Founded in 1995, the Boys & Girls Club of Burbank and the Greater East Valley helps young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. The organization is committed to providing affordable after school, summer, extended day care programs and services covering a wide range of programs at little to no cost.
Money Matters & Career Launch teaches youth, ages 10-18, about basic money management including budgeting, saving, investing, and managing a checking account.
Established in 2004 and operating in both the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles County, Brilliant Corners provides supportive housing that meets the unique needs of individuals experiencing homelessness. Its primary activities include housing development, supportive services, property management, and case management. Through its multiple public and private partnerships and innovative housing strategies that supplement and leverage critical, but limited affordable housing resources, Brilliant Corners has housed over 6,000 individuals over the past five years.
The Motel Conversion Project will renovate and convert a motel into 18 units of supportive housing at a fraction of the time and cost of building new housing. The project aims to serve as a scalable model that affordable housing developers can utilize throughout Los Angeles County, creating housing for hundreds of individuals experiencing homelessness.
Founded in 1937, Builders of Jewish Education works to support and enhance Jewish educational experiences, from early childhood through high school, across the full Jewish, religious, and cultural spectrum.
Project EnAble provides a centralized resource for Jewish day schools that offers reduced-cost clinical support for students with mild to moderate learning needs in Jewish elementary schools, flexible coordination of how those services are provided, and integrated professional development workshops for school faculty.
Founded in 1937, Builders of Jewish Education works to support and enhance Jewish educational experiences, from early childhood through high school, across the full Jewish, religious, and cultural spectrum.
The Jewish Education Customer Relations Management Program helps Jewish families identify formal and informal Jewish educational opportunities for their children. BJE enhanced its website to match Jewish families to educational opportunities; employed a new customer relations management software system that links to the website; and built a cadre of peer ambassadors to connect customers to appropriate educational opportunities. As a result, Jewish families, including those not currently engaged in Jewish education, have access to a comprehensive, reliable resource to locate a spectrum of educational opportunities that meet their needs and interests.
Encourage an increased number of Jewish families accessing formal and informal Jewish educational opportunities for their children.
BJE is Los Angeles’ central coordinating resource for Jewish education, connecting thousands of families and children to a broad range of Jewish educational opportunities. During the pandemic, it is working to help support remote learning curriculum and infrastructure across over 140 Jewish schools.
To mitigate the economic hardship resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and to help them achieve long-term organizational sustainability.
Founded in 1978 as a part the California State University Foundation, California Council on Economic Education (CCEE) provides training and standards-based curriculum in economics to California teachers. Its mission is to prepare California's students to participate in the global economy as responsible workers, consumers, savers and citizens. CCEE helps teachers teach students the value of their human capital, how markets work and where students fit in the global economy. This economic context helps students make better, more informed choices, such as choosing to finish high school, while taking control of their lives and building self esteem.
MoneyWise Teen trains teachers of low- and moderate-income students to help students learn responsible decision-making and the consequences of their choices, develop real-life business skills, and learn how to manage their personal finances.
Established in 1956, Camp Ramah of California provides summer and year-round opportunities for campers, staff, and other program participants to explore and strengthen their Jewish identity and creativity and experience the beauty of nature.
Camp Ohr Lanu provides a week-long camp for families with special needs children ages four to fourteen.
Founded in 1971, the Center for Educational Technology works to empower educational systems around the globe by creating innovative learning environments that balance pedagogical needs with the evolution of new technology. It offers technology platforms and tools to enhance teaching, learning and assessment; develops online and blended learning models; and innovates in the field of STEM education (science, technology, engineering and math). It has most recently launched 929 (the number of chapters in the Tanach, which is the Torah (5 books of Moses), Neviim (Prophets) and Ketuvim (Writings), which uses a variety of technological outlets to share Jewish learning throughout Israel.
929 engages Israeli Jews of all religious identities in studying the 929 chapters of the Tanach, as a tool to increase pluralistic and respectful speech amongst all sectors of Israeli society.
Founded in 1978, the Center for the Pacific-Asian Family (CPAF) specializes in serving Asian and Pacific Islander (API) survivors of domestic and sexual violence. CPAF addresses API survivors’ need for linguistically accessible and culturally responsive services to help them find safety, access to legal resources and social services. Its programs and services include a 24-hour hotline and intervention services in over 30 API languages and dialects, an emergency & transitional shelter, employment & housing initiatives, and prevention education.
Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention program provides immediate response services to survivors of sexual assault through a 24-hour hotline, individualized crisis counseling and support groups.
