County is a vital tool for ending homelessness, and helps the county qualify for more than $19,000,000 in federal funding for services to reduce homelessness. EVERYONE CAN AFFORD A QUALITY LIFE 211OC helps screen residents for eligibility in programs that can save them money, which in turn improves quality of life.
2nd Call
2nd Call is a grassroots nonprofit organization working towards community safety, justice, and liberation. Since the organization originated in 2006, our mission has been “to save lives by reducing violence and assisting in the personal development of high-risk individuals, proven offenders, ex-felons, parolees, and others who society disregards.” Following the needs of our community and learning to provide care and intervention for the highest-risk populations, we have facilitated weekly classes in the California State Prisons, local churches, schools, and employment training programs, within Los Angeles county and the Inland Empire. All classes begin with Trauma Informed Life Skills, allowing all of our participants the opportunity to address childhood trauma, triggers and the effects of growing up in dysfunctional families. Using a healing circle format, we build on strengths, heal family connections, and explore the impacts of personal, community, and intergenerational trauma, strategies for resilience, and motivations for breaking the cycles of poverty and violence. The key principle is honoring the participants' dignity and presence while valuing the participants' contributio
Academia de Futbol Juvenil Amatense (AFJA)
CHANGE THROUGH THE POWER OF PLAY. Providing access to organized soccer to the children of underserved communities in Central America. AFJA (Academia de Futbol Juvenil Amatense) is a Los Angeles based non profit youth soccer organization that benefits youth in low income communities. Our focus is providing access to organized soccer to the children of underserved communities in Central America through recycling gently used gear and forming partnerships with soccer clubs, families, and youth in the United States. Since 2018, we have led an effort to provide access to organized soccer programs for youth in rural communities throughout Central America. We have built grassroots community spaces around the beautiful game. To date, we have served over 350 youth ages 5 through 20 in the countries of El Salvador and Guatemala. Every week out athletes receive dedicated coaching, training, and recreational time with their friends. We work hand in hand with parents, teachers and community members to help them develop future leaders.
American Youth Symphony
A TRAINING GROUND FOR THE 21ST CENTURY The American Youth Symphony’s mission is to inspire the future of classical music by providing landmark fellowships to virtuosic young adults and exceptional, innovative, and free concerts to the Los Angeles community. Competitively selected, our orchestra is comprised of 100 musicians who represent extraordinary talent from all over the world. By offering our community remarkable concerts at world-class venues, we remain committed to creating access and opportunity for everyone to experience the inspiration of this beautiful art form. An elite fellowship opportunity, AYS is designed to prepare the concert artists of tomorrow for leadership in 21st-century orchestras and ensembles. Musicians receive in-depth exposure to the varied styles of symphonic music, from classical masterworks to world premieres and unforgettable film scores. AYS is a tuition-free program, and each AYS fellow receives an annual stipend ranging from $1,400-$4,000. Fellows perform at renowned venues like Royce Hall and Walt Disney Concert Hall, and work alongside world-class guest artists such as Sarah Chang, Daníel Bjarnason, Anna Clyne, Glenn Dicterow, Johannes Moser, J
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Antelope Valley Partners for Health
Build a Stronger Community We develop programs and strengthen existing programs by assessing community needs. AVPH seeks to improve the lives of the most vulnerable and underserved population of the Antelope Valley. This population includes adults and children of diverse ethnic origins who are currently living at or below the poverty line, have no access to health care services and must overcome the geographic barriers from living in the area.AVPH has made significant changes in the following areas: access to health care, community needs assessments, mental health care in schools, dental health for low income children, nutrition and physical activity programs for children and their families, infant mortality issues, women’s health education, housing concerns for transitional foster youth, case management services for pregnant women, developed a community resource directory, developed a community based care management consortium for senior citizens, addressed transportation issues, developed and implemented a coordinated comprehensive community network to support at-risk youth and their families, and played a lead role in most local health and health policy issues.
