American Women for International Understanding. Los Angeles . Promotes woman-to-woman interaction and understanding Worldwide through meaningful visits, grants, educational support, the celebration and support of the International Women of Courage, and participation of local Chapters which act locally and affect globally.
Assistance League of Pasadena • Pasadena • Transforms the lives of children and adults through community programs.
Big Sunday • Los Angeles • Community service activities and projects to help many nonprofits, schools and other agencies.
Burbank Temporary Aid Center • Burbank • Provides individuals and families, the working poor, crime victims, senior citizens, and the homeless with the short-term emergency assistance they need to live with dignity.
Circle of Friends • Pasadena • Philanthropic group of women from Pasadena and the surrounding areas who are dedicated to supporting, with funds and volunteer hours, the operations of Kidspace Children's Museum.
Christmas Tree Lane • Pasadena • Every Christmas season for more than 80 years, the majestic deodars on the "Mile of Christmas Trees" are strung with 10,000 lights.
County of Los Angeles Public Library • Pasadena, La Canada, La Crescenta, South Pasadena •
Daughters of the American Revolution • Pasadena • Organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in the United States' efforts towards independence.
Dream Center • Los Angeles • Connects broken people to a community of support by offering free resources and services that address immediate and long-term needs in the areas of poverty, addiction, and abuse; serves as a resource center focused on finding solutions to homelessness, hunger, and the lack of education through residential and community outreach programs.
Dress for Success Worldwide • Los Angeles • Empowers women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.
Families Forward Learning Center • Pasadena • Provides social services and educational programs to low-income, at-risk families with young children. Help teach classes, tutor, help 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 Outside in Los Angeles County • Pasadena • Assists children and families, prisoners and former prisoners with the immediate and long-term effects of incarceration, and to act as a bridge between the community and the criminal justice system.
Goodwill • Pasadena and surrounding 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.
Hathaway-Sycamores Child and family Services • Pasadena • Provides a comprehensive continuum of services to children and families, including a residential-treatment center for youth, foster care and adoption services, school-based and outpatient-mental-health services, counseling services, transitional-living program for teens and young adults, family resource center, and a grief and loss center for children.
Hillsides • Pasadena • Provides dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy.
Hoving Home • Pasadena • Helps hundreds of women reclaim their lives from drug and alcohol abuse.
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.
Innovate Pasadena • Pasadena • Nonprofit, community-driven organization looking for local organizations and innovators to collaborate in advancing Greater Pasadena as a center for technology and design.
Junior League of Pasadena • Pasadena • Organization of women whose mission is to promote voluntarism, develop the potential of women, and improve communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.
Leadership Pasadena • Pasadena • Inspires and connects leaders who strengthen our diverse communities. There is also an 8-month Leadership Pasadena program.
Litfest • Pasadena • Book festival.
Pasadena Community Job Center • Pasadena • Aims to connect you with skilled day laborers for a variety of services. We have hard-working men and women who are reliable, dedicated to supporting their families and being active contributors to our community.
Pasadena Community Foundation • Pasadena • Improves and enriches the lives of people in the greater Pasadena area through commitments to provide grants and services to strengthen community-based organizations, promote and participate in community partnerships, enable donors to meet their philanthropic goals and serve as a leader and catalyst to build charitable funds emphasizing permanent endowments to fund grants to local organizations.
Pasadena Fire Fighters • Pasadena • Responds to calls for aid and assistance at the most personal of levels.
Pasadena Forward • Pasadena • Improves the quality of life for those who work, live, or attend school in the Pasadena Area by expanding the business capabilities of local nonprofits by fulfilling real needs, and minimizing cost and overhead of the client through shared resources.
Pasadena Jaycees • Pasadena • The Pasadena Junior Chamber of Commerce for young professionals improves lives of others through community service, and develops leadership skills through service projects as well as fundraisers.
Pasadena Heritage • Pasadena • Working to identify, preserve, and protect the historic, architectural, and cultural resources of the City of Pasadena through advocacy and education.
Pasadena Police Activities League. Pasadena. Offers an array of activities designed to enhance the educational, athletic, and artistic experience of young people. PAL continuously strives to realize its mission to "Encourage Pasadena Area Youth to be Good Citizens through a Partnership with the Pasadena Police Department."
Pasadena Police Foundation • Pasadena • Helping Cops Give Kids Hope to focus on providing funds for youth-based programs and activities.
Peace Over Violence • Pasadena • Community based and volunteer centered organization dedicated to a building healthy relationships, families and communities free from sexual, domestic and interpersonal violence by delivering the services of Emergency, Intervention, Prevention, Education and Advocacy.
The Princess Project • Los Angeles • .Together with the Salvation Army, promoting self-confidence and individual beauty by providing free prom dresses and accessories to high school teens who cannot otherwise afford them.
Proyecto Pastoral • Los Angeles • Empower the community of Boyle Heights through grassroots projects in education, leadership and services.
The Rose Parade Float Decorating • Pasadena • Experience the magic of the floats before they make their debut in the annual Rose Parade by preparing a variety of seeds, bark, fruits and vegetables, grasses and flowers for application to the floats.
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.
Sierra Madre Search and Rescue Team • Sierra Madre • Responding to calls for help in the wilderness and saved countless lives.
Toys for Tots Foundation • Pasadena •.Annual program to collectoys for children, voltunteer at the local warehouse.
Villa de Vida • Pasadena • Builds residential communities for adults with special needs to live and explore life fully.
Women's City Club of Pasadena • Pasadena • Provides a meeting place where local women network professionally, and impact our community meaningfully together.
Yes Virginia Fund • Pasadena • Provides grants to local non-profit agencies to provide toys, books, gifts and special experiences for the holidays, in an effort to help all children feel valued and supported in their lives.
YMCA • Sierra Madre and South Pasadena • Strengthening community is the cause, make sure that everyone, regardless of age, income or background, has the opportunity to learn, grow and thrive.
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