Our Supporters
Thank you to our supporters
We appreciate our generous and compassionate partners who make it possible for the Alliance to serve youth and families impacted by our child welfare systems.
Our deepest gratitude to this dedicated community of donors who contributed $500 or more between April 1, 2019 and March 31, 2020.
This list recognizes gifts, new pledges, and gift installments made towards commitments from prior fiscal years.
Angels
- Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Guardians
The Ahmanson Foundation
Alliance of Moms
The Aspen Institute for Community Solutions
California Collaborative for Educational Excellence
The Carl & Roberta Deutsch Foundation
The Eisner Foundation
Hire Opportunity Coalition
Legal Services Trust Fund
The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Pritzker Foster Care Initiative
The Rose Hills Foundation
Gary Saltz Foundation
Jack Saltz
Susan Saltz
May & Stanley Smith Charitable Trust
The William H. Tilley Family Foundation
Dick Wolf
Benefactors
Angell Foundation
Kristen Bell
Continental Development Corporation
Erin and Trent Copeland
The Green Foundation
Lindt Chocolate
National Center for Youth Law
Perigee Fund
Reissa Foundation
San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
Tom Werner
Robert J. Woolway
Zellerbach Family Foundation
Champions
ABC Entertainment, Freeform, FX Networks, Disney Television Studios, and Disney+
Anonymous
Jessica and Matt Babrick
Ty and Holly Burrell
Partners for Children South L.A.
CBS
Denise and David Chase
City National Bank
Discovery, Inc.
Leslie and Cliff Gilbert-Lurie
HBO
The Walter S. Johnson Foundation
Marilyn Jones and Mitchell T. Kaplan
Kaplan Stahler Agency
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
Karen Mack and Russell Goldsmith
NBCUniversal
Philanthropist Forum
Proskauer Rose LLP
Raikes Foundation
Skylight Foundation
Smash + Tess
Susan Stockton and Chris Walther
Ziffren Brittenham LLP
Patrons
A+E Networks
America’s Promise Alliance
Apple
Dr. Richard and Susan Braun
The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation
Creative Arts Agency
Vin Di Bona Productions
Alan Epstein and Megan McGowen Epstein
Fremantle
Gibson Dunn
Hulu
ICM Community Partners Foundation
In-N-Out Burger Foundation
Inclusive Education and Community Partnership, Inc.
Irell & Manella LLP
Johnny Carson Foundation
Lewy Family Foundation
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Pfaffinger Foundation
Melissa and Alex Romain
Rick Rosen and Orly Adelson
Dawn and Phil Rudolph
Toni and John Schulman
The Sidley Austin Foundation
Krista Vernoff and Alexandre Schmitt
Alison Whalen and Steve Marenberg
WME
Defenders
3 Arts Entertainment
Amazon Studios
Anonymous
Deborah Barak
John Calley Foundation Fund
Capital Group
Carothers DiSante & Freudenberger LLP
James P. Clark
Meredith and John Cross
Nancy and Donald de Brier
Eisner, LLP
Firewood Marketing
Dan Fogelman
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman, LLP
Suzan Hughes Education Foundation
Jack in the Box
Yasmine and Matt Johnson
Aaron Kaplan
Litify, LLC
Kymberly Marciano-Strauss and Evan Strauss
Mayer Brown LLP
Morgan Lewis
Abby and Alan Myerson
Jeanne and Gary Newman
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Paradigm Talent Agency
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Social Change Partners
Sony Pictures Television
Abraham & Edita Spiegel Family Foundation
UTA
Venable LLP
Dana and Matt Walden
Leo & Sydelle Ward Foundation
WarnerMedia
Wasserman Foundation
White & Case LLP
Bart Williams and Nadine Bell
Winston & Strawn LLP
Sponsors
Aileen Adams and Geoffrey Cowan
Amblin Partners
Anonymous (2)
Berlanti Family Foundation
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Clyde & Co US LLP
Dena Cook
Cooley LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
Crowel & Moring LLP
The Larry David Foundation
Del, Shaw, Moonves, Tanaka, Finklestein & Lezcano
DLA Piper LLP
Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP
Karey Burke and Michael Duggan
Jeffrey, Linda, and Rachel Eisikowitz
Endemol Shine North America
Fredda K. Evans
Elisa Fernandez and Jose Sanchez
Fox Corporation
Fox Rothschild LLP
Gersh
Goodwin Family Memorial Trust
Cambria and Howard Gordon
Greenberg Glusker LLP
Guess Foundation
Abraham Higginbotham
Hueston Hennigan LLP
Judicial Council of California
Jo Kaplan and Larry Feldman
Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg
The Littlefield Company
Kibre & Neman LLP
John H. Lavely, Jr.
