WELCOME TO THE SUNDAY LUNCH DRIVE

Thank you so much for joining us in helping feed our neighbors.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. The lunch drive happens every Sunday morning. Rain or shine.

2. You make lunches at home.

3. Most folks make about 10 lunches, but you can make as many or as few as you like.

4. Label the bag with the type of sandwich (this is important and gives the recipients a choice.)

5. Be generous. This is the only meal these folks get all day.

6. Lunches should contain at least 7 items:

   • A drink (water, Capri sun, soda)

   • Sandwich (PB+J, Turkey, Ham + Cheese are most common)

   • Potato Chips (individually packaged)

   • Fruit (oranges, apple sauce, bananas. No apples: too hard on teeth)

   • Cookies (individually packaged)

   • A  snack (beef jerky, granola bar, nuts, etc.)

7. No Glass

8. Some people decorate their bags. Not required but much appreciated.

9. Drop your lunches off at one of the locations:

Visit the HODG Lunch Drive page for more info!

HODG Comedy Night

Announcing HangOut, Laugh + Do Good!  The very first HODG Comedy event.  HODG members comedian, Bob Siegel and story-teller, Andy Boyle are fricking the best and have pulled together an incredible line up of hilarious people who will make us laugh.  How badly do I need that??!

This evening of side-splitting awesomeness will be in the back yard too – because it’s ours and it's free and my neighbors don't hate me just yet!  (They are all invited!)

FYI. We are using this event to raise money for IDEPSCA.  As mentioned above, IDEPSCA supports and advocates for day laborers across the city.  We are proud to be able to assist them in any way that we can.  Making you guys cackle in laughter is one way to do that.

Hang Out, Laugh + Do Good

An evening of comedy in support of IDEPSCA
(Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California)

SAVE THE DATE

Sunday, Oct 19
5pm - 7pm

Pay-what-you-can :)

No Kings Protest #2

No thrones. No crowns.  No Kings.  October 18 is another day of nonviolent opposition to the Trump administrations authoritarian power grabs.  There will be protests across the city.  

I can't quite tell yet from the maps where or when the protest will begin in DTLA.  I assume 10am, at City Hall, similar to last time.  So for now the plan is to meet up at my house at 9:30am -- this time may change depending on if any more info comes out.  Then, like last time We will all then walk one block to the Metro Bus #14 stop on Van Ness and Beverly, and all get on the bus together. 

Wear your "No Kings" shirt!  If you didn't get one last time, I had more made, so hopefully you'll get one this time. (first come, first serve)

 

No Kings Day 2

Saturday, October 18

9:30 meet up (note: this may change)
153 S. Norton Ave

Stay-tuned for more info.

WELCOME TO THE SUNDAY LUNCH DRIVE

Thank you so much for joining us in helping feed our neighbors.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. The lunch drive happens every Sunday morning. Rain or shine.

2. You make lunches at home.

3. Most folks make about 10 lunches, but you can make as many or as few as you like.

4. Label the bag with the type of sandwich (this is important and gives the recipients a choice.)

5. Be generous. This is the only meal these folks get all day.

6. Lunches should contain at least 7 items:

   • A drink (water, Capri sun, soda)

   • Sandwich (PB+J, Turkey, Ham + Cheese are most common)

   • Potato Chips (individually packaged)

   • Fruit (oranges, apple sauce, bananas. No apples: too hard on teeth)

   • Cookies (individually packaged)

   • A  snack (beef jerky, granola bar, nuts, etc.)

7. No Glass

8. Some people decorate their bags. Not required but much appreciated.

9. Drop your lunches off at one of the locations:

Visit the HODG Lunch Drive page for more info!

HODG Canvassing for Prop 50

HODG and Grassroots Democrats HQ are partnering in Saturday Door Knocking for Prop 50!

