Los Angeles is rebuilding — and this is a critical moment to get it right.
Next week, our President and CEO Miguel A. Santana will be discussing housing and wildfire recovery with LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger and @POLITICO ’s Liam Dillon at The California Agenda: Los Angeles, hosted by @POLITICO.live .
Learn more and request an invitation at the link in our bio.
Last fall, Global Shapers Los Angeles partnered with the California Community Foundation (@calfund ) alongside entrepreneurship and innovation leaders to host a Non-Profit Innovation Forum focused on strengthening Los Angeles nonprofits through collaboration, technology, and community-driven problem solving. The initiative connected nonprofit leaders, entrepreneurs, and emerging professionals through AI-focused tools, partnership-building opportunities, and dynamic board matching designed to help organizations expand their capacity and scale their impact. By bringing together actors from different sectors, the event created space for new ideas, resource-sharing, and long-term collaboration across the Los Angeles social impact ecosystem.
Thank you to all our guest speakers for leading the conversation and collaboration:
🔷 Elijah Popowitz, Founder of Neptune Software
🔷 Brandon Gallagher, CTO and Co-Founder of Nezz
🔷 Colin Maclay, Professor and Executive Director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab
🔷 Augustus Holm, Chairman of Youth Philanthropy Council
🔷 Avery K., Co-Founder of Plots
🔷 Cayden Ginting, Founder of Tally
Last week @chelliepingree visited Dilley Detention Center to visit with nursing student Olivia Andre who had spent the last six months detained by ICE. The tireless advocacy of lawmakers, advocates, and Olivia’s friends and family led to her release over the weekend. @aminextorg knows Olivia’s story is one of many and we will continue to advocate until every wrongly detained individual is free.
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Nearly 500 days after the January 7 fires, too many survivors are still without stable housing — and time is running out.
Our President & CEO Miguel A. Santana joined Andrew King of @departmentofangels and host Kate Cagle on @latimesstudios ' "Rebuilding L.A." podcast to talk about what's at stake. According to the Department of Angels, more than 22% of fire survivors have already lost housing support, and another 24% are expected to lose it within the year.
Our Eaton and Palisades fire survivors deserve the same federal investment that has helped other communities rebuild. We won't stop advocating until every survivor has a safe place to call home.
🎙️ Link in bio to watch or listen.
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In this episode of “Rebuilding L.A.,” Miguel Santana, the president and chief executive of the California Community Foundation, sits down with host Kate Cagle to discuss the real risk that more L.A. fire survivors could end up homeless as money for temporary housing disappears — and highlight the delay in additional federal funding, which would help stave off displacement.
According to the latest survey from the nonprofit Department of Angels, which Santana co-founded with Snapchat’s Evan Siegel, more than 22% of fire survivors have already lost housing support, and an additional 24% are expected to lose it within the next year. Nearly 500 days after the Jan. 7, 2025, fires, survivors are still waiting for the kind of federal assistance that has sped recovery in other disasters, including the 2023 fire in Lahaina, Hawaii.
On Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom requested a 12-month extension from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Individuals and Households Program of its disaster assistance for the fire victims.
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After the 2025 wildfires, recovery has taken many forms—community meals, art workshops, family gatherings, and spaces where people can simply be together again.
Through our Wildfire Recovery Fund’s Community Healing & Restoration Initiative, CCF has invested $11M+ in 70+ programs supporting that work across Los Angeles County.
We’re grateful to our partners who have helped make this work possible: @pasadenacommunityfoundation , UniHealth Foundation, Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, New Balance Foundation, The Starbucks Foundation, and Jewish Federation Los Angeles (@jfedla ), in collaboration with our partner @healthnet .
See the full list of organizations at the link in our bio.
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Heal the Land. Heal ourselves. 🫶🏾
On February 28, 2026, the Altadena community came together to sing, cry, pray, laugh, hug, smile and HEAL!
Our first annual Through The Fire procession brought together over 20 partners from community orgs to healers and community artists - all to create a special ceremonial walk through the burn zone of west Altadena, CA.
Many have shared the deep reflections of feeling renewed, a sense of peace and clarity and that they finally felt they could let go and move on.
We give thanks for ALL hands and hearts involved!!! From Volunteers to those who spent many Monday evening planning this prayer! 🙏🏾
DEEP BOW OF GRATITUDE!
It is our plan to continue the Through The Fire procession for the next 5 years to witness, archive and be the change as Altadena grows anew 🌞
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Measure ULA raised over $1 billion for affordable housing. So why are 36,000 approved units still unbuilt — and rents still rising?
CCF's Miguel A. Santana and a broad coalition of LA leaders are calling for urgent reforms before a statewide ballot measure takes the choice out of LA's hands entirely.
Read the full story at the link in our bio.
Our President and CEO Miguel A. Santana was honored to keynote the 53rd Annual Pasadena Mayor's Interfaith Prayer Breakfast last week at the invitation of @pasadenamayorgordo , hosted by @friendsindeedpas . He spoke about the faith communities at the center of Eaton Fire recovery, and what resilience looks like more than a year later. CCF remains committed to Pasadena and Altadena for the long term.
#DenaStrong #WildfireRecovery
Architecture shapes every city. But who gets to shape architecture?
At today's @aia_la Immigration Summit, CCF President and CEO Miguel A. Santana joined fellow keynote speaker Cecilia Estolano, CEO and Founder of Estolano Advisors, to answer that question — and the stakes couldn't be higher. With federal policy threatening the international student pipeline and post-wildfire LA demanding an all-hands rebuild, the profession is at an inflection point.
The path forward: firms that sponsor and retain immigrant talent, philanthropy that funds real career pathways, and a city that treats its diversity as the competitive advantage it actually is. LA28 is coming. The workforce that builds it needs to be protected now. 📐🦺
