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Grossman Burn Foundation

PROJECT FAITH – Patient Care

Founded in 2007, Project Faith provides basic support services for wound and burn care including burn survivors and their families during treatment.
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Through Project Faith, the Grossman Burn Foundation may provide to those who qualify:

 

    • ​Medical Treatment (surgery, steroid injections, medicine, etc.)
    • Physical Therapy
    • Psychotherapy
    • Medical Tattooing
    • Housing and Meals
    • Transportation to medical appointments
    • Network of volunteers to serve as as support system for the patient and his/her family
    • Medical supplies such as compression garments and face masks

Kids and Horses

Another round of applause for another incredible volunteer 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Kids & Horses wouldn’t be here without the entire volunteer team’s support. Y’all are amazing!
 

Fringe Benefits Theatre

Artwork by Dan Bielefelt from Cootie Shots

Theatre for Social Justice Replaces Hate with Understanding

“Hateful behavior is a learned behavior. My son’s murderers learned from their environment. But loving behavior can also be taught. By working with communities to find creative and positive responses to intolerance and bigotry, Fringe Benefits helps replace hate with understanding.”
Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard

In their Hate Crime Statistics, 2018, the FBI reported 7,120 hate crime incidents involving 8,496 victims. These incidents were motivated by prejudice based on the victims’ race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and/or disability. Nearly 10% of these crimes took place in schools.  And the hate and the violence continue.

Fringe Benefits Theatre is dedicated to early hate crime prevention.

We believe that every human being deserves to be treated with dignity, respect and love.

We believe that it is imperative for all of us—and especially marginalized individuals and communities—to come together, listen to each other’s concerns, stories and ideas, and work together to frame our own narratives.

We believe that theatre has the power to open hearts and minds and to be a galvanizing force in the movement for social justice.

Fringe Benefits’ Theatre for Social Justice programs build and strengthen communities and relationships between communities by bringing together diverse individuals and organizations, helping everyone discover common ground, and offering tools and inspiration to develop creative solutions to social justice issues.

Working together, we stand a better chance of being heard and heeded.

Click here to learn more about Fringe Benefits Theatre.

Journey Out

Journey Out received a grant to support their BRIDGE program, which focuses on social reintegration service for victims of sex trafficking/commercial sexual exploitation. Also, to help launch their Journey Together program which is a skills based and job-training program which pairs their clients with sheltered animals and for overall operations and delivery of critically needed wrap around services to victims of sex trafficking. Journey Out has been in operation for 35 years. Their mission is to help victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking leave a life of abuse and violence, overcome their fears and empower them to reach their full potential and achieve their goals.
 
Fifty percent of the Journey Out staff are Survivors. What a way to give back! These Survivors risk triggering themselves every day, but are willing to take that risk to help others.
 

Fallbrook Food Pantry

Did you know the Fallbrook Food Pantry has been renewing and certifying our clients during this month?
Yes, that means that if a client have received our services for over a year, we are kindly asking them to bring documents regarding their proof of address, income and dependents to make sure their records are updated and they still meet our guidelines.
 
This process ensures fairness and equity to the families we serve, and to our supporters.

Friends of Mark Twain Middle School

Friends of Mark Twain Middle School has many volunteer opportunities. Check out these listed below!
 
​We need YOU!

​Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities​We’ve got lots of ways to get involved all year!

  • Gardening Helpers
  • Volunteer Coordinator
  • Spanish Translator
  • Hospitality Helper
  • Bake Sale Coordinator
  • Photographer (school events)
  • Translator (speaking/writer)
  • Parents please sign up to volunteer on the Parent Activities Page.
  • In-class helpers need to complete the LAUSD volunteer process.

Click here to learn more about other 2020 recipients.

 

The Eli Home

Discover the power of inspiration and motivation through the heartfelt stories of those whose lives we have touched. The Eli Home has made a significant impact on countless lives, and we invite you to explore their powerful testimonials. Gain firsthand insight into the effectiveness of our programs and services as we share their touching words.

“I don’t know where I’d be without The Eli Home’s Children of Addicts Recovery Program. Growing up in a home with addiction was tough, but the counselors and other kids in the program helped me realize that I wasn’t alone. I’m now a college graduate and work as a counselor, helping others who are going through what I went through.”

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Emily 

Friendship Foundation

FRIENDSHIP CAMP, that’s a wrap!!😭♥️
Friendship Camp 2023 was an incredible summer filled with laughter, memories, and forever friendships. Thank you to everyone who contributed! 
 

ELEVATE Your Game

THE BEGINNING: (Michael Freeman, Executive Director)

“Our summer internship project was born out of a burden in my heart. Many of the young men at Compton High School would tell me that they were going to play in the NBA or NFL. In my conversations with these young men, I would explain to them that they needed to have a back-up plan. I would, then, ask them what else they had in mind for a career. Most of the time, they would look at me with a blank stare and shrug their shoulders. They would ‘strike a blank.’ As a result, we launched our Summer Internship Project for the purpose of filling in this blank, to give our teenage boys and girls close-up experiences with the real world of career jobs.”

THE BENEFITS: (In the Words of an Intern)

“I have learned so much while working in the law office. I have learned that my grades in school will help me excel in life. The fact that I was able to wake up and go to work every day shows that I have become more mature and reliable. I have become more empowered by the experiences that I have had. This program has empowered me to become a positive person and to help others with the same or similar difficulties that I, myself, have experienced.”

THE STRUCTURE:

•Duration: Three-week period/8 days total/4 hours per day

•Schedule: The work week is two to three days (Any days: Monday – Thursday). Friday is the day that the interns meet for debriefing.

•Training: Training sessions are held prior to the first work week to prepare the students. Students are guided through lesson plans that engage the interns in discussing issues dealing with work-place expectations.

•Conclusion: At the end of the last week, a celebration is held to acknowledge the interns’ completion of the program and to recap what they have learned.

THE COST TO BUSINESSES OR ORGANIZATIONS:

•Interns are paid a stipend.

•Businesses are asked to contribute to Elevate Your G.A.M.E.’s stipend fund but they are not required.

•Elevate Your G.A.M.E. raises funds for the stipends.

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