Honoring the legacy of Robert Nelson by contributing to great organizations that make a positive impact to communities and individuals.

The Robert Nelson Foundation’s generosity provides hope for kids experiencing weekend hunger. Thanks to your support, Hand2Hand continues to deliver weekend backpacks to thousands of students in our community. We reach kids when they are most vulnerable to hunger—on the weekends and extended school breaks. Your involvement has empowered kids to learn to cook balanced meals and receive the nourishment they need to reach their full potential academically, emotionally, and physically. We are incredibly grateful for The Robert Nelson Foundation’s partnership, and together, we can provide hope and a brighter future for at-risk students.

With the foundation’s support, our dedicated staff and volunteers can continue to rescue donated food, prepare healthy meals, and offer a dignified environment where guests feel comfortable and welcomed. We strive to foster a welcoming environment, through our Community Dinner and Wellness programs, for individuals often marginalized by society. Our Community Exchange program distributes millions of pounds of food each year throughout Los Angeles County. These programs rely on the help of partners like the Robert Nelson Foundation, and we are grateful for their dedication to enhancing our communities.

Advocacy, Respect, and Choice- Long Beach is incredibly grateful to the Robert Nelson Foundation for the support they have given our organization. With their incredible support, we are able to continue providing the best possible services to the over 300 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities we serve. On behalf of all the individuals we serve as well as the organization itself, AR&C Long Beach is extremely grateful to have an ally in the Robert Nelson Foundation.

The Robert Nelson Foundation’s generous support has made possible life-changing programs for men, women, and children here at the Los Angeles Mission. Thanks to their support, food, shelter, clothing, rehabilitation, education, and training have been made possible for the poor of LA. The cycle of poverty is being broken, and the poor are finding help, hope, and opportunity for a brighter future. Many thanks to The Robert Nelson Foundation!

We are deeply grateful for the very generous donation from the Robert Nelson Foundation to feed food-insecure children, adults, families and seniors in Los Angeles County. Funds from the foundation will be a tremendous help to those who are struggling to make ends meet and may not know where their next meal is coming from. Thanks again for this impactful and generous gift.

Thanks to the incredibly generous donation from the Robert Nelson Foundation, the young adults in the Region III Transition Program in Grandville, Michigan are going to shine! Because of this kind donation, we will be able to purchase necessary items to update and improve our program, enhance our community-based instruction lessons, provide greater social emotional support, and promote greater real-life independence. Thank you for a donation that will improve the lives of not only the students this year but for many, many years to come. We are so incredibly grateful to the Robert Nelson Foundation.

On behalf of everyone at Food Forward, our hunger relief partners, and the communities they serve, thank you for the Robert Nelson Foundation’s generous grant of $20,000. We appreciate this new partnership that will help us be a dependable source of nutritious fruits and vegetables to our Southern California neighbors experiencing food insecurity

In this time of unprecedented challenges, your generosity means a great deal to me and our entire Grand Valley community. The career exploration fund and the scholarship will provide tremendous support to students majoring in multimedia journalism, especially those interested in broadcasting. Because of your gift, these students will have access to experiential learning opportunities that they otherwise would not have had.

Every year we’re able to celebrate the artistic achievements of students of all abilities thanks to the support of our philanthropic partners like the Robert Nelson Foundation. Through our shared values and commitments to our communities, programs like The Very Special Arts Festival continue to remain accessible, relevant, and innovative.

This grant will provide assistance for many of our clients who are undocumented, disenfranchised and who face financial challenges due to HIV/AIDS infection.

On behalf of the participants, staff, and board of directors of the Downtown Women’s Center (DWC), I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to the Robert Nelson Foundation for its generous $5,000 grant received in September 2024 in support of our mission to end homelessness for women and gender diverse individuals by providing safe housing and supportive services centered on wellness, employment, and advocacy. Your investment in DWC has helped advance our work toward achieving our mission.

The nonprofit Health Communication Research Institute, Inc. is so grateful for the support of The Robert Nelson Foundation and their generous donation to help us open Joshua’s House Volunteer Hospice. This will be the first hospice community for terminally ill men and women who are unhoused. The hospice and comfort care, shelter, clothing and meals provided at Joshua’s House will allow them to die in comfort and with dignity – not alone on our streets and along our rivers. This will be the first such facility on the West Coast and the 9th in the country. Thank you for making such a profound difference in unsheltered people’s lives.

The Los Angeles Police Department Hollywood Division is thankful for the generous support of The Robert Nelson Foundation.  The donation helps provide critical safety equipment for police officers who are facing many challenges in today’s society.  It also helps contribute to our police officers’ wellness by supporting divisional activities and training. The funds provided have helped Hollywood police officers engage with the communities they serve to build stronger relationships with the local residents and businesses.  Thank you for supporting those who sacrifice so much to keep us all safe!

The members of Los Angeles Fire Department, Fire Station 27, want to thank the Robert Nelson Foundation for their generosity, kindness, and support in helping make a direct impact on the Hollywood local community and its youth. The foundation’s support through funding to scholarship young men and women in their effort to rise above the challenges in seeking a career in the fire service, not only providing previously unreachable opportunities, but establishing a relationship between those who desire to be the best they can and those who believe that they can.

