Tucked somewhere around the Jose Cuervo banana-eating contest, the three beneficiaries made their home. Each organization worked to educate the concert-goers about the work they're doing.
Tucked somewhere around the Jose Cuervo banana-eating contest, the three beneficiaries made their home. Each organization worked to educate the concert-goers about the work they're doing.
In my quest to continue to help the homeless, I have created a new campaign called What Can I Do?, a movement that will raise awareness and compassion about homelessness through art and social action.
Last night I attended a benefit Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson co-hosted, a rather quirky but wildly fun-filled fundraiser for the Shakespeare Center called Simply Shakespeare.
The FBI estimates 100,000 children are sold for sex in the United States each year. American girls are victims of sex trafficking more than we'd like to acknowledge.
Shopping with a conscience is hitting L.A. this week in the form of the Indagare global bazaar, which features handmade products from women's cooperatives in India, Rwanda and Lebanon.
One out of every six children in the U.S. is at risk of hunger -- that's 12.4 million children. BlessingsinaBackpack.org is trying to change these numbers.
The Women's Twentieth Century Club of Eagle Rock's work continues with a series of fundraisers, including this Saturday's traditional Camilla Fashion Show and Luncheon.
Voting yes on California Cancer Research Act is a vote for cures. It's a vote for a brighter and healthier future for generations to come, a vote for creating thousands of vital new jobs.
I am a small businessman, a retired Air Force Reserve member and a lifelong Republican. I am also a single dad and an In Home Supportive Services home care provider for my 29-year-old daughter.
A jogger is someone who runs in place during a red light. A runner would never be caught dead looking like such a fool. We stop, act cool, then take off when the light turns green.
You think of words like perseverance and you don't often envision a little boy trying to learn how to live in a world where everyone else's normal is alien.
Even though I have wistfully watched the Boston Marathon, or the New York Marathon, or the Los Angeles Marathon, I never thought I would actually participate.
If you had asked me about running a 5K a year ago, I would have laughed; given my limited lung capacity, any kind of extended cardiovascular exercise is extremely difficult.
I had set myself a goal of running a marathon "one day soon," and started looking into training. Then, one day, in the most unexpected and unusual way, I was diagnosed with a rare and still incurable cancer.
The 2011 L.A. Marathon is very special to me. Last month my girlfriend Jessica Rodriguez was diagnosed with breast cancer.
I will be standing at the finish line waiting for my mom with her medal, because it isn't every day that a cancer survivor completes a marathon.
Governor Brown's budget proposal to eliminate the community redevelopment agencies is yet another cut that indirectly hurts the homeless.
Helena David is on a mission. Her ambitious goal to pick and donate 100,000 pieces of fruit in one year for Southern California's underprivileged is already well underway.
We all need to do our part to spread the word about this critical -- but limited -- opportunity for California's uninsured children, who are now eligible for health coverage regardless of preexisting conditions.
e are used to seeing problems affect the African-American community more strongly than some others, but few are so very disproportionate in their impact as homelessness.