Upcoming Efforts
From House To Home
The Molly Steinsapir Foundation is proud to continue supporting Palisades and Eaton fire survivors with new furniture and furnishings for their homes. The vast majority lacked sufficient insurance coverage for their personal belongings, and many had none at all. We’re helping families in need to return home with dignity.
From House to Home
The Molly Steinsapir Foundation is proud to continue supporting Palisades and Eaton fire survivors with new furniture and furnishings for their homes. The vast majority lacked sufficient insurance coverage for their personal belongings, and many had none at all. We’re helping families in need to return home with dignity.
Pali-Altadena Collective
We’re excited to continue supporting our Youth Board member, Luca, and his project, the Pali-Altadena Collective. We’ll be leading tours and helping fire survivors to record their stories for the National Archives throughout the summer.
OBKLA
Our Youth Board and their families are planning a volunteer day with Our Big Kitchen LA (OBKLA), where they’ll prepare, package and distribute nutritious meals for people facing food insecurity across LA.
Textile Recovery Program
We’re developing a new community-driven initiative that turns textile waste into meaningful impact, diverting excess apparel and textiles from landfills while providing comfort to children and families in need.
Through partnerships with textile experts, manufacturers, events, schools, and nonprofits, we will collect and responsibly repurpose excess materials into blankets and other essential items. Our hands-on volunteer program will be social, educational. and tangible, allowing folks to see both the environmental and community impact of their work.
At its heart is Molly’s love of crocheting, weaving, and making blankets—a passion we hope to carry forward by bringing warmth and comfort to others.
Textile Recovery Program
We’re developing a new initiative focused on reducing textile waste, bringing community together and offering comfort to those in need. There is an enormous amount of excess apparel and textiles generated by celebrations, schools, community events, and other gatherings that often have no clear next use. Apparel and textile manufacturers also have excess product including samples, misprints and the like that can be repurposed. Our goal is to create a meaningful circular model that keeps these textiles out of landfills while using them to benefit the Los Angeles community.
We envision collecting excess items such as T-shirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, and other event apparel and working with an experienced textile partner to determine the highest and best use for everything we receive. Wearable items could be directed toward appropriate reuse, materials suited for our program could be recovered, and everything else would be responsibly routed through textile recycling channels.
The centerpiece of the initiative would be a hands-on volunteer program. Groups would come together for structured service sessions to help transform recovered textiles into useful items, beginning with blankets for children and families served by nonprofit partners such as Para Los Niños and other organizations with identified needs. We hope the experience will be social, educational, and tangible, allowing volunteers to see both the environmental and community impact of their work.
This project is especially meaningful because Molly loved to crochet, weave and make blankets. We learned to make tie blankets at a community service event hosted by our synagogue. Molly continued to make blankets on her own afterwards. We love that she can help to bring comfort and warmth to those in need.
End of Summer Beach Party & Backpack Drive
We’re planning an awesome beach day with the Goodness Tour and other mission-aligned partners for fire-impacted families at the end of summer. This fun-filled day will include games, prizes and give-aways, food and live music. We’ll once again collect backpacks and school supplies and distribute them to kids who need them.
