Hollywood Groups To Hold Their Own Homeless Count Syndicated Local – CBS Los Angeles
HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA) – The Central Hollywood Neighborhood Council and several local organizations are conducting a volunteer homeless count in Hollywood Thursday evening.
The groups, including Hollywood4WRD and the Center in Hollywood, will share the count with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, which typically conducts winter homeless counts but did not this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
L.A.H.S.A. announced in December that following guidance from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, “there is no safe way to gather the 8,000 volunteers necessary to conduct the 2021 (point-in-time) count and collect data as accurately as it has done in previous years.”
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Ron Kaplan, the veteran music agent who recently joined ICM Partners’ music department, was struck years ago by how remote philanthropy sometimes can feel from its impact on individuals. Kaplan ran his family’s foundation and the work mainly involved writing checks of donations at the end of each year. “It felt really disconnected,” Kaplan tells
The Hollywood Reporter. “I said, ‘I want to focus on one thing and do it well.’”
So Kaplan a one-time bass player who grew up in Chicago and spent most of his career there before moving to Los Angeles in 2018 started visiting homeless organizations including the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. “I realized there was a consistent pattern. These shelters would give food, clothing, temporary bedding and other essentials, but they would never have anything to put