In partnership with caring staff, supporters... volunteers, donors, and friends who offer sustaining help and encouragement... make each forward step possible. With grateful hearts, we acknowledge these recent contributions:

Coca-Cola has recently given 1736 Family Crisis Center wonderful fundraising support as well as public service opportunities. This involves placing Coke machines in Southern California businesses... at no cost to the business other than electricity... and donating 30% of the profits to the Center.

The front of each Coke machine holds a graphic display card listing Center hotline numbers and public service information on shelter and counseling services. While the display also notes that each beverage purchase helps support 1736 Family Crisis Center, the text also thanks community members for contributing and invites them to help the Center by donating time or resources.

The Entertainment Industry Foundation has been a long-time supporter of direct service advocates and counselors in 1736 Family Crisis Center's domestic violence program. These professionals provide intensive, 24-hour services including shelter, food, clothing, comprehensive case management, counseling, children's programs, battered women's support groups, life skills training, welfare-to-work job development services for hard-to-employ domestic violence victims, legal assistance, referrals, assistance in establishing an independent household, and aftercare follow-up.

The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation has steadfastly supported 1736 Family Crisis Center's Children's Program for several years, and recently renewed funding. Foundation funding ensures children traumatized by violence at home, parental substance abuse, and other threats to their well-being nurturing, age-appropriate care and treatment to bolster their bodies, minds, and spirits.

For 15 years, the TRW, now Northrop Grumman, Space & Electronics Group of Redondo Beach and 1736 Family Crisis Center have worked together to make a new life possible for some of the most troubled community members of Los Angeles County.

Hundreds of battered women and their children and teens on the streets have benefited from company-supported shelter and counseling programs. Donations have been provided through employee payroll deductions, grants, and fundraising events... as well as from the corporate foundation. Through the years, numerous employees at the site have also provided critical one-on-one, hands-on help as volunteers.
 

The Sunshine Lady Foundation, Inc. granted a Women's Independence Scholarship Program (WISP) award to one of 1736 Family Crisis Center's clients, a recent immigrant with a pre-school age daughter who found refuge in one of our shelters for battered women and their children. The award will help sponsor this young woman's nursing studies. While she is protected from facing immigration law consequences by the Violence Against Women Act legislation, her lack of citizenship makes it exceedingly difficult to find work or be eligible for most scholarship grant programs. Therefore, we are deeply grateful to the Sunshine Lady Foundation for this timely award and for the Foundation's continued focus on developing and enhancing efforts to end domestic violence.