Support Imagine LA Through Donation
Imagine LA is a nonprofit organization working to end the cycle of family poverty and homelessness. Through a holistic combination of intensive case management, economic mobility programming, and whole-family mentorship — their Family Partnership Model — they prevent first-time and repeat homelessness and equip families to maintain housing stability and thrive long-term. Visit: https://givebutter.com/imaginela
Donate to East LA Womens Center
When you make a donation to ELAWC, you are giving thousands of survivors across Los Angeles County access to life-changing services. Your donation today can make a tremendous impact in the lives of women and children in crisis, tomorrow. Visit: https://www.elawc.org/how_you_can_help
Donate to the Immune Deficiency Foundation
Your donation allows Immune Deficiency Foundation to provide resources and services to hundreds of thousands who live with a primary immunodeficiency (PI) and ensure they can continue our outreach to the immunocompromised to shorten the time to diagnosis. In 2022, support from communities, businesses, and people just like you empowered IDF to distribute over 100,000 educational materials and respond to over 1,400 requests for support at no cost to patients and families. Visit: https://primaryimmune.org/waystogive
Donate Items to Union Station Homeless Services’ Dinner in the Park
Every year, Union Station Homeless Services holds their Thanksgiving event, Dinner in the Park. This year the event will be spread amongst 3 days, where they provide pre-cooked Thanksgiving meals and ingredient boxes to prepare your own meal at home. With such a large scale event they could really use volunteer support! They could use assistance collecting much needed food items. Feel free to check out their wishlist or visit their Amazon Wishlist to have items delivered directly to their office. All donations can be dropped off to their Admin Office (825 E. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena) Monday through Friday between 9:00am - 4:00pm. This event could not be held without the support of volunteers and community members like yourself. Thank you so much! Please visit: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3W3AKNOF6A6V9?leftNavSection=Shopping&ref_=abls_lnv_sl
Donate Gifts to Union Station Homeless Services’ Holiday Drive
Every year, Union Station Homeless Services, holds an annual holiday gift drive to collect toys, books, socks, and gift cards to provide holiday cheer to all our clients living in their housing sites. They could use the community's support in collecting holiday gifts for all their residents. All donations can be accepted at their Admin Office (825 E. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104) Monday through Friday between 9:00am - 4:00pm. All gifts should remain unwrapped. Please visit: https://unionstationhs.org/help/volunteer/
Donate items to Union Station Homeless Services’ Wish List
In-kind donations keep our programs running! Help offset our program costs by donating an item from our Wish List. Visit: https://unionstationhs.org/wishlist/
Support Foster Youth at United Friends of the Children
In-kind contributions are a great way to support the current and former foster youth United Friends serves. Gather your friends, family, and colleagues together to host a fundraising drive! You can also donate gift cards to help pay for food, clothing, alarm clocks, backpacks and much more. Find out more here: https://www.unitedfriends.org/get-involved/
Donate to Alexandria House
Alexandria House is collecting toys and gifts for the families in their Village. They are collecting items for a variety of ages as young as infants to seniors. Contact (213)381-2649 or volunteer@alexandriahouse.org to learn what items are needed most. Collection will end Friday, December 15th.
Donate Goods to Alpha Project San Diego
Alpha Project does not operate any thrift stores. Therefore, they only accept items that they can use immediately due to their storage capacity. Items that are always needed include hygiene products, towels, twin sheets, undergarments, blankets, books, clothing in good condition, coats, blankets, socks, and pillows. Other items that may be helpful include bunk beds, filing cabinets, tables, and other household and office items. Thank you for thinking of Alpha Project! Visit: https://www.alphaproject.org/donate/donate-personal-items
Create Hygiene Kits with Project Ropa
Project Ropa is a nonprofit organization that helps restore dignity, rekindle optimism and empower the lives of people experiencing homelessness by providing clean clothes, hygiene kits and drinking water in a safe, humane and dignified way. They are looking for assistance creating hygiene kits to distribute to their unhoused neighbors. This can be done remotely by putting together items in a ziploc bag, tote bag or reusable grocery bag. (Please note: Items for the hygiene kits will not be provided by them.) They recommend reaching out to your network of friends and family to source the items. A list of what to include is provided on the website below. Once completed you can mail your kits to them at: Project Ropa, 2851 W 120th Street, Suite E #566, Hawthorne, CA 90250. Alternatively, drop-off hours at their warehouse are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 9am-3pm and on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month from 10am-1pm. If mailing please include a note with your full name and email address in the package. https://www.volunteermatch.org/search/opp3311664.jsp
Donate to Support the Karsh Family Social Service Center
The Karsh Center's most urgent need is increased financial support, so that they may respond to a significant surge in demand, including but not limited to food, diapers, and hygiene kits. The Karsh Center is proud to be an essential service, still in operation and able to continue to support their neighbors at this time, and they are grateful for your generosity! Visit: https://karshcenter.org/donate/
Donate Holiday Gifts to The San Gabriel Pomona Parents’ Place Family Resource and Empowerment Center
Parents’ Place FRC is having their Annual Family Potluck! They are getting ready to host a fun-filled evening of gathering, eating, and bringing holiday cheer to their families and children. The Potluck will take place on December 15th, 2022. They are in need of toys they can give out for their children with special needs during the potluck. Please consider helping them out with this. They are in need of the following amount of toys: 60 toys ages 0 to 3 (male and female), 60 toys ages 3-13 (male and female), 30 Toys for ages 13-22 (for young adults with low cognitive level). Contact Tavia at tavia.l@parentsplacefrc.com for more details or questions.
Donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Help the fight against Cystic Fibrosis by donating to the CFF. With your help, CF can stand for Cure Found. https://give.cff.org/losangeles/donate?rbref=homepage&_ga=2.25684221.1948338367.1666042995-1397995519.1666042995
Donate to Support PATH
PATH's mission is to end homelessness for individuals, families, and communities. PATH envisions a world where every person has a home. Their values include creative collaborations, strategic leadership, empowerment for all, and passionate commitment. Please consider donating to their cause! Visit: https://epath.networkforgood.com/projects/52177-support-path
Donate to Act’s of Compassion
Act's of Compassion is dedicated to their mission of providing meals to those who need it most in their community, along with other annual programs around the holidays. Please donate to help them in this mission at https://actsofcompassions.org/ towards the bottom of their homepage.
Consider Donating to the Watts Labor Community Action Committee
Most people have heard of WLCAC because it’s where they, their parents, or grandparents had their first job. As people in the world’s third largest economy experience poverty and homelessness, they work everyday to help people and families thrive. That started in the 60’s when their founder helped lower the federal working age to allow youth in Watts to earn a living during the summer after the fateful 1965 Watts Rebellion. Every day for the past 58 years, whether through grassroots community organizing or funded programs, WLCAC helps provide free support for: Family stability, Employment, Housing and Homelessness prevention, Seniors, Farming, Youth Development, and Cultural Enrichment. Please consider donating to support their mission! Visit: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LGVJS6JY2XBFJ
Shop to Help Empower Communities with Volunteer CORE
CORE has seen the power of individuals uniting to support their communities in a time of need. With your purchase, they are building a better future. Together, you save lives. Visit: https://shop.coreresponse.org/
Consider Donating to The San Gabriel Pomona Parents’ Place Family Resource and Empowerment Center
Parents’ Place provides information and education to improve knowledge so parents, caregivers, and professionals can become empowered, allowing them to advocate for their children more effectively. By donating, you would allow them to continue educating and empowering families through up-to date information, training resources, and parents to parent support. Click here to donate: http://www.parentsplacefrc.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
Donate Goods to Father Joe’s Villages
The mission of Father Joe’s Villages is to prevent and end homelessness, one life at a time. Established in 1950 to serve San Diegans experiencing homelessness and poverty, they have grown to include a comprehensive campus and scattered-site programs that house over 2,000 people nightly. Father Joe’s Villages accepts gently-used or new goods including clothing, furniture, jewelry, entertainment items, collectibles and more. To donate goods, call 619-446-2100, fill out the pick-up form or find a drop-off center near you. VIsit: https://my.neighbor.org/take-action/donate-goods/
Donate Needed Items to LA Family Housing
LA Family Housing would love your in-kind donations of certain items! These item donations help give people transitioning out of homelessness a sense of dignity and empowerment. Please check their website to see what items LA Family Housing is currently looking for! Visit: https://lafh.org/donategoods
Featured Projects
Relax and Make Art at Big Sunday’s Sun Days on Tuesdays
Big Sunday,
joshua@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
Come decorate Mosaic Suns with us! For the past few months, people enjoyed joining us to make beautiful, cheerful and unique mosaic suns to brighten up nonprofits around town. These cool projects are the brainchild of our old friend Cathy Weiss and will be led by Cathy and our own Big Sunday staff, Josh. We can use your help! You don’t need to be artistic – just sincere. Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/tuesdayartdays/
Make A Difference at Big Sunday’s AW@10 Event
Big Sunday,
jake@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
We’d love to have you join us for our Accessible Wednesday morning program, AW@10! Previously held biweekly as “2W@10,” these special events are held from 10:00am – 11:30am each Wednesday where we do fun activities to help local nonprofits. And what’s extra special about these Wednesday events? Our guests of honor are wonderful and fun volunteers with some developmental challenges who want to give back and help others, in groups and as individuals. The accessible activities we’ll do on Wednesdays are specifically designed with these guests in mind, so that everyone can participate and have fun volunteering – because we believe very strongly that absolutely everyone has something to give. People of ALL ability levels are invited to join us on Wednesdays! All we ask is that you show up ready to be part of a community of helpful people! Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/aw10/
Make A Difference at Big Sunday’s TM@10 Event
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
TM@10 (Thursday Morning @ 10) is not only one of our favorite programs, but it’s one of our most popular, too! We meet every Thursday morning, from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM. And we host hands-on projects to help local nonprofits. At TM@10 we’ve assembled birthday gifts for folks in shelters; written letters to soldiers stationed overseas; packed backpacks for ex-gang members starting college; made quilts for preemies; and about 1000 other things. Even better – and in classic Big Sunday fashion – it’s a great way for people to meet new people, work together, and enjoy some laughs while helping someone else. Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/tm10/
Stuff Thanksgiving Meal Kits with Big Sunday
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
Each year we collect and pack big bags full of Thanksgiving dinner for thousands of people! We need folks to donate food, as well as pack everythingup and distribute it. And yes, everyone is invited to join together for a community breakfast, too! A true festival of gratitude. We also need folks to lead food collections in their community! And this year’s event will be back at the amazing Baldwin Elementary School! Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/thanksgiving2023/