AHAH Monthly Program Update - Los Angeles (May 2021)

LOS ANGELES COVID-19 RELIEF UPDATE MAY 2021

TOTAL PROGRAM IMPACT

749,608 354,124 61 15,711

PEOPLE FED

TESTS FACILITATED

VOLUNTEERS

VOLUNTEER HOURS

Current Activities After a well-earned break at the end of last month, having helped facilitate over 80,000 COVID-19 vaccines and fed over 750,000 people to date, the staff team returned to program and welcomed our third cohort of DM12 volunteers on May 9.

This cohort will continue to support our key partners LA Food Bank and CORE, as well as continuing our newest partnership with Kedren Health Center, which is focused on addressing racial inequities in vaccine distribution.

Prior to their break, the team also coordinated with a local nonprofit, LA Water Drop, to support the donation of 40,000 masks and 600 bottles of sanitizer for distribution on Skid Row.

Partner Spotlight A very big thank you to our trusted partner TUMI for their generous donation of over 2,000 TUMI Care Kits, which included a TUMI mask and hand sanitizer. These resources are incredibly important for keeping the local communities safe and our team was delighted to distribute them to our partners’ staff and volunteers who are working on the front line every single day. TUMI also donated 40 hard TUMI cases to hold the Care Kits.

Photos: (top) cohort two volunteers undertaking tool training with Topher, our U.S. Technical Manager, (left) volunteers with the TUMI Care Kits.

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Disaster Profile The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause significant impact to the Los Angeles County, California area. To date, there are more than 1,233,985 confirmed cases, over 23,914 deaths and there continues to be an emergency order in place.

Our Work In early July 2020, our assessment team deployed to Los Angeles to identify how we could be most effective in supporting the Los Angeles community through the COVID-19 crisis. Working closely with new and existing partners, we identified that the key needs related to COVID-19 were more volunteers to assist with food distribution and back-of-house support for COVID-19 testing and, more recently, vaccinations. In October 2020, we launched a program using our DM12 volunteer initiative to address these needs by increasing the capacity of partner organizations, Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and CORE, which is part of the operations at Dodgers Stadium and Pierce College.

With approximately 30 volunteers per cohort, alongside the volunteers of our partners, we aim to assemble 15,000 emergency meal kits, distribute 60,000 meals to families in need and orchestrate 30,000 COVID-19 tests and 50,000 vaccinations on a weekly basis.

About All Hands and Hearts We effectively and efficiently address the immediate and long-term needs of communities impacted by natural disasters. We communicate directly with local leaders and community members and then deploy our unique model of engaging volunteers to enable direct impact, helping to build safer, more resilient schools, homes and infrastructure.

We have earned a 4-star rating by Charity Navigator for the seventh year in a row. This year only seven percent of rated non-profits received this distinction for financial and operational efficiency.

Photos: (top) a participant of the Foundation Beyond Belief volunteer group who spent a morning alongside us at LA Food Bank, (right) volunteers supporting the distribution of PPE to Skid Row with LA Water Drop.

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