KIPP SoCal Public Schools  serves more than 10,000 students across twenty tuition-free, open-enrollment elementary and middle schools in Southern California, including Boyle Heights, Watts, South LA, Compton, Huntington Park, South Gate and San Diego. The network’s mission is to create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose, for college, career and beyond. Art teacher Gabriel Avila teaches hi

While Radford Studios in Studio City has been known for making movie and television magic for decades, something totally different and just as special happened there this past Sunday. Over 100 volunteers with Camp Harmony turned the space into a winter wonderland that gave more than 500 kids ages four to twelve the ultimate Christmas party experience. There were rides, tasty food, games and holiday activities everywhere you turned — but one of the best parts for the kids was

The Sami Foundation was happy to support This Is About Humanity’s holiday event this week, and the whole thing came together in the best way. Sophie Friedberg showed up at the SAMI offices in Santa Monica, loaded up her car, and personally shuttled more than one hundred Sami Art Kits to the event at Los Angeles Center Studios. Thank you Sophie for making it happen and all the amazing work you do setting an example for youths to lean in and help others. The kits were handed

This week, SAMI art kits traveled an incredible 3,200 miles from Los Angeles to the lush, mountainous region of Santa Marta, Colombia—carried with care and purpose by Brentwood School student Saraluna Ospina . Her journey was more than a simple delivery; it was an exchange of creativity, culture, and connection. Saraluna brought the kits to children of the Arhuaco  community, one of the Indigenous groups of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The Arhuaco people are known for th

LA Parent magazine spotlights the foundation and its work to bring art to kids.

A new mural at Camp Harmony in Ojai, California.

Carla delivered InspiredbySami art and paint kits to UCLA this week, marking the beginning of what we hope is a more expanded collaboration.

The SAMI Foundation has awarded a grant to KIPP SoCal Public Schools to ensure that 20 art classrooms across the region are fully stocked...

This week, The SAMI Foundation was proud to support the Student2Student  program by Baby2Baby, helping to fill hundreds of backpacks for...

In coordination with The SAMI Foundation, The Los Angeles Academy of Artists, Musicians and Producers has established the SAMI LIBER...

SAMI recently teamed up with some awesome folks at the OxyArt  program, an off shoot of Occidental College in Pasadena, which is helping...

When Alta Dena Arts Magnet was forced to leave their facility due to surrounding fires, they couldn't take any supplies or equipment...

Present Now delivered 150 Art Kits for kids at a Women's Shelter in Los Angeles

Brentwood School kids learned others their age and younger lost everything in the fires around LA, they were determined to help.

Three hundred students from Alta Dena Arts Magnet lower school lost their homes in the fires and have been relocated to Pasadena! These...

InspiredbySami art kits were delivered by the women of PRESENTNOW to kids at the Good Shephard Shelter for Domestic Violence in the West Ada

When Brooke began planning her Bat Mitzvah, she knew she wanted her mitzvah project to be something truly meaningful, something that...

We created The Sami Foundation to honor her by supporting the things she loved most.