Mattel and the Mattel Children’s Foundation created the Joseph Cristina Children’s HIV/AIDS Fund to make a difference in the lives of children affected by HIV/AIDS in the United States by helping to meet their diverse needs, educating and advocating on their behalf, and bringing joy and fun into their lives. Exclusively endowed by the Mattel Children’s Foundation, the fund grants support to non-profit organizations which help children affected by HIV/AIDS.

More than 20 years ago, former Mattel executive Joseph Cristina turned the tragedy of an HIV-positive diagnosis into an opportunity by founding the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation (CAAF). Through his vision, CAAF raised over $40 million dollars to support nonprofit organizations nationally, in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Mattel, the Mattel Children’s Foundation and Mattel employees have been there every step of the way. In early 2012, CAAF joined forces with Keep a Child Alive (KCA) to help serve children and their families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India.

This fund makes grants by invitation only, for more information please click here.

To hear his story, see the video below.

You may also send checks payable to the California Community Foundation, noting that the donation is for the Joseph A. Cristina HIV/AIDS Children’s Fund. Checks should be mailed to:

California Community Foundation
717 W Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

The Jennifer Taylor Honick Foundation was established by Gigi Michaels in 2000 through The California Community Foundation (CCF), in memory of her daughter Jennifer as a continued celebration of her life and many accomplishments.

Current Project

As an advocate for the disability community, the foundation is currently serving as a fundraising, marketing & development partner for Whirlwind Wheelchair International. We are proud to be a part of an organization that focuses on producing durable, low cost wheelchairs which are distributed in over 60 countries worldwide, while contributing to sustainable local economic development. Whirlwind also makes the proper fitting of the wheelchairs a priority above all else. The RoughRider wheelchair was specifically designed to enable people with physical disabilities to navigate the rugged terrain that is often a major issue in developing countries that would otherwise make independence through mobility inaccessible. The gift of a wheelchair helps those with disabilities to develop a true sense of independence by providing them access to education, social engagement and work opportunities.

“We believe that all children, regardless of their abilities or circumstances should have an opportunity to share in educational and social experiences that enrich their hearts, minds, bodies and souls. And inclusion is one of the most important gifts we can give any child at risk.”

With your support we look forward to continuing to do just that!

THE JTH FOUNDATION is proud to have contributed to many other projects over the years that have included:

SHELTER DEVELOPMENT

• THE RAIN SHELTER IN CAMARILLO ~ a transitional home for displaced families where two rooms have been built in memory of Jenny.

SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS

• EVERYBODY DANCE ~ Grants for inner city dance program for at-risk youth
• THE WESTLAKE HIGH SCHOOL DANCE TEAM ~ Scholarships for at-risk youth
• THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH of MARIN COUNTY ~ Scholarships for visually impaired teens
• THE SANTA BARBARA YMCA ~ Scholarships for at-risk youth
• LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT ~ Scholarships for disadvantaged youth

PROGRAM FUNDING / SPECIFIC SUPPORT

• CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE ~ A non-profit organization that enhances the lives of people with disabilities by providing highly trained assistance dogs at no charge to the recipient.
• THE CONEJO VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE ~ The Friendship Circle is a non-profit organization that addresses the challenges facing the families of children with special needs in a novel and innovative way.
• THE STEPHENS HOUSE ~ A transitional programs for young adults with disabilities.
• MENDING KIDS INTERNATIONAL ~ non-profit organization that provides surgeries to children across the world while training local medical communities to become self-sustaining.

As a donor directed fund, virtually all monies donated are designated directly to people in need. Only 1% of the total fund is used to provide for administrative purposes, which is why CCF was chosen to manage the JTH foundation. As we continue to build the endowment, we look forward to providing many more opportunities for children in need.

If you would like to make a secure, tax-deductible donation online, just click on the donation button located below and know that you will be helping to make a difference in the life of someone in need.

You may also send checks payable to the California Community Foundation, noting that the donation is for the Jennifer Taylor Honick Foundation for Humanity.

You may also send checks payable to the California Community Foundation, noting that the donation is for the Jennifer Taylor Honick Foundation for Humanity. Checks should be mailed to:

California Community Foundation
717 W Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

The Jason Mraz Foundation helps sustain organizations aligned with Jason’s pillars of service:

HUMAN EQUALITY 

Free The Slaves: Liberating slaves around the world, helping them rebuild their lives, and researching real world solutions to eradicate slavery forever.

