Anywhere health care is provided for children battling life-threatening cancers, heart defects, brain disorders, spinal deformities and more, you can see the impact of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. With more than 528,000 patient visits last year, CHLA provides care to more kids than any other facility in the region.

When Kathryn was just 6 years old, she and her four siblings were removed from their parents’ care and placed in foster care. The family didn’t have much money, and all seven shared a studio apartment. Kathryn’s father had anger issues and was physically abusive to their mother.

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles (spcaLA) is an independent nonprofit animal welfare organization, serving Los Angeles since 1877. There is no national spca or humane society. Donations fuel animal cruelty investigations, violence-prevention programs, pet adoptions, and a host of shelter services.

Vitamins are an immediate and cost effective way to protect the critical window of children in hard to reach communities around the world. Every $10 gift we receive carries a child through his or her key developmental years by starting at the very beginning.

We also offer professional development for public school teachers and administrators so they can inspire great teaching and learning in their classrooms. Our vision is to create educational excellence and equity in California. We are hard at work locally here in Los Angeles, where we operate programs at 96 schools across 12 school districts.

For the past 110 years, Children’s Institute, Inc. (CII) has helped children in Los Angeles’s most challenged communities heal from the trauma of family and community violence, build confidence and skills to break through the barriers of poverty and grow up to lead healthy, productive lives.

The cost of this disease is bankrupting local individuals financially, emotionally, and physically, and the money you donate or raise by participating in our events like walk4ALZ allows us to help at no cost. We are also raising money to support innovative, ground-breaking research here in the Greater LA area.

These challenges are reversible when we all work together to achieve our united goals for a stronger community. Whether you donate money, volunteer your time and talent, or use your voice to set priorities that lift up everyone in our community — we can do more together.

Twenty years ago, a group of therapists, teachers and parents envisioned a treatment center dedicated to providing innovative therapy to children with special needs, educating the professionals who would treat them, and investing in research to improve long-term health outcomes.

“I don’t know what I would have done without MOMS.” We hear these words regularly at MOMS Orange County. They come from the heart of a single mother looking back on her first year with prematurely born twins. And from the couple who could barely afford to buy their children food for dinner, let alone diapers for their newborn.

Elizabeth House is a residential shelter program in Pasadena committed to the health and welfare of adult pregnant women and their children. It is the only non-profit organization in the San Gabriel Valley that specifically addresses the needs of pregnant women who lack adequate shelter and prenatal care.

At Lava Mae, we’re bringing showers and toilets on wheels to people moving through homelessness. We call what we do radical hospitality. Radical because this level of care and innovation is rarely extended to the homeless; hospitality because it’s rooted in generosity.

Tilly’s Life Center (TLC) is a youth-focused, 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable foundation aimed at empowering all teens with a positive mindset and enabling them to effectively cope with crisis, adversity and tough decisions. Our mission is to inspire today’s youth to reach their full potential as productive, kind, happy and responsible individuals.

I have witnessed the massive loss of human life – including countless children – when buildings failed needlessly in earthquakes, due to a lack of engineering and improper construction. Responding to earthquakes throughout the world, what shocks me the most is seeing collapsed school buildings.

Most make the transition to adulthood in the safe space of the family, where parents gradually introduce new situations and challenges to learn how to manage increasing independence and responsibilities.

Since our inception in 1997, BHRSC has rescued more than 1,800 hounds from shelters where they were in danger of being euthanized (from California to Texas), as well as from owners who can no longer care for them..

With more than 40 hands-on exhibits to explore, activities of learning and discovery take place side by side with the creativity of play. This year, Kidspace introduced two new exhibit areas, Arroyo Adventure and Storyteller Studio..

New Earth provides mentor-based arts, educational, and vocational programs that empower juvenile justice system-involved youth ages 13-25 to transform their lives, move toward positive, healthier life choices, and realize their full potential as contributing members of our community.

But when a child has a mental illness, chances are, we hide. We hesitate to tell our closest friends that our daughter has violent tantrums that scare our other children – and us. We don’t talk about the challenge of finding community resources, the countless trips to the hospital, or the long waits in the emergency department.

VIC provides programs and services for seniors 60 and older with: meals at dining centers; meal delivery to the homebound and disabled; care management; wellness and recreational activities; transportation services, Meals on Wheels program for persons of any age; and food pantries.

Established in 1934 in Sunnmore, Norway, Ekornes is the largest furniture manufacturer in Scandinavia with brand names such as Ekornes and Stressless products which include recliners, sofas and love seats, and home theater seating.