AMBOS PROJECT
By connecting with local artists, activists, and makers in the border region, AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides) works to capture an accurate representation of the sister cities and communities on both sides. In making community-based art, AMBOS also functions as an emotional thermometer to gauge the health of politics and transnational relationships in each community. AMBOS seeks to generate healthier cross-border relationships between communities and governmental bodies by raising awareness of issues and opinion in the border region and amplifying them to an international audience. Through these efforts, AMBOS recontextualizes and calls attention to the importance and lack of accessibility at US borders. Using craft and art as a vehicle for community self-care, this project is aimed at humanizing the act of border crossing.
CSSSA FOUNDATION
The California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) is a four-week summer program for talented, skilled, and motivated high school students in the arts. CSSSA provides training and education in seven artistic disciplines: animation, dance, film, music, theater, visual arts & writing.
The CSSSA Foundation works to support creative youth, raising a diverse array of private sector funds to support CSSSA students, and to ensure that no qualified student is denied access to the program due to financial circumstances.
The Foundation strives to support CSSSA students before, during, and after their summer session. CSSSA Foundation’s programs include: CSSSA tuition scholarships, bringing guest artists, outreach and diversity initiatives, college scholarships and more.
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
Doctors Without Borders is an independent, global movement that works in more than 70 countries and provides medical humanitarian aid where the needs are greatest. Doctors Without Borders often goes to places where other organizations can’t or won’t operate.
HARVEST HOME
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.
The LA County Health Department reports that each year 5,000 women are homeless at some point during their pregnancy. In LA, there are currently less than 70 shelter beds available for women who are pregnant and in crisis. Of these, Harvest Home provides 10. This means that each year thousands of women lack housing and supportive programming during one of the most critical times in a mother and baby’s life.
Homeless pregnant women need more than just a bed and a warm meal. They need specialized interventions designed to increase mother and baby's physical, emotional, and spiritual well being. Harvest Home's programs were created with these unique needs in mind.
LA MÁS
LA Más designs and builds initiatives that promote neighborhood resilience and elevate the agency of working class communities of color. We envision a Northeast LA where communities of color have equitable access to the power and resources needed to shape their futures.
LA Más approaches community development by honoring local knowledge and culture while bringing together the power of informal and formal systems.
LAW FOR BLACK LIVES
Law For Black Lives is a Black femme-led national network of over 6,000 radical lawyers and legal workers. Our staff is deeply committed to supporting the leadership of directly impacted communities and transforming the legal field to represent the values of movement lawyering, which are centered in building community power and democratizing the law.
LEVITT PAVILION
The mission of Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles is to make live music accessible to all, creating stronger and more connected communities while celebrating the diversity of our city and beyond. Every summer, Levitt Los Angeles presents 50 free concerts under the stars in MacArthur Park, featuring acclaimed, emerging talent to seasoned, award-winning performers in a broad range of music genres.
MacArthur Park and the surrounding areas is one of the poorest of Los Angeles with widely reported crime rates. Music has the power to unite all walks of life and uplift the spirit of the community.
THE HIPPIE KITCHEN
Our soup kitchen, commonly known on the street as “The Hippie Kitchen,” is located in the downtown neighborhood of L.A.’s Skid Row. With more than 60,000 unhoused people in Los Angeles County, including more than 5,000 in the skid row area, with its numerous street encampments, rescue missions, and single-room occupancy hotels, Los Angeles has been dubiously named “the homeless capital of the nation.” Moreover, the 50 square block area known as Skid Row is also the most policed area in the nation.