What has the pandemic taught us? Never take good health or access to healthcare for granted. This is the backbone […more…]

When Los Angeles experienced its first COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020, Damián Diaz and Othón Nolasco wasted no time helping […more…]

In 1979, the Los Angeles Times published an article about the children of Skid Row. They were hardened by their […more…]

For Nicole, PUENTE Learning Center’s free college program was a lifeline during the pandemic. A first-generation college student who was […more…]

Ready To Succeed, which has set countless youth exiting the turbulence of foster care on their paths to career stability […more…]

At Step Up, which offers permanent supportive housing to the unhoused in Los Angeles, eviction is not an option. Instead […more…]

For years, Los Angeles police have been challenged by how to respond to calls about unhoused Angelenos. Then came CIRCLE, […more…]

If you find your way to Cortney Lofton’s workshop in Northridge, California, you will be transported to a functional winter-wonderland; […more…]

Esperanza was 19 years old and living in Malawi when she faced a serious health crisis. While giving birth to […more…]

White Buffalo Land Trust has a vital purpose: to restore the ecosystem through agriculture and in the process directly address […more…]

Alma Castillo was a rising junior in high school in South Los Angeles. A time when students begin making their […more…]

One out of every five American women has been the victim of a completed or attempted rape in her lifetime.  […more…]

The year was 2003, and the philanthropic sector was going through a period of significant evolution. Every day, new technologies […more…]

Long before Allan Pineda Lindo, better known as Apl.de.Ap, would co-found the Black Eyed Peas with William James Adams, aka […more…]

The line grew steadily outside the unassuming building on the north side of campus. It was almost closing time on a Thursday afternoon, and the students knew it was their last chance before the weekend to pick up supplies they needed to keep their studies on track. The supplies they received in red California State University, Northridge-branded bags were not textbooks, pens, or calculators, but rather something more basic: food. “Let’s see, today I got canned beans and pineapple, pasta, and tomato sauce,” said Swapnil Doshi, a first-year graduate engineering student, peering into his bag. He goes to the CSUN [...more...]

In addition to her innate style and fashion sense, Elizabeth Faraut is perhaps best known for two things: Her Los […more…]

Michael Tubbs was just 26 when he was elected mayor of Stockton in 2016. Raised by a low-income, single mother, […more…]

Wilma Melville is the most inspirational person I’ve ever met. She has done more during her retirement than most people […more…]

Los Angeles is rife with challenges. Meeting those challenges requires people and institutions willing to step up. For the Annenberg […more…]

It’s a long way from Calcutta (now called Kolkata) for Mona Sinha, Board Chair of Women Moving Millions. Growing up […more…]

In his childhood, Milton Valera lived near the airport on the Garden Island of Kauai, where at a young age, […more…]