Jubilee Jump is an exciting jump rope fitness program for youth ages 8-16. Competitive jump rope involves amazing tricks, skills, choreography and community. We have teams in Los Angeles neighborhoods where the need for health justice is great, but the resources are minimal. Jubilee Jump is a program offered by Jubilee Consortium, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that believes everyone should have the opportunity to be healthy and happy—especially our youth. Come join us!

In 2015, Jubilee Consortium launched rope jumping programs at three different low-income neighborhoods around Los Angeles: Hollywood, Inglewood and Highland Park. Today, we are expanding to cover 8 locations—all of which will form part of a strong and talented jump rope league. Youth participants in Jubilee Jump learn basic rope jumping skills, increase their understanding of the sport of competitive rope jumping, engage in regular fitness activities, receive mentoring from coaches and adult volunteers, and develop life and leadership skills that they will be able to translate into other aspects of their lives.

Fringe Benefits is an educational theatre company dedicated to early hate crime prevention.  Our mission is to replace hate with understanding through collaboratively created plays, videos and programs that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues. We 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. In honor of our first community collaborators, homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth, and in light of the ongoing need to ensure that they feel included, valued and safe, Fringe Benefits gives special attention to LGBTQ+ issues.  We believe that it is imperative for disenfranchised communities to come together, listen to each other’s concerns, stories and ideas, and work together to frame their/our own narratives. Working together, we stand a better chance of being heard and heeded. Our goal is to create a context in which people can turn their damaging experiences with discrimination into art that promote respect, inclusion and justice.

Founded in 1991, Fringe Benefits has a lengthy track record of collaborating with schools and communities, both nationally and internationally, to create groundbreaking social justice-promoting theatre, videos and programs. Our partnerships have produced over 100 world-premiere plays.  Additionally, we published 56 original children’s plays, songs and poems in our critically acclaimed Cootie Shots: Theatrical Inoculations Against Bigotry. The anthology of essays about our unique play-devising methodology, Staging Social Justice, is used in university classes throughout the United States.  Sir Ian McKellen narrates Surviving Friendly Fire, the award-winning documentary about our work. All of this work, along with Fringe Benefits’ theatre activism workshops and residencies, has earned acknowledgement by the President’s Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and awards from: the CSJ Center for Reconciliation and Justice (2016 and 2018),  the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (2009), The Castillo Theatre (2004), Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Los Angeles  (2003), the Korean Youth and Community Center (2002), and Cornerstone Theater Company (2002).

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The mission of Access Books is to provide high interest reading material to under served children in Los Angeles by providing low income neighborhoods with a warm and welcoming school or community library.  Their purpose is to advance childhood literacy in poor schools so children will have the foundation they need to be lifelong readers and leaders.

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Kingdom Causes Bellflower received a grant to help support their transitional housing home, Margaret’s House.  Margaret’s House is a three-unit transitional home that offers short-term (6-9 months) housing and services for low-income families with minor dependent children.  Margaret’s House provides each family with case management and housing search assistance in a dignified, high-quality living experience.  Funds will go towards the expenses of the program including case management and facility costs.  The mission of Kingdom Causes Bellflower (KCB) is to be a catalyst that inspires, connects, and mobilizes people towards personal and community transformation.  KCB helps people get off the street, provides support services to those at risk of homelessness, creates pathways to sustainable work through social enterprise, and offers ongoing training and education to the community.