Sally and Dick Lippin
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation
Mattel
Wendy and Barry Meyer
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
Dianne and Jon Moonves
Morgan Stanley
NKSFB, LLC
Paramount Pictures
Paul Hastings LLP
Philpott Meeks
Craig Platt
Joan Rater
Kevin Reilly
Teresa and Aaron Robbins
Robinson Granatt LLP
Bradley D. Ross
Nancy and Miles Rubin
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Robert and Nancy Shachtman
Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP
Kris and Mike Spazafumo
Spotify
Mandy Teefey
Tyson & Mendes
Weingart Foundation
Richard Weitz
Wheelhouse Entertainment & ITV Studios
Sustainers
Annapurna TV
Anonymous (2)
Alex Barroso
BBC Studios
Amy Bolker and Craig Kaufman
Sandra Bullock
Stacey Byrnes and Paul Eggert
Rosemary and Peter Casey
Castruccio Family Foundation
Dennis and Madeleine Durkin
DYKEMA
Susan and Scott Edelman
Elsa Elbert
Patty and Billy Gardell
Ani and Andy Garelick
Gabriel Gilbert-Luire
Barbara Grushow and Manny Bujold
Craig Hunegs
Industrial Media
Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, LP
Sarah Kelly-Kilgore
Nahnatchka Khan
Paula and Wesley Larmore
Latham & Watkins LLP
Lionsgate
Los Angeles Clippers
Kristin and Jonathan Mead
Vaughan Meyer
Deborah and Robert Myman
Sara Nichols and Frank Arentowicz
Dawn Olmstead
Katy Perry
Beth and Jim Preminger
Joyce and Jeremy Richards
Riva Ritvo-Slifka
Beth Roberts and Warren B. Smith
Gina Robins
Ande and Bruce Rosenblum
Lenore Ruben
Chris Thornton Schmidt
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Cobie Smulders and Taran Killam
Jessica Sultan and Joel H. Fields
Kim and Eric Tannenbaum
Tanner, Mainstain, Glynn & Johnson LLP
Glenda and Gregory Vanni
Cori Wellins
WilmerHale
Harriet Zaretsky
Partners
Leslie Abbott
Katherine Adler and Marcelo
Ziperovich
Katelyn Afshar
Robert R. Ahdoot
AIG
Colette Ament
Julia Anderson
Anonymous
Meridith Baer Home
Ballard Spahr, LLP
Pia Barlow
Joan and Leonard Beerman
Bel Air Investment Advisors
Paula and Bruce Bennett
Heather Besignano
Kenneth J. Betts
Gina Binder
Carol Biondi
Ann D. Blanchard and Sandy Becker
Charles Boettcher
Brett Boydstun
Harold Brook
Dan Bucatinsky
James and Deborah Burrows
Kelly Campbell
Grace Caron
Carolyn Cassidy
Michael Chasalow
Maren Christensen
Stephen Clark
Jason Clodfelter
Daniel Cohen
Jeffrey and Lisa Cohen
Joe Cohen
Joanna Coles
Carlye Cordner
Sharon and Paul H. Crane, M.D.
