Our Custom Cocktail Boards Included in The Los Angeles Impact Box
We are busy making 300 custom branded LA Original oak cocktail boards for The Los Angeles Impact Box!
LA Original, the civic social enterprise, with its community of local makers and manufacturers, celebrates LA as the creative capital of the world. This season, LA Original announces a partnership with our friends at Gifts for Good.
Gifts for Good offers solutions for corporate giving with a charitable cause. LA Original has partnered with Gifts for Good on the Los Angeles Impact Box which includes Would Works, the Giving Keys, Light 4 Life Cause, Downtown Women’s Center and Goodwill Southern CA. Ten percent of profits directly supports the Made by DWC program that provides job training to women transitioning out of homelessness.
We are proud to be in such good company! Support Would Works and these other outstanding social enterprises by purchasing The Los Angeles Impact Box this holiday season!
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A New Chapter: Beginner Builders Youth Pilot Program
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Nick Offerman Partners with Would Works to Empower At-Risk Angelenos Through Woodworking
Beyond woodworking, Nick Offerman highlights the “incredibly benevolent and warm humanism” at the heart of Would Works. "We're giving people … mental health, counseling, job counseling, life coaching. It's a place to say, 'Come on in, I see you, I care about you, I recognize the trouble you might be having. Here's a sandwich, here's a bowl of soup. Now, this is a hand plane,'" Offerman said.