True Colors Fund: Seeks to inspire and engage everyone, particularly the straight community, to become active participants in the advancement of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality.

ARTS AND EDUCATION

VH1 Save The Music Foundation: Developing long-term, sustainable instrumental music programs that provide children access to music, regardless of financial situation.

School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC): Inspiring young people to reach their full potential through quality training in the performing arts.

Free the Children: Helping driven and passionate youth at home engage in social issues contributing to the developing world.

ENVIRONMENT PRESERVATION

Surfrider: Dedicated to protecting our world’s oceans, waves, and beaches.

NRDC: The Natural Resources Defense Council’s purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.

RECOVERY & ASSISTANCE

Life Rolls On: Dedicated to improving the quality of life of young people affected by spinal cord injury and utilizing action sports as a platform to inspire infinite possibilities despite paralysis.

MusiCares®: Providing a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need.

Stay connected to Jason:

Official Site – www.jasonmraz.com

Facebook – www.facebook.com/jasonmraz

Twitter – www.twitter.com/jason_mraz

You may also send checks payable to the California Community Foundation, noting that the donation is for the Jason Mraz Foundation. Checks should be mailed to:

California Community Foundation
717 W Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Mission

The Jamie Foxx Foundation provides for the health, education, and welfare of children throughout the world, including housing, and HIV/AIDS issues in Africa and Haiti.

Purpose

To facilitate literacy and adoption programs as well as exposure to music, comedy, and the arts for children of all ages. The Jamie Foxx Foundation is administered by the California Community Foundation.

You may also send checks payable to the California Community Foundation, noting that the donation is for the Jamie Foxx Foundation. Checks should be mailed to:

California Community Foundation
717 W Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Julia Cukier Siegler was struck and killed on February 26, 2010, while crossing the street to board her school bus at the corner of Sunset and Cliffwood in Los Angeles. That school bus stop and many like it are now gone. A community consumed by grief and confusion rallied behind a deeply meaningful Slow Down For Julia street safety campaign, launched by schoolmates Jake Feiler, Eli Kogan and Max Thoeny to raise funds to support roadway improvements, code enforcement, education programs and legislative action.

Slow Down For Julia bracelets and ubiquitous purple shoelaces offered a poignant call to action to live life in a way that appreciates its fleeting nature. The campaign then continued with two electronic speed signs that were installed on Sunset Blvd., using monies raised at the Bar Mitzvah of neighbor, Charlie Horowitz. “Safety on Sunset” banners soon followed, which hung from utility poles from Pacific Coast Highway all the way to the 405 in a program developed with LA City, Brentwood and Pacific Palisades Community Councils.

Most importantly, Julia’s corner stands as a beacon for the light in her heart that is now carried on in ours. Her inner beauty and creative spirit remain luminous in her remarkable works of art and powerful dance performances. View Dance Performance.

Your contribution to CCF’s “In Memory of Julia” fund will be distributed to institutions that support street safety initiatives, as well as the arts education and performing arts programs that defined Julia’s brief, yet everlasting, existence.

Look at the photos below to learn about Julia, who she was….and still is…for so many of us.

See the Facebook group created in Julia’s memory.

You may also make a contribution by sending a check to:

California Community Foundation
717 W Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Please make your check payable to the California Community Foundation and put in the memo line: In Memory of Julia

Read various articles from former County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky’s office, the Los Angeles Times, LA Magazine and more, in the links that follow.

• Why we all need to slow down for Julia, County Supervisor’s office
• A mother turns grief into action on bus-stop safety, Los Angeles Times
• Sunset Banners Focus on Distractions and Speed, Palisadian-Post
• City Installs New Speed Signs to Slow Drivers on Sunset, Patch
• Project in memory of young artist benefits many Pomona students, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
• Where The Sidewalk Ends, Los Angeles Magazine
• 100 rainbow ‘halos’ on Los Angeles street corners will honor people killed in car crashes, Los Angeles Times

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www.Helpguide.org is dedicated to our daughter, Morgan Segal. We believe her tragic suicide could have been avoided if she had access to professional self-help information on the Internet that gave her hope. We wanted to create an online experience that empowers people to help themselves create better mental, emotional and physical health.

We kept polishing and expanding the website. By 2012, Harvard Health Publications approached us to collaborate, we reached 50 million visitors and the positive feedback was piling up. We thought, “We must be doing something that’s helping people.” Those numbers tell a story.

