Thank you! Your support has allowed us to continue helping families in person and remotely throughout the pandemic. Our 2020 Year-End Update Report is a testament to what is possible when El Nido’s community of supporters comes together to support families in crisis. Your Support Shores Up the Front Line This past year, supporters have […]
Thank You to Our Virtual Volunteers!
Thank you to our Virtual Career speakers and Tutors who reflect Martin Luther King’s message of service and love to the community.
El Nido Family Centers Holiday Drive 2020
How you can help struggling families during the holidays Each year during the holiday season, we appeal to your generosity to provide critical needs for struggling families. This year – one unlike any other – your support will make a tremendous difference to ease the challenges that families are facing. Support our Family Giveaway: We […]
Cedars-Sinai Foundation Grant Awarded
El Nido Family Centers is proud to announce a new grant and partnership with Cedars-Sinai and project partner Alba-Walker Life Strategies in an innovative non-profit and private practice collaboration to expand mental health services to families affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The goal of the project is to improve the mental health and family functioning […]
El Nido’s 2019-2020 Impact Report
Our 2020 Year End Donor Impact Report shares highlights on the last half of the calendar year, a period when volunteers and supporters turned out en masse to help guide families through the darkest days of the pandemic crisis. We hope this report provides you with a sense of encouragement and confidence in knowing that […]
El Nido’s Response to COVID-19
COVID-19 Relief Efforts As an essential services provider during this crisis, El Nido has distributed nearly $5 Million in critical cash aid to families affected by the crisis. These funds have been donated to the Mayor’s Angeleno Fund from supporters across LA and beyond, and entrusted to El Nido to distribute as direct cash aid, which we’ve […]
El Nido Culinary Academy and Training Kitchen Fall Recipes
ALDI (Markets) partnered with El Nido’s Culinary Academy to provide quality foods and assist our budding young chefs in preparing fresh, wholesome foods on a budget. Culinary Academy youth served a delicious meal for more than 50 children and parents, featuring products donated from ALDI Markets. We are grateful for this partnership, and ALDI’s effort to […]
South LA Youth Find Role Models, Build Job Skills at Tech Academy
About El Nido’s Tech Academy “El Nido is like a second family, if you don’t have anybody to talk to, you can always go there for resources, people and mentors that can help you”– Kennedy, Tech Academy youth El Nido is a mentorship opportunity to help out youth in my city that don’t get much […]
El Nido Awards 34 Scholarships at Luncheon Event
We are very proud of our 34 young adults from Compton, Pacoima and South LA who received college scholarships for the 2019-2020 year. Two of these college scholarship recipients graduated with bachelor’s degrees, and one of our young adults is in his second year Ph.D. program at UC Santa Cruz. Many of these youth grew […]
El Nido Culinary Training and Kitchen Academy partners with ALDI
This year, ALDI has partnered with El Nido’s Culinary Training and Kitchen Academy to provide it’s students with the best quality foods by pledging a $2,000 donation in an effort for budding chefs to learn how to prepare fresh, wholesome foods on a budget. ALDI partnered with El Nido Family Centers as part of their commitment to provide support […]
El Nido’s Pacoima FamilySource Center
The FamilySource Centers (FSC) are collaborative one-stop community centers designed to assist low-income residents in the City of Los Angeles to become self-sufficient by increasing family income and academic achievement for youth and adults. FSCs offer services including; counseling, parent education, employment assistance, legal aid, financial literacy classes, adult education, tutoring & homework help, benefits […]
Culinary Academy and Training Kitchen
El Nido has built a learning kitchen to provide pathways to success for the next generation! We’re no longer a culinary class without a kitchen. After months and months of planning, fundraising, heaps of red-tape, and hurdles, we are now a culinary class with an AMAZING state-of-the-art kitchen. We’ve come a long way from the […]
Third Annual By Teen for Teens: Teen and Young Parent Conference
On April 24, El Nido Family Centers’ Building Stronger Families Young Drive Parents (YDP) Leadership Group presented the Third Annual By Teen for Teens: Teen and Young Parent Conference at the Compton-Dollarhide Community Center. The goal of the conference was to build stronger social connections between teen and young parents, social service providers, educational institutions […]
In-N-Out Burger Foundation Gives Back to Our Community
Since 1984, the In-N-Out Burger Foundation has been helping abused and neglected children as their way of giving back to the communities where they live and do business. For almost 20 years, they have been a steadfast supporter of El Nido’s efforts to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect in some of the most […]
