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Homeless Persons’ Memorial Service
Please Join Us for Our 2025 Homeless Persons’ Memorial Service.
National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day takes place each year on the longest night of the year, the winter solstice. Every year, on or around this night, Ascencia holds a service to commemorate the lives of the homeless members of our community who died that year.
Please join us for our 2025 Homeless Persons’ Memorial Service on Friday, December 19th at 5:00PM. The service this year will take place at Wee Kirk O’ The Heather at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA. This event is open to the public.
Together, we will memorialize the lives of Ascencia clients, past and present, who have died on the streets or in their own home. In many cases, this service will be the only commemoration of their lives. Thank you for helping us honor the memories of our clients.
We will also be collecting donations of jackets, gloves, hats, and blankets (new only) at the event. We hope to see you there.
For more information, please contact Camille Guerrero, Director of Development, at (818) 246-7900 x 114 or cguerrero@ascenciaca.org.
Annual Fundraising Gala
Ascencia’s 18th Annual Gala: Creating a Lasting Impact
SAVE THE DATE for Ascencia’s 18th Annual Gala: Creating a Lasting Impact!
We are excited to announce our 2026 gala, where we will be raising funds to support our essential programs that create a lasting impact on the individuals we serve and our community at large. Your generous support plays a crucial role in making this possible, and we are deeply grateful for your ongoing commitment.
Our gala will take place on Saturday, April 11, 2026, at Oakmont Country Club in Glendale, CA. Stay tuned for more information on tickets, sponsorship packages, honorees, and more. Mark your calendars now, and make sure you sign up for our newsletter to stay informed!
For more information, please contact Camille Guerrero, Director of Development, at (818) 246-7900 x 114 or cguerrero@ascenciaca.org.
Past Events
Homeless Persons’ Memorial Service
Friday, DECEMBER 20, 2024
Thank you for joining us at our 2024 Annual Homeless Persons’ Memorial Service where we honored the memory of Ascencia clients who have passed away.
Volunteer Appreciation Event
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Our 2024 Volunteer Appreciation Event was held at Elks Lodge in Glendale. We showed our gratitude with awards, appetizers, and a good time. Thank you for helping us grow!
Ascencia’s 17th Annual GALA
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Our 2025 Gala, “Hope Starts Here” raised $348,000 to support our life-saving homeless services. Thank you for raising money to support our cause. We hope to see you at our next gala!
Our Email Newsletter
Ascencia is proud to be a part of an uplifting community that shares the same mission of lifting people out of homelessness one person, one family, at a time. We celebrate this community support and raise much needed funds by hosting various events with our community members!
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Past Newsletters:
Ascencia News & Press
Outlook Newspapers – Glendale News Press, Burbank Leader
- “Homeless Services Get Boost From Ascencia Gala”, May 2025
- “Lives Lost to Homelessness Remembered By Ascencia”, December 2024
- “GPD, Nonprofit Team Up to Aid Homeless”, November 2024
- “Ascencia to Host Homeless Persons Memorial Service”, December 2023
- “Ascencia Adopt-A-Family Seeks Holiday Helpers”, November 2023
- “Ascencia’s ‘Summer of Hope’ in Full Swing”, July 2023
- “Ascencia Rises for Its 15th Annual Gala”, May 2023
- “Ascencia Remembers Lives Lost to Homelessness”, January 2023
- “Ascencia Cooks Up Banquet of Ways to Volunteer”, November 2022
- “Ascencia Holds Share the Love Gala”, April 2022
- “Remembering 7 Lives Lost to Homelessness”, December 2021
- “Ascencia Keeps Finding Ways to Help the Homeless”, November 2020
- “Performer’s Generosity to Ascencia”, August 2020
Pasadena Now
- “St. Francis Senior Jason Chaidez ’23 and His Eagle Scout Project”, August 2022
- “St. Francis Culinary Club’s Creative and Impactful Ways to Serve the Community during the Pandemic”, December 2020
- “St. Francis Culinary Club Holds a Fundraiser for Ascencia Shelter”, February 2020
- “‘Criminalizing’ Homeless Creates Criminals, Say Experts at Pasadena Forum”, September 2015
Crescenta Valley Weekly
- “A Key to a Safe Place”, July 2020
- “City and Ascencia Continue to Help High Risk Citizens”, May 2020
- “GPD Connects Longtime Homeless Man with Homeless Outreach and Permanent Housing”, May 2020
- “Las Candelas Celebrates the Season of Giving”, December 2019
- “Many Stories Heard During Homeless Count”, January 2019
- “Ascencia Welcomes New Executive Director”, January 2019
- “Friedman Names Ascencia the 2018 “Nonprofit of the Year”, June 2018
- “Ascencia Hosts Event Fit for Royalty”, February 2018
- “Ascencia holds annual gala”, February 2017
- “Ascencia Celebrates Capital Campaign Donors”, December 2016
- “Las Candelas Ladies Serve Ascencia Clients”, June 2016
- “Protecting the Homeless During El Niño”, December 2015
- “Ascencia Celebrates ‘Coming Home”, September 2014
- “NCL Projects Benefit Ascencia”, February 2012
LA Times
- “26 ways to volunteer during the holidays in Los Angeles”, November 2022
- “On the Town: Ascencia continues to help the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic”, April 2020
- “Glendale works to protect city’s homeless from the coronavirus”, March 2020
- “Glendale police officers help reunite homeless woman with mother from Portland”, September 2019
- “They had a name and they mattered”, January 2019
- “On the Town: Evening remembers those who are homeless and have died on the streets”, December 2018
- “Laura Duncan takes the reins at homeless organization Ascencia”, December 2018
- “On the Town: Laemmle Theater opening helps provide homeless services”, August 2018
- “Natalie Profant Komuro led homeless organization Ascencia to growth in area”, June 2018
- “On the Town: Guest chefs have secret recipe for helping homeless”, May 2018
- “On the Town: ‘A Royal Night’ gala will benefit programs supporting area’s homelessness”, January 2018
- “Glendale’s annual homeless count relies on community to help those in need”, January 2018
- “On the Town: Charity League honored for supporting homeless”, February 2017
- “Homelessness drops 6.5% in Glendale but rises by 12% countywide; work not done, local officials say”, June 2016
- “City Briefs: Doctors House Museum to hold candlelight tour; food drive to benefit Ascencia”, December 2015
- “On the Town: Ascencia holds ninth anniversary gala at Union Station”, February 2015
- “Ascencia holds celebration for national goal”, June 2014
- “Ascencia relocates its winter shelter in Glendale”, December 2013
- “Path Achieve Glendale becomes independent, changes name”, September 2011
TruthDig
- “Unhoused and Disabled in America“, November 2022
ABC 7 Los Angeles
- “Shake Shack opens 2nd California location in Glendale”, September 2016
CBS Los Angeles
- “Officers Arrange New Clothes, Makeover, Free Flight So Homeless Woman Can Reunite With Mother”, September 2019
- “Comedian Helps To Transform Glendale Homeless Shelter Into Five-Star Restaurant”, April 2014
NBC Los Angeles
- “Volunteer Opportunities” , July 2019
- “Boy, 8, Break Dances for Southern California’s Homeless”, July 2016
WeHo Times
- West Hollywood Approves Agreement for Ascencia to Manage Holloway Interim Housing Program, January 2024
Beverly Press
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