These young scholars are THANKFUL for their Parentis Foundation reading mentors! #guidingthenextgeneration #readersareleaders #weareexperiencecorps Boys & Girls Clubs of Capistrano Valley (BGCCV)

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Friends of Mark Twain Middle School received a grant to fund the continued operation of the Seeds to Plate program for one year.  The mission of the Friends of Mark Twain Middle School (MTMS) is to enhance and support the programs and facilities at MTMS in the Los Angeles Unified School District.  This volunteer organization is comprised of parents, legal guardians, school staff and faculty and community members.  One of their programs is Seeds to Plate, a garden based education program that operates at MTMS.  It is currently serving approximately 750 students.  Friends of Mark Twain Middle School received a grant from the Leo Buscaglia Foundation in 2020.

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Received a grant for rent/occupancy/utilities, fitness instructor salaries, program staffing and home studio tech including lights, Zoom and cameras for remote classes.  The funds will help F4TC to serve 750 individuals in 2021 free of charge through weekly fitness classes.  Fit 4 The Cause provides diverse exercise and nutrition education programs for low-income communities, many of them with special needs.  They serve thousands of beneficiaries including vulnerable children, at-risk teens and fragile seniors in Ventura, Simi Valley, Conejo Valley and the San Fernando Valley.  They continued to keep their communities together during the pandemic, offering virtual classes daily.  They hope to transition back to on-site classes as the pandemic lessens.

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A 2021 study published in the National Library of Medicine, revealed that parents underestimate the impact of cancer on their children is both hard to imagine and easy to understand. When you’re burdened with keeping yourself or your children’s parent alive, keeping food on the table and raising children, it’s an impossible task. That’s where we step in. We assess the unique needs of each family and the impacts of cancer and respond accordingly. We stop at nothing to lessen the burden of cancer. You will never walk alone when you Walk With Sally.

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Learn more about what UCLA Watts Leadership Institute is all about and what they are accomplishing. 

“Jorja Leap and Karrah Lompa, co-founders of the Watts Leadership Institute (WLI), spoke with us about WLI and its unique collaborative, leader-led training model. They launched WLI in 2016 to support small nonprofits and real community leaders in Watts, a historically under-resourced community in South Los Angeles. Most of the participating nonprofits are small—the kind that work out of the back of their car or the public library—but the difference they’re making every day in their community is tremendous.

Even though Leap and Lompa are honorary residents in Watts, with Leap working for more than 40 years in Watts, they insist on being invisible outside of the community. They want attention to be placed on the true community leaders and their efforts, and not on them as WLI co-founders. “We want to be invisible support, to help from behind. We want this to grow and to always be in Watts, owned by Watts,” Lompa said.

Our conversation with Jorja Leap and Karrah Lompa has been edited and condensed for clarity. “

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