Featured Charity for June: Homeboy Industries

“Homeboy Industries is the living example of our mission statement, “nothing stops a bullet like a job.”

Started as a jobs program offering alternatives to gang violence in one of the toughest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Homeboy Industries assists at-risk, recently released, and formerly gang involved youth to become contributing members of their communities through a variety of services in response to their multiple needs.

Free programs — including counseling, education, tattoo removal, substance abuse and addiction assistance, job training and job placement — enable young people to redirect their lives.

Homeboy provides them with hope for their futures and is the nation’s largest gang-intervention and re-entry program – a model to all.

For more info, please visit: http://homeboy-industries.org

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Pledge $1 a day for the month of JUNE ($30)

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Day 288: Food on Foot

Some of the readers of this blog, do some incredible things and you all continue to inspire me. There are so many great people out there creating positive change in their communities. Today’s give Food on Foot is another testament to power of one person’s drive to create good in the world. What started as one man trying to battle hunger in LA out of the trunk of his car has grown in a organization providing 250 meals to LA’s homeless each week!

Food on Foot is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (Tax-ID#31-1581053) dedicated to providing the poor and homeless of Los Angeles with nutritious meals, clothing, and assistance in the transition to employment and life off the streets.

Food on Foot operates a weekly meal program every Sunday in Hollywood. Food on Foot began in March 1996 as one man’s response to the hunger he witnessed among the poor and homeless of Hollywood. What initially began as the distribution of meals from the trunk of a car has grown through the dedication of its volunteers and now serves more than 250 meals each week to homeless, disabled, elderly and low-income adults and children.

Amount Donated: $5

To support Food on Foot, please visit: http://www.foodonfoot.org

Day 245: 826LA & 826CHI

Whoa, lots of numbers in the title of this post. Today’s give is a 2 for 1, meaning 2 donations to the same org in 2 different cities, 826LA & 826CHI. I was searching the new projects on Crowdrise today and noticed, one of my favorite actresses Zooey Deschanel joined Crowdrise and was raising money for 826LA. An organization that provides tutoring services to children to help them develop the writing skills and inspiring them to continue writing. As I was checking out their mission, I remember hearing that 826 tag before and sure enough there is a Chicago chapter. So, I decided that I would give to both chapters. 

826LA & 826CHI are non-profit organizations dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.

Their services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. With this in mind, they provide drop-in tutoring, after-school workshops, in-schools tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications. All of their programs are challenging and enjoyable, and ultimately strengthen each student’s power to express ideas effectively, creatively, confidently, and in his or her individual voice.

Amount Donated: $20 ($10 to each location)

To support 826LA, please visit: http://www.826la.org and to support 826CHI, please visit: http://www.826chi.org