NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

Mission: AbilityFirst provides programs to help people with developmental disabilities realize their full potential throughout their lives

Keri Castaneda Chief Operating Officer 6266391743 / kcastaneda@abilityfirstorg

Mission: A Place Called Home provides a safe, nurturing environment with proven programs in arts, education, and wellness for the young people in South Central Los Angeles to help them improve their economic conditions and develop healthy, fulfilling, and purposeful lives

Norayma Cabot Chief Executive Officer

5624839944 / ncabot@apchorg

Mission: Artworx combats the epidemic high school dropout crisis by engaging students in a long-term, sequential arts program offering a pursuable life path that inspires them to stay in school, evolve as unique individuals, and flourish as creative adults

Jaime Zavala

Executive

Director

626.367.1272 / jaime@artworxla.org

Mission: Provide a rigorous, joyful academic experience that cultivates our scholars’ skills, talents, and gifts, such that they may pursue and persist in college or any post-secondary pathway that is authentic to their identities; Promote inclusivity and disrupt systems that have historically oppressed marginalized communities, including Black, Latino/a/x, Indigenous, and People of Color, and nurture our scholars’ pride in their abilities, identities, and communities

Jesicah Rolapp Major Gifts Office

3104351848 / jesicahrolapp@aspirepublicschoolsorg

Mission: Aviva believes every child and every family in our Los Angeles community deserves the chance for a brighter future We provide compassionate support, therapeutic services, and guidance to at-risk children and families

Amber Rivas President & CEO

3238760550 / arivas@avivaorg

Mission: As the largest professionally led nonprofit network of cancer support worldwide, the Cancer Support Community is dedicated to ensuring that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community

Kelli Vieweg

9092625754 / kellivieweg@cmckllccom