Friends of Mark Twain Middle School
Friends of Mark Twain (FOMT) Middle School – A 501(c)(3) charitable organization
Our specific and primary purposes are to form a permanent organization of parents/guardians, community members, and school staff interested in enhancing and supporting the programs and facilities of Mark Twain Middle School World Languages Magnet & Arts Academy of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD.net).
We raise and expend funds to achieve our purposes, working in conjunction with the school governance council(s) and administrative personnel in determining the specific projects to be funded. We cooperate with other organizations engaged in similar endeavors to maximize the programs and benefits to Mark Twain Middle School.
We strive to present a positive image of Mark Twain Middle School in the community and raise the profile of the school through outreach, publicity, events, and personal interaction.
Members include parents, legal guardians, or other adult family members who represent our voting members. All administrators, teachers, and staff currently employed at Mark Twain Middle School makeup our non-voting stakeholders. Non-Voting membership is also open to those stakeholders and organizations who support our purpose and mission. There are no mandatory annual dues for members of FOMT but voluntary donations are encouraged from all members.”
Marcus Foster Education Institute
Our work achieves equity in education through continuous improvement and program design that actualize substantive and measurable improvements.
We envision a world with redesigned educational systems that center equity and accountability in order to truly uplift the health and wealth of the communities they serve.
Equity-Centered, Systems-Focused Continuous Improvement, combined with program design.
Friendship Foundation
Haven Academy of the Arts
Haven Academy’s mission is to develop character in future leaders through the performing arts and give them the tools, life skills, and sense of purpose they need to leave a legacy in their community.
Access Books
Access Books received a grant for their Meet the Author program. The grant will provide for two author visits at two low-income elementary schools in Los Angeles (250 students per visit, 500 total). A children’s author will read their book and talk about their work and lives and answer questions. The mission of Access Books is to provide high interest reading material to underserved children in Los Angeles by providing low-income neighborhoods with a warm and welcoming school or community library. Their purpose is to support childhood literacy by making book donations directly to students and to facilitate events around the love of reading. Access Books received a grant from the Leo Buscaglia Foundation in 2019.
Grossman Burn Foundation
The Grossman Burn Foundation’s (GBF) mission is to promote effective, sustainable partnership solutions for the comprehensive treatment, care, and support of burn survivors and their families in the United States and around the world.
GBF’s focus is on building in-country and local-level capacity through its global partnerships. Established in 2007, the Grossman Burn Foundation was created as the philanthropic arm of the Grossman Burn Centers, a pioneer in burn treatment facilities. Founded by Dr. Peter H. Grossman (Director of the Grossman Burn Centers, Inc.), and his wife Rebecca Grossman, GBF is headquartered in Los Angeles County and works to transform local community capacity by helping medically indigent and low-income families to connect to life-changing burn resources that would otherwise be out of reach. GBF provides burn prevention education and self-sustainable burn treatment solutions to communities in the United States and around the world.
Sages and Seekers
Sages & Seekers’ mission is to develop empathy, combat social isolation and dissolve age-related segregation within our communities, while meeting the universal and compelling need of both young adults and elders to make sense of their lives. This is achieved by creating a sense of intergenerational community in our programs, through the art of authentic conversation.
Why connect these generations?
Many of the issues both teens and older adults deal with are mutual in nature, even though they seem miles apart. Both generations are searching for meaning and relevance; fighting feelings of loneliness, and many of “not fitting in” or being marginalized; and issues around independence, self-determination and currency in the world.
Today, mental health among youth is proving to be an increasing challenge, largely attributed to the pandemic and demonstrated by increased rates of youth suicide, substance abuse and depression. However, prior to 2020, there was already evidence that mental health problems in teens were on the rise. The prevalence of major depressive disorder in U.S. adolescents has increased, and suicide rates have also hit a 10-year high among young people ages 10 to 24, from 6.8 per 100,000 people in 2007 to 10.6 per 100,000 in 2017, according to the CDC.
At the same time, a 2018 national survey reported by the American Psychological Association showed that loneliness levels among older adults have reached an all-time high, with nearly half of participants reporting they sometimes or always feel isolated and that they do not have meaningful relationships. Such numbers are alarming because of the physical and mental health risks associated with loneliness. According to a meta-analysis, a lack of social connection heightens health risks as much as smoking 15 cigarettes a day or having alcohol use disorder.
Sages & Seekers addresses these concerns for two generations at once. We provide both students and seniors an alternative to isolation: a sense of purpose and a connection to the larger picture of society and the world. Sages & Seekers also fills a gap in local schools, where teachers and administrators focus on A-G requirements and devote little time to promoting communication skills and other foundations of social emotional learning.
Fringe Benefits Theatre
Fringe Benefits Theatre recieved a grant to support their two current youth leadership programs: A. Their “Creative Tools for Critical Times”/CT4CT multi-school, multi-community arts for civic engagement initiative comprising workshops, internship trainings, performing arts showcases, a web-based video series, and a webinar series led by leaders in the field of Community-Based Arts. These workshops serve approximately 900 people, primarily youth. B. Their “Join Forces & Create Change!” Theatre for Social Justice Residency bringing together middle school youth in Southern California and in Irpin, Ukraine. This residency serves 30 local middle school youth participants, 25 youth participants in Ukraine, and approximately 1,250 local middle school audience members.
Fringe Benefits is an educational theatre company dedicated to early hate crime prevention. Their mission is to replace hate with understanding through collaboratively created plays, videos and programs that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues. They are committed to opening hearts and minds and promoting progressive action around a wide array of social justice issues including racism, sexism, classism, ableism, ageism, and immigration rights. Fringe Benefits Theatre received a grant from the Leo Buscaglia Foundation in February 2021.
Kingdom Causes Bellflower
Our Place Housing Solutions’ vision is that every person has a home and is connected within a community. OPHS is the main homeless service provider for adults the cities of Artesia, Bellflower, Cerritos, Compton, Downey, Lynwood, Norwalk, and Paramount. We provide outreach, case management, and limited financial assistance to help end homelessness in our community.
Employment Creation
Good Soil Industries is a social enterprise (a non-profit business) with a mission to help our community’s hard-to-hire men work their way out of poverty. We do this by providing 3-6 month transitional jobs for men with criminal records and other employment barriers through our landscape social enterprise business, in addition to workforce development services to neighbors throughout Bellflower.
Margaret’s House
Margaret’s House is a beautiful 3-unit hospitality home that provides transitional housing and services for families with children in the Bellflower Unified School District. Traditionally, homeless shelters separate by age and gender; our unique model seeks to maintain the intact family unit and provide stability for the children by keeping them in their school and community.
Bellflower Ministerial Association
The Bellflower Ministerial Association is a partnership between KCB and pastors from over 25 congregations in Bellflower. Pastors meet together monthly to pray, encourage one another, share information and resources for ministry, and coordinate community events and services for the glory of God. Meetings take place on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 10am.
Volunteer Mobilization
We mobilize over 400 volunteers each year through our various weekly programs and annual community events: Saturday Morning Homeless Breakfast & Showers, Homework Club, the Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast, National Day of Prayer, Community Christmas Store, and special events like the Downtown Art Walk and Citywide Ice Cream Social.
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