Building capacity where it has been withheld — teaching the faith community to tell its own story, operate its own media, and open doors that were never offered.
Problems do not arrive separately, so they are not addressed separately. Someone who comes for food leaves knowing about housing. Someone who comes for housing leaves knowing about work.
Pasadena City Hall · Wikimedia Commons · Free licenceThe department no other CDC runs — and the reason this one exists.
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Glendale, California · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0Reaching young people before the system does.
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Angeles National Forest · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 1.0Wealth is built on information most people are never given.
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Angeles National Forest · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0Immediate need, met without precondition.
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Glendale, California · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0Keeping families housed, and helping them buy.
Explore →Churches, choirs, ministries and artists across Los Angeles generate news every week that never reaches a wire. Meanwhile the young people in those same congregations want careers in media and have no visible path into one.
The established community development model empowers low-to-moderate income communities through an intersectional approach — social services, economic development, housing and healthcare under one roof. This center applies that same logic to the area the model never fully covered: media and narrative.

Point a phone camera at this code and it opens our hub — call the center, find help, browse programs, reach the press room. Print it, post it, hand it out.
The center runs on people who show up.
Serve in outreach, family support, distribution or operations.
Underwrite assistance, supplies and the programs that run between crises.
Businesses, agencies and congregations working alongside us.