Whip Up Some Lunch for Vets at PATH
PATH provides meals to their residents in interim housing. When groups sign up to provide meals, it helps PATH focus its resources on providing housing and support services for their residents. Their male veterans in West LA love to have home-cooked meals from volunteers. Shifts are currently available at their West LA site. They understand not everyone is comfortable with on-site volunteering. If you want to support the male veterans, ask them about sponsoring a meal through a meal delivery service or catering!
Help Project Angel Food Deliver To Those in Need on the Westside
Project Angel Food is looking for delivery volunteers to helps them bring medically tailored meals and fresh fruit right to their clients' doors. Each delivery route maps out deliveries to 8-10 seriously ill neighbors and takes approximately two hours to complete. You can even do it with a friend! Pick-ups are from 9-10 a.m. and drivers must have a car, valid license and proof of insurance.
Help Project Angel Food Provide Meals To Our Most Vulnerable Neighbors
Project Angel Food’s kitchen is 80% volunteer-driven. Kitchen volunteers don’t need to be great cooks, simply take direction from their professionally trained chefs. You’ll join compassionate people in chopping vegetables, stirring sauces, mixing batter, baking cookies, and packaging the meals. They have shifts Sunday through Friday from 8:00 a.m.–Noon and 12:45–4 p.m. For the safety of all volunteers, staff and clients, all volunteers must have received a COVID-19 vaccination and be 14 years of age or older. Volunteers aged 14 or 15 years must be accompanied by a parent or guardian at all times. Volunteers aged 16 or 17 years must have a parent or guardian sign a liability waiver form.
Make a Donation to One of AbilityFirst’s Programs for People with Developmental Disabilities
ALL SUMMER LONG! AbilityFirst stands for, and alongside, people with developmental disabilities and their families. They create a welcoming environment where everyone feels they belong and are valued. At AbilityFirst, they look beyond disabilities, focus on capabilities and expand possibilities.
Donate Wishlist Items to AHEAD With Horses to Help Support Their Program
ALL SUMMER LONG! AHEAD With Horses is a non-profit developmental therapeutic vaulting program for children with all types of disabilities. Support them by donating items from their Wish List to help support the program and take care of their beloved Therapy Horses.
Support American Youth Literacy Foundation’s Mission to Save Children From an Illiterate Life
ALL SUMMER LONG! American Youth Literacy Foundation's mission is to save millions of children from an illiterate life by creating a game-changing app that will independently teach children how to read! For the past seventeen years they have taught thousands of underprivileged and underserved children how to read. Now its time to teach millions!
Donate to Assistance League of Los Angeles
ALL SUMMER LONG! The Assistance League of Los Angeles has a mission to improve the lives of impoverished children in the community through philanthropy, dedicated service, and compassionate programs. With your support, we can all make a difference in the lives of children throughout Los Angeles.
Support Audubon California/Starr Ranch Sanctuary’s Work
ALL SUMMER LONG! For more than 100 years, Audubon has embraced the mission of protecting birds and the places they need. Your gift funds a well-integrated program of science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. Your support lets Audubon stand up for birds, defending the clean air, clean water, healthy habitat, and stable climate they require.
Buy a Book to Contribute to Beagles and Buddies
ALL SUMMER LONG! Beagles and Buddies volunteer Heidi Mastrogiovanni has written a comedic novel with a title character who rescues dogs! When you buy a copy of Heidi’s book, she will donate 10% of the sales price to Beagles and Buddies.
Sponsor a Dog in Need at Beagles and Buddies
ALL SUMMER LONG! For only $25 a month you can sponsor a dog. Your donations assist in feeding and providing medical attention for needy dogs in Beagles and Buddies' care.
Donate to Support the Bolsa Chica Conservancy
ALL SUMMER LONG! Wetlands are one of many habitats that encompass a watershed and provide a crucial connection between land and the ocean. They also provide functions, known as ecosystem services, that are vital not only to the native and migratory species that inhabit them, but to humans as well. Some of these important functions include: mitigation of climate change by trapping carbon dioxide (carbon sink), serving as a buffer zone during flooding events, maintaining water supplies by replenishing aquifers and filtering water that passes through, and providing essential habitat for plants and wildlife. You can help protect the Bolsa Chica wetlands, its threatened species and their habitats, while at the same time supporting the education of thousands of K-12 students with your donation to the Bolsa Chica Conservancy today. Your support of the Bolsa Chica Conservancy’s STEM-based educational programs on wetland science, watersheds, coastal ecology, environmental sustainability, and habitat restoration will make a world of difference to students in need. https://bolsachica.charityproud.org/Donate
Donate to Help Children and Adults Reach Milestones at ECF
ALL SUMMER LONG! To provide the highest quality of service to the people of all ages with special needs, ECF must raise $2M to cover costs of programming. Make a campaign gift today to help children and adults reach milestones such as, a child's first steps, a student's high school graduation or an adult's first paycheck.
