I'm happy to share that our participation in the UCLA Social Enterprise Academy earned Cardborigami $5,000 in seed money to develop a new earned-income venture to support our mission of sheltering people who are homeless in LA. Our founder, Tina Hovsepian, will be incubating the new venture: Cardborigami Design, a high-design company that will produce various home and consumer products that will help fund our social causes. See our pitch deck here; we are still looking for additional funding to launch. A big thank you goes out to the creative and dedicated team of 4 UCLA undergraduates who worked with us throughout the 6-month program. Stay tuned for more on this in the future!

In the meanwhile, as we come to the halfway mark of this year, our Board and I have just finalized our Annual Report for 2017. I'd love to hear your comments about where we've been, and where we're headed.

This spring we have partnered with New Earth to expand our 'Youthployment'shelter assembly / job skills training program, which had initially been piloted in summer 2016. We're excited to have begun working with a motivated group of 10 students from the Arts & Leadership Academy to continuously produce Cardborigami's shelters, and we are all looking forward to see their handiwork out in the world soon, providing Cardborigami shelters to our displaced homeless neighbors in LA and other populations in need.

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In Collaboration,

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