18th Street Arts Center

18th Street Arts Center is a world-renowned hub for 43 artists and 20 arts organizations both local and international. In addition to its residency programs, 18th Street is known for the innovative themes and outstanding roster of visual artists represented in its gallery. The gallery is open from 11am-5:30pm, Monday-Friday and is located at 1639 18th Street, Santa Monica, off of Olympic Boulevard.

www.18thstreet.org
(310) 453-3711

Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica is part of a youth development service for young people in need offering a positive alternative to the streets and unsupervised homes for youth ages 7-18.

www.smbgc.org
(310) 393-9629

Broad Theater

The Broad Stage is sublimely intimate – only 499 seats – and strikingly grand – with one of Los Angeles’ largest proscenium stages. An amazing space where artistic intimacy meets acoustic perfection, right here in Santa Monica at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center. For a complete listing of performances visit the website.

www.thebroadstage.com
(310) 434-3412

California Heritage Museum

Not just an historic house, the California Heritage Museum presents fascinating exhibitions on diverse aspects of the State's cultural riches. Recent shows include "Saints and Sinners: Mexican Devotional Art", "Cowabunga: the Santa Monica Bay Surfing Experience 1907-1967" and "Everyday Life in California: Regional Watercolors 1930 - 1960". Friendly, well informed staff welcome visitors to permanent displays of Monterey furniture, California tile and pottery in domestic room settings that bring history home. (Built 1894, designated an Official City Landmark in 1979.)

www.californiaheritagemuseum.org
(310) 392-8537

Center for the Partially Sighted

For over 30 years, the nonprofit Center for the Partially Sighted has helped children and adults with impaired sight live independently.  Our comprehensive program staff includes low vision optometrists who enhance remaining sight, licensed therapists who help with emotional adjustments to vision loss, and independent living skills and mobility instructors who teach individuals how to manage daily living tasks.

www.low-vision.org
(310) 458-3501

Chrysalis

At Chrysalis, we empower our clients to overcome the barriers to employment so they can move out of poverty and homelessness.  We provide the tools to help them gain a job and to secure a stable, promising future. Chrysalis provides critical employment services to over 2,500 individuals annually.

www.changelives.org
(310) 401-9400

CLARE

CLARE began in 1965 when a group of sober alcoholics began bringing food, blankets, and the message of recovery to homeless alcoholics gathering on the beaches of Santa Monica.  CLARE is now a multi-site organization with several locations in Los Angeles County providing compassionate treatment and recovery services for alcoholism and substance abuse.  As the only non-medical detox facility on the Westside available to all regardless of their ability to pay, we are serving primarily the homeless and indigent.  Each year over 25,000 people turn to CLARE for help.  Over 2,600 are admitted to one of CLARE's 11 comprehensive programs; all others are counseled and/or placed at partner agencies.

www.clarefoundation.org
(310) 314-6200

Common Ground-Westside HIV Community Center

Over 20 years into the HIV epidemic, Common Ground remains the only comprehensive HIV service provider on Los Angeles' Westside. Over 3,360 people in our Westside Community are living with HIV - and one in four don't know that they're positive. The success of our mission, "to bring together the diverse members of the Westside community in the fight against HIV," is critical to address this growing epidemic, and vital to our community's health and future.

www.commongroundwestside.org
(310) 314-5480

Community Corporation of Santa Monica (CCSM)

CCSM builds and rehabilitates housing for low- and moderate-income individuals and households in Santa Monica.

www.communitycorp.org
(310) 394-8487

Connections for Children

A childcare resource and referral agency committed to improving the education, development and well-being of all children by providing assistance and support to families, childcare professionals, and the community.

www.cfc-ca.org
(310) 452-3325

Dispute Resolution Services

The Peer Mediation and Conflict Resolution program at John Adams and Lincoln Middle schools in Santa Monica is part of Los Angeles County Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Services.  The program's goals are to empower young people to resolve conflicts and create safer, more peaceful school campuses.  Students in the Peer Mediation and Conflict Resolution program learn and practice communication and mediation skills that offer an alternative to verbal and physical violence through use of "problem solving" methods.  More than 80 students each year act as Peer Mediators at John Adams and Lincoln Middle schools where they assist fellow students resolve conflict peacefully.  Student mediators are trained by the Los Angeles County Bar Association and other professionals.

www.lacba.org
(213) 896-6564

Donna Sternberg & Dancers

Founded in 1985, Donna Sternberg & Dancers is a non-profit organization whose mission is to challenge and connect through dance.  The company is a nexus for art, science and philosophy, working with artists from different disciplines. Our goals are to introduce new ways of creating and presenting dance, new ways for artists to collaborate with each other and to engage and promote dialogue between people from all different paths of life.  To fulfill our mission, the company presents compelling live performances and educational programs to audiences that are diverse in cultural outlook, economic class, ethnic background and gender.

www.dsdancers.com
310-260-1198

El Nido Family Centers

El Nido Family Centers provide counseling, parent education and case management services to children, at-risk youth, and pregnant and parenting teens and families.

www.elnidofamilycenters.org
(818) 830-3646

EmpowerTech

EmpowerTech assists people with physical, cognitive and developmental disabilities use assistive technology to help them achieve greater independence.

www.empowertech.org
(310) 338-1597

Highways

www.highwaysperformance.org
(310) 315-1459

Jewish Vocational Service

Jewish Vocational Service provides programs related to job seeking, career planning, skills assessment, training and retraining.

www.jvsla.org
(310) 309-6000

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA)

LAFLA provides free legal services to income-qualified Santa Monica residents in tenant/landlord, family law/domestic violence, government benefits and consumer law.  It operates the Domestic Violence Restraining Order Clinic located in the Santa Monica Courthouse.

www.lafla.org
(310) 899-6200

Meals on Wheels West

Meals on Wheels West is committed to enhancing wellness by delivering nutritious meals to homebound clients.

www.mealsonwheelswest.org
(310) 394-5133

Miles Playhouse

www.milesplayhouse.org
(310) 458-8634

Morgan-Wixson Theatre

The Morgan-Wixson Theatre is one of Santa Monica's oldest arts institutions but — true to its dramatic mission — it perpetually reinvents itself. Mainstage productions connect the community, inspire, entertain, and educate through plays like Fences, Pippin, and The Secret Garden. The Youth Education/Entertainment Series, or Y.E.S. — named Outstanding New Children's Theatre Company for 2008 — seeks to engage young audiences, train young talent, and support literacy through stage adaptations of children's literature. Community volunteers on stage and backstage keep the theatre thriving. The MWT is an artistic home for all with energies and talents to "put on a show!"

www.morgan-wixson.org
(310) 828-7519