In Case You Missed It | Program August 2022
August 3, 2022 Surf Day Walk With Sally partners with the Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation to host 120 attendees including families, mentors, volunteers, Walk With Sally program staff, and Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation staff for its annual day at the beach. Children filled with anticipation watch surfing videos all week to prepare. The day opens […]
In Case You Missed It | Program February 2022
March 2, 2022 Written by: Jen Tomo, Program Coordinator at Walk With Sally Mentor Roundtable Walk With Sally hosts a quarterly Mentor Roundtable where are mentors come together to discuss the challenges in their friendship, gain insight and advice from one another and reconnect. The first Mentor Roundtable of 2022 was led by Walk With […]
In Case You Missed It: Friendship Activities November 2021
December 1, 2021 Written by: Jen Tomo, Program Coordinator at Walk With Sally Create the Change In honor of Veterans Day, Walk With Sally partnered with Project Giving Kids and Village for Vets to create thank you cards and hygiene kits for homeless veterans. Village for Vets fills critical gaps in key services for homeless […]
Walk With Sally Honors Veterans Day 2021
WWS Honors Air Force Partnership This Veterans Day On this Veterans Day, we would be remiss if we didn’t give a big round of applause to the incredible partnership with the U.S. Air Force base in El Segundo. For nearly 10 years now, members of the U.S. Air Force have recruited a large portion of […]
How To Make An Impact On Your Community
Written by: MacKenzie Paschen, WWS Social Club Member Published by: Melissa Ostrowski The Right Community – Walk With Sally Social Club As a young, professional living in the South Bay and throughout Los Angeles, finding a community to impact can be difficult. Finding one that is like minded and looking to give back, even more […]
Volunteer All Star 2020 – A Group Effort from Walk With Sally Social Club
National Volunteer Month 2020 We’ve passed the halfway point for April, but we’ve barely scratched the surface highlighting some incredible Walk With Sally volunteers. In honor of National Volunteer Month we wanted to bring some attention to our all star groups as well as individuals. Sometimes a group effort is all it takes! Volunteer groups […]
Walk With Sally 6th Annual Surf Day Friendship Activity 2019
Walk With Sally 6th Annual Surf Day Friendship Activity 2019 Partnership and volunteers create community at Walk With Sally Friendship Activity. Walk With Sally brings ocean healing and surfing to mentors, mentees and families in partnership with the Jimmy Miller Foundation, and with the support of FTK Social Club, to build community! Photos by @jolugarphotography […]
Walk With Sally Summer Internships
This past Summer, Walk With Sally welcomed 5 new interns into our office. These interns worked with our program, development, and special events teams to learn different aspects of working within a nonprofit organization. Program Internship Kelly, one of our program interns, is going into her Senior year at Loyola Marymount University, majoring in Psychology. […]
Leading CSR For Your Company
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Corporate social responsibility (CSR) comes in all shapes and sizes, and is typically driven by a dedicated company culture. The team behind a company’s CSR mission must keep a bigger picture at the forefront of everything they do. Understandably so, the leader of this team will need to be someone who […]
Why We Volunteer
Reasons We Volunteer In honor of National Volunteer Month we wanted to find out why some of our volunteers choose to give back. So, we asked Janet Page, a volunteer who has spent more than a few hours with us over the past few months to tell us about her motivation. Here’s what she had […]