We are incredibly grateful to the Robert Nelson Foundation for this award. The grant we received will help further our mission in supporting precious seniors through the following: 

• Birthday Cake Surprise! – We plan to surprise our seniors with a birthday cake on their birthdays. 
• Emergency Funds for Seniors- This will provide small appliances such as a microwave to heat up the seniors’ meals and furniture to give comfort to our seniors.  
• Talking Tech- This will provide tablets and Wi-Fi connection so our seniors can connect to loved one’s friends and even keep their doctors’ appointments through technology.  

We are incredibly grateful to the Robert Nelson Foundation for this award. The grant we received will help further our mission in supporting active military, veterans, and their families through Housing Assistance, Hotel Vouchers, Car Repair and/or vehicle registration, a Homeless package, Gas/Food cards, Bus passes and Utility assistance.

We are so honored to be chosen to share the philanthropy and kindness of the Robert Nelson Foundation with the families we serve. This donation will help us to provide support programs for children with cancer and their families. Due to the financial burden that often accompanies a pediatric cancer diagnosis, all of Okizu’s programs are offered free-of-charge to the families we serve, and this generous grant will help us to serve children with cancer both in-person and virtually next year

I fully support the establishment of a first-of-its-kind resource center housed in our public library facility targeting the unique needs of those persons and families in the community facing disability challenges. …  This investment will allow us to fully serve and support such a Center and to provide the environment for it to grow, prosper and serve as a model for other libraries.

On behalf of UCLA Health, I am writing to express my sincere appreciation for your wonderful donation to support the well being of our health care team and support staff serving patients during the Covid-19 pandemic.

We are so grateful for the support from the Robert Nelson Foundation. This donation allows us to support families with children experiencing homelessness. Thanks to this gift we can provide moms and kids with safe emergency shelter, provide basic needs and help families move home! It’s life changing work, and it’s amazing partners, like the Robert Nelson Foundation, that allow us to continue to do this important work. From all of us at Family Promise of Grand Rapids, thank you for ending homelessness, one family at a time!

The generous support from the Robert Nelson Foundation is having a transformative impact on No Limits’ summer program, empowering underserved, at-risk deaf youth to develop essential life skills, build lasting friendships, and gain confidence through the power of the arts. With this funding, more children from marginalized communities will have the opportunity to participate in our professional theater program, breaking down barriers and paving the way for a brighter future. The Robert Nelson Foundation’s contribution plays a crucial role in helping us achieve this mission. Thank you to the Robert Nelson Foundation for believing in our deaf children and families!

During Nurses Week 2024, we celebrated UCLA Health Nurses and their unwavering dedication to delivering world-class care to our patients, their families, and our community. The support Robert Nelson Foundation has shown to UCLA Health nurses over the past four years has played a crucial role in funding essential initiatives such as scholarships for nurses pursuing advanced degrees, research programs, and opportunities for nurses to share and learn the latest evidence-based practices. Your contribution during Nurses Week makes a significant difference to the lives of our nurses and the care they provide every day

The generosity of the Robert Nelson Foundation’s is helping us to improve outcomes for students with disabilities in West Michigan.  Our new parent resource center will give families the guidance, tools, and resources to support their child with a disability in the school and community setting from birth to adulthood.  We so appreciate the passion and partnership in this important work.  Thank you, Robert Nelson Foundation!

The Robert Nelson Foundation’s support will positively impact individuals as we use the funds to recognize and celebrate our program graduates and community partners.

On behalf of Child Life Services at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital we thank you for the generous donation. With your help we are able to provide children with the education and understanding of their hospitalization.  Through meaningful gifts we can increase a child’s positive coping and help decrease their pain and anxiety through their medical experience.  We are grateful for The Robert Nelson Foundation.

Hollywood PAL is extremely grateful to The Robert Nelson Foundation for their generous donation, which directly impacts the lives of at-risk children and police officers in the Hollywood community, by helping us create opportunities and a better future for them. With the foundation’s support we can provide a safe community in which children can build positive relationships with local police officers as. These programs provide our youth and officers with opportunities to create a culture of positive change while they learn life skills and become motivated to achieve personal goals.

What you have done for our riders is INCREDIBLE, and in a year of uncertainty, you have made 286 lessons CERTAIN for them. On their behalf, thank you from the bottom of 603 little hearts.

We are grateful to the Robert Nelson Foundation for partnering with us to celebrate high school seniors graduating from Special Olympics Southern California Unified Champion Schools across LA County.  Because of you, we can honor students with and without intellectual disabilities for their commitment to being part of the Unified Generation and for working together to create more inclusive schools.

We are so grateful to be able to honor the legacy of Robert Nelson by ensuring that every child that walks through our doors develops the literacy skills and self-confidence to succeed, not only academically, but throughout their lives.

Thanks to our incredible partners, like the Robert Nelson Foundation, Happy Trails for Kids is able to provide year-round supportive services and create meaningful opportunities for children to participate in new experiences, adventures and mentorships.