Beyond Shelter is a non-profit organization founded in 1988 in response to increasing numbers of homeless families in Los Angeles and the need for a more comprehensive approach to serving them. Today, the mission of the agency is to combat poverty and homelessness among families with children, and to enhance family economic security and well-being. In 1988, Beyond Shelter introduced a new program to end family homelessness - “Housing First” – which helps homeless families with children to move back into affordable housing as quickly as possible, rather than remain in shelters for months and sometimes years at a time. Once families are back in housing, Beyond Shelter helps families to rebuild their lives, including enrolling children in school and childcare and then helping parents to obtain employment. Over the past twenty years, more than 4,300 homeless families with children have been served. Beyond Shelter also develops affordable housing in inner-city neighborhoods and, since the 1992 Civil Unrest, has been developing the Broadway South Neighborhood Revitalization Project in South Central Los Angeles. The newest project is Broadway Village II, which includes a 50-unit apartment complex and a Neighborhood Resource Center serving families and children in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Beyond Shelter
1200 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 600, Los Angeles, California 90017
Tel) 213-252-0772  Fax) 213-480-0846
E-mail: info@beyondshelter.org
http://www.beyondshelter.org

Para Los Niños opened its doors in 1980 in response to the plight of children living in Skid Row hotels. Initially, 45 children received daycare at the agency; today, in its 29th year of operation, Para Los Niños strives to address the root causes of poverty and annually assists 4,600 low-income children and youth, and 4,000 economically challenged families from 28 sites throughout Southern California.

The agency’s core programs revolve around educational and family support services. Education programs include early childhood services, Charter Schools (K-6), after-school enrichment, youth diversion and delinquency prevention, youth workforce services, and a life skills training and academic assistance program for transitioning foster youth. Para Los Niños offers emergency and ongoing comprehensive support to at-risk families, including food and shelter vouchers, child abuse and domestic violence prevention, parenting skills, and mental health services.

Para Los Niños
500 Lucas Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90017
Tel) 213-250-4800  Fax) 213-250-4900
E-mail: info@paralosninos.org
http://www.paralosninos.org

In 2001, the Fuente and Newman families, longtime business partners in the cigar industry, came together with the vision of improving children’s lives in the Bonao region of the Dominican Republic. What began as a simple dream of adding a wing onto the local elementary school has evolved into Cigar Family Charitable Foundation’s 23-acre complex that includes: primary and high schools; health center; sports and recreation facilities; and an organic farming area. Today, the Complex serves well over 5,000 families and their children, and has achieved tremendous results.

Prometheus International, Inc. and God of Fire, Inc. have raised over $1 Million for Cigar Family Charitable Foundation since 2000.

Because the Fuente and Newman families pay all administrative expenses such as accounting and legal, 100% of the donations benefit the children and families served by Cigar Family Charitable Foundation (www.cf-cf.org).