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Birthday Box Project http://www.birthdayboxproject.org The Birthday Box Project is a volunteer non-profit organization that empowers homeless families in Los Angeles County by giving them the resources needed to create memorable birthday parties for their children. Our mission is to encourage families to spend meaningful time together and to foster a pattern of unity. Contact: Susan, susan@fhih.org
Catholic Worker Hospitality Kitchen Founded in 1970, the Los Angeles Catholic Worker is a lay Catholic community of men and women which operates a free soup kitchen, hospitality house for the homeless, hospice for the dying, a newspaper, and regularly offers prophetic witness in opposition to war-making and injustice. Contact: Catherine Morris, info@lacatholicworker.org or 323-267-8789 Foothill Unity Center The Foothill Unity Center provides critical support, in the form of food, clothing, motel vouchers, and referrals/advocacy to our neighbors in crisis. As the need for food brings people to us, we listen to their problems and help them find solutions. We work with other agencies to provide long-term shelter, counseling, medical, educational, employment and spiritual assistance depending on the person's needs. In this way, Foothill Unity Center helps people return self-sufficiency. Contact: Raina Martinez, raina@foothillunitycenter.org or 626-358-3486 Friends In Deed Friends In Deed is the service branch of the Ecumenical Council of Pasadena Area Churches. Our mission is to reduce poverty and homelessness and also to improve the quality of life for low-income and homeless individuals and families in the community. Contact: Liz Munoz, liz@ecpac.net or 626-797-6072 Habitat for Humanity—San Gabriel Valley San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity builds decent, affordable homes in partnership with low-income families in the San Gabriel Valley. We seek to eliminate substandard housing and living conditions by partnering with God and people from all walks of life. Through this partnership we can create a better and permanent environment for lower-income families. We strive to build continuously to provide the opportunity for families to live in a decent and safe house in a community where they can live, work and grow. Contact: Amy Borton, volunteernow@sgvhabitat.org or 626-387-6899 x17 Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles is an extended family of compassionate social services that enriches the community and improves the lives of countless men, women and children of all religions, ethnicities and ages. For more than 150 years, JFS has counseled families, fed the hungry, sheltered the homeless and protected the vulnerable. Contact: Doreen Klee, dklee@jfsla.org or 323-761-8800 x1209 Los Angeles Regional Foodbank The mission of the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. Our vision is that no one goes hungry in Los Angeles County. Contact: Ana Martinez, amartinez@lafoodbank.org or 323-234-3030 x144 Missionaries of Charity, Brothers The Brothers’ mission is to feed, cloth and minister to the poor of downtown Los Angeles. Volunteers work with experienced teams to take sandwiches and other essentials to people living on the streets of downtown L.A. Contact: Brother Ben, brosla@aol.com or 213-384-6111 Mothers’ Club Community Center Mothers’ Club Family Learning Center prepares families living in isolation and poverty to succeed in school and in life. We promote strong parent-child relationships and encourage friendship and mutual support among mothers through our education programs and social services, thereby creating a stronger community for all families. Contact: Jason Wurtz, jason@mothersclub.org or 626-792-2687 x121 Rebuilding Together Pasadena Rebuilding Together is the national leader in affordable housing preservation by bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners in providing free repair services for those with the greatest need. Contact: David Goller, rtpasadena@yahoo.com or 626-798-6176 Salvation Army The Salvation Army offers a variety of services to surrounding communities. Students assist with low-cost day camp, Camp Discovery (mid-June to August), and help with food packing and distribution. Contact: Maura Rountree-Brown, 626-773-4400 St. Francis Center St. Francis Center provides a range of services to thousands of homeless and near homeless adults and children. We are a primary source of food and nutrition for people who are hungry. We are the only social service agency of our type in these neighborhoods and we need you in order to help this community! Contact: Sylvia Quintero, Squintero@sfcla.org or 213-747-5347 Union Station www.unionstationfoundation.org Union Station is the San Gabriel Valley's largest and most comprehensive social service agency assisting homeless and very low-income people. Our mission is to help, men, women and children rebuild their lives and end homelessness. Contact: Sandy Potter, spotter@unionstationhs.org or 626.240.4594 United in Harmony United in Harmony's mission is to provide homeless and impoverished children with hope and opportunities to develop positive self-esteem through interactions with teenage and adult role models. Contact: Wendy Klappholz, wendy@unitedinharmony.org or 310-470-9702 Young and Healthy Young & Healthy is a health care program that provides free medical, dental, psychological and case-management services to low-income, uninsured children in the Pasadena Schools, day care centers and homeless shelters in the greater Pasadena community. Contact: Teresa Aubert, info@youngandhealthy-pas.org or 626-795-5166
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