COMING UP
Sundance Film Festival Awards Top Prizes To CODA, Summer of Soul, Flee, and Hive
Park City, UT — After six days and 73 feature films, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony took place tonight, hosted by actor and comedian Patton Oswalt, with jurors presenting 24 prizes for feature filmmaking and seven for Short Films. Honorees, named in...
American Red Cross Partners with Country Music Star to Encourage Blood Donations
Los Angeles, CA. The American Red Cross stresses the importance and growing need for blood donations as COVID-19 cases skyrocket across the nation. By partnering with country music star Martina McBride and service company Suburban Propane, the Red Cross hopes to...
Los Angeles Humanitarian Initiative Provides Relief to At-Risk Populations in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA. The Los Angeles Humanitarian Initiative (LAHI) is a fairly new non-profit that was founded in response to COVID-19 in hopes of providing relief to at-risk populations in Los Angeles. Since COVID-19 started LAHI has worked hard to distribute resources...
LA Philharmonic Cancels All Concerts Through End of Year
Los Angeles, CA. Philharmonic fans can listen online to their favorite musicians, but due to the continuing COVID-19 crisis, all LA Phil concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall have been canceled. Dozens of performances from the Opening Night Concert & Gala on...
NEWS
‘Love in Action’ Telethon Supports the Los Angeles LGBT Center
Los Angeles, CA. The Los Angeles LGBT Center is one of the primary support systems for LGBT individuals and families; it offers programs, services, and advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community within Los Angeles and beyond. Last Saturday, the Center partnered with KTLA to...
Free Arts LA Helps Foster Kids Express Themselves
Los Angeles, CA. Free Arts LA was founded with the goal of helping children in the foster system who had suffered from trauma or abuse by teaching them to express themselves and rebuild their self-esteem through art and craft. Today, the organization helps over 22,000...
AIDS Walk Los Angeles Reaches Halfway Mark of Fundraising
Los Angeles, CA. AIDS Walk Los Angeles will observe the halfway mark of its fundraising on August 16. Recognized as one of the world's first walks to take up the cause against HIV and AIDS, AWLA has raised nearly $90 million for APLA Health's various programs that...
The Broad Hosts Virtual Art Classes For Families
Los Angeles, CA. The Broad, a contemporary art museum in Downtown Los Angeles, is known for being one of the world's largest modern art collections. The museum has hosted many family oriented events; most recently, it partnered with the Los Angeles Public Library to...
Getty Center in Brentwood Welcomes Visitors
Brentwood, CA. The Getty Center in Brentwood reopened to the public in May after a 14-month closure due to COVID-19. "We are delighted to welcome visitors back to the iconic Getty Center, one of Los Angeles' most visited cultural destinations," said Timothy Potts,...
Hollywood Bowl Concerts Delight Music Lovers
Hollywood, CA. Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky were brought to life on July 22nd by the exuberant Enluis Montes Olivar and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Billed as "Swooning Russian Romanticism," the concert included Tchaikovsky’s tribute to Ukraine and Rachmaninoff’s...
A Summer of Shakespeare with the Shakespeare Youth Festival
Los Angeles, CA. Previously known as the Los Angeles Drama Club, the Shakespeare Youth Festival is a community of young people from various backgrounds across LA who come together to tell stories, perform plays, and express themselves. SYF focuses on building...
COMING UP
Downtown Women’s Center to Launch Fundraiser for Homeless Women in LA
Los Angeles, CA. The Downtown Women's Center is launching its second Together Housed campaign this year from August 4th onwards till August 25th. The organization's first campaign in 2020 successfully raised over $700,000 for its cause, prompting the DWC to bring back...
Hollywood Bowl Open and Ready to Celebrate 4th of July
Los Angeles, CA. As it's been established for almost a century, the Hollywood Bowl is one of the most well-known performance venues in the city. Events have been canceled and postponed throughout the last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. But this summer, the...
Sundance Film Festival Awards Top Prizes To CODA, Summer of Soul, Flee, and Hive
Park City, UT — After six days and 73 feature films, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony took place tonight, hosted by actor and comedian Patton Oswalt, with jurors presenting 24 prizes for feature filmmaking and seven for Short Films. Honorees, named in...