Founded in 1991, Centro Latino for Literacy (Centro Latino) seeks to address the need for basic literacy instruction among the Los Angeles Latino community. Centro Latino teaches non-literate Spanish speakers how to read and write in Spanish to build foundational reading and writing skills – and the confidence – to subsequently learn English and pursue other educational and personal goals.
Listos teaches practical financial skills in Spanish to adults, ages 18+, who have basic reading and writing skills.
Chabad of the Conejo was established in 1979 as a branch of Chabad of the Greater San Fernando Valley to provide a center for Jewish education, worship and outreach to Jews from all walks of life residing in the Conejo Valley. Its mission is to implement and operate educational and community outreach programs that promote awareness, knowledge and observance of Jewish tradition and a sense of Jewish pride and solidarity. It offers youth programs, adult education and community services and outreach.
The Chabad Center for Jewish Life project will construct the two-story Center for Jewish Life building that includes classrooms, offices, meeting space, and a kitchen and library/chapel.
Founded in 1987, Chai Lifeline is the international health support organization whose emotional, social, and financial support enables ill children, families, and communities to cope with the crises and daily challenges of serious pediatric illness.
To support Los Angeles-based efforts toward emergency relief in response to COVID-19 .
Founded in 1987, Chai Lifeline is the international health support organization whose emotional, social, and financial support enables ill children, families, and communities to cope with the crises and daily challenges of serious pediatric illness.
i-Shine is an after-school program that provides support, mentorship, Jewish experiences, and friendship to hundreds of children whose lives have been disrupted by the illness or death of a parent or sibling.
Founded in 1955 in the underground of the former Soviet Union (FSU), Chamah helps Jews economically through job placement, holiday food distribution and spreading Jewish identity. Today, Chamah runs humanitarian and educational programs in Russia, the United States and Israel. Since 1971, Chamah’s work in Israel has included assisting immigrants to find jobs, placing immigrant children in suitable educational institutions, establishing Judaic libraries with literature in Russian, and publishing Judaic materials in Russian. In 1989, Chamah established a day care center that serves over 100 children. The center has been visited by many government representatives and serves as a model for other centers across the country.
Holiday and Weekend Retreats convenes Shabbat and holiday retreats for immigrants from the Former Soviet Union, with the goal of enhancing participants’ Jewish identity and awareness.
Chapter Two Inc. was established in 2008 to provide healthy alternatives to gang association, juvenile delinquency, and gang-related crimes in disenfranchised communities of LA. It educates at-risk youth and their families on the causes and effects of gang violence; trains and certifies Gang Intervention Workers throughout the City of LA; and provides counseling, employment training, child care assistance, and other services to help youth achieve self-sufficiency.
The Gang Intervention Project provides at-risk youth in South Los Angeles with gang prevention activities including counseling, sports, and music enrichment.
Founded in 1993, Children Youth and Family Collaborative (CYFC) works to prevent foster youth from experiencing the negative outcomes associated with involvement in the foster care system, such as school dropout, incarceration, unemployment and homelessness. In partnership with school districts and individual schools, CYFC staff is placed at schools and provides the school’s foster youth with regular tutoring and academic support. The organization also works with foster youth agencies to form a multi-agency care team to monitor student outcomes, prevent students from being moved from schools, and provide comprehensive support through the transition from the foster system to adulthood.
The Academic Remediation, Intervention, Support Services, and Education program provides foster youth at schools in Los Angeles individualized academic support through onsite education specialists at school campuses able to address educational challenges in real time.
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Boys and Girls Club of Burbank & the Greater East ValleyMoney Matters & Career LaunchFinancial Literacy and Veterans
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Brilliant CornersMotel Conversion ProjectAddressing Homelessness in Los Angeles
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Builders of Jewish EducationProject EnAbleYouth
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Builders of Jewish EducationJewish Education Customer Relations Management ProgramYouth
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Builders of Jewish EducationYouth
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California Council on Economic EducationMoneyWise TeenFinancial Literacy and Veterans
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Camp Ramah in CaliforniaCamp Ohr LanuSpecial Needs
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Center for Educational Technology929Jewish Identity
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Center for the Pacific-Asian FamilySexual Assault Crisis InterventionDomestic & Sexual Violence Prevention and Support
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Centro Latino for LiteracyListosFinancial Literacy and Veterans
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Chabad of the ConejoChabad Center for Jewish LifeReligious Life
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Chai LifelineVulnerable Populations
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Chai Lifelinei-ShineVulnerable Populations
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ChamahHoliday and Weekend RetreatsJewish Identity
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Chapter TwoGang Intervention ProjectGang Prevention & Intervention
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Children Youth and Family CollaborativeAcademic Remediation, Intervention, Support Services, and Education ProgramFoster Youth: College Access & Career Readiness