On Friday, December 13th, Rosa Porto, the baker and Cuban émigré who founded the popular Porto’s Bakery & Cafe chain in Southern California with her family, passed away. She was 89. Giving Children Hope is proud to partner with Porto’s Bakery & Cafe and our hearts go out to Porto’s family and all of Rosa’s […]
Dockers and Giving Children Hope
Esquivel and Giving Children Hope Team Up with support from Dockers This article is originally written for Forbes. Find the whole article here! https://www.forbes.com/sites/dockers/2019/11/19/dockers-teams-up-with-forbes-under-30-summit/#7d0325b47531 The road to success isn’t always paved with gold. Sometimes, our beginnings are humble and far removed from our goals. Challenges are twice as tough and the vision of a […]
Qualified Charitable Distributions
Qualified Charitable Distributions Did you know that if you meet certain criteria you may be able to gift money directly from your IRA to Giving Children Hope? To do this you must be over 70 ½ years old, the distribution must be a required minimum and cannot exceed $100,000. The advantage? The Gift satisfies your […]
Giving Children Hope is proud to support the Sixth Annual Quiñceanera banquet
Giving Children Hope is proud to support the Sixth Annual Quiñceanera banquet held at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, by providing gift bags with jewelry, make-up brushes, deodorant, feminine products, and more. “These young women have dealt with more in their young lives than most of us have in our adult lives,” – Adam England, Cheif […]
A Walk towards Hope
As the father of three teenage sons most conversations at my house these days begin with “Dad, I need…” followed by an urgent request that is almost always a “want” and rarely a “need”. I recently returned from the Venezuelan border where I spent the week with the “caminantes”, or walkers, whom the entirety of […]
Meet Pouch – Volunteer Highlight
Volunteers at Giving Children Hope find themselves here for a variety of reasons. One such volunteer started helping us in January during his year off before he takes the LSAT this coming September, with the goal to eventually work in corporate law. Pouch Liang wanted to volunteer his time and started helping multiple times a […]
Celebrating 25 years of Across the Street & Around the World
What started in 1993 with the adoption of a child in Eastern Europe has grown into the Giving Children Hope that now serves thousands of children and families across the street and around the world every week. This year, we celebrate our 25th anniversary and we invite you to celebrate with us. Giving Children Hope […]
It Takes a Village
Every week, the Giving Children Hope team provides backpacks to more than 1,000 Orange and Los Angeles County families in crisis, but every once in a while, we receive word of a family who needs some extra help. Two weeks ago, we were notified that one of our We’ve Got Your Back families was in […]
The Spirit of the Season
This blog post was written by one of our dedicated volunteers, Skyler Schulze. Skyler has been volunteering with Giving Children Hope for several months and was a huge asset to our Christmas program. — The spirit of the season was very much alive for Christmas at Giving Children Hope. It’s through the immense generosity of […]