By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer In 1946, a group of concerned parents and community activists pooled their resources to create a day training program as […]
Category: Making A Difference
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Foundation does a lot of ‘Good’ in the community
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer Alan-Michael Graves is the kind of person who likes to make a difference. As the senior director of teaching and […]
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Woman’s blog leads to animal rights organization
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer In 2013, Nina Jackel started writing a blog about animal rights. It was a space where the unapologetic animal lover […]
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Concern Foundation targets kids’ cancer research
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer Derek Alpert was living his best life as a successful music industry executive at A&M Records, a gig that included […]
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Organization provides free resources, services to needy families
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer Every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Virginia and Thrinicko Beaboa and a handful of volunteers can be found […]
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Reentry organization offers a new way of life
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer Formerly incarcerated women reentering society have a soft place to land at A New Way of Life Reentry Project. The […]
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Together We Rise helps children in foster care
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer Reportedly, there are currently more than 35,000 children in foster care in Los Angeles County. Nationally, there are more than 400,000 […]
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Vital Transformation helps people help themselves
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer Debbie and Eliyahu Jian used to be full-time volunteers at a spiritual organization until they began to “disagree with some […]
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Reading To Kids wants to enrich young lives
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer Reading to Kids is not only an admirable thing to do, it’s also the name of a grassroots organization that […]
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Writers group works with incarcerated youth
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer InsideOUT Writers believes the power of the pen has the power to keep its participants out of the “pen.” The […]