Donate to Help Children and Adults Reach Milestones at ECF
ALL SUMMER LONG! In-kind donations and tangible personal property can be donated to the ECF! If you want to help our friends at ECF with donations, please contact ECF Development at lkelly@ecf.net or call 310-773-9437.
Become a Member of Friends of the LA River
ALL SUMMER LONG! When you become a member of Friends of the Los Angeles River (FoLAR), you help us better fulfill our goal to build capacity for students, communities, and future environmental leaders to advocate for a naturally climate-adapted LA River. Your membership provides crucial support for equitable climate resilience and healthy ecosystems on the LA River. Becoming a member has the added benefits of accessing member-only items and events.
Join the Fight Against Hunger By Donating to the Long Beach Community Table
ALL SUMMER LONG! Long Beach Community Table (LBCT) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, cooperative (meaning that all volunteers and recipients share in the effort and the benefits), that nourish those who are struggling and provides resources that allow everyone involved to mutually sustain each other, their families, and their neighbors. They are always in need of monetary donations, as well donations related to hygiene items, gardening supplies, and vehicles/facilities.
Donate to Los Angeles County Teen Challenge To Help Fight Addiction
ALL SUMMER LONG! Contribute a gift to those caught in the nightmare of substance abuse.
Donate to Los Angeles Mission and Fight Poverty and Homelessness
ALL SUMMER LONG! Whether they lost their job because of the pandemic or were experiencing homelessness before this crisis, so many Skid Row neighbors need a compassionate supporter like you.
Donate to the Los Angeles Rabbit Foundation and Care For a Rabbit
ALL SUMMER LONG! Los Angeles Rabbit Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that is run by unpaid volunteers. Your donations will directly pay for operations, food, supplies and veterinary care for foster rabbits!
Donate and Help Love On 4 Paws Provide Therapy to Our Furry Friends
ALL SUMMER LONG! Love On 4 Paws provides animal-assisted therapy. They have a continuing need for funds to cover cameras, film, uniforms, sanitary supplies, yearly vet checkups, outreach expenses, and more. Your donation will help! There are three ways to donate
Donate to the Bike MS Campaign
ALL SUMMER LONG! The money you donate at Bike MS funds groundbreaking research – like developing new disease-modifying therapies – to get them closer to a cure. Your donation also supports National Multiple Sclerosis Society resources, programs and services that give people affected by MS what they need to live their best lives.
Featured Projects
Join Big Sunday for our Accessible Wednesday at 10am Event
Big Sunday,
passion@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
A spin-off of our flagship weekly event TM@10, Accessible Wednesdays @ 10 (AW@10 for short) hosts volunteers every Wednesday to work on hands-on projects to help local nonprofits. The difference? The projects we do on Wednesdays are specially geared to be accessible to folks of all ability levels! Our guests of honor at each AW@10 are groups of volunteers with intellectual and developmental disabilities from some of our partner organizations like AbilityFirst, ETTA, PassAbility, Partners For Potential, and Arroyo Development Services. At Big Sunday, we firmly believe that everyone has something to give, and that everyone has fun helping others! Anyone and everyone is invited to join us for AW@10, whether it’s with a group or as an individual who wants to help out and hang out with some of the best volunteers in the business. From assembling goodie bags for unhoused people and their dogs to decorating pumpkins for underserved kids at Halloween, there’s always something fun going on at AW@10.
Create Mosaic Suns With Big Sunday at our Art Tuesdays
Big Sunday,
josh@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
Every Tuesday, volunteers join us at Big Sunday HQ to decorate mosaics in the shape of a sun. These beautiful works of art are then donated to schools, shelters, food banks – anywhere in need of a little more sunshine and warmth! This wonderful project is the brainchild of our old friend Cathy Weiss and led by Cathy and our own Big Sunday staff. You don’t need to be a brilliant artist to participate – just friendly and sincere. Just about everybody who’s worked on one tells us the mosaic suns are their favorite Big Sunday project!