Arts & Learning Conservatory
Since 2004, we have been committed to providingaccessible high-quality performing arts education to everyone. Roughly 40% of our students receive their arts education at a reduced rate or for free. We provide transformative arts education.
Arts of Life, Inc.
Arts of Life is a 501(c)3 non-profit founded in January 2000 with a shared vision: to create a working, person-centric, artistic community while providing a work environment of equality in Chicago. Motivated by founding artist Veronica Cuculich along with two co-directors Arts of Life brought nine other individuals with developmental disabilities to create the organization we are today. Our shared vision grew from a passion for artistic expression and a need for an alternative system. For artists at Arts of Life, a career in the visual arts is an opportunity for meaningful employment. Each artist has their own studio space and works independently from individualized project plans or receives 1:1 visual arts facilitation to increase their artistic skill set. Artists earn a monthly stipend for participation in the program with eligibility to receive bonuses based on personal annual art sales.
Ashland Community Development Corporation
A concerned group of East Baltimore residents did not like what they saw happening to their city; too many young lives wasted, too many opportunities missed, too much talent going unused. So in 1997 they decided to do something to alleviate these problems. They established the Ashland Community Development Corporation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization with the expressed purpose of providing community services in these five tracks: Track #1 - Housing Development Programs To acquire land or property, create a pool of properties for home ownership, businesses, affordable housing, reduce vacant properties, provide housing for the homeless, seniors and assisted living. Track #2 - Economic Development Programs To encourage economic development, entrepreneurship, community employment, and provide space for start-up businesses. Track #3 - Neighborhood Revitalization To revitalize the community’s appearance, instill a sense of pride and maintain vacant land.
Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center (APADRC)
The Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center (APADRC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides mediation and conflict resolution services to the diverse communities in the Los Angeles area, with a focus on the Asian Pacific Islander Population. We strive to improve human relations and race relations by addressing complex, cross cultural community conflicts and their root causes with community partners through education, training, and development of new models and techniques. The APADRC looks toward the future by training youth in the techniques of mediation and conflict resolution. The APADRC is the only center in Southern California whose service population routinely includes the often excluded, monolingual Asian Pacific immigrant communities. Founded as a multicultural conflict resolution center in 1989 to serve the diverse and historically underserved communities of Los Angeles County, the APADRC assists people in removing the barriers that prevent us from feeling heard, being understood, and having a sense of belonging. With a proven record of improving interpersonal and community relations, our culturally competent multilingual alternative dispute resolution
Authentic Caribbean Foundation
Authentic Caribbean Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, based in Boston, geared towards transforming the lives of the Caribbean children impacted by disabilities, HIV/AIDS, and their caregivers through health and educational support. To carry out this mission, we seek to bolster HIV/AIDS research in the Caribbean while at the same time providing support for institutions caring for affected children and adults in the Diaspora and the Caribbean. Established in November 2012, Authentic Caribbean Foundation is a registered nonprofit organization dedicated to providing education and training, health, community tourism, and support services to children and adults with disability and aids within the Diaspora and the Caribbean by achieving a high level of development and sustainability, helping to eliminate poverty. Authentic Caribbean Foundation will assist children in the USA and the Caribbean community with education, special disability, health issues (aids & cancer), community exchange programs, and donations to special programs in the Diaspora through Caribbean awareness, charity, events, and programs in the USA.
Beyond The Label LA
Beyond the Label (BtL) started as a series of educational events, BtL T-shirt Exchanges, in partnership with TEDxLA to educate Angelenos about the true health, social and environmental cost of their fashion purchases. - Beyond the Label is an LA-based educational platform that connects people with solutions for a clean fashion industry through books, clothing & interactive activities. - Beyond the Label educates consumers on what to look for in a brand...transparency is key. - Beyond the Label fosters and educates designers and brands to for look innovative fabrics, alternative ways to manufacture and how to implement ethical, local and clean practices. - Beyond the Label addresses the negative effects of the global fashion industry and brings hope and recognition to amazing new technologies and regulations that are currently shifting the state of fashion as we know it. - Shift fashion consumption habits
Black Math Collective
At the Black Math Collective (BMC), it is our personal goal to make sure students understand Math at deeper levels through Algebra 2. Targeting a critical foundation in math often serves as a gateway to more advanced studies and STEM-related career opportunities.
