Los Angeles Poverty Department thanks our fabulous donors:

John Achatz, Sasha Anawalt, Austin Hines, Ellen & Paul Alexander, Yvette Alberdingkthijm, Michael Alexander, Michael Alexander and Catherine Gudis, Matthew Allison, Caron Atlas * Gary Blasi, Jeff Beal, Robert Lee, Michael A. Blockstein * Clayton Campbell, Max van Carlson, Bianca Castagnaro, David Collins, Dena Cheng * Timothy Disney * Angi Enriquez, Reanne Estrada, Nancy Evans * Valerie Flagg, Simone Forti * Garry Glassman, Enrico Gnaulati, Philip de Give, Byron Gross * Nathalie Haddad, Abigail Harre, Christine Hill, Melanie Hedlund, Megan Hobza, Matt Horns, Andy Horwitz and Deborah Stein * Gayle Isa, Antonia Izuogu * John Jablonski, Lynn Jeffries, Judith Jennings, Amelia Jones * Dan Kwong * Larry Lavin, Todd Lerew * Karen Mack, Helen F. McNeil, John Malpede and Henriëtte Brouwers, Susan Martin, Julia Meltzer, Luisa Melo, Nancy Mintie, Tara Morgan * Boul Obriant, Sampson Ohringer, Alica Orduna * Amelia Pickering * Remi Riordan, Lourdes Rivera, Sarah Russin, Diego Rosso * Kyoko Sato, Barbara Schaffer Bacon, Karen Silton, Bennett Simpson, Mary C. Stevens, David Seitz * Leslie Tamaribuchi, Molly Taylor, Judith Teitelman, Thessin, Karl Thurmond * Kira Perov * Maren Ward, Virginia Wexman, John Wolf * Andros Zins-Browne, Anitra Zobeck, Ellen Zweig.

LAPD projects are funded in part with support from the Mike Kelly Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for The Arts-theater, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture, California Humanities, the Kindle Project: a fiscally sponsored project of the Common Counsel Foundation, the California Community Foundation, IMLS-  Institute of Museum & Library Sciences, the California Natural Resources Agency: California Cultural and Historical Endowment Museum Grant Program, Snoopy plate and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, L.A. Arts Recovery Fund, and the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation.

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May 21, 2025
Dear Friends,

When the grant termination letters from federal funders started rolling in last month, LAPD was in the midst of touring LA County with our Skid Row ensemble’s latest performance, “The Covid Hotel Welcomes You to the Future.” With the ”Covid Hotel” tour (we’re still at it) we set the ambitious goal of reaching all 8 Service Planning Areas (SPAs) in the course of a few months. Why? Because the play tells the stories of County frontline health care workers whose innovations saved lives and got people housed. Those stories need to be told —and retold — until their compassionate recuperative care practices are scaled so that our vulnerable community members can access the care they need and the housing they deserve.

Executed grant contracts for the project (from NEH, IMLS, and California Humanities have been terminated). Because LAPD is intrepid and this project is critical, our work on the project continues, unreimbursed. In all we’ve lost roughly 25% of our funding.

Read more and all support letters here: Case for Support letter 2025