Join Big Sunday for our Thursday Morning at 10am Events
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
TM@10 (Thursday Morning @ 10) is not only one of our favorite programs, but it’s one of our most popular, too! Every Thursday morning from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM, volunteers gather at Big Sunday HQ to work on hands-on projects that help local nonprofits. We’ve assembled birthday gifts for folks in shelters, written letters to soldiers stationed overseas, packed backpacks for ex-gang members starting college, made fleece blankets for shelter kittens, and done about a thousand other fun and meaningful things. In classic Big Sunday fashion, it’s a great way for people to meet new people, work together, and enjoy some laughs while helping someone else. It’s no wonder we have so many regulars who come every single week! We’re regularly joined by groups like AbilityFirst, Partners For Potential, and of course the famous TM Ladies! Projects we’ve worked on have benefited organizations like Covenant House, Carlos Santa Ana Academy, PATH, Exceptional Children’s Foundation, Angelus Plaza, and countless others. This week we will be sorting and packing clothing for donations.
Immerse Yourself in a Sound Bath Experience at Big Sunday’s Wellness Mondays
Big Sunday,
alondra@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
New for the summer of ’25: Stop in and come to a special session in the name of happiness, wholeness, and feeling better. Lay down and close your eyes as The Soundbath Center co-founder Jamie Bechtold performs on gongs and crystal singing bowls to generate an atmosphere of relaxing, meditative calm. You can immerse yourself in healing frequencies, take a well-deserved rest, or simply enjoy the soundscape. If you've never felt the soothing, healing effects of a sound bath, you owe it to yourself to check this one out. As the sound bath is best experienced laying down, please bring a blanket and/or yoga mat. All Wellness Mondays are FREE for all participants!
Celebrate Midsummer and Join Big Sunday for Karaoke Night!
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
Mark your calendars: Big Sunday's Karaoke Night will be held Thursday, July 24th from 6:00pm-8:00pm! What better way to celebrate midsummer – and to forget the world’s troubles – than a night of karaoke. And get this: It will be with live musicians, The Pop Rocks Band! The snacks are on us. Price of admission: At least one item for our Back to School Week collection. (No, you don’t have to sing. And no, you don’t have to be a good singer. Trust us. Big Sunday's Karaoke will be held in our headquarters: 1741 N Cherokee Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028. There is meter parking and street parking around our office or you can park at the public parking garage right across the street from our building! Please note that the parking garage across the street has a fee of $12. If you have any questions, please contact: Nicolo at nicolo@bigsunday.org! Hope to see you there!
Come Along On The Donut Crawl! – Big Sunday’s Friday Field Trips
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
For the past few summers, we've had many adventures with all kinds of nice people – vets, foster youth, people experiencing homelessness – all over the city. Including our now-famous Donut Crawl! Here's what it is: We're renting a very cool party bus. It will be leaving from our HQ in Hollywood. We've invited nice but struggling folks from all over town with all kinds of challenges. Then again, we all have some kind of challenges. We'll all get on the bus. We'll be picking up and sampling donuts from donut stores around town, and, together, making our own, unassailable list of which are best in numerous categories. Even better (as if anything could possibly be better than sampling donuts from all over town), we'll also be enjoying one another's company! Please note that there are two Crawls – one from 9:30-11, and another from 11-12:30.
Get Flexible at Goat Yoga – Big Sunday’s Wellness Mondays
Big Sunday,
alondra@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
New for the summer of ’25: Stop in and come to a special session in the name of happiness, wholeness, and feeling better. Back by popular demand! Work out with the only trained yoga goats in the country! The goats are your helpers during a yoga class for all ages and skill levels. They help you deepen stretches, improve your core strength, test balance, and give you a goat massage at the end! There will be one hour of yoga, followed by an hour of chilling with the goats!
Let’s Go Bowling – Big Sunday’s Friday Field Trips
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
For the past few summers, we've had many adventures with all kinds of nice people – vets, foster youth, people experiencing homelessness – all over the city. One of our oldest and most beloved is Bowling! Every year, we head out to Corbin Bowl in Tarzana for a day full of strikes, spares, gutterballs, and pizza! It's a great old bowling alley with fun retro vibes, and best of all it's free. We hope you'll join us to share in the community spirit. Please note that this event is not at Big Sunday HQ in Hollywood – we'll meet you out there in beautiful Tarzana! If you'd like to bring a large group, please contact nicolo@bigsunday.org.
Show Off Your Smarts at Big Sunday’s Trivia Night!
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
Test your knowledge (trivia) and test your reflexes (buzzer) on another memorable Big Sunday Trivia Night, hosted by our own Nico and Madison. The snacks are on us for this, too! Price of admission: At least one item for our Back to School Week collection. (And no, we won’t think less of you if you know more facts about sitcoms than you do about botany.) There will be awesome prizes and totally good vibes!