CW Network
Bob and Janet Daily
Aurele Danoff
Christina Davis
Mary and Jean De Kernion
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC
Mary Donnelly and Sam Haskell
Terri Durham
David Eilenberg
Nicole E. Jaeger and Dan Erlij
Mitch Evall
Leah and Sam Fischer
Debra Fogelman
Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan
Tim Freudenberger
Susan F. and Alan V. Friedman
Blake Fronstin
Jeff Frost
Edgar Garcia-Mora
Michael Gendler
Mark Gosselaar
Jonathan C. Groff
Aaron Grushow
Richard Gurman
Rebekah Guyon
Sally and David Hackel
Priscilla and James Halper
Laurentius Harrer
Lisa Harrison
ION Media Networks
Carol Johnson and David Schindler
Lirona Kadosh and Ethan S. Goldstine
Amanda Kemprowski
Ligia and Dennis Korn
Bradley Krevoy
Christine Kurek
Amanda Lasher
Scotch Ellis Loring and Todd Holland
Nancy Lubrano
Brian Luscomb
Emily and David Lynch
Kerri and Charles Manente
Margaret and Clifford Maraschino
Maris Collective Properties, LLC
Susan McKagan
Penny Meepos
Robyn Meisinger
Alex Meneses
Michele Nasraway
Paulette and Ronald Nessim
Carolyn Newman
Margrit and Norman S. Oberstein
Jessica Ortiz
Eleanor and Glenn Padnick
Peter Paige
Shana S. and Donald S. Passman
PatMa Productions
Shane Paul
John Perez
Susan and Steven Peterman
JJ Philbin
Jennifer Plunkett
Debora and Sheldon Presser
Mitchell Quaranta
Samantha August Ray
Janice and Benjamin Reznik
Rhea Ricard
Michelle and Lawrence Richman
Stuart Riemer
Anne Roberts
Stella and William H. Robinson
Iris and Richard R Ross
Rubber Ducky Foundation
Shannon Ryan and Kyle Bornheimer
Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc.
Jennifer and Bert Salke
Heidi Schulman and Mickey Kantor
Simran Sethi
Margie and John H. Sharer
Nina Shaw
Sidecar Doughnuts
Roberta Silverstein and
Stephen Sperber
Georgia Simon
Michael Skloff
Holly Sloan and Gary Rosen
Matthew Solo
Jamie and Paul Sprague
State Of California – Judical Council
of California
Gene B. Stein and Geert de Turck
Rita Streimer
Lucy Anne Stutz and Jared Levine
Arianne Styne and Jeff Rudes
Urban Strategies Council
Silvia Vannini and David Harvilicz
Shini Wark
Michaela Watkins
Julie Waxman and Seth Freeman
B. Trent Webb
Barry L. Weiss
Mark Weissman
Kevin Welsh
Leigh Whannell and Corbett Tuck
Jeremy M. Williams
Mark Williams
Natalie and Kenneth Wolfe
Woodland Hills Rotary Club
Friends
Emma Adler
Anonymous (2)
David Aronoff
Thomas E. Ascheim
David and Sophie Atrakchi
Jennifer Baldocchi
Carly Baron
Colleen and Darryl Bates
Jill and John Bauman
Pam and Alan Bergman
Sharmeen Bhamani
Karyn Blumenfeld
The Boeing Company
Katherine Bond and David Slack
James Bramm
Bernardine Brandis
Megan Branman
Patricia and Daniel Braun
Jaimi Brooks
Bobby Cagle
Nicole Cannon
Elizabeth Cantillon and Steve Wyler
Elisa Carino
Meryl Chae
Jana Charalambous
Irwin Chasalow
Sam Chen
Kate Chilton
Sarah Choi
Andrew Coleman
Jonathan Congdon
Sara Cooley
Kimberly Crane
Paul Cummins
D&H Cares
Shannon Delaat and Michael Bourke
Matt DelPiano
Brian Dobbins
Elizabeth F. Edlow and Lawrence J.
Clarke
Kimberly Fardad
Susan J. and Thomas J. Fineman
Jennifer Flexer
Craig and Irene Flores
Adriana Freisson
Leonard R. Garner, Jr.
