SoCalGas announced today it has made a second $525,000 donation to the California Restaurant Foundation’s Restaurants Care Resilience Fund, which is designed to aid small eateries impacted economically by the coronavirus pandemic.
Howard University has received a $2 million donation to digitize a major collection of Black newspaper archives in hopes of making it more broadly available to researchers and the public.
Generous donation to help create 1,000+ internships for local community; BlackLine also to provide technology-focused internships
Monday, July 6, L.A. Public officials provided an update on current levels of escalation in the COVID-19 outbreak. In order to maintain control over the spread of COVID-19, Los Angeles leaders took a “hard pause” and closed down beaches, piers, bike trails, and outdoor dining in order to limit access to large gatherings this past holiday weekend.
Obama continues to use his platform to seek a solution to the imbalance in the police force structure on a national scale, but also within local government. President Barack along with his administration is orchestrating a commit to action for all mayors, city councils, and police oversight bodies to address police use of force.
NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal teamed up with Epson and Communities in Schools (CIS) to donate color printers, projectors and whiteboards to 11 schools.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF) announced 2018 cumulative grant donations of over $1.6 million to 70 local nonprofit organizations, which impacted over 600,000 underserved youth in some of the most challenged neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
Spelman College has received $30 million, its largest single gift from living donors, to be used for its new Center for Innovation & the Arts.
The donation, announced Thursday, was made by Spelman trustee Ronda Stryker and her husband, William Johnston, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The Houston Rockets point guard’s latest donation to his alma mater – the largest ever by a former basketball student-athlete or any alumnus under the age of 35 – will ensure that future generations of Demon Deacons can succeed on and off the court.
The Brotherhood Crusade works to empower and support underserved youth in South Los Angeles through mentoring, education, health and wellness, and leadership programs.
The NFL Alliance gave back to the community by donating over $4,000 to the athletic department at King/Drew Medical Magnet High School.
Gov. Jerry Brown last week signed a new law that will allow the Los Angeles Unified School District to donate uneaten food to food banks instead of discarding it.
Last month, Arrowhead came out to Los Angeles’ homeless community to donate water, keeping some of the city’s most vulnerable residents hydrated during the recent heat wave.
Roland S. Martin, has created the fundraising initiative, #HBCUGivingDay, a national call to action in support of raising funds for HBCUs.
Chance the Rapper’s unusual intervention into Chicago Public Schools’ funding crisis took an even more curious turn Monday when the Grammy-winner presented a $1 million check to city schools and urged Gov. Bruce Rauner to use his executive powers to help the nation’s third-largest district. The Republican governor, a former venture capitalist, responded by noting his own philanthropy and floating Chicago school funding ideas that would face tough odds in the Democratic-controlled Legislature. Illinois has gone two years without a budget, the longest such stalemate of any state in nearly a century. The back-and-forth came after a meeting Friday between