Booksustain
Booksustain collects gently used books from the public and donates them to community service organizations, literacy organizations and schools in underserved communities in the Los Angeles area.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Fullerton
Creating Great Futures for Our Youth. Providing academic success, healthy lifestyles, & enriching programs. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Fullerton provide a fun, safe and constructive environment for kids and teens during out-of-school hours. Community-based and led by professional staff, Clubs across America serve small towns, large metropolitan areas, public housing communities, and Native populations, as well as those who live on U.S. military installations worldwide. We offer programs and services to help young people succeed in school, develop leadership skills, and maintain healthy lifestyles. The Boys & Girls Club of Fullerton has been committed to making a difference in the lives of kids for over 60 years. We believe in helping young ones to reach their full potential through learning, growing, and having a good support system .
Build Futures
Build Futures provides immediate, essential services to help forgotten and abandoned youth return to society. And with our job training and housing programs our youth have a 73% success rate keeping off the streets. To never turn away a homeless youth who needs help in Orange County Build Futures exists to move homeless, transitional-aged (18- to 24-year-old) youth from the streets to safe, stable housing, while providing the services, resources, and support they need to develop long-term independence. We work relentlessly to help every homeless youth who comes to us prepare for the workplace and move into full-time employment, and we have a vision of permanently ending youth homelessness in Orange County. Build Futures was established in 2009 to assist transitional-aged homeless youth in Orange County because we know this population faces unique challenges that are not addressed by existing homeless support organizations. In order to support our homeless youth population in making the overwhelming changes necessary to find stability in society, Build Futures has developed an innovative program to support them on their challenging path to independence.
California Botanic Garden (formerly Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden)
California Botanic Garden advances knowledge, conservation, and appreciation of California native plants. California Botanic Garden is the largest botanic garden dedicated to California native plants, promoting botany, conservation and horticulture to inspire, inform and educate the public and scientific community about California's native flora. The Garden is a living museum with curated collections of more than 22,000 California native plants, some of which are rare or endangered. Spread across 86 acres in Claremont, California, the Garden is located approximately 35 miles east of Los Angeles. The Garden displays about 2000 taxa of California plants and includes those native to the California Floristic Province.
California Youth Services (CYS)
California Youth Services is a world-class substance abuse nonprofit, offering quality programs related to substance abuse, academic challenges, and behavioral and mental health struggles.
Cancer Kinship
Transitioning as a newly diagnosed cancer patient to a survivor is a complex process. Long-term health risks are top-of-mind and the fear of cancer returning never fully fades. Many patients report experiencing feelings of fear, dread, distress, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, isolation and loneliness even when they are surrounded by loved ones who support them. Many resources are raised and expended on cancer awareness, prevention, and research, but little is being done to address the physical, emotional and psychosocial effects of cancer. With more than 16.9 million Americans alive today with their own personal cancer survival story, there is much work to be done to support this growing community. Cancer Kinship seeks to help patients adjust to their “new normal” lives as survivors. We believe that our programs and services will empower patients and survivors to take control of their health and future, resulting in the overall cancer community – our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, neighbors, friends – living longer, happier and more impactful lives.
Cancer Resource Center of the Desert
The Cancer Resource Center of the Desert (CRCD) is the only non-profit community-based organization providing cancer Patient Navigation to persons in the Imperial Valley community. The CRCD Patient Navigation program is a comprehensive service that has benefited cancer patients since September 2006. CRCD continually strives to improve the quality of service and has expanded its programs to meet the multiple and growing needs of the community. CRCD bridges the gaps in the fragmentation of cancer care that occurs when consumers are in emotional distress; do not understand their diagnosis or treatment plan; are unfamiliar with the cancer healthcare system; and are uninformed regarding their insurance coverage. CRCD’s innovative service ensures a positive effect on quality, cost, and satisfaction of the consumer and clinical team. CRCD is committed to providing Imperial Valley cancer patients clinical patient navigation services to help manage their diagnosis at no cost to the patient.
