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.
Fallbrook Food Pantry
Fallbrook Food Pantry recieved a grant to help expand their nutrition, wellness, and vocational education courses that support 1000 children and adults. Funds will go to direct program expenses such as food, supplies, educational materials, and educator salaries. The Fallbrook Food Pantry is a non-profit organization primarily staffed by volunteers. Its mission is to provide an adequate and nutritious supply of food to individuals in their community who are in-need. They address food insecurity and social determinants of health by reducing inequities through food distribution, education, and health monitoring. For over 30 years, FFP has served a culturally diverse community of low-income and disadvantaged families and empowers clients to become self-sufficient, independent and productive members of the community.
Kids and Horses Inc
Kids & Horses partners with Connected Horse to offer powerful workshops to individuals with early-stage dementia and their care partners. Horses mirror people’s emotions. We use this mirroring to help participants: learn stress reduction strategies, reduce feelings of depression and anxiety, improve quality of sleep, and provide greater awareness of the moment. The workshops are 2.5 hours, once a week for 3 consecutive weeks. No prior experience with horses is necessary to participate. Participants engage with horses from the ground; there is no riding. Participants must be ambulatory and willing to participate as a pair in the workshop.
The Eli Home
The Eli Home recieved a grant for Case Management of their CARP (Children of Addicts Recovery Program). CARP is Eli’s most recent innovation aimed at addressing child abuse, homelessness, and addiction, three of the most pressing social problems of our time. CARPs long-term goals for mothers are sobriety, improved parenting and family relationships, stable housing, financial independence and self-sufficiency. Between 7/1/22 and 6/30/23 the CARP program served 123 mothers and children. The Eli Home’s mission is to break the cycle of child abuse. It aims to strengthen and build resiliency in the lives of children of abuse, neglect, homelessness, poverty, mental illness, undocumented, incarcerated, or addicted parents and prepare them to lead non-violent and equitable lives through shelter, counseling, education, support, and advocacy.
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