Welcome to the online home of The Giving Spirit, a tax exempt, Los Angeles-based non-profit organization helping and administering aid to the homeless community through direct volunteer interaction.

Have a heart. Lend a hand. Please sign up for our 13th Annual Holiday Reach-Out Event Thursday to Sunday, December 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th!

To register online CLICK HERE.

We’re banding together to assemble survival kits. We’re distributing them to our homeless neighbors throughout the community. And we simply can’t do it without your help!

To learn more, read our FAQs.

Don’t miss this chance to put your heart into action. Register today and make a life-changing difference!

Please visit our blog and join our community on Facebook to read more about our work and stay updated on our latest activities.  To see a time lapse video of the TGS volunteers in action, click here.

The Giving Spirit - What We Do

Watch this video to learn more about The Giving Spirit and the homeless of LA

Thanks to your kind support, our outreach ability to the homeless of Los Angeles continues to grow. We invite you to explore our website, to learn about what we do and the lives we touch, to educate yourself about homelessness, and to get involved – whether by donation or by hands-on participation or both. Without your desire to help those less fortunate than yourself, many lives – from the homeless to the volunteers - would not have been touched by this act of grace.

Did you know the average age of a homeless individual in the US is nine years old and that families are the fastest growing segment of homelessness?

The Giving Spirit provides aid to these vulnerable and fragile lives by assembling and personally distributing survival kits to the children, women and families living on the street. These kits contain over 70 individual items providing sustenance to the homeless in their time of need. Our efforts have personally and positively impact the lives of our volunteers and our homeless friends from Skid Row to Santa Monica. “There is so much in this bag,” a recipient at the Downtown Women's Center told our volunteers. “Everything on my list that I prayed for is in here! How did you know exactly what we need?"