We've started the new year running, with increased momentum to apply our temporary shelter solution towards fixing the lack of emergency shelter for the homeless in our home base, Los Angeles. Twelve months since the passage of Measure H, there remains an urgent need to provide immediate, consistent places to sleep for the 78% of our local homeless who are unsheltered at night. In just two days from now, all of the Winter Shelters which have been operating since December will close. The folks who have yet to secure transitional housing and have been utilizing these facilities will face real uncertainty as to where they may rest safely. We need to broaden our collective notions on how to effectively meet this fundamental human need, and Cardborigami is working hard on introducing a new approach. Please join us.

Here's a peek at what we're up to:

Proving that localized emergency shelter can be responsive, efficient and community-building. Starting in April, our proposal to reimagine emergency homeless shelters will participate in the My LA2050 Activation Challenge. When it goes live to the public, you can help us rise to the top.
Lighting the way for conversation around shelter as a first step out of homelessness, and giving everyone a thoughtful way to express the warmth of home. We will unveil what we have been hatching in the ongoing 2018 UCLA Social Enterprise Academy in a few months; stay tuned.

Easy, continuous ways for you to fuel us forward --

Click on the link or banner below to set us up as your Amazon Smile charity; there's a bonus if you act by Saturday!
For those who participate in a donor-advised fund, or are considering it as a new tax strategy, you can direct your fund advisor to include us in your social investments at a frequency of your choice here.

In collaboration,

Genevieve

Genevieve Liang
Executive Director || Cardborigami
p: 323.786.3211
e: genevieve@cardborigami.org