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LOS ANGELES TEAM MENTORING (LATM) STAR-STUDDED 20TH ANNUAL
SOIREE GALA RAISES OVER $825K
Attendees included honoree JANE
SEYMOUR, Event
Chair and Emcee Kathy
Ireland and
Guests Ashley
Graham, Bill Duke and
the L.A. Rams’ Sam
Shields
Los Angeles, CA – November 7, 2018 – Multiple Emmy and Golden
Globe winner, and recipient of the Officer of the British Empire
(OBE), Jane Seymour was honored with the
annual Dream Big Award at Los Angeles
Team Mentoring’s 20th annual Soiree celebration.
Twenty-six years after the eruption of the L.A. riots, Los
Angeles Team Mentoring (LATM), Los Angeles’ pioneering
non-profit organization guiding middle school students from
challenging urban neighborhoods to reach their full potential
and develop their leadership skills, celebrated its anniversary
at the gala, which was held on the evening of Thursday, October
25th at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica.
Supermodel-turned-supermogul, Kathy Ireland, last
year’s honoree, was this year’s Honorary Chair and emcee. Guests
included supermodel Ashley Graham, L.A. Rams
cornerback Sam Shields, actor/director Bill
Duke and actress Angelique Cabral.
The evening raised over $825K.
Also honored at Soiree this year was MGO, receiving the
“Corporate Excellence Award” for being a strong supporter and
advocate of gender equality and causes that promote the
advancement of those in need.
LATM’s annual Soiree is the organization’s signature
fundraising event, which ensures over 330 volunteer mentors are
able to provide critical mentoring services to over 1,300
at-risk youth for an entire school year. This year’s presenting
sponsors Live Nation, TPG Real Estate, Eastdil Secured,
Latham & Watkins and LATM Founder Darell Krasnoff were
joined by Kirkland & Ellis, Keenan & Associates, Dolby,
Banc of California, Goldman Sachs, Greenspoon Marder, Ernst &
Young, Nickelodeon, Deluxe, Row8, and
many more.
Immediately in the wake of the 1992 civil unrest, Los Angeles
Team Mentoring (LATM) launched its first after-school mentoring
program at Horace Mann Middle School, located just three miles
from the epicenter of the Los Angeles Riots. Its team-based
mentoring model, developed by the Princeton Center for
Leadership, was instituted to train and encourage that
leadership, the benefits of which have long been helping to
modify the effects of gang activity, violence, poverty and high
drop-out rates of young people.
Since its inception, the organization has impacted the lives
of 26,000 young people through two and a half million hours of
after school mentoring. The organization focuses on the critical
non-school hours – after-school, weekends and summers – to
ensure that students have a safe and structured programming and
access to trusted adult role models. Youth enroll in LATM’s
program in 6th, 7th and 8th grade.
Although LATM does not provide tutoring, students in the program
not only earn higher grades—but go on 4 years later to graduate
at a 22% higher rate—in spite of 29% of those same students
coming from homes where neither parent has graduated from high
school. In addition, 100% of LATM youth have increased
self-esteem—giving them the critical foundation they need to
dream big and succeed at all things in life.
ABOUT LOS ANGELES TEAM MENTORING:
LATM’s core team mentoring model, TeamWorks, includes a team of
three mentors consisting of a teacher, a college student, and a
community/business volunteer that utilize an activity-based
curriculum enabling students to develop social emotional skills
and resiliency. In addition, LATM conducts Summer Leadership
Camp whose goal is to give students the college knowledge needed
to become competitive applicants. TheLATM program is now
available in 11 middle schools:
Bethune Middle School in South LA • Wilmington Middle School in
Wilmington • John Burroughs Middle School in Mid-Wilshire •
Peary Middle School in Gardena • Para Los Niño’s in Skid Row,
Downtown LA • James Madison Middle School in North Hollywood •
Johnnie Cochran Middle School in Mid-City • Webster Middle
School in West LA • Edison Middle School in South LA • Pacoima
Middle School in the San Fernando Valley • Richard Merkin Middle
School in Downtown LA/Pico-Union
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