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
Create and Donate Welcome Home Kits to United Station Homeless Services
Union Station Homeless Services’ Welcome Home Kits Program helps them provide people moving in or out of one of our transitional or permanent housing facilities with a “Welcome Kit” of necessary items. This important program assists Union Station in meeting the basic needs of the people they serve as they rebuild their lives and escape homelessness. They need individuals or volunteer groups to provide basic household items listed in their flyer. Find out more here: https://unionstationhs.org/help/volunteer/
Adopt-An-Item for Union Station Homeless Services
Are you looking for an easy way to give back? Union Station Homeless Services' Adopt-an-Item program is a simple way to make a positive impact in the community. By adopting an item, you provide essential ingredients that help their kitchen staff cook delicious and nutritious meals for our residents. Visit: https://unionstationhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Adopt-an-Item-Flyer-8.23.23.pdf
Donate to Support Imagine LA’s First Annual Dancing with the Imagine LA Stars
Imagine LA is hosting the first annual Dancing with the Imagine LA Stars fundraiser on November 15th, 2023. Prominent community members and celebrities of Los Angeles will perform ballroom dance routines with a professional partner to compete for the Mirror Ball Trophy and YOU will have the chance to vote and support your favorite team while raising money for an important cause! Visit: https://givebutter.com/DWTILAS
Gift Toys to Patients at Harbor UCLA Pediatrics for the Holidays
The Department of Pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center likes to provide their pediatric patients with free gifts during the holidays, as they are a county hospital that primarily serves low-income families. They are looking for toy donations (such as generic coloring books, Crayola markers and colored pencils, Play-Doh, medical/doctor play kits, baby rattles, baby mirrors, infant toys (0-2 years old), musical toys (cause and effect), pop-up toys (cause and effect), bubbles, superhero action figures, barbie dolls, hard-body baby dolls (please no plush/soft-body dolls), dinosaurs, legos, craft and bead kits, educational/science kits,. tabletop games –UNO cards, connect four, etc., earbuds and headphones for older patients). They usually hand out gifts a week or two before Christmas. Please email Kathy Garcia for any questions: kathy.garcia@lundquist.org.
Donate To Support Exceptional Children’s Foundation
Please consider supporting ECF’s exceptional programs and Kayne Eras School. Your gift will provide life-changing services to individuals and families living with special needs, helping them live as independently as possible. Visit: https://www.ecf.net/donate/
Donate to Support Operation Gratitude
Today, you can take action to send a Care Package to the brave Military and First Responders. $25 can send a care package. Donate Today! Visit: https://giving.operationgratitude.com/give/321149/#!/donation/checkout
Donate to Project 614
Project 614 exists to provide holistic support that empowers historically underserved youth to succeed in education through the leveraging of strategic partnerships that serve to meet tangible needs. This comes in the form of tutoring, reading programs, and enrichment programs through which students can explore new hobbies and experiences. Please help this organization and the youth they serve by donating at this link: https://www.project614.la/donate
Create Laundry Kits with Project Ropa
Help create laundry kits for Project Ropa to directly distribute to people experiencing homelessness in the Los Angeles area. This is a great activity for children to get involved with. In a sandwich size ziploc bag include the following items: a laundry detergent pod (individual dry pack) and fabric softener sheets. Optional: A handwritten note or drawing which can be seasonal appropriate for an upcoming holiday. Once completed you can mail your kits to them at: Project Ropa, 2851 W 120th Street, Suite E #566, Hawthorne, CA 90250. Alternatively, they accept donation drop offs at their warehouse on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 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/opp3441922.jsp
Help Project Ropa Stock their Closet
Project Ropa is in constantly need of supplies and clothes to provide for their unhoused neighbors. One way you can help them do that is to help them keep their closet stuck. By shopping from their wish list of clothing and hygiene items on GOODdler, you can help do just that. All items get shipped directly to them. Take a look at their wishlist here: https://gooddler.com/Wishlist/10175
Donate to Ascencia’s Holiday Giving Campaign
Ascencia has provided housing and services to homeless individuals and families across Los Angeles County since 2006. They offer crucial support such as case management, emergency shelter, clinical services, mental health support, housing navigation, permanent supportive housing, and more. Right now, they are in need of funding to continue their essential services related to mental health and wellness for their clients. They are asking for contributions towards their Holiday Giving campaign. To donate, please visit www.AscenciaCA.org/Donate.
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 Funds to Support Hollywood Food Coalition
You are helping Hollywood Food Coalition build a more compassionate, just, and caring community. Your donation provides unhoused and low-income neighbors with high-quality meals, basic necessities such as clothing, shoes and hygiene supplies, and access to medical, wellness and housing resources. You also help them recover and distribute food and other items to over 125 nonprofits across Los Angeles, so they can build stronger programs in their communities. Visit: https://hofoco.org/donate-funds/
Donate to Helen Woodward Animal Center
Your Support Saves Lives! The orphan pets and programs at Helen Woodward Animal Center need your support. Your donation will go a long way in making sure they can continue their mission of people helping animals and animals helping people. Visit: https://my.animalcenter.org/give/49430/#!/donation/checkout
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 Exceptional Children’s Foundation
Share your holiday spirit with infants, toddlers and students with special needs by joining ECF's Holiday Toy Drive! You can help brighten the holidays for their Early Start children and Kayne Eras School K-12 students, many of whom live in families who need a little extra help to celebrate the season. You can help by visiting ECF.net/toydrive to access our Amazon Wish List and deliver toys directly to ECF. Or, you can organize a toy drive at your office or with your friends. Please contact them for deadlines and details. Visit: www.ecf.net/toydrive
Donate to Project Ropa
Project Ropa is a nonprofit organization restoring dignity and empowering the lives of people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles by providing clean clothes, hygiene essentials, and employment opportunities while reducing textile waste and minimizing carbon footprint. If you would like to help them in this mission, consider a one-time or monthly donation. For more information, click here: https://donorbox.org/projectropa-general.
Consider Donating to CORE
Marginalized and vulnerable communities need relief in and beyond crisis now more than ever. Climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and conflict have increased global needs to dire levels. Together, you can support underserved communities’ resilience in responding and recovering from crises. Your support saves lives and helps create a more equitable future for those who need relief most across the globe. Visit: https://www.coreresponse.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 Parent’s Place Family Resource and Empowerment Center
Your generous donation allows Parent's Place to continue to educate and empower families through up-to date- information, training resources, and parent to parent support. Visit: https://www.parentsplacefrc.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
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/