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At Friends In Deed, a Pasadena nonprofit focusing on homelessness, food insecurity, and eviction prevention, today’s Giving Tuesday campaign has been framed around a stark warning: “deeper needs” await this winter. Across Pasadena, more than 1,200 active nonp... More »
Pasadena nonprofits marked Giving Tuesday with sharply different strategies, reflecting national debates over timing and donor engagement in the global generosity movement that generated an estimated $3.6 billion in donations from about 36 million U.S. partici... More »
Union Station Homeless Services, the San Gabriel Valley’s largest nonprofit dedicated to ending homelessness, has received a $5 million grant from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos to expand its family support programs. The award comes from the Bezos Day 1 F... More »
When Club 21 Learning and Resource Center exceeded its $425,000 fundraising goal this year, reaching 105 percent of its target, the Pasadena nonprofit was not celebrating a one-day windfall. The organization had strategically timed its annual walk during Down ... More »
Union Station Homeless Services continued its more than 50?year tradition Wednesday, serving hundreds of hot Thanksgiving meals to Pasadena residents at its Adult Center on Raymond Avenue, while projecting a total service of about 8,000 meals over three days t... More »
More than 450 local families will celebrate Thanksgiving with a turkey on the table this year thanks to Friends In Deed and the Pasadena Jaycees, who successfully concluded this year’s Operation Gobbler on Sunday. On November 23, approximately 380 households v... More »
As cuts to federal food assistance ripple across the nation, the Pasadena Community Foundation has awarded grants to 12 local nonprofits and faith-based organizations to help meet surging demand for food in the Greater Pasadena area. The announcement comes aft... More »
The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena is supporting Day One’s Cherishing Children Holiday Toy Drive, a community effort entering its 16th year of providing gifts to local families. Day One, a Pasadena organization, launched the annual celebration in 2008... More »
The California Community Foundation awarded $6 million in grants to 14 nonprofit organizations who will provide direct assistance for survivors of the Eaton and Palisades fires, it was announced Tuesday. Nearly a year after the fires, many survivors — particul... More »
The corridors beneath the Pasadena Convention Center were buzzing on Monday morning, filled with the metallic percussion of carving knives and the low hum of walk-in refrigerators. Deep in the center’s basement kitchen, about a dozen volunteers lined up at a l... More »
Union Station Homeless Services (USHS) says it is still in need of community support ahead of its annual Thanksgiving meal service set for Tuesday anf Wednesday, Nov. 25-26, asking for pies and monetary donations to ensure hundreds of unhoused and low?income r... More »
Union Station Homeless Services reported serving 800 households with Thanksgiving meal boxes during the first day of its Dinner in the Park program, according to a statement from the organization. The total marks an increase of 300 households compared to last ... More »
