The Intern Project (TIP) hosted the first-ever “Be A Host” event, where current TIP employers and former TIP interns shared their experiences with a group of potential new business partners. Started in 2014, this year marks the 8th summer placing Los Angeles-based high school students...
Russell Westbrook along with his wife, Nina, and longtime business partner, Donnell Beverly has partnered with LA Promise Fund to launch the Russell Westbrook Why Not? Middle and High Schools, known collectively as Russell Westbrook Why Not? Academy with the goal of ensuring students...
Russell Westbrook along with his wife, Nina, and longtime business partner, Donnell Beverly has partnered with LA Promise Fund to launch the Russell Westbrook Why Not? Middle and High Schools, known collectively as Russell Westbrook Why Not? Academy with the goal of ensuring students...
For many of us, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the “unofficial” start to the holiday season. This year, it's imperative #GivingTuesday be the official start of the giving season. Donate Today Today, you can help to ensure that learning does not stop for our students, even in...
More than four thousand five hundred young women from public schools across Southern California and nationwide will come together for a special virtual event on Thursday, October 15, the LA Promise Fund’s annual GirlsBuild Virtual Summit. This year, GirlsBuild has partnered with Michelle Obama’s When...
Ten thousand young women from public schools across Southern California and nationwide will come together virtually on October 15th for LA Promise Fund’s GirlsBuild Virtual Summit. The event’s theme is civic engagement with a focus on increasing voter registration and voter turnout in anticipation of...
byte, the world’s fastest-growing doctor-driven direct-to-consumer invisible aligner company, has announced a partnership with the LA Promise Fund through its byteCares program, benefiting high schools in South Los Angeles. Byte kicked off the program at its first-ever virtual ByteDay on September 4, featuring byte Dental...
Summer always flies by, but TIP’s momentum seemed especially unstoppable this year! All internships were under way by week 6 and the second half of the TIP program shifted its focus to career readiness events, including a second Career Day, a Virtual Mock Interview Day,...
[video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://www.lapromisefund.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Words-of-Wisdom-From-Nickelodeon-1.mp4"][/video] Summer always flies by, but TIP’s momentum seemed especially unstoppable this year! All internships were under way by week 6 and the second half of the TIP program shifted its focus to career readiness events, including a second Career Day, a Virtual...
When Martin Bros., a Los Angeles-based construction and engineering firm, decided to partner with TIP and take on 10 interns for the summer, no one anticipated COVID-19 would make meeting in-person all but impossible. But Heather Powen, Director of Marketing and Community Relations, rose to...
By Nico Rosario What do tacos, soap, and fly swatters have in common? The Intern Project (TIP) interns will soon find out as they repurpose their homes into makeshift laboratories for LA Trade Tech College’s (LATTC) Applied Sciences department this summer. When Dr. Artemio Navarro and Dr....
By Nico Rosario, Associate Director of Career Pathway Connections “I’m all about social justice, I’m all about impact, I’m all about creating spaces for communities of color, people who are unrepresented in tech, women, women of color, just really trying to be that person that keeps...