Jeffrey Glaser
Carol Goldberg and Duane Champagne
Craig Gore
Eric Gray
Zoe Greenspun
Evan Hainey
Andrea R. Hartman
The Honorable Margaret Henry and
Conway Collis
Allison Holcombe
Mary Jo Hurwitz
Jillian and Robert Jadon
Dave Johnson
Sean Kane
Ellen and Paul Kaywin
Jonathan Ko
Deborah and Phillip Koeffler
Stacey and Larry Kohl
Jolene R. Konnersman
Lesley LaFreta
Melissa Lawner
Haverhill Leach
Clara Lee
Paulette Light and Jeff Rake
Daniel M. Limerick, Jr.
Susan and Peter Lizotte
Anahita and Jim Lovelace
Lawrence Lyttle
Gabriella Marciano
Carol Marlowe and Kenneth Stringer
Kate Martindale
Gari-Jo McCornock
Dirk Michels
Robert Mills
Lauren Miura
Todd C. Mooney
Erin Moy
Michele and Richard Munde
Netflix
Howard T. Owens
Carol Patchett
Nancy and Jeffrey Paul
Carolyn Phillips
Jamie Pollaci
Jason Rapp
Linda and Jeffrey Resnick
Gary Roberts
Stacy Rozen
Andrea Schroder
Nicole Seigel
Suzanne and Brian Selmo
Cathy Senderling-McDonald
Rochelle Shaposhnick and William J.
Briggs, II
Rita Soronen
Katherine Spillar
Ann Marie Spinelli
Kim Stullich
Adele Taylor
Mark Teitelbaum
Marc Webb
Erin Wehrenberg
Michele Weiss
Matthew Wells
Bridget and Marcus Wiley
Barbara Williams
Jason and Jackie Winer
Jack Yeh
Alissa Zachary
We strive to accurately recognize our donors and welcome any clarifications.
To share corrections, or for information on how to become involved, please contact us at give@kids-alliance.org
Our Pro Bono Partners
We are proud of our impressive roster of participating law firms and solo practitioners who generously donate their time to the children that we serve.
Hundreds of law firms provide pro bono support to the Alliance; this list represents those that donated time in 2019-2020.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer &
Feld LLP
AIG
Arent Fox LLP
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Best Best & Krieger LLP
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
Karen Breslow
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Buchalter
Buckley LLP
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Chapman Glucksman Dean & Roeb
Clyde & Co US LLP
Colantuano, Highsmith & Whatley, P.C.
Cole Pedroza LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
Creative Artists Agency
Crowell & Moring LLP
DC Entertainment
Dechert LLP
Dentons
DLA Piper LLP
DYKEMA
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Fish & Richardson P.C.
Foley & Lardner LLP
Fox Rothschild LLP
Gibson Dunn
Carole Glovsky
Greenberg Glusker LLP
Greenberg Gross LLP
Harris • Ginsberg LLP
Nelson Hardiman
Hogan Lovells
Holland & Knight LLP
Hooper Lundy & Bookman, P.C.
Hunton Andrews Kurth
ICM Partners
Irell & Manella LLP
Jenner & Block LLP
Kaeser Law Firm
Jody Kasten
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Megan Knize
Latham & Watkins LLP
Law Offices of Hiriji & Chau LLP
LegalAxxis, Inc.
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
McGuireWoods LLP
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
Morgan Lewis
Sherry Mostofi
NBCUniversal
Netflix
Nixon Peabody LLP
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Reed Smith LLP
Robins Kaplan LLP
Roll Law Group P.C.
Allyson Saunders
Scheper Kim & Harris LLP
Selogie & Brett LLP
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Leslie Sullivan
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Sullivan & Triggs LLP
Terzian Law Partners, APC
Thon Beck Vanni Callahan & Powell P.C.
Troutman Pepper
Tucker Ellis LLP
Twentieth Century Fox Legal Affairs
University of California Los Angeles School of Law
University of Southern California School of Law
U.S. Attorney’s Office Central District of California
Vedder Price
Venable LLP
Warner Bros.
Wells Fargo Capital Finance
White & Case LLP