We are 82 and 76 years old and more excited than ever. The creative process constantly delights us. We work with highly talented young people and savor the results. The goals set in 1999 are fulfilled beyond our wildest dreams. And we’ve been told that Helpguide.org has saved many lives.

Each dollar contributed enables us to serve over 100 Helpguide readers. Please visit http://www.helpguide.org/ to learn more.

Please help this project by donating to the Helpguide Online Mental Health Education and Support Fund.

You may also send checks payable to the California Community Foundation, noting that the donation is for the Helpguide Online Mental Health Education & Support Fund. Checks should be mailed to:

California Community Foundation
717 W Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Photo of Jeanne and Robert Segal by Stella Kalinina. 

Harrison Bate was a courageous, charismatic, vibrant and heroic four-year-old boy who battled Stage 4 Neuroblastoma for over two years. In his very short life he touched so many with his beaming smile that could light up any room. His voice and strength will resonate forever with his adorning family and friends who loved him.

NEUROBLASTOMA

Neuroblastoma is a rare cancer of the sympathetic nervous system and the most common extra-cranial solid cancer in childhood. Each year there are about 700 new cases in the United States. It is usually found in young children and is the most common cancer among infants, however it can also present in young adults. These solid tumors may also spread to other areas of the body, including bone and bone marrow. Neuroblastoma is responsible for 8-10% of all childhood cancers, yet it disproportionately is accountable for a large number of cancer deaths in children.

MISSION

Unfortunately, pediatric cancers do not receive the same attention and funding as adult cancer, even though childhood cancer is the number one disease killer among kids. The mission of the Harrison Bate Memorial Neuroblastoma Research Fund is to help fund clinical trials that lead to a cure for this insidious disease.

You may also send checks payable to the California Community Foundation, noting that the donation is for the Harrison Bate Memorial Neuroblastoma Research Fund. Checks should be mailed to:

California Community Foundation
717 W Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Ernest Lieblich was an avid supporter of children and the arts for many decades. His contributions over the years supported diverse organizations dedicated to providing children with the tools of self-expression through music and art.

Continue Ernest’s support of organizations providing much-needed services to those in need by contributing to his fund.

About Ernest Lieblich

Ernest was drawn to the arts at an early age when he would recite Shakespeare to his family at home in Germany. When he turned 16 his voice changed to a base baritone and he promptly started singing for any audience he could find.

As a young man Ernest was caught in the tumult of World War II and although he had always supposed he would have a singing career, life found a safe haven for him in Portugal with his brother and sister.

Years later Ernest emigrated to the United States, first landing in New York, and working as a busboy near the West Village. He soon got a job as a singing waiter in a Jewish resort for the summer.

Drafted into the army in the early 1940s, Ernest was trained as a combat engineer, but it was discovered he could play the organ and he was re-assigned to Los Angeles where he spent the duration of the war.

Settling in Los Angeles after the war, Ernest began a long and successful business career culminating in his establishment of Food Craft, the pioneer in coffee and refreshment service for commercial businesses in Los Angeles.

Financial success allowed Ernest to pursue his love of music and the arts by supporting organizations that valued musical education for children as a cornerstone to enriching children, families and society.

Ernest was a strong supporter of more than 50 different organizations. Here are a few:

• Best Friends: A sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.
• The Colburn School of Performing Arts: A premier Los Angeles performing arts school.
• Children of the Night: Rescuing America’s children from prostitution.
• City Hearts: Provides free classes in performing arts, literacy and visual arts for children.
• Covenant House: Provides shelter and other services for homeless youth.
• Harmony Project: Provides music education for children.
• The HeArt Project: Linking teenagers with professional artists and communities.
• Heart Touch: Trains individuals to deliver compassionate care to homebound or hospitalized, men, women and children.
• INCA: A Peruvian music and dance ensemble.
• Institute for Harmonic Science: A research institute that investigates the therapeutic effects of music.
• KCET: The public broadcasting station for Los Angeles.
• Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center: Supporting programs for homeless kids and  youth.
• Special Olympics: Creating a world of acceptance.
• Teach for America: Dedicated to ending educational inequity.
• Young Artists International: Dedicated to the continuity of the great tradition of classical music

You may also send checks payable to the California Community Foundation, noting that the donation is for the Ernest Lieblich Foundation. Checks should be mailed to:

California Community Foundation
717 W Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

The Dr. Irving Rappaport Memorial Fund intends to support the Dr. Irving Rappaport Endowed Chair in Head & Neck Surgery at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine in order to honor Dr. Rappaport’s commitment to the medical community.

