A hot plate of food when it’s needed most. For people fighting or fleeing disasters, we are here. 

Ten years ago, my wife Patricia and I had a big dream to start World Central Kitchen. We envisioned an organization that would create smart solutions to hunger and poverty, and for many years we saw an amazing impact through our clean cookstoves initiative, culinary training programs, and social enterprise ventures that empower communities and strengthen economies. But we had no idea we would one day be answering the call in Puerto Rico and around the world – “Food First Responders” serving millions of meals each year. In the process, we learned that a small NGO can change the world through the power of food.

Last year, WCK activated in response to dozens of disasters — some of them natural, and some man-made. From serving children in the shelters on our border with Mexico to making deliveries by lamplight to those keeping watch over beaches in Indonesia, our fight to feed the hungry has taken us to more places than we ever expected.

At the same time, WCK continues planting roots in the communities where we work. Our Plow to Plate program is helping to create food resiliency in the face of future disasters. In Haiti, aspiring chefs are obtaining the skills and confidence they need to elevate their careers and the country’s tourism sector.

With your help, we have shown that there is no place too far or disaster too great for our chefs to be there with a hot plate of food when it’s needed most.

I hope you’ll dream with us as we envision a world where there is always a warm meal, an encouraging word, and a helping hand in hard times. Thank you for taking this journey with us.

Join me in fulfilling the inspiring words of John Steinbeck: Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people may eat, we will be there.

We must be there.
- Jose Andres, founder

World Central Kitchen

We are devoted to abolishing immigration detention, while ending the isolation of people currently suffering in this system.

Freedom for Immigrants is a national nonprofit devoted to abolishing immigration detention through two main strategies, while ending the isolation of people currently suffering in this profit¬-driven system. First, we mobilize a network of 4,500 watchdog community members that uncovers and tracks abuses experienced by those in immigration detention, shedding light in a consistent manner for the first time on this hidden system. Second, we are modeling a community-based alternative to detention that welcomes immigrants into the social fabric of the United States. Through these windows into the system, we gather data and stories to combat injustice at the individual level and push systemic change.

Freedom for Immigrants

Reshape America's pretrial system. 100% of online donations are used to post bail and bring people home.

Fight mass incarceration by paying bail for Americans and offering needed support. We believe that paying bail for someone in need is an act of resistance against a system that criminalizes race and poverty and an act of solidarity with local communities and movements for decarceration. Over the next five years, The Bail Project will open dozens sites in high-need jurisdictions with the goal of paying bail for tens of thousands of low-income Americans, all while collecting stories and data that prove money bail is not necessary to ensure people return to court. We won’t stop until meaningful change is achieved and the presumption of innocence is no longer for sale.

The Bail Project

Providing affordable, quality, medical, dental, mental health & pharmacy services through our 5 Los Angeles locations since 1967. 

We’ve come a long way since we opened our doors as the Los Angeles Free Clinic in the Summer of Love, 1967. From a single storefront on Fairfax Avenue, we are now the Saban Community Clinic, with four health centers and one satellite site providing comprehensive medical, behavioral health and dental care plus access to social services.

While a lot has changed over the past 50 years, our founding belief remains the same: that healthcare is a right, not a privilege. The integrated and holistic approach to treating the entire individual, which we pioneered five decades ago, is practiced today as Whole Person Care.

Saban Community Clinic

We have been serving those in need since 1987.  We provide a warm, nutritious meal along with access to basic daily needs, such as clothing, backpacks, sleeping bags, and hygiene items, as well as assistance with housing placement.

  The mission of the Hollywood Food Coalition is to meet and engage with the hungry and homeless citizens in our community to help them find their footing and re-enter the larger community to the best of their abilities.  We accomplish this through the consistency of our nightly Meal Engagement Program, which functions 7 nights a week, 365 days a year.  We provide a hot, nutritious dinner and the opportunity for our clients to access medical care and case management services to assist with providing help with basic daily needs, such as clothing, backpacks, sleeping bags, and hygiene items, as well as assistance with housing placement and referrals.

Hollywood Food Coalition

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WCK provides food to those in need during natural and man-made disasters. Right now in the wake of Covid-19 they are supplying take away meals in NYC. Personally I have seen them in action in Tijuana and they are an amazing organization. 

An amazing organization helping immigrants and detainees being held in Detention Centers across the US. From visiting, helping them get proper paperwork for their asylum hearing, matching them with proper legal help and aiding them after their release. Another personal one for me - been volunteering and have supported the release of several women from Cameroon from Adelanto Detention Center in California. 

50,000+ immigrant children and adults are being detained, many with no path to being released. Some have been kept for 9+ years.

Freedom for Immigrants fights for and supports these unfortunate souls.

Saban Community clinic offers free to sliding scale medical care to those in need. Also free showers in Hollywood and West Hollywood to allow people without homes proper hygiene. They have great outreach within the community and also help with getting people off the streets. 

Joining Jen Woodward in supporting clinics do amazing work for people who need it! 

Love these guys! Volunteer with them once a month. THEY SERVE A HOT MEAL every day of the year for the past 20 plus years. Amazing way to help those in need right in our city. During this pandemic, they are still serving take away meals daily. 