Every Saturday morning (9am - noon) from now through Oct 18 we'll be knocking on doors in order to educate and remind our fellow Angelenos to vote YES on PROP 50.  We will be doing it close by.  There’s no long drive. And we will be doing it together.  

SO…

...if you care about beating Trump at his own game, about winning back the House in 2026, and about making sure I’m not alone again on a Saturday morning, please sign up for a couple of sessions.
 

Knock + Talk for 50
Weekend Canvassing with HODG + GDHQ
9am - noon

Saturdays: Sept 20, Sept 27, Oct 4, Oct 11
Sunday: Oct 19

HANCOCK PARK
(exact meet up location with RSVP)

WELCOME TO THE SUNDAY LUNCH DRIVE

Thank you so much for joining us in helping feed our neighbors.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. The lunch drive happens every Sunday morning. Rain or shine.

2. You make lunches at home.

3. Most folks make about 10 lunches, but you can make as many or as few as you like.

4. Label the bag with the type of sandwich (this is important and gives the recipients a choice.)

5. Be generous. This is the only meal these folks get all day.

6. Lunches should contain at least 7 items:

   • A drink (water, Capri sun, soda)

   • Sandwich (PB+J, Turkey, Ham + Cheese are most common)

   • Potato Chips (individually packaged)

   • Fruit (oranges, apple sauce, bananas. No apples: too hard on teeth)

   • Cookies (individually packaged)

   • A  snack (beef jerky, granola bar, nuts, etc.)

7. No Glass

8. Some people decorate their bags. Not required but much appreciated.

9. Drop your lunches off at one of the locations:

Visit the HODG Lunch Drive page for more info!

HODG Canvassing for Prop 50

HODG and Grassroots Democrats HQ are partnering in Saturday Door Knocking for Prop 50!

Every Saturday morning (9am - noon) from now through Oct 18 we'll be knocking on doors in order to educate and remind our fellow Angelenos to vote YES on PROP 50.  We will be doing it close by.  There’s no long drive. And we will be doing it together.  

SO…

...if you care about beating Trump at his own game, about winning back the House in 2026, and about making sure I’m not alone again on a Saturday morning, please sign up for a couple of sessions.
 

Knock + Talk for 50
Weekend Canvassing with HODG + GDHQ
9am - noon

Saturdays: Sept 20, Sept 27, Oct 4, Oct 11
Sunday: Oct 19

HANCOCK PARK
(exact meet up location with RSVP)

WELCOME TO THE SUNDAY LUNCH DRIVE

Thank you so much for joining us in helping feed our neighbors.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. The lunch drive happens every Sunday morning. Rain or shine.

2. You make lunches at home.

3. Most folks make about 10 lunches, but you can make as many or as few as you like.

4. Label the bag with the type of sandwich (this is important and gives the recipients a choice.)

5. Be generous. This is the only meal these folks get all day.

6. Lunches should contain at least 7 items:

   • A drink (water, Capri sun, soda)

   • Sandwich (PB+J, Turkey, Ham + Cheese are most common)

   • Potato Chips (individually packaged)

   • Fruit (oranges, apple sauce, bananas. No apples: too hard on teeth)

   • Cookies (individually packaged)

   • A  snack (beef jerky, granola bar, nuts, etc.)

7. No Glass

8. Some people decorate their bags. Not required but much appreciated.

9. Drop your lunches off at one of the locations:

Visit the HODG Lunch Drive page for more info!

HODG Canvassing for Prop 50

HODG and Grassroots Democrats HQ are partnering in Saturday Door Knocking for Prop 50!

Every Saturday morning (9am - noon) from now through Oct 18 we'll be knocking on doors in order to educate and remind our fellow Angelenos to vote YES on PROP 50.  We will be doing it close by.  There’s no long drive. And we will be doing it together.  

SO…

...if you care about beating Trump at his own game, about winning back the House in 2026, and about making sure I’m not alone again on a Saturday morning, please sign up for a couple of sessions.
 