Irving Rappaport passed away peacefully at home, at the age of 90, on Saturday, January 10, 2015, surrounded by his family. His life until that time was anything but passive. It was a life filled with activity and accomplishments.

Irving grew up on the rough streets of the West Side of Chicago, as on of the four sons of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrant parents. he began his quest for higher education at Crane Technical High School in Chicago, then studied at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry for his D.M.D. in 1947, and received his M.D. from the University of Illinois in 1953. After completing post-graduate in oral and plastic surgery, he and his wife, Julia, settled in California where he worked in an academic setting as well as a private practice. He became known and respected as a surgeon in the field of head and neck surgery, and possibly his most notable achievement was establishing the Center for Disorders of the Head and Neck at the University of California, Irvine.

Irv was a patriot and served his country as an officer in the United States Navy.  After his honorable service and discharge, he was later called back to service as the Medical Affairs Officer for Operation HARDTACK, the United States Navy’s High Altitude Nuclear Bomb Test program in 1958. He continued in the U.S. Naval Reserve, where he became Consultant to the Commanding Officer of the U.S Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton, CA from 1964-1970.

Irv and Julia were married in 1952 at the SAE Chapel on the campus of Northwestern University. Their eldest son, James, was born in Chicago in 1954. After moving to California, they had four other children: Valerie, Janet, Richard, and finally, Steven born in 1964.

Always an active traveler from his early years, Irving visited countries on every continent accompanied by Julia. They shared their stories and pictures with friends, family, and their community. Irv was an aficionado of camera equipment and photography.  He also shared his wife’s interest in horticulture, eventually hosting the University of California, Riverside Avocado Breeding Project on their property; and having an avocado named after them, “the Regal R”. Irv had a passion for ethnic foods and beverages, which he shared with his family at evening meals and Sunday brunches.

In addition to his professional contributions, Irv was dedicated to community service and was named Honored Citizen of Orange County in 1968. He served on the Board of Directors for the Opera Pacific, the International Visitors and Protocol Foundation, and was a charter member of the Center Club.

Irving is survived by his wife of more than 62 years, Julia, as well as his five children and their spouses: James (Marilyn), Valerie (Thomas Byrd), Richard (Wendy), Janet, and Steven.  His survivors also include his grandchildren: Julia, Thomas, and Daniel Byrd; Drew and Brett Rappaport; Kailey, Amanda, and Noelle Rappaport, and Nolan Kretschmer.

A visitation will be held from 2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. on Sunday, January 18, 2015, at the Fairhaven Memorial Park and Mortuary, 1702 Fairhaven Avenue, Santa Ana, California 92705.

The funeral service will commence Monday, January 19, 2015, at 9:30 A.M., and will be immediately followed by the burial with military honors, at the Waverly Chapel of the Fairhaven Memorial Park and Mortuary, 1702 Fairhaven Avenue, Santa Ana, California 92705.

You may also send checks payable to the California Community Foundation, noting that the donation is for the Dr. Irving Rappaport Memorial Fund. Checks should be mailed to:

California Community Foundation
717 W Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

The Dr. Barbara Sugland Foundation (DRBSF) reflects a collective vision for ensuring a better life for young people and women, especially those who are most marginalized. The foundation supports innovative solutions that connect young people, address their families, their communities, youth service organizations, and disparities in women’s health care. The foundation looks forward to the partnerships that develop and the many lessons we will learn along the way.

Sincere about collaboration, DRBSF is willing to take risks and is serious about promoting change!

WHO WE ARE

DRBSF is a national philanthropic network of diverse individuals dedicated to ensuring the health and wellbeing of all young people and women; especially those of color. Our goal is to provide assistance to youth service professionals, educators, policymakers and other youth advocates in communities across the country through:

• Coordinated Efforts to “bridge the gap” between the Science of Research and the Application of Effective Practice
• Youth Leadership and Mentorship
• Training/Outreach
• Coordinated Efforts with Strategic Partners to Influence Policy and Effective Practice

DRBSF will support activities that build youth-service organizations and community-based programs that support all young people and women from marginalized and underserved communities.

DRBSF will prioritize the needs of young people and women most affected by the social and economic inequities, injustices and other obstacles that challenge the quality of their everyday life.

For more information visit our website.

You may also send checks payable to the California Community Foundation, noting that the donation is for the Dr. Barbara Sugland Foundation. Checks should be mailed to:

California Community Foundation
717 W Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012