Gerry Bross 

Hollywood Sierra Kitchens

Tom Clarke  

PricewaterhouseCoopers 

 Vice-Chair:

Secretary:

Treasurer:

Jay Stark

JH Stark Companies

Troy Thrower  

The Woodward Group

Ken Walker

Ernst & Young

Our Mission

June 2013

California Department of Housing and Community Development

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$50,000+

The Green Foundation

David and Cindy Hoag

Platinum Equity, LLC  

Silver Hammer 

$25,000+ 

The Capital Group Companies, Inc.

OXY, Long Beach Inc.

Architects Circle

$10,000+

Craig and Sandra Russell

*Terranea Resort 

*Waste Management

Silver Nail

$5,000+ 

Axminster Medical Group

Blank Rome

Creative Artists Agency

ImageFirst

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation

The Neighborhood Church 

PepsiCo

PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

*Tommy Hilfiger USA

Bronze Nail

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Aqua Hydrate

Shari Black

Keanna and Richard Briles 

Chadwick School

Cathy and Randal Farwell

Goodwin Procter LLP

*Kind Healthy Snacks

Marcus Linden and Saskia Subramanian

*Lowe's Companies, Inc.

Mishael Morgan

*NYX, Los Angeles, Inc.

Tim and Connie Rock

Kim Romano

Russell and Leitha Schael

Rhonda Scott

Showtime Networks

St. Monica Catholic Church

*Supergoop!

*Whirlpool Corporation

*Women Build, Habitat for Humanity International

Marlene Wong

* Denotes In-Kind Gifts 

Greetings!

Sophie Wilder

As managing editor of Variety I get many invitations to industry events, but my favorite of the year is the one I receive annually from Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles for the org's "Power Women Power Tools" build event. This year I brought along my two daughters, ages 6 and 7, to participate in the kids program that runs simultaneously.

At lunch, my girls were sitting beside me eating and listening distractedly to the program when a single mother who had recently moved into her new home took the stage with three of her five children. She spoke about the process and what a Habitat home had meant to them.

During the course of her talk, one daughter knocked over her drink, so I tended to that. Then she complained that she didn't like the chicken and wanted the beef, so I went back to the buffet to appease her and keep her quiet. The other one had to go "potty" so I stepped out to help her. I put crayons in front of the first to keep her occupied. They both hit the dessert table three times. Truthfully, I knew I hadn't heard much of the lunch program and was certain my children hadn't either.

However, an interesting thing happened at bedtime that night. When I tucked in my 6-year-old and asked her to say her prayers this is what I overheard, "Dear God, thank you for Habitat and the houses they build. We just praise you for the family that got a house and that they didn't give up hope when they were told no they couldn't have a house. We are so grateful that the children now have a home of their own and a yard to play in. Please continue to bless Habitat so they can build more homes and help more people. Oh Jesus, we know you answer our prayers and we thank you for answering theirs..." And she went on like this for about 2 minutes reciting the lady's entire story from the lunch program.

I was stunned. How is a 6-year-old praying like our pastor? How had she heard all of this while eating, spilling her drink, coloring and getting up to get cookies three times? I do not have the answers other than to reiterate that God works in wonderful and mysterious ways.

To read more stories like Kirstin's visit our Building A Greater Los Angeles blog. We are also always looking for short guest blogs, so if you have a Habitat story to tell please email Ali Mullin, Entertainment, Marketing and Communications Coordinator at amullin@habitatla.org.

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In essence, you make a gift using an asset that you can afford to give away in exchange for an annual income. In many cases our donors actually realize a higher income when they create a life-income arrangement with us.

On our website we describe four plans that offer different opportunities to help meet your philanthropic and economic objectives. In addition to the potential of increasing your income, all of our life-income arrangements offer generous benefits to our donors that include income tax savings, estate tax savings, and capital gain tax savings. The amount that you save depends on the type of gift arrangement, the age of the income beneficiary, and the size of the gift.

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