CAPC, Inc.
CAPitalizingonCapabilities, Inc. (CAPC, Inc.) empowers individuals with disabilities and works with them to gain employment, assisted living arrangements, and connects them to the community by providing access to transportation, improve their communication and help them pursue higher education and strong relationships. We provided innovative Supported Employment and Supported Living Services for people with disabilities in the greater Whittier and Orange County areas. CAPC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization serving people with disabilities for over 30 years. In 1984, CAPC began to provide services for adults with disabilities as an outgrowth and expansion of the Whittier Union High School District’s and Whittier Area Cooperative’s Special Education Program. For many years CAPC, Inc. was the primary community-based program for adults exiting the local special education programs in our area.
Cardborigami, Inc.
Sadly, widespread homelessness isn’t going away any time soon, and until society works out a larger solution, ideas are needed to improve the living conditions of people without a home right now. One such idea put forward is a cardboard-constructed pop-up shelter dubbed “Cardborigami,” which is designed to serve as a transitional shelter until a permanent home is found. Cardborigami is the brainchild of Los Angeles-based designer Tina Hovsepian, and is said to draw inspiration from the Japanese paper-folding art of origami. Cardborigami provides instant space to protect people from the elements through innovation and design. They connect displaced populations using their emergency shelter product to local service providers.
Channel Islands Maritime Museum
The Channel Islands Maritime Museum (CIMM) is a renowned institution dedicated to preserving and interpreting maritime arts and culture. We offer a wide variety of exhibitions, programs, and educational opportunities for visitors of all ages. CIMM seeks to preserve and share the wonders of our universal maritime heritage, highlight our complex interrelationships with the ecology of The Ocean, and showcase people's creative expressions of everything related to the sea through exhibitions, education, and community engagement programs.
Child Care Resource Center
That was the question a group of committed volunteers asked the San Fernando Valley in 1974. After hearing an enthusiastic and definite “NO,” these volunteers looked for a way to support families struggling to find quality childcare, development, and education services for their families. So that year, the San Fernando Valley Child Care Consortium and the Mayor’s Child Care and Junior Task Force proposed the first childcare resource center in the San Fernando Valley. Doris McLain was elected chairperson as Mayor Bradley accepted the proposal and gave the newly founded Child Care Resource Center (CCRC) space in Van Nuys City Hall Center. On January 23, 1975, CCRC was formally dedicated; volunteers of the National Council of Jewish Women became the first staff, and Marj Morris became the agency’s first paid director. Upon formal incorporation in 1976, Resource and Referral (R&R) services began in the San Fernando Valley with an average of 60 requests per month from parents needing assistance in their search for caregivers. In that same year, a grant from the California Department of Education allowed CCRC to begin providing financial support to help low-income families pay for the co
Chuck Jones Center for Creativity
The Chuck Jones Center for Creativity is a gymnasium for the brain. Based on the unique philosophies of the legendary animator, Chuck Jones, we provide creativity experiences that exercise creative genius that exists in all of us. "The only thing an adult can give a child is time." - Chuck Jones The programs of the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity are designed to provide children (of all ages) the very opportunity that Chuck Jones had in mind when he founded the Center in 2000. With the nurturing guidance of our teaching artists, the Center provides the time for your child(ren) to discover their innate creativity. We teach our students, both young and young of heart, to nurture the creative genius that exists in all of us. We connect both left and right sides of the brain in exercising creativity to solve problems, foster innovation and build mental health. We build important skills for school age children, support healthy cognitive abilities for seniors, increase work performance in organizations who see the value of pumping up creativity in their ranks and enhance function for children on the autism spectrum.