LIFESTYLE
“LA Más” Helps Bring NELA Community Together
Los Angeles, CA. LA Más consists of a small team that made a huge impact with the neighborhood of Northeast LA (NELA) through a food support program (seen above), partnerships with other organizations, and continuous communication with residents. The non-profit is...
“Mayor’s Fund for LA” Angeleno Campaign Helps over 100 Thousands Residents
Los Angeles, CA. 105 thousand citizens of Los Angeles County have received help from the Mayor's Fund for LA to do things like buy food and pay rent. FamilySource Centers also provided $1.2 million in grocery gift cards to nearly 10,000 Angelenos and all cards...
COVID-19 Resources for California’s Nonprofits
Los Angeles, CA. Organizations like the United way of the Greater Los Angeles area are sending out a thank you to Boys & Girls Clubs of the Antelope Valley for chipping in with 12 boxes of toilet paper for community members in need. It's just one way nonprofits...
NEWS
A Summer of Shakespeare with the Shakespeare Youth Festival
Los Angeles, CA. Previously known as the Los Angeles Drama Club, the Shakespeare Youth Festival is a community of young people from various backgrounds across LA who come together to tell stories, perform plays, and express themselves. SYF focuses on building...
Downtown Women’s Center to Launch Fundraiser for Homeless Women in LA
Los Angeles, CA. The Downtown Women's Center is launching its second Together Housed campaign this year from August 4th onwards till August 25th. The organization's first campaign in 2020 successfully raised over $700,000 for its cause, prompting the DWC to bring back...
Project Ropa Serves a Growing Number of Homeless in L.A.
Los Angeles, CA. Project Ropa continues to address the growing number of homeless people. Its mission is to restore dignity to those experiencing homelessness and empower them through providing clean clothes, hygiene kits, and employment opportunities. The non-profit...
LACMA Works With Snapchat to Create Augmented Reality Monuments Across Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is up and running after a year of being shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. The museum also has a new partnership with the popular social media platform Snapchat called Monumental Perspectives. Via...
$1 Million Donation from the Ian Somerhalder Foundation Helps Jane Goodall Institute
Los Angeles, CA. The Ian Somerhalder Foundation is giving a $1 million donation to the Jane Goodall Institute. Dr. Jane Goodall has been one of the world's foremost advocates in ape conservation and species conservation at large for the last 6 decades, traveling the...
Big Sunday Collects Donations For Those Facing Housing Insecurity
Los Angeles, CA. Big Sunday is a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles. Founded in 1999, it is responsible for an annual community service event in Los Angeles, also called "Big Sunday", which has grown from its beginnings as a "Mitzvah Day" at a local Jewish...
Voices of Classic Soul Raise Money for Cancer Research
Los Angeles, CA. Legendary R&B and soul singers Joe Coleman, Joe Blunt, and Theo Peoples came together as the Voices of Classic Soul to perform the Sounds of Summer concert on June 17th. The concert was virtually presented by the Worthy Brewing Company, a...
Celebrating More Than 80 Years of Supporting Visually Impaired Children
Los Angeles, CA. The Light the Way Celebration was held virtually on May 6, 2021 to honor people who have both contributed to and benefited from the work done by the Blind Children's Center. The event was hosted by actor Blake Stadnik, who began his career after...
Nonprofit ‘Film Independent’ Celebrates Pride Month
Los Angeles, CA. Film Independent is shining a spotlight on the June celebration of pride month and the LGBTQ+ community. The nonprofit funds creative storytelling to promote diversity, innovation, and unique vision within film. In honor of pride month, Film...
Reese Witherspoon Helps Honor WriteGirl’s Annual ‘Bold Ink’ Awards Reciepents
Los Angeles, CA. On June 12th, 2021 WriteGirl - a creative writing and mentoring organization for teen girls - held its annual Bold Ink Awards. WriteGirl held this zoom award ceremony online as a benefit for its programs. These awards pay tribute to compelling...