Knock + Talk for 50
Weekend Canvassing with HODG + GDHQ
9am - noon

Saturdays: Sept 20, Sept 27, Oct 4, Oct 11
Sunday: Oct 19

HANCOCK PARK
(exact meet up location with RSVP)

Project Ropa Clothing + Hygiene Drive

Start cleaning out your closets and bathroom cabinets, folks!  The next Clothing Drive for Project Ropa is coming.  Project Ropa is an LA-based nonprofit that has a dual mission:  to reduce textile waste and to restore dignity to people facing homelessness and extreme poverty by providing clean clothes, and hygiene essentials.

HODG has been proudly working with Project Ropa for years.  We are so glad to have the opportunity to do it again.  We hope you are too.

*** All clothes should be gently used.  That means no tears, no stains (ew!).  Something that you would give to a friend. 

Below is their current list of needs.  

• Men’s Sneakers & Boots

• Women’s T-Shirts (Sizes L-2XL)

• Men’s Pants (Sizes 34–48)

• Baseball Hats

• Men’s Belts

• Travel-size Toiletries: Shampoo, Toothpaste, Shaving Cream, Hand Sanitizer, Sunscreen, Non-electric Razors

• Bandaids

• Backpacks

• Granola Bars

• Water bottles

• Individually wrapped rolls of toilet paper

Clothing + Hygiene Drive 
For Project Ropa

UPDATE:

DROP-OFF MOVED TO WEDNESDAY, SEPT 24
10am - noon

Marissa’s House
243 N. Lucerne Blvd.
Larchmont Village

No need to RSVP or call ahead,
just drop your clothes off on
Weds morning and we'll deal.

Postcarding for Prop 50

It's all about Prop 50, folks. Our last ditch effort to have a chance at winning back the house, and our country, in 2026.  The Election is Nov 4, 2026.  Mail in ballots will go out next month. So we don’t have a lot of time.

(For those who don’t know, Prop 50 allows California to redraw our congressional district maps starting in 2026 until 2030.  It is a response by Governor Newsom to the Republican redistricting that’s happened in Texas – and soon to happen in other states – which will increase the number of Republican majority districts.)

HODG will be doing whatever it takes to make sure Prop 50 passes.  This is no slam dunk.  Polls show that if asked today only 30+% of CA Dems would vote yes.  When educated about why we are doing it that percentage goes up to 50+%.  That means we have to start talking to every Dem we know about why Prop 50 is important.

To get this ball rolling, please join one – or all – of these upcoming actions, and be on the lookout for much more!
 

POSTCARDING FOR PROP 50

Sun, Sept 7
10am - noon
Amy Iorio's house
Santa Monica 
RSVP for address:
hodgwestla@gmail.com 


Sun, Sept 14th
10am -noon
Marjorie Ornston’s house
West LA
RSVP for address:
hodgwestla@gmail.com 


Sun, Sept 21
10am - noon
Jennifer's House
153 S. Norton Ave
Larchmont Village
RSVP: https://forms.gle/adtzQUgwBBdvTEV39

HODG Canvassing for Prop 50

HODG and Grassroots Democrats HQ are partnering in Saturday Door Knocking for Prop 50!

Every Saturday morning (9am - noon) from now through Oct 18 (And Sunday, Oct 19) we'll be knocking on doors in order to educate and remind our fellow Angelenos to vote YES on PROP 50.  We will be doing it close by. There’s no long drive. And we will be doing it together.  

SO…

...if you care about beating Trump at his own game, about winning back the House in 2026, and about making sure I’m not alone again on a Saturday morning, please sign up for a couple of sessions.
 

