Butterflly App Available to CLC Clients at No Cost! 

Based in Los Angeles, Butterflly is an inventive behavioral health app providing provide trauma-informed, strength-based care. The mental health and wellness app offers digital tools to manage stress, build resilience, and combat the unprecedented mental health crisis among children and youth in foster care.  CLC is excited to announce a new and innovative pilot project [...more...]

Future of the Social Sector and Future of Black Wealth Series

Arabella Advisors has held two events this year in Arabella’s Future of the Social Sector series. For both events, they have shared takeaways and a recording of the event to their blog. You can catch [...more...]

 

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Youth Development

A Tree Grows on Skid Row Para Los Niños

The Central City East neighborhood of Downtown Los Angeles goes by another moniker – one familiar to the public and […more…]

What Mentorship Taught Jack Cline Youth Champions

Youth Champion’s Co-Founder Jack Kline wrote a piece for Entrepreneur on how mentorship taught him how mentorship shapes credibility, momentum […more…]

Adult Education: A Catalyst for Change PUENTE Learning Center

Briana, 33 and a Latina mother of four in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, recently completed free adult […more…]

Homelessness

The Parking Lot Safety Net Safe Parking LA

For 15 years, James built a life of service – first as an Army combat veteran, then as a special […more…]

Fostering Care

When Foster Youth Arrive at College, Ready to Succeed Makes It Home Ready to Succeed

Holdyn Bray grew up in the foster care system without the basics many take for granted – sometimes she didn’t […more…]

Empowering Children and Families Creative Solutions for Kids & Families, Inc.

Creative Solutions for Kids and Families has quietly built a reputation as one of the most innovative nonprofits serving the […more…]

For the Environment

Fighting to End the Era of Megafires Megafire Action

When the 2018 Woolsey Fire ripped through the Santa Monica Mountains, then-state Senate staffer Matt Weiner watched flames burn with […more…]

ClientEarth Live USA: 2025 in Review ClientEarth

A few weeks ago Setarah Homayoni and Kimberly Blake joined ClientEarth Americas attorney Hana Heineken and Executive Director Danielle Lackey […more…]

For the Children

Caring for Families So They Can Care for Their Children Westside Los Angeles Ronald McDonald House

When young Perla Lara required ongoing care at UCLA Children’s Hospital, her family spent weeks in hotels and Airbnbs just […more…]

For the Arts

Adult Education: A Catalyst for Change PUENTE Learning Center

Briana, 33 and a Latina mother of four in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, recently completed free adult […more…]

Connecting Communities Through Music Neighborhood Music School Association

Eight-year-old Valentine walked out of his summer music class in tears. He’d missed the first day, and watching his classmates […more…]

Help Young Poets Find Their Voice California Poets in the Schools

In the face of natural disasters in Los Angeles and lingering social anxiety, poetry has become a refuge for students. […more…]

For the Animals

Rudolph’s Journey Much Love Animal Rescue

No one knows how Rudolph lost his eye—or how an 8-year-old Australian Shepherd with severe hearing loss, pneumonia, and canine […more…]

Canine Replacement Program National Disaster Search Dog Foundation

The Search Dog Foundation believes that they can help every dog that enters theiur program be successful in whatever type […more…]

Family Well-Being

Helping Empower Survivors of Abuse To Create Thriving Lives Survivor Justice Center

Ana, a mother of two from Mexico, answered a job posting to be a childcare provider in the United States. […more…]

A Place at the Table in South Los Angeles Avalon Carver

South Los Angeles’s Service Planning Area 6 is a neighborhood of paradoxes. It is home to families with deep roots, […more…]

Education

Minds Matter Southern California Celebrates Three New QuestBridge Scholars Minds Matter Southern California

Minds Matter Southern California is proud to announce that three of our senior students have been named QuestBridge Scholars, earning […more…]

Empowering Children Through Literacy J3 Foundation

In the bustling corridors of Foster Elementary in Compton, kids are experiencing an extraordinary transformation. Students who once struggled with […more…]

Helping L.A.’s Most Vulnerable Students Reach College and Beyond PUENTE Learning Center

Josue, a student who attended Mendez High School in the Boyle Heights neighborhood in Los Angeles, is confident that he’ll […more…]

Community Resilience

Charity Navigator Rates Direct Relief 100% for 2025  Charity Navigator Rates Direct Relief 100% for 2025 

Four-Star Rating for 15th Consecutive Year Highlights Operational Excellence and Humanitarian Impact Charity Navigator, America’s top independent nonprofit evaluator, has […more…]

Mar Vista Blind Low Vision Shoppers Day Hunger Action LA

Hunger Action LA invites you to volunteer or be a shopper for the next Blind Low Vision shopping day! The […more…]

Delivering Life-Saving Aid When California Burns Direct Relief

For nearly 80 years, Direct Relief has stood ready to meet the cascading challenges of global disasters, delivering life-saving medicines, […more…]

Advocacy

We Are Not Powerless Brady | United Against Gun Violence

Gun violence. The phrase has become almost blandly ubiquitous in American culture. But to those who have experienced the piercing […more…]

Former Foster Youth Are Reshaping Legal Advocacy in Los Angeles Children’s Law Center of California

In a conference room at the Children’s Law Center of California (CLC), Diva arrives early, notebook in hand. Just months […more…]

The Corner That Became a Movement The Valley of Change

Every day for over five years, Latora Green has taken her position at the northwest corner of Sepulveda and Ventura […more…]