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/
Support Foster Youth at United Friends of the Children
Create a Facebook fundraiser in support of United Friends, and donations from your friends and family will directly benefit their youth! Find out more here: https://www.unitedfriends.org/grassroots-fundraising/
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/
Volunteer in Various Ways to Support LA Family Housing
LA Family Housing offers a variety of ways for you to get personally involved in their efforts to end homelessness. Whether you’re behind-the-scenes or in-person, all individual opportunities empower you to be part of the solution. From hosting game nights to prepping kid's parties to holding a yoga class, there are plenty of ways to get involved! Visit: https://lafh.org/volunteer
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
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 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 to Alexandria House
Alexandria House is collecting canned food and essentials for Thanksgiving. They need your help to fill boxes for the community members! Please donate all items by Friday, November 17, 2023. For more information contact volunteer@alexandriahouse.org.
Volunteer to Make a Difference at PATH
PATH is moving thousands of families, Veterans, and chronically homeless individuals into permanent housing each year. Support your neighbors experiencing homelessness by volunteering with PATH. They offer opportunities for groups and individuals! Visit: https://epath.org/volunteer/
Support Foster Youth at United Friends of the Children
Raise funds for UFC through Amazon Smile! 0.5% of eligible purchases will benefit UFC. It’s a win-win! Find out more here: https://www.unitedfriends.org/grassroots-fundraising/
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
Volunteer to Support the Alzheimer’s Association of Southern California at San Luis Obispo
Are you passionate about the fight against Alzheimer’s? Do you want to get more involved with the Alzheimer’s Association and Walk to End Alzheimer’s - Huntington Beach? Join the Huntington Beach Walk Planning Committee and help shape the movement to end this disease. Committee members are the heart of the event, planning everything from the kick off to the wrap up. Some members focus on growing the event by recruiting teams and sponsors, others coordinate logistics and some work on promoting the event in the community. There's a role for everyone! Visit: https://act.alz.org/site/TR?sid=23941&type=fr_informational&pg=informational&fr_id=16387
Donate to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the largest nonprofit dedicated to creating a world without blood cancers. Since 1949, they've invested more than $1.6 billion in groundbreaking research, pioneering many of today's most innovative approaches. Consider donating to them to support their cause! Visit: https://givenow.lls.org/give/342076/?&&&&ds_rl=1278572&ds_rl=1278572&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7JOpBhCfARIsAL3bobdtpZw7T4ewiU2nDsZRYud9ShlIGjHTp8mFgf5nzL-Rxj6-dqNQodoaAkPKEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds#!/donation/checkout
Volunteer to Support the Alzheimer’s Association of Southern California
The Alzheimer's Association's volunteers are passionate, inspired, and making a difference in the fight to end Alzheimer's disease. When you volunteer with the Alzheimer's Association, you join a network of passionate people who are working to fight this devastating disease, honor loved ones, and bring care and support to those who need it. Whether you can spare a few hours a week or can make a more significant time commitment, please consider becoming an Alzheimer's Association volunteer! Visit: https://www.alz.org/oc/volunteer
Volunteer to Prepare and Serve Lunch Meals with Union Rescue Mission (Angeles House)
Help prepare and serve lunch meals to those sheltered at Union Rescue Mission's Angeles House campus. Angeles House is their new campus which just opened this past April and shelters an additional 86 families in Los Angeles. Must be 14 years of age or older to volunteer. Visit: https://www.cervistech.com/acts/console.php?console_id=0267&console_type=event&ht=1
Donate to East Los Angeles Women’s Center
The mission of ELAWC is to ensure that all women, men, adolescents, and their families, live in a place of safety, health, and personal well-being, free from violence and abuse with equal access to necessary health services and social support. ELAWC is a beacon of hope, a lifeline, and a public voice for thousands of women, men, and families whose lives are shattered by DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEXUAL VIOLENCE, HUMAN TRAFFICKING or HIV/AIDS.
Every year ELAWC provides, toys, books, gift cards and clothing to their participants in need, in person.Any donation is greatly appreciated, No age limits. Also, please don't forget about their teens :) Thank you and happy holidays!
You can contact them for donations pick-up. You can drop off donations at their office, or via their website. A donation letter with tax ID, will be provided. Thank you!
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
Donate to Support LA Family Housing
LA Family Housing helps people transition out of homelessness and poverty through a continuum of housing enriched with supportive services. Last year, they connected more than 13,000 women, men, and children with housing resources and services, and moved 2,600 people into permanent homes. As a leading affordable real estate developer in the region, they own and operate more than 30 affordable, interim, and supportive housing residences throughout LA County, and have 750 additional housing units in various stages of development to be completed by 2025. By supporting LA Family Housing, you are investing in solutions that work. Join them in the movement by making your gift today. Visit: https://lafh.org/donate
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 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/
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/