Knock + Talk for 50
Weekend Canvassing with HODG + GDHQ
9am - noon

Saturdays: Sept 20, Sept 27, Oct 4, Oct 11
Sunday: Oct 19

HANCOCK PARK
(exact meet up location with RSVP)

HODG Shabbat

Yep, this is happening on Friday. You haven't heard much about it because our plans keep changing.  Initially, we wanted to have a sing-along campfire but it didn’t seem like many people were up for that.  Maybe it's a little tone deaf -- pun totally intended!! --  for us all to be singing when there's so much pain in the world. I don't know if that's right, but that's how it's been feeling. Anyway, we moved off of that onto a night about Prop 50, but we struggled to land a speaker/cheerleader who was worthy of you all. I guess high self-esteem, at least in the face of politicians. So, this is the first HODG Shabbat without a plan. Let's see how it goes. 

HODG Shabbat
(the first without a plan)

Friday, Sept 19
7pm

153 S. Norton Ave
Larchmont.

Dinner provided.
Bring a drink or dessert to share.

WELCOME TO THE SUNDAY LUNCH DRIVE

Thank you so much for joining us in helping feed our neighbors.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. The lunch drive happens every Sunday morning. Rain or shine.

2. You make lunches at home.

3. Most folks make about 10 lunches, but you can make as many or as few as you like.

4. Label the bag with the type of sandwich (this is important and gives the recipients a choice.)

5. Be generous. This is the only meal these folks get all day.

6. Lunches should contain at least 7 items:

   • A drink (water, Capri sun, soda)

   • Sandwich (PB+J, Turkey, Ham + Cheese are most common)

   • Potato Chips (individually packaged)

   • Fruit (oranges, apple sauce, bananas. No apples: too hard on teeth)

   • Cookies (individually packaged)

   • A  snack (beef jerky, granola bar, nuts, etc.)

7. No Glass

8. Some people decorate their bags. Not required but much appreciated.

9. Drop your lunches off at one of the locations:

Visit the HODG Lunch Drive page for more info!

Organizing for Prop 50

No surprise that studies show that humans are more likely to take action – vote, support an issue, come to a meeting – if they hear about it from someone they already know and trust.

That’s what this action is about.  We are going to come together, open up our contact lists, and email or text all the California Dems in there about Prop 50 (we will have sample emails that you can personalize etc.)

I've already started doing this: reaching out to people some of whom I haven’t spoken to in decades.  And guess what: some of them write back!  “It’s so good to hear from you… how are you… etc.  

Obviously, we could each do this at home alone, but I’m a library/coffee shop girl.  I like doing solo work in the company of others.  If that sounds like you, then come on over!  Don’t forget your phone/lap top!
 

RELATIONAL ORGANIZING for PROP 50

Saturday, Sept 13

10am - noon

Marissa’s House
243 N. Lucerne

Bring your laptop/cell phone!

No need to RSVP,  just mark your calendar
and come on over.  

ACLU Zoom - Protecting Democracy

The ACLU has been hosting a great new series about People Power.  This coming week is the third session – you do not need to have attended the first two – and it’s about how to organize effectively in your community and have persuasive conversations that motivate people to take action.   

I signed up because I want to learn that second part -- how to motivate people.  If you want to do that too -- and I hope you do! -- then join me.  It's one hour on zoom!

Space is limited, so sign up now to attend. 

ACLU’s People Power Series #3:

Organizing to Protect Democracy

Tues, Sept 9

5pm PT

On Zoom

Climate Letter Writing

The HODG Climate Team is hosting a letter writing session. We will be writing to our electeds about saving our public lands from being used as bargaining chips! We will also be asking our state reps about certain state legislation. Last day for voting on California bills is September 12.
 

Climate Letter Writing

Sunday, September 7
10am - noon

Polly's
134 S. Van Ness Ave

HODG Backyard Lunch Making

Mark your calendars! Every month we gather together and make beautiful lunches for food-insecure people.  It's always a good vibe, and will remind you that us humans are meant to actually be WITH each other, in real life.  Not just texting with each other. 

