Community Partners
We’re all in this Together, and with the help of our valued community partners, we’re able to deepen our reach and have a larger impact on our cause and in our community. We have worked with a number of action-based organizations on a cooperative basis where we provide each other certain services with one intended goal.
Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission is a leading provider of housing and homeless services with over 10 different locations in the San Fernando Valley. HOV prevents, reduces, and helps eliminate poverty, hunger, and homelessness offering immediate assistance and long-term solutions including hot meals, permanent and temporary housing, crisis intervention, health services, job placement, and more for anyone in need. GTF’s longstanding partnership with HOV has allowed us to deepen our reach in the community.
Valley Cultural Foundation is the leading non-profit arts organization in the San Fernando Valley, founded in 1975; their mission embraces diversity of talent, community, business, and education by providing live entertainment programs, events in the arts and specific programs for kids and young talent. In August 2021, GTF in cooperation with VCF put on a partnered benefit concert event in Warner Park which raised over $20K and will support both their music programs as well as ours.
San Fernando Valley Rescue Mission’s Home Again – Our partners since 2020, Home Again is privately funded to provide ultimate care to LA’s most vulnerable families. We’ll be teaming up with Home Again to open our first ever child care facility at their Northridge, Ca, which will allow parents to re-enter the professional world without concern of their children’s safety and well-being while they are away. Meanwhile, children at our Together at Home Again child care program will receive full-time care, mentorship and educational assistance.
L.A. Care launched its Community Health Investment Fund in 2001 awarding more than $132 million in grants and support for the health care safety net to improve community and public health and expand health insurance coverage among underserved populations. In 2017, L.A. Care announced its commitment to address homelessness in Los Angeles County and has contributed a generous donation in support of GTF’s COVID-19 relief program since 2020.
LAHSA – Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is an organization who is at the forefront of administering care and services throughout Los Angeles County. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic LAHSA turned its attention to promoting effective hygiene, especially to the unsheltered homeless community, to prevent and address potential Coronavirus infections. LAHSA has been the main recipient of GTF’s hand-wash kits, delivering thousands of kits throughout LA County since March 2020.
100 Black Men is furthering the education and empowerment of African-American youth to help them focus and sets goals for their future through their upstanding Mentoring and Education programs. In November 2020, GTF established a partnership with 100BM beginning with our Project Kids-Care telethon with proceeds going to help underprivileged kids.
The Midnight Mission, one of the oldest existing rescue missions, is located in downtown Los Angeles. They make all the necessities of life – food, shelter, clothing, personal hygiene, medical services, 12-step recovery programs – available to men, women, and children who have lost direction paths to self-sufficiency through counseling, education, training, and job-placement. Their cooperative efforts with GTF have included our all-star benefit concerts, telethons, and they are a recipient of our hand-wash kits.
Project Angel Food prepares and delivers healthy meals to feed people impacted by serious illness, bringing comfort and hope every day. They personally deliver – with care and compassion – free, medically-tailored meals, handmade with healthy ingredients to those in our community who are hungry and alone. Project Angel Food has supported the efforts of the Get Together Foundation, participated in the All Together Now – LA 2021 Telethon and is a recipient of hand-wash kits for their clientele.
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles was the first non-profit pediatric hospital in SoCal, established in 1901. They provide pediatric healthcare with medical experts offering more than 350 pediatric specialty programs and services. CHLA was one of the recipients of the proceeds raised from GTF’s Project Kids-Care telethon in November 2020.
Spark of Love Toy Drive – ABC7 and SoCAL Firefighters have celebrated 27 years successfully collecting more than ten million new, unwrapped toys and sports equipment for underserved children and teens in Los Angeles and adjacent counties. GTF has a Spark of Love toy drive every Christmas holiday season. ABC7 has supported GTF’s online telethons as well as live events.
Union Rescue Mission – Our partners since 2020, URM is privately funded to provide ultimate care to LA’s most vulnerable citizens. We’ll be teaming up with URM to celebrate their opening of their newest bridge housing facility by serving holiday meals over Thanksgiving weekend on November 28, 2020 in Downtown LA. To join us on our feed, click here to sign up!