Los Angeles County stays within the throes of huge wildfires that started in numerous places beginning Tuesday (Jan. 7), resulting in the displacement of greater than 180,000 residents. The wildfires have reportedly destroyed 1000’s of properties and claimed 10 lives as first responders proceed to battle the flames all through the area.
Increasingly more organizations and firms are stepping as much as gather funds and supply assets for these impacted by the disasters. Beneath is an updating listing of the way to assist residents, first responders and members of the town’s music group by donating items and companies and even attending profit live shows.
Music staff in search of aid can navigate right here for added assets.
Help for Households and Outside Staff
The LAUSD Schooling Emergency Aid Fund is offering speedy help to households and Los Angeles Unified College District (LAUSD) staff affected by the devastating fires. The fund will supply direct money help and assist to households and staff affected by the fires; assist academics and in-class assets for college kids at impacted faculties, making certain continuity of studying to the best extent potential; present versatile help for psychological well being assist; and supply assist for different speedy and long-term wants for college kids, households and academics.
The CAA Basis, the philanthropic arm of main leisure and sports activities company Artistic Artists Company (CAA), international humanitarian group Neighborhood Organized Aid Effort (CORE) and the Los Angeles Unified College District Schooling Basis have come collectively to launch the SOCAL FIRE FUND. This ongoing collaboration will present speedy and long-term assist for community-centered restoration initiatives that support probably the most susceptible impacted by the January 2025 fires. The fund will likely be administered by the Leisure Trade Basis (EIF), the inventive group’s trusted accomplice in philanthropy.
The Black Music Motion Coalition has introduced a direct aid fund with a give attention to Black residents and small companies within the L.A. space affected by the continued and devastating fires. The group will disperse 100% of monies acquired to aid efforts with urgency as funds are available.
Inclusive Motion has launched a GoFundMe to offer money aid for out of doors staff impacted by wildfires. The emergency support fund will present $500 in money help on to “open-air staff,” i.e. individuals whose jobs require them to work outdoors, together with avenue distributors, landscapers and recyclers.
This Is About Humanity has launched a fund supporting entrance and second-line migrant farm staff, day laborers, and different important staff and their households severely impacted by the latest fires in Los Angeles. By Jan. 31, TIAH is matching as much as $50,000 in donations to offer crucial aid, housing assist, meals help and important assets.
Save the Kids helps guarantee important, child-focused provides are moving into the fingers of kids and households impacted by the wind-fueled fires. This contains provides like hygiene kits and caregiver kits – with flashlights, water bottles, blankets, transportable chargers and extra – in addition to kids’s exercise kits, to allow children to be children throughout tense instances. Contribute to the Kids’s Emergency Fund right here.
Neighborhood organizers The Kindness Hub have put collectively a Volunteer Spreadsheet for each day alternatives to assist out, in addition to an general Support Tracker spreadsheet with useful suggestions for these impacted by the fires.
Help for First Responders
Donations to the LA Fireplace Division Basis will go to supporting the heroic firefighters responding in real-time to guard lives, properties and communities.
The CA Fireplace Basis is working with native hearth businesses and community-based organizations to offer direct monetary assist to impacted residents as particulars of the injury emerge. The California Fireplace Basis additionally offers crucial assist to surviving households of fallen firefighters, firefighters and the communities they serve.
Mercy Cooks, a Virginia-based nonprofit specializing in catastrophe aid, is on the bottom in Southern California in response to the devastating wildfires. First meals are being distributed right now to victims, volunteers, firefighters and different first responders. Help Mercy Cooks present efforts right here.
Important Gadgets for Households in Want
Baby2Baby is offering important provides like diapers, clothes, hygiene merchandise and emergency kits to households in want by way of lots of of their group companions.
World Central Kitchen is supporting first responders and households impacted by wildfires within the Los Angeles space with sandwiches and heat meals.
Mutual Support LA Community is regularly working to compile an in depth listing of organizations providing help and accepting donations by way of this spreadsheet.
Instacart has arrange Neighborhood Carts banners or click on instacart.com/donate the place individuals could make donations of important objects on to YMCAs throughout Los Angeles.
Help for Music Professionals
The Recording Academy and MusiCares have launched the Los Angeles Fireplace Aid Effort to assist music professionals impacted by the disaster and made a mixed pledge of $1 million to kick off a fundraising effort. You’ll be able to donate right here.
The Candy Aid Musicians Fund has launched a pure catastrophe aid fund for music professionals in Los Angeles County and the encompassing areas. Funds raised will go to assist these recoup the lack of music-related tools in addition to medical payments associated to the fires and different very important dwelling bills. Head right here to donate or fill out an utility.