I was recently at a thing where someone reminded me that 'back in the day,' when  Americans were fighting for our freedom, for civil rights, for women's rights, the people who put together those movements actually knew each other BEFORE they organized. They sat around tables together. They argued in person.  They trusted each other.  And then they fought the empire. 

These Backyard Lunch Making sessions are that!  When we sit around a table and make sandwiches together, when we decorate bags together, we are building relationships.  We are swapping stories and disagreeing and getting to know each other.  THAT is exactly what Trump and his elves don't want.  They want us to silo ourselves, and get sad and give up.  Lunch making does the opposite. 

So like I said, mark your calendars, sign up to bring something and come build some relationships.  That's the real way we are going to beat this bullshit.

HODG BACKYARD LUNCH-MAKING
Sunday, Aug 31

10am - noon
153 S. Norton Ave

Bring your friends.
Bring your kids
Please don't bring your dogs.

Andd bring a lunch item (sign up below) -- if you can't swing that, come anyway!

WELCOME TO THE SUNDAY LUNCH DRIVE

Thank you so much for joining us in helping feed our neighbors.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. The lunch drive happens every Sunday morning. Rain or shine.

2. You make lunches at home.

3. Most folks make about 10 lunches, but you can make as many or as few as you like.

4. Label the bag with the type of sandwich (this is important and gives the recipients a choice.)

5. Be generous. This is the only meal these folks get all day.

6. Lunches should contain at least 7 items:

   • A drink (water, Capri sun, soda)

   • Sandwich (PB+J, Turkey, Ham + Cheese are most common)

   • Potato Chips (individually packaged)

   • Fruit (oranges, apple sauce, bananas. No apples: too hard on teeth)

   • Cookies (individually packaged)

   • A  snack (beef jerky, granola bar, nuts, etc.)

7. No Glass

8. Some people decorate their bags. Not required but much appreciated.

9. Drop your lunches off at one of the locations:

Visit the HODG Lunch Drive page for more info!

DRAG QUEEN BINGO

People! Mark your calendars for Drag Queen Bingo on August 20th at Hamburger Mary's!!!

We'll be raising funds for Inclusive Action, an incredible org supporting underinvested communities in LA...(think street vendors!). Their work is vital right now!!

And what better way to say no! to the far right than playing bingo with some fabulous drag queens? 

Details:

Wednesday, August 20

7:00pm

Hamburger Mary's:

8288 Santa Monica Boulevard (WeHo)

Please RSVP... space is limited!

Bingo cards available for purchase at the door for $20. CASH or VENMO appreciated.

We'll have lots of prizes + live auction items.

Will be fun! And we need that right now!

Feel free to invite friends!

Please Don't Give Up On Us:
Stories from Incarcerated Children and Youth in CA

I wasn't even gonna list this action.  Why bother?  No one's gonna go.  Except Helen and Stacey.  It's true. Only a few of us give a shit about "justice involved" youth.  Even though all of the kids in Los Padrinos are "pre-disposition" which means they are just waiting to see a judge.  So they haven't been found guilty of anything!  And guess what? There's not bail in juvenile hall.  Because of semantics --  kids aren't being "punished, or tried," they're being detained. If you go to Los Padrinos -- which a handful of us have, in fact Helen goes every week! -- it looks a helluva lot like jail.  

Oh, also, you've probably heard -- or maybe not -- since as I said no one really cares... CA Attorney General Bonta is considering putting our juvenile halls in receivership, so instead of Probation, a third party would oversee them.  That's because kids are dying and ODing in there. But no one really knows because... well, I said it already.  

Okay, so I was feeling pretty hopeless about this action, but for some reason I asked Helen and Stacy and Peggy if they thought it might be a good on-ramp for anyone who's interested in learning aobut our Youth Justice system, and they both said Hell, yes!  (Ok, I added the "hell" but they said yes!)  

