Program Sites

Assisting in services for women and children, Assistance in counseling, Assistance in parenting, Educational workshops/programs, Campaigns and special events

ECHO Community Arts is open to students in the DTLA area, within the ages of 14-18. Schools we focus on are Belmont HS, Miguel Contreras HS, & Roybal HS. ECHO Community Arts is a non-profit that offers various art programs. Echo is a program for at-risk adolescents that offer opportunities for performance excellence leadership and education in poverty-stricken neighborhoods in Los Angeles. ECHO will offer a pathway from poverty to prosperity. The organization is about life changing experiences and engaging the kids in something greater than themselves. Our vision is to empower youth living in poverty stricken neighborhoods to be able to express themselves in arts, attending higher education, to be politically conscious, and to be engaged members of their communities. Ultimately, we want to understand the root causes of poverty, inequality, and reasons for lack of resources in their neighborhoods, all in order to transform their communities for the better. We seek to empower our youth by encouraging them to become leaders in their communities, mentor future generations, and doing creative ways of organizing. We work with youth in the Downtown and in South Central.

The mission of the organization is to provide a clean and safe place for seniors to socialize.

A garden in every Los Angeles School. 

Every child in every school in this city ought to experience the joy of growing, harvesting, preparing and eating simple whole foods. 

We are making that happen. 

Our customer is the student.

Our goal is to raise a generation of food snobs.

Folks who think twice about eating junk.

Our Mission is two-fold. Fair Chance Project represents a movement led by liberated lifers (formerly incarcerated men and women) prisoners and loved ones of term to life prisoners organized around the demand for just sentencing laws and fair parole practices.

Programs and Services offered

We have monthly meetings where formerly incarcerated men and women are directed to the necessary resources and families of the incarcerated are given the help and advice they need to advocate for their loved ones inside.

Background Check

No background check or certifications are needed to be a volunteer with us.

Farmdale Elementary serves students in grades Pre-k- 5th. It embraces and values the diversity of the school of the school community. It is committed to providing and engaging, rigorous learning environment that addresses the individual needs and learning modalities of each unique learner as they prepare to meet future global demands. In addition, the school offers the Spanish Dual Language program, which affords students the opportunity to achieve bilingual and bi-literate proficiency.

Fostering media connections harnesses the power of journalism to advocate child welfare and juvenile justice reform by covering emerging solutions to the systems challenges. We accomplish this mission through strict adherence to solution-based journalism. First, we report and produce our own coverage, which is published in The Chronicle of Social Change. We then market those stories to mainstream and niche media outlets in an effort to change overarching foster care and child welfare narrative towards soluntions, not simply problems. We also train students journalist, policymakers and social workers in solution-base journalism, and share our expertise with professional repoters. Finally,. we are conecting the national youth services field through the chronicle to increase its collective impact.

Programs and Services Offered:

The chronicle of social change: daily online news publications devoted to covering child welfare and juvenile justice issues. Journalism for social change: a course offered online and in universities to students of social work, public polic, criminal justice, etc. teaching the tenets of solution based journalism and how to use journalism and how to use journalism to advocate for social change. Youth voice initiative: workshops teaching cureent and former foster youth how to use journalism to change the world childfare system. fostering families today and adoptation today magazines: print and digital magazines serving the foster and adoptive parent communities.

To prepare students for a post-secondary education and to provide them with the opportunities to explore the health professions, while fostering an environment of inquiry and learning that promotes the development of their human relations, skills, and abilities.

We start with client goals and run through an in-depth process of strategy, research, etc etc. leading to creative ideation that combines the best UX and tech with the most stunning and effective design.

And that’s where our studio kicks in – over the past 15 years we’ve taken painstaking effort to build...

The mission of Getting Out by Going In (GOGI) is to enable the positive social development of men, women and youth in prisons and jails for their successful return to society. As a volunteer-staffed, not-for-profit organization, GOGI is motivated to expand a positive prison culture with proven cognitive behavioral tools that support successful return to society. 

We offer any at-risk, port release or confinedman, woman or child the opportunity to learn the GOGI Tools for Positive Decision-Making.

Programs and Services Offered

Getting Out by Going In (GOGI) provides educational opportunities and leadership training to county, state and federal prisoners nationwide. All GOGI studies are based on the GOGI Tools for Positive Decision Making, which are a set of proven cognitive tools. GOGI provides its education and programming services to any man or woman interested in making more positive decisions in their lives.

These program participants include individuals involved in:

- Individual study curricula;

- Group study curricula;

- In-cell study for high risk or high security population that do not receive regular or consistent education opportunities;

- Specialized tracks of study and curricula for addiction, anger management, Behavior modification, insight development, release preparation, parenting, domestic violence, and many more;

All GOGI Programming and education is offered through GOGI textbooks, workshops, self-study, group study, and educational media. No one is denied GOGI studies. GOGI’s vision is to make educational materials available to all prisoners and post release participants to enable the emergence of a new positive culture within our nation’s jail and prison.

Our mission is to inspire girls in 3rd-8th grade to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creativity integrates running. We envision a world where every girl knows and activates her limitless potential and is free to boldly pursue her dreams. Girls on the run honors its core values. We strive to:

• Recognize our power and responsibility to be intentional in our decision making.
• Embrace our differences and find strength in our connectedness.
• Express joy, optimism, and gratitude through our words, thoughts, and actions.
• Nurture our physical, emotional and spiritual health.
• Lead with an open heart and assume positive intent.
• Stand up for ourselves and others.

Programs and Services Offered

The 24-lesson Girls on the Run curriculum combines training for a 5K (3.1 miles) running event with the lessons that inspire girls to become independent thinkers, enhance their problem solving skills, and make healthy decisions.

All of this is accomplished through an active collaboration with girls and their parents, schools, volunteers, staff, and the community. Meeting twice a week in small teams of 8-15 girls, we teach life skills through dynamic conversation-based lessons and running games.

The 24-lesson curriculum is taught by certified Girls on the Run coaches include three parts: understanding ourselves, valuing relationships and teamwork, and understanding how we connect with a shape the world at large. Running is used to inspire and motivate girls, encourage lifelong health and fitness, and build confidence through accomplishment.

At each season's conclusion, the girls and their running buddies, complete a 5K running event. Completing a 5K gives the girls a tangible sense of achievements as well as framework for setting and achieving life goals. The result-making the seemingly impossible, possible, and teaching girls that they can.

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