Grant Recipients

Hope in a Suitcase is a volunteer-driven, nonprofit group benefiting Los Angeles foster children. Children who have experienced violence or neglect often enter the foster care system with nothing but the clothes on their backs or carrying a few personal belongings in a plastic trash bag. We provide children and teens in foster care with a suitcase, along with NEW basic essentials and comfort items, to make their transition and their circumstances just a little bit easier and more dignified.

Harvest Home transforms the lives of homeless pregnant women and their children by providing housing, support, and programs that equip women to become great mothers. Since 1989 Harvest Home has operated from a residential home on the westside of Los Angeles. Harvest Home provides a safe and nurturing environment and serves up to 10 pregnant women and babies at a time and up to 30 women a year.

It is the mission of Harlem Lacross LA to provide opportunities, relationships, and experiences that activate the skills and traits to put youth on a path to success as students, athletes, and citizens. We believe our programming empowers the kids who are most at risk for academic decline and dropout to rise above their challenges and reach their full potential.

Their Mission is to diversify the legal profession by preparing underrepresented students to become successful law school applicants, lawyers and agents of change for their communities. This is achieved through mentoring, workshops, exposure to courts and law offices, and financial support when needed.

RTS is a career and personal development program that provides youth impacted by foster care and/or low-income first generation college students with the resources, relationships and opportunities they need to thrive, both personally and professionally.

A residence for young women ages 18-24 coming out of the foster care system. The mission is to help build skills needed to make a successful transition to self-sufficiency and responsible adulthood.

Cyber Girls is a program where young women from the Compton community will be invited to participate in a 6-week workshop to develop the necessary skills to be successful in an increasingly technological world.

Project Opportunity's Power Project caters to young, minority girls (ages 8-14) in the Hawthorne community. Volunteers teach the girls ice hockey skills and serve as mentors and role models who nurture self-esteem and goal setting. The girls attend classes on etiquette, positive body image and career training skills. Sportsmanship, accountability and commitment are stressed.

UBH strives to eliminate homelessness among young women with children in Los Angeles by providing housing, supportive services and advocacy. They serve predominantly Black or Latina single mothers and through the Housing Stabilization and Economic Empowerment Program UBH provides the intensive services, support and connections necessary to prevent them from sliding back into homelessness.

Mission: To elevate the voices of teenage girls from communities of color. Through the lens of photography, students capture moments that inspire them and others to critically examine the world around them and to become agents of change; channeling their creativity for the benefit of themselves, their community, and future careers.

Fosters the healing and empowerment of underserved girls and women in Los Angeles through dance and movement.

An after school program designed to attract young girls to technology, inspire them to gain confidence and become creators of technological innovations. In partnering with LAUSD, local makerspaces, technology companies, museums and universities DIY Girls teach girls to develop science and technology skills.

Provides a comprehensive therapeutic program that addresses the behavioral, emotional and educational needs of foster youth. It is their mission to reunite every foster youth with their biological family or a foster family to promote permanency in their lives.

Their mission is to provide services to women and children, focusing on sexual, domestic, and family violence and HIV/AIDS. They work to empower and give hope to individuals, families and the community at large with an emphasis on bilingual/bicultural services for the Latino Community.

Provides programming to prevent intergenerational crime and incarceration that improves the health and developmental outcomes of children in families involved in the criminal justice system. The Miracle Project provides services for pregnant prisoners in LA County jails and for these women and their infants in the community after the mothers are released.

As part of LAUSD, GALA is a rigorous college preparatory program that will provide girls with a clear pathway to college in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Gala fosters academic excellence, ethical leadership and intellectual curiosity.

Provides programs and services that strengthen and empower families while also serving as a catalyst for community organization and enrichment. The Young Moms program specifically address the diverse range of educational, social and health needs of young parents and their babies. The purpose is to break the teen pregnancy cycle that generations are likely to repeat without intervention.

Provides support and advocacy for girls and young women involved with the juvenile justice system by providing them with opportunities to envision and build successful lives. They offer re-entry services with an emphasis on skill building workshops, individualized case management, health education, collaboration with public and private agencies and public education.

As a women’s only monthly peer-to-peer networking and employment opportunity breakfast, the Grace After Fire: Woman-to-Woman program is designed to provide a safe environment for young women veterans struggling to make the transition from military life to civilian life.

Provides safety and support to victims of domestic violence while working to break the cycle of abuse. They offer shelter, crisis intervention, counseling, advocacy and activities supporting economic opportunity to victims. They endeavor to increase community awareness about domestic violence issues and bring about change through education and public policy advocacy.

Providing hope, training and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated men and women, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of our community.

An organization committed to meeting the ongoing challenges of helping female victims of domestic sex trafficking and prostitution leave the life. Through an intensive and comprehensive programming, the women face, cope with and then overcome the many obstacles that life has dealt them.

Khmer Girls in Action is a community-based organization whose mission is to build a progressive and sustainable Long Beach community that works for gender, racial and economic justice led by Southeast Asian young women.

A volunteer program that pairs mentors with at risk girls ages 12-14 in four participating inner city schools. They are given support and skills with the long range goal of staying in school and ultimately attending college. Two years ago they launched “More MOSTE” to follow these girls through high school. This year, our grant will fund another college tour for these girls plus a California college tour for the younger MOSTE girls.

Through programs designed to promote collaboration, the mission is to empower girls and women using the tools of music education to foster self-esteem and confidence.

Engages girls from underserved communities in the Los Angeles area offering them intensive rowing activities, academic tutoring and college counseling as a means of encouraging them to become student athletes, confident in their abilities to make wise choices for themselves and those they affect.

Providing 24 hour rescue services child victims of sex trafficking using a highly relational and collaborative approach.

Providing laser tattoo removal, life skill counseling and referrals with a commitment to empowering people to change their lives for the better by erasing unwanted tattoos.

Inspires underserved girls facing the challenges of adolescence in high risk environments. Teens develop confidence, teamwork, responsibility, leadership skills principally through learning to ride and care for horses. The vision of TTR is to create positive changes in teenage girls so they can engage in positive behaviors, take control of their lives and ultimately step into leadership rolls in society.

Their mission is to empower families living in Los Angeles County transitional housing by giving them the resources needed to create memorable birthday parties for their children. Eligible families receive boxes filled with decorations, games, craft materials, pre-paid camera, and birthday cake ingredients. Our grant will allow them to obtain storage space for donations of toys and other birthday box items and to increase the number of donations made.

Works to prevent gun violence by educating the public, policy makers and the media about the human, financial and public health consequences of this epidemic and to mobilize communities to take decisive action against the dangers of firearms.

Empowering young women from under-served communities through digital journalism and media training to bring their powerful perspectives to the global media stage.

Provides young women who are former foster youth with a home, food, social support and services for up to two and a half years while they attend school full time, work part-time, saves for their future and attends life skills classes. Young women graduate with a degree or professional certification and develop the background on which they can build a career and independence.