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First Place is extremely grateful to have been chosen as one of WHY's 2014-2015 grant recipients. This donation helped to establish the Women Helping Youth Education and Employment Center, located at our program office in Los Angeles. With WHY's support, First Place purchased 15 new laptop computers, eight large folding tables, one color printer, and a locked storage unit, all of which have been used to directly support...
WHY Grants Outreach Committee. Women Helping Youth: At the Women Helping Youth (WHY) grants award luncheon on April 26, 2014, Eisner Pediatric & Family Medical Center received $25,915 to purchase portable dental equipment for Nevin Elementary School.
During the grant selection process, members of Women Helping Youth visited the Kanye Eras School. In the course of the visit, they met Toya, a 10th grade student, and were so impressed by her story that once they decided to award ECF a grant, they invited Toya to speak...
In spring 2013, Women Helping Youth (WHY) awarded Achievable crucial grant funding to buy key medical equipment vital to serving pediatric patients at our new Achievable Clinic.
Junior Blind recently launched a tandem cycling program thanks to the generosity of the Women Helping Youth Foundation, who made a grant for us to purchase eight tandem bicycles, sixteen helmets and a storage shed.
In April 2011, Pacific Lodge Youth Services received over $13,000 in funding from the Women Helping Youth Foundation to support the creation of an Art Therapy Studio.
The Women Helping Youth Fitness Studio at Phoenix House Academy of Los Angeles will be dedicated for use by teenage girls who are receiving comprehensive treatment in Phoenix House Academy's Amethyst Unit, that each year serves more than 160 teenage girls struggling with histories of substances abuse and co-occurring mental health issues. As girls receive counseling, mental health, educational and family services at Phoenix House Academy, they also work through issues related to poor self esteem and body image dysmorphia. The dedicated Fitness Center will provide a safe space for young women dealing with emotional and physical issues related to both adolescence and recovery.
FUNDING: CMF is pleased to announce that we have been awarded funding from Women Helping Youth for 2012! Special thanks to WHY for funding "Women Helping Youth's Music Heals on Wheels," a mobile instrument cart filled with hundreds of...
It was just a little over fifteen years ago that Sharon Stricker, Jackie Goldberg and a group of passionate volunteers started our after school program at LeCont Middle School with 15 boys and girls, very little money and a lot of good will. Now we serve over 2900 students annually at...
Vista Del Mar is extremely grateful for the recent gift given by Women Helping Youth, a Los Angeles-based philanthropic organization committed to improving the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of children and young adults...
Each year, more than 125 corporate and family foundations make grants to Venice Family Clinic. In late April, a foundation of a different stripe joined the Clinic's...
Women Helping Youth awarded a $21,304 grant to fund the purchase of a custom designed play structure for school aged children.
At the core of all of Upward Bound House's programs is a comfortable, warm bed. Each bed is in a private unit that has a front door that locks and where a family can stabilize and begin to re-establish their self sufficiency...
HOLA would like to send a tremendous "Thank You" to Women Helping Youth for donating sewing machines to our costume and fashion design class.
On January 29, 2010 Upward Bound House held an opening event for Family Shelter. The new emergency facility will serve...
Thanks to a generous donation from Women Helping Youth, both 826LA East and West recently received new copy machines and book binders! This equipment is replacing old and worn-out machines and will make the production of thousands of...
WHY originated when the three began wondering how they can make a difference...
Members of Women Helping Youth (WHY) donated $68,000 to five organizations on May 2, 2009 to help underprivileged children.
Camp Laurel would like to thank Women Helping Youth for their donation to help purchase much needed...
Every year the excitement builds as the kids at Five Acres notice when the weather starts to get hot. They know it's almost time for the pool to...
Both Women Helping Youth (WHY) and Upward Bound House (UBH) share the same mission:ensuring the well being of...
If you have never heard of a “Giving Circle” it is a new trend in philanthropy that enables participants to donate their money or time in a pooled fund to causes that fit their own customized criteria.
Pacific Palisades residents...
Project CARE will provide newsletters, internet access and a study area in Richstone's Transitional Living Program for...
Everyday we watch stories on the news, hear events on the radio and...
Women Helping Youth's Academic Resource Center. Filmed by C5LA.