Los Angeles

 

ALMA Backyard Farms  

ALMA Backyard Farms helps people who have been incarcerated reclaim their lives by repurposing unused land into productive urban farm plots. Its programs include Urban Agriculture Job Training, Peas-In-A-Pod Youth Education, and a Farm Stand Social Enterprise in Compton that distributes over 125,000 pounds of organic produce annually. 

GrowGood  

GrowGood transforms communities through urban agriculture by growing food, creating jobs, and providing nutritious produce for low-income and homeless communities. It operates a regenerative farm adjacent to The Salvation Army’s Bell Shelter and a garden by the West LA VA Campus, offering workforce development and veterans programs while distributing the food it grows to people facing food insecurity. 

Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles/SOVA  

Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles (JFSLA), the oldest social service agency in LA, serves tens of thousands of people each year through housing, mental health, food assistance, and older-adult programs. Its SOVA Community Food and Resource Program operates farmers-market-style pantry sites that provide shoppers with fresh groceries, essential personal care items, and connections to additional resources. 

Love N Groceries  

Love N Groceries eases the financial and emotional burdens felt by widows and widowers of the LA Jewish community and their children. Each week, constituents choose the groceries and necessities they need from a list, and volunteers deliver them with discretion and care while staying attentive to other needs that may arise. 

Partnership for Growth LA  

Partnership for Growth LA is a Black & Jewish Community Development Corporation building community wellness across South and West Los Angeles through food access, economic security, education, and workforce development. Its Freedom Farms program has activated or expanded 13 urban garden sites that have produced over 8,200 pounds of culturally relevant food and delivered over 16,000 servings of fruit and vegetables in food desert neighborhoods. 

Project Angel Food  

Project Angel Food cooks and delivers over 600,000 medically tailored meals each year, free of charge, to the homes of people affected by life-threatening illnesses. Its meals and nutritional counseling serve chronically and terminally ill people throughout Los Angeles County who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves. 

 

 

Israel  

A grant to each of the below organizations in Israel was made in honor of Fay Althausen, z”l, of blessed memory. 

 

Latet  

Latet in one of Israel’s largest, most well-known nonprofits, serving as an umbrella organization to 210 local NGOs and operating Israel’s first national food bank. Over the High Holidays, Latet manages an annual food drive campaign in collaboration with Israeli supermarket chains, providing over 50,000 food boxes to families and elderly in need.   

Leket Israel  

Leket Israel is Israel’s umbrella organization for food rescue and delivery to those in need through partner organizations. Each year before and during the High Holidays, Leket provides over 1.3 million pounds of fresh produce to the country’s most needy, reaching 63,000 families through their Leket & Honey initiative.   

Yad Eliezer  

Yad Eliezer is Israel’s largest poverty relief agency, serving more than 100,000 individuals and families throughout Israel with its array of food, social service, and life-cycle event programs. During the High Holidays, Yad Eliezer supplies holiday meals and food vouchers to families throughout Israel experiencing economic hardship.   

Yad Ezra V’Shulamit  

Yad Ezra V’Shulamit provides food, clothing and emergency relief to tens of thousands of Israeli children, families, elderly, Holocaust survivors, widows & orphans, and anyone else seeking help. During the High Holidays, Yad Ezra V’Shulamit will supply families with large holiday food baskets in cities across Israel.