Volunteering - Social Needs

Blessings in a Backpack • Pasadena • Blessings in a Backpack mobilizes communities, individuals, and resources to provide food on the weekends for elementary school children across America who might otherwise go hungry.
Brother's Helpers • La Canada • Prepares nutritious meals and deliver them to the poorest of the poor in downtown Los Angeles.
Door of Hope • Pasadena • Christ-centered organization that helps families and children experiencing homelessness rebuild their lives and find permanent housing.
Elizabeth's House • Pasadena • Committed to ending the cycle of homelessness and abuse in women and children through comprehensive case management, counseling, educational classes, prenatal care, and resources throughout pregnancy and beyond.
Families Forward Learning Center • Pasadena • Provides social services and educational programs to low-income, at-risk families with young children. Help teach classes, tutor, and with events.
Five Acres • Altadena • Strengthens children and families and empowers them within their communities. Offers a full continuum of care for families in crisis, including community-based counseling, foster care and adoption services, and a therapeutic nonpublic school for children with special needs.
Foothill Family • Pasadena • Builds brighter futures by empowering children and families in our community to overcome challenges and achieve success in relationships, school and work.
Foothill Unity Center • Pasadena and Monrovia • Primary provider of food, case management/crisis help, and access to health care resources.
Friends in Deed • Pasadena • Interfaith organization that provides supportive services to meet basic human needs, so our homeless and at-risk neighbors can rebuild their lives.
Friends of Foster Children • Arcadia • Serving children in the San Gabriel Valley through special projects as collecting school supplies, providing financial assistance to emancipated youth, and mentoring college students.
Friends of St Lawrence-Watts Youth Center • Los Angeles • Empowers the children and families of Watts through educational, advocacy, and enrichment programs.
Good Shepard Center • Los Angeles • Offers the core programs of shelter, food, case management and employment services, all designed to guide homeless women every step of the way on their move to self-sufficiency and lives of independence.
Goodwill • Pasadena and surrouinding areas • Works to enhance the dignity and quality of life of individuals and families by strengthening communities, eliminating barriers to opportunity, and helping people in need reach their full potential through learning and the power of work.
Habitat for Humanity • Pasadena • Brings people together to build homes, communities and hope so that everyone has a decent place to live.
Homeboy Industries • Los Angeles • Serves high-risk, formerly gang-involved men and women with a continuum of free services and programs, and operates several social enterprises that serve as job-training sites.
Jewish Family Services • Los Angeles • Extended family of compassionate social services including feeding the hungry and sheltering the homeless, that enriches the community and improves the lives of people of all religions, ethnicities and ages.
My Friend's House Foundation • Los Angeles • Provides life-sustaining staples that include food, clothing, toiletries and encouragement to the homeless and economically disadvantaged, regardless of race, or religious beliefs. Provides also programs that encourage clients to become self-sufficient and live healthy lives and respond to the needs of men, women, children and seniors in Los Angeles.
Pasadena Community Job Center • Pasadena • Connects skilled day laborers, hard-working men and women, who are reliable, dedicated to supporting their families and being active contributors to our community to a variety of services. .
Proyecto Pastoral • Los Angeles • Empower the community of Boyle Heights through grassroots projects in education, leadership and services.
Salvation Army • Pasadena •.Evangelical part of the universal Christian Church that helps those in need through hunger relief, housing, youth camps, rehabilitation and disaster assistance.
Union Rescue Mission • Los Angeles • Christian skid row homeless shelter, serve meals, play with children and tutor residents.
Union Station Homeless Services • Pasadena • Helps individuals and families rebuild their lives and end homelessness.
United Way of Greater Los Angeles • Los Angeles • Creates pathways out of poverty for the most vulnerable neighbors. Fighting for the most vulnerable means changing the way people feel about poverty, ensuring long-lasting results through policy-making and influencing local leaders.

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