If there is a need, CCC is prepared to fill it and that's where our projects are born. Our biggest and most recognized projects are the annual Holiday Shopping Boutique we create at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital and Dec My Dorm for college-bound youth coming out of the foster system.
At UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital we set up a holiday boutique filled with over 300 gifts. Our young shoppers are the patients themselves, “shopping” for gifts for their caregivers (parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, foster parents and others). In addition, each patient is gifted with a cozy Sherpa blanket to wrap themselves in warmth and love, a giant stuffed animal to cuddle and a holiday snow globe.
Dec My Dorm provides 100+ foster youth who have earned their place in college with the essentials needed to set up their college dorm room. We celebrate these resilient, hard working youth at an event with balloons, DJ, photo booth, food, fun and more.
Some of our additional projects have included: "Goodies To Go," snacks for your belly, love for your soul. We provided thousands of snacks per month for the Ronald McDonald House of Los Angeles where families with hospitalized children reside. Hand painting over 3,000 rocks to create a beautiful "Love Rocks" rock garden at West Hills Hospital, collecting thousands of diapers for homeless mothers and babies, creating annual Mother's Day celebrations for the mothers of children fighting life threatening illnesses and serving countless meals at homeless shelters
During the height of Covid in 2020, our "Goodies To Go" pivoted, supporting the hardworking healthcare heroes at 12 local hospitals by supplying them weekly with thousands of snacks and hundreds of meals.
At Connecting a Caring Community, we are about experiences that have impact on the lives of everyone involved.
At Connecting a Caring Community we are about experiences that have impact on the lives of everyone involved.
2023 HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE
Every Christmas, Connecting A Caring Community brings holiday cheer to the pediatric patients and their families at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital.
annual holiday campaign
Our partner organizations
Grants
In 2022, CCC embarked on a new way of giving back to our partner organizations by forming a grants division.
In two short years, we have given over $100,000 to our partners for decorating hospital rooms for severely ill children, a music program for young men coming out of juvenile hall, a thrift shop to provide vocational skills for children with special needs, providing dorm room essentials for college bound youth coming out of the foster care system, a new kitchen staging area, patio furniture, a welcome area for a housing complex for homeless families, art equipment and supplies and more.
Your contribution helps us create unique and meaningful give back opportunities for our participants AND a portion of your donation goes right back to support our projects and partner organizations. Whether it is serving a meal to the homeless, bringing a “bubbly Mother’s Day brunch” to moms of hospitalized children, providing dorm room essentials for over 100 youth coming out of the foster care system and going off to college, providing gifts for hundreds of hospitalized children and their families or through our grants program, CCC impacts the lives of thousands of people each year.
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