# Who's already helping — the organizations to point people to

The connector role works by **amplifying real helpers, not duplicating them.** This is a directory of
organizations responding to the Lineage fire and the established Boyle Heights / East LA groups that do
this work. Compiled June 25, 2026. Tags: **[ACTIVE]** = confirmed responding to this fire ·
**[ESTABLISHED]** = local org that does this work and is a natural ally. *Verify each link, address, and
hours before publishing — relief details change daily.*

## ★ For affected businesses & street vendors (the key one)
- **Boyle Heights Fire Relief Fund — small businesses & street vendors.** Emergency rapid-response **grants**
  from **Inclusive Action for the City** (which deployed $2.5M+ in cash aid to 5,000+ workers after the
  Jan 2025 wildfires), with the **Boyle Heights Chamber of Commerce** and **Hustle & Heart Collective.**
  Covers ZIPs **90022 · 90023 · 90033 · 90063** — the fund's own definition of the most-impacted communities
  (and the basis for our impact-zone dataset). **Apply / donate:** `inclusiveaction.org/boyleheightsfirefund`
  · GoFundMe: "Fire Relief Grants for Boyle Heights Small Businesses." Funder contact: marco@ / rudy@inclusiveaction.org.
  **[ACTIVE — verified June 25, 2026]** — point business owners and vendors here first.

## Resource hubs & supplies (residents)
- **Alma Youth & Family Center** — 3218 Wabash Ave, LA 90063. Food, clothing, shoes, masks, cleaning
  supplies, resource navigation, mental-health services. (Check current hours.) **[ACTIVE]**
- **Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory — resilience hub** — KN95 masks, filtered indoor air, device
  charging, resources. **[ACTIVE]**
- **K.A.U.S.E. Los Angeles** — warehouse open ~3 days/week: baby diapers, hygiene supplies, service
  referrals. **[ACTIVE]**
- **Coyotl + Macehualli** — building **Corsi–Rosenthal box air purifiers** for affected residents;
  accepting masks/air-purifier donations and funds for materials. A great "give supplies/time" target.
  **[ACTIVE]**

## Neighbors helping neighbors (community action)
Some of the most important help is residents taking care of each other. Spotlight and support these:
- **Midnight Books LA, with DAWA (Dawah Delivery).** Community members building **DIY air purifiers**
  (Corsi-Rosenthal style, with proper filters) for households in the smoke, and delivering **groceries** to
  neighbors sheltering in place. They need volunteers, especially drivers. Reach DAWA on Instagram at
  **@dawahdelivery.** **[ACTIVE]**
- **Operation Healthy Hearts.** Volunteers assemble air purifiers and bring them to neighbors who signed up.
  Needs hands and transport. **[ACTIVE]**
- **Coyotl + Macehualli.** Building Corsi-Rosenthal box purifiers; needs masks, materials, and funds. **[ACTIVE]**

This is the community protecting its own air while the official response caught up. It deserves the spotlight.

## Official channels (point, don't run)
- **Call 211** (LA County — incl. East LA) or **311** (City of LA) for **free masks and air purifiers**
  and resource navigation. **[ACTIVE]**
- **California Community Foundation — CCF Impact Fund** (`calfund.org`) — administering the **$2M**
  Lineage-funded relief for impacted residents. **[ACTIVE]** *(Note neutrally: this is the disaster-relief
  gift discussed elsewhere in the corpus — and a behested-payment watch item.)*
- **LA County / City resource fairs** and the **County claims process** (from the Solis/Hahn motion) —
  track and republish dates as they're set. **[ACTIVE]**

## Established community & environmental-justice orgs (the long-term infrastructure)
These are the groups with deep roots in this fight — natural allies for the health, air, and
accountability side, and trusted messengers in the community:
- **East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ)** — roots in Boyle Heights & Commerce. **[ESTABLISHED]**
- **Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)** — EJ advocacy/organizing. **[ESTABLISHED]**
- **Unión de Vecinos** — tenant/resident organizing in Boyle Heights. **[ESTABLISHED]**
- **InnerCity Struggle** — Eastside youth & community power. **[ESTABLISHED]**
- **Promesa Boyle Heights** + **Climate Resolve** — community-led **air-monitoring network** (~10 Eastside monitors); industrial buffer-zone work. **[ESTABLISHED]**
- **Clean Up Green Up (CUGU)** + the **LA Collaborative for Environmental Health & Justice** — the coalition behind the Eastside green-zone policy. **[ESTABLISHED]**
- **Ground Game LA** (environment) — mutual-aid/organizing capacity. **[ESTABLISHED]**
- **AQMD AB 617 — East LA / Boyle Heights / West Commerce** community air-monitoring program (CAMP/CERP) — the official community air-monitoring structure (a data ally for the air question). **[ESTABLISHED]**

## Local press running relief guides (cite + amplify)
- **LA Public Press**, **The LA Local**, and **Boyle Heights Beat** are publishing live "how to get help /
  how to support" guides — link to them rather than re-creating the list, and credit them. **[ACTIVE]**

## Where your network plugs in
You have **a nonprofit and a network of orgs** with volunteer history here. The highest-value role is
**connector + amplifier + trusted navigator**, not a parallel program:
- **Aggregate and keep current** this directory (one clean, bilingual, dated page that points to all of
  the above) — the thing that's missing is usually a single trustworthy, up-to-date list.
- **Amplify** the business relief fund and the resource hubs to the people who can't easily find them
  (Spanish-dominant, immigrant, elderly residents).
- **Co-sign / coordinate** with the established EJ orgs on the air/water accountability asks — they bring
  standing and trust; the project brings the sourced records.
- *(Add your nonprofit's name + the partner orgs you already work with — placeholder to fill.)*

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*Compiled June 25, 2026 from on-the-record relief reporting (LA Public Press, The LA Local, ABC7, NBC LA)
and public org records. [ACTIVE] items are time-sensitive — confirm hours/links before publishing. We point
to these helpers; we don't collect funds or run programs ourselves.*