The We Are Shifting the Needle Microgrants Wildfire Aid Fund is designed to assist “early and mid-career producers, engineers, and creators who’ve misplaced studio area or gear” within the wildfires. These wishing to donate can go right here.
The 100 Percenters has launched an LA Wildfire Aid Fundraiser to learn skilled songwriters, producers, artists and music professionals “with verifiable trade contributions” who reside “in wildfire-impacted areas” in Los Angeles County and “can reveal wildfire-related loss and monetary want.” The fund will present speedy monetary help with grants as much as $2,500 for housing, transportation and necessities; assist rebuilding efforts with grants of as much as $10,000 to exchange tools and “restore inventive areas”; and supply psychological well being assist with grants of as much as $2,000 for counseling and wellness companies. Donate right here.
Songwriters of North America (SONA) relaunched its Songwriters Fund to offer emergency aid for songwriters and composers impacted by the wildfires. As a way to qualify for $500 emergency grants, songwriters can go to the group’s web site and supply examples that reveal professional-level work as a musician, show they have been primarily based in and across the space of the fires, and supply three latest songwriter and/or composer credit. Qualifying writers and composers will then obtain fee by way of direct deposit, verify or digital pockets. You’ll be able to donate to the fund right here.
Mid/Lengthy-Time period Aid
California Neighborhood Basis‘s Wildlife Restoration Fund focuses on mid-term and long-term restoration efforts for these affected by the fires.
Pasadena Neighborhood Basis‘s Eaton Canyon Fireplace Restoration and Aid Fund is mobilizing native assets to assist resilience and speedy and long-term restoration initiatives within the L.A. County cities of Pasadena and Altadena.
The PLUS1LA Fires Fund will assist native nonprofits providing shelter and care to those that have misplaced their properties, together with PPE to stop smoke inhalation, meals, clothes, diapers, formulation, hygiene objects and psychological well being assist to assist these dealing with trauma. Over the long run, it’ll assist efforts to assist people, households, communities and the setting get better from the destruction.
Workforce Rubicon is a veteran-led humanitarian group that assists catastrophe response throughout the globe primarily based right here in LA. The group is presently helping with a degree of distribution (POD) to offer out much-needed provides to survivors, comparable to meals, water, ice and different important objects.
In Malibu, volunteers are helping these straight impacted by the wildfires.
Profit Concert events
An all-star listing of artists together with Billie Eilish, Girl Gaga, Katy Perry, Jelly Roll, the Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers, Stevie Nicks, John Mayer and Joni Mitchell are set to play FireAid, a pair of profit live shows spanning each Intuit Dome and Kia Discussion board on Jan. 30. A partnership between Reside Nation, AEG and the Azoff household, the profit live performance will likely be broadcast by choose AMC Theatres, Apple Music and the Apple TV App, Max, iHeartRadio and extra platforms, with viewers in a position to contribute whereas the watch. Tickets will go on sale Wednesday (Jan. 22) at midday PT by way of Ticketmaster. Proceeds from the reveals, which will likely be distributed with the assistance of the Annenberg Basis, will span creating a company to rebuild Los Angeles’s infrastructure, supporting displaced households, and stopping future hearth disasters. You will discover extra info and donate right here.
L.A. Offers Again: Fireplace Aid is about for Jan. 29 at The Bellwether in downtown L.A. The present — organized by IHEARTCOMIX, Brownies & Lemonade, One other Planet Leisure (which owns The Bellwether) and Teragram — has but to announce a lineup. A hundred percent of proceeds from the present will go to supporting victims of the fires, together with first responders and animals. You should purchase tickets right here.
The Get Collectively Basis, in cooperation with Rock Cellar productions, introduced a wildfire aid live performance to be held Jan. 28 at The Canyon in Agoura Hills, Calif. A hundred percent of proceeds will go to organizations supporting wildfire aid efforts together with the Guitar Middle Music Basis (to assist change musical devices misplaced within the blazes), the Los Angeles Firemen’s Aid Affiliation and others. L.A.-based musicians set to carry out embrace Micky Dolenz, Laurence Juber (Wings) & AIRFOIL, Jeff Alan Ross (Peter Asher, The Lovin’ Spoonful), Carl Verheyen Band, Bernard Fowler (The Rolling Stones), Rob Morrow, Rosemary Butler and others, with extra to be introduced. You should purchase tickets to the occasion right here.
In New York, Canadian singer-songwriter JP Saxe is internet hosting a profit live performance with “pals” in lieu of his single launch present to learn victims of the wildfires. Dubbed NY for LA – A Profit Live performance, the present is about to happen on Wednesday (Jan. 22) on the Bowery Ballroom in New York Metropolis, with all proceeds going to Mutual Support LA. You should purchase tickets to the live performance right here.