So here goes:

OYCR stands for Office of Youth and Community Restoration.   It's a state agency that was established to help in the transition from a punitive state-run juvenile system (yes, the state used to run juvie) to a county-based system focused on rehabilitation and healing. OYCR promotes restorative justice (of which I am a big believer).  It also supports the reintegration of youth back into their community. 

The OYCR is hosting a seminar entitled: Please Don’t Give Up on Us: Stories From Incarcerated Children and Youth in California.  This will be a conversation with justice-involved youth and the community advocates show serve them. The purpose of this  session is to illustrate how systems can support healing and rehabilitation.  Not that I thikn any of us really care about that, but if you do, this is a great place to start.
 

Please Don't Give Up On Us:
Stories from Incarcerated Children and Youth in CA

Tues, Aug 19
Noon - 1pm (PT)
ZOOM

Letter Writing & Backpack Drive with School Supplies

LAUSD starts THIS TUESDAY. We are in the midst of many convos with schools and various organizations about protecting families. Right now, here’s what we know about how HODG can help right now:

a.) LOVE LETTER WRITING + BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLIES. Yep, you read that right.  When I reached out to Alliance Middle School Academy, the outreach coordinator said that what the families really need right now is to feel our love.  They are asking for 100 (neatly) handwritten letters so each of their “scholars” can take them home and read them to their family.  How beautiful is that? So… 

HODG is hosting a LOVE LETTER WRITING gathering. We will write letters to these families who are living in fear.  We will also be collecting school supplies for 100 scholars, so we are asking that you bring those with you.  If you can’t come to the event, please send them to me and I will get them to the school. 

Here is the list they sent me:

• Backpack with binder (1”)

• Lined paper (college rule)

• Sketch book

• Ball point pens

• Markers

• Dry erase markers (thin ones)

• Calculators (simple ones are okay)
  
  Also, they are asking for art kits.
   

LOVE LETTER WRITING GATHERING
And BACK TO SCHOOL Drive

Sunday, Aug 17
10am - noon

153 S. Norton Ave

**bring school supplies**

**if you can’t make it please 
send/drop school supplies off at my house: 

153 S. Norton Ave, LA 90004**

DEADLINE: Sunday, Aug 17

Planned Parenthood Zoom

Planned Parenthood’s been defunded. That you already know. But do you know what a defunded PP means? Or what we should each be doing about it? And what the heck does the new preliminary injuction mean?

The answers are complicated, and changing by the day.  Which is why we are hosting a VIRTUAL CONVERSATION with SUE DUNLAP, the PREZ of PLANNED PARENTHOOD LA.

She will be joining us for a casual discussion about what defunding means for the organization, for patients, for health care workers, how – or if – the state is stepping into help, and what the organization needs from us.

It’s interesting, and I think meaningful that every time we do an assessment of topics HODGers are interested in, Repro Rights is NEVER on the list.  I think a lot of us are all still living in fantasy land and believe that whatever happens to Planned Parenthood, to contraception, to abortion etc. isn’t going to affect us.  That is very mistaken.  Sue Dunlap will tell you why. 

All are welcome. Especially your friends who claim they believe in the right for women to control their bodies, but don't do a damn thing about it.

What The Heck is Happening with Planned Parenthood?

 A convo with Sue Dunlap,
president of Planned Parenthood LA

Wednesday, Aug 13

6pm - 7pm

On Zoom

WELCOME TO THE SUNDAY LUNCH DRIVE

Thank you so much for joining us in helping feed our neighbors.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. The lunch drive happens every Sunday morning. Rain or shine.

2. You make lunches at home.

3. Most folks make about 10 lunches, but you can make as many or as few as you like.

4. Label the bag with the type of sandwich (this is important and gives the recipients a choice.)

5. Be generous. This is the only meal these folks get all day.

6. Lunches should contain at least 7 items:

   • A drink (water, Capri sun, soda)

   • Sandwich (PB+J, Turkey, Ham + Cheese are most common)

   • Potato Chips (individually packaged)

   • Fruit (oranges, apple sauce, bananas. No apples: too hard on teeth)

   • Cookies (individually packaged)

   • A  snack (beef jerky, granola bar, nuts, etc.)

