Pride Makes a Difference

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LA Pride is more than a parade and a party in June. Pride means supporting each other, giving back, and taking care of our community. Last year, we launched PRIDE MAKES A DIFFERENCE, our 365 initiative to support the LGBTQ+ community of Los Angeles through donation drives, acts of services, and volunteering events.

Check out what we have planned for Pride month, and all yearlong right here. Our calls-to-action in the areas of food and housing insecurity, mental wellness, career and business, and youth & elders give everyone a way to make a difference for our LGBTQ+, and other communities of Los Angeles.

Our Four Pillars of Giving for 2022

Food & Housing

Food and housing are human rights

In 2021, Pride Makes a Difference filled almost 1,ooo bags of groceries for food insecure folks in the LA area. Each bag contained at least 10 staple items, with many bags containing even more. More than 10,500 food items were ultimately donated, bagged, and distributed.

In 2022, we intend to continue the work we started in 2021.

Career & Business

Sharing job & career support in a post-COVID world

According to a recent university study, COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted employment for LGBTQ+ workers, younger Black people, HIV-positive folks, and cis gay men, resulting in higher rates of job loss. We’ll be offering a job fair this June, produced and hosted by our community partner, Randstad USA.

Mental Health

We care deeply about our community’s mental wellness

The LGBTQ+ community is stronger and more resilient than ever but that doesn’t mean a little self-care isn’t in order. We’ll offer ways to de-stress, lower anxiety, and get a decent night’s sleep with our friends from Calm.

Youth & Elders

Our future and our past coming together

We’re ending Pride Month with a party at Triangle Square, the country’s first and largest affordable housing complex for low-income LGBTQ+ seniors, right here in LA. More details to come!

EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

Watch this space for details about Pride Makes a Difference events

JUNE 5: Kick-Off Event

Join us at the Travel Plaza Shelter in Compton as we kick-off Pride Makes a Difference with our first “giving pillar” of the month: Food/Housing.

Volunteers and friends are needed to spend the afternoon assembling toiletry kits for the homeless and anyone in need.

We’ll supply the music, all the items needed to pack the kits, and free, yummy lunch for all, courtesy of our amazing community partners at Veggie Grill!

This event is sponsored by

JUNE 26: Dance Event!

It’s on this Sunday at the Ariadne Getty Senior Housing complex at 1127 North Las Palmas Avenue, LA!

FREE ADMISSION & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Youth and senior residents will be getting down with drag bingo and a little karaoke as Pride Makes a Difference wraps another fabulous Pride month! Check out our lineup, it’s dragtastic! MC’d by @Paloma Blvck, with @Vicky Jean and @Jean Decay!

Snacks and drinks provided. BYODS- Bring your own dancing shoes!

We are looking for a few volunteers to help out with setting up and working this event. Register below to give a little back and make someone’s day!

JUNE 30: Job Fair

Two years of COVID have not been kind to many of us in the LGBTQ+ community. Our friends at Randstad are helping us do something about it. Focusing on our pillar of Career & Business, we’re organizing a job fair featuring valuable resume advise (who doesn’t need that!), interviews with Randstad staff, and donated interview clothes to help make that great first impression!

Job Fair attendees have the option to speak with Randstad employees to do on-the-spot interviews as well as practice interviews – depending on what you need. If you’re looking to be hired at a job site immediately, their Staffing Managers can assist with the onboarding process.

If you’re looking for more of a career consultation, Randstad’s experts can provide resumé help and interview tips. What an opportunity, and it’s all FREE!

Volunteers are needed for both preparation on June 29, and the day-of event on June 30. (If you are attending the job fair as a participant, you don’t need to register, just come!)

Learn more about volunteering to help out at the event, and register by clicking the button below.

LOCATION: Randstad USA, 13200 Crossroads Parkway North, Suite 125, City of Industry, CA 91746

ALL MONTH: Amazon Smile

Use our Amazon Wish List to donate goods all month long, benefiting a variety of local and some national nonprofit organizations that work with underserved groups within and outside of our community.

Community nonprofits and service organizations such as Homeless Outreach Program Integrated Care System (HOPICS) and Casa de Zulma, the first publicly funded bridge housing project for transgender women in LA County, will directly benefit from your generous donation.

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In-Store Donating

Can’t get to an in-person event? Can’t find the item you want to donate on our Amazon Smile list? No problem. We are making it so easy to donate new socks, toothbrushes, canned food, women’s hygiene products, dry goods, underwear, you name it, as long as it’s new and needed by folks who are homeless, hungry, low-income, or in need.

We’ve partnered with Starbucks and Orangetheory Fitness to place donation bins in select locations around LA. Just bring your donation to one of these convenient locations.