7. No Glass

8. Some people decorate their bags. Not required but much appreciated.

9. Drop your lunches off at one of the locations:

Visit the HODG Lunch Drive page for more info!

HODG Clothing Swap

SAVE THE DATE!

SAVE YOUR CLOTHES!

It’s our First-Ever HODG Clothing Swap

Date: Saturday, August 9th
Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: Address provided upon RSVP 

Join us for HODG's first-ever fashion-filled, recycle-minded, do-goodery event of the summer!

What to Bring:

- Clothes, Accessories, Bags & Shoes to SWAP or DONATE

- Max: 10-12 items

- This is clothing you would give to a friend. No items sitting in your garage. 

- Potluck Treat - Something to sip or snack on — sweet or savory :) 

Let’s eat, drink, mingle, and score some fabulous fashion finds — while doing some good in the process! Leftover items will be donated to a local organization serving those in need.

Trying on items? Wear something you can easily change over — quick swaps encouraged!

Participation Guidelines:

✔ All clothing must be gently used
✔ Items must be clean, unstained, and tear-free
✔ Shoes and accessories should be in good, wearable condition
✔ All sizes and styles welcome

FEEL FREE TO INVITE A FRIEND — just make sure they know the guidelines above.

Questions? Email us at hangoutdogood@gmail.com. 

WELCOME TO THE SUNDAY LUNCH DRIVE

Thank you so much for joining us in helping feed our neighbors.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. The lunch drive happens every Sunday morning. Rain or shine.

2. You make lunches at home.

3. Most folks make about 10 lunches, but you can make as many or as few as you like.

4. Label the bag with the type of sandwich (this is important and gives the recipients a choice.)

5. Be generous. This is the only meal these folks get all day.

6. Lunches should contain at least 7 items:

   • A drink (water, Capri sun, soda)

   • Sandwich (PB+J, Turkey, Ham + Cheese are most common)

   • Potato Chips (individually packaged)

   • Fruit (oranges, apple sauce, bananas. No apples: too hard on teeth)

   • Cookies (individually packaged)

   • A  snack (beef jerky, granola bar, nuts, etc.)

7. No Glass

8. Some people decorate their bags. Not required but much appreciated.

9. Drop your lunches off at one of the locations:

Visit the HODG Lunch Drive page for more info!

Volunteer at Covenant House

Covenant House -- a shelter for homeless teens/youth -- is hosting a JOB RESOURCE FAIR on  Tuesday, July 30th from 12–3 PM and they are looking for help.

The goal of the fair is to provide a safe, empowering space for transitional-aged youth to access free haircuts, professional headshots, professional clothing, etc.  They need HODG to helping out with:

• Leading mock interviews with youth (I am doing this!) 
   

• Donate interview clothes to have at the fair (see below for more info)
   

• Lead any workshop/ideas you have 

We used to collaborate all the time with Covenant House.  We did movie nights, yoga in the park, etc.  I don't really know why we stopped -- I think it had to do with staffing but not totally sure -- at any rate I am so psyched they reached out. 

Covenant house is an incredible org, and this is an really meaningful way to connect directly with the young people living there.   I hope I am not the only one who shows!  Come with me!

 

Job Resource Fair with Covenant House

Tuesday, July 30

12:00pm - 3:00pm

1325 N. Western Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Please email Leslie, & tell her you're from HODG and how you'd like to participate: lcamposcristobal@covca.org. 
 

** For Professional Clothing:  there are a couple options: 

1. you can host a clothing drive, and gather your peeps' unwanted professional/work clothes, and arrange with Leslie to bring them to Covenant House.

2. Or you can drop them off at my House – 153 S. Norton Ave – and I will bring them.  Deadline for this option:  Monday, July 28.