2023 Impact Report

One Down Dog is more than a yoga studio.

We're a community hub where bodies move, minds find peace, and hearts connect. In 2023, we were incredibly inspired by the ways our community came together to support each other. Let's dive into the highlights!

✊ ODDgives Classes:

Our ODDgives program continued to thrive in 2023, with our teachers hosting donation-based classes to benefit a wide range of nonprofits. Together, we raised $5,033 for organizations working tirelessly for social justice, environmental sustainability, and historically marginalized communities.

We donated to 15 different orgs:

1. Crohn's & Colitis Foundation - The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation is a non-profit, volunteer-fueled organization dedicated to finding cures for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, and improving the quality of life of children and adults affected by these diseases

2. Tyre Nichols Memorial Fund - The Tyre Nichols Memorial Fund helped cover the cost of mental health services for Tyre Nichol's parents, their time off from work because they do not have unlimited PTO, and a memorial skate park for Tyre, in honor of his love for skating and sunsets.

3. Silverlake Independent Jewish Community Center (SIJCC) - The Silverlake Independent Jewish Community Center (SIJCC) is a model for modern Jewish communal life in Los Angeles, redefining what Jewish engagement and expression look like on a personal, interpersonal, and communal level.

4. National Network of Abortion Funds - The National Network of Abortion Funds builds power with members to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic, and reproductive justice.

5. Miry's List - Miry's List is a nonprofit organization providing a mechanism for people to directly help new arrival refugee families with the incredible challenge of resettlement in the United States.

6. Ralph Yarl's GoFundMe - Ralph Yarl's GoFundMe covers the cost of medical bills and therapy for Ralph Yarl, and any addtional funds will be use for college expenses at Texas A&M, a trip to West Africa, and other expenses

7. ACLU - ACLU has been our nation’s guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country. Whether it’s achieving full equality for LGBT people, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age of widespread government surveillance, ending mass incarceration, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people from government abuse and overreach.

8. Inclusive Action for the City - Inclusive Action for the City is a non-profit, community development financial institution (CDFI) serving Los Angeles County and beyond. Their mission is to serve underinvested communities and build thriving local economies by improving access to transformative capital, and advancing policy through collaborative research and community-driven advocacy.

9. Movember - Movember has funded more than 1,250 men’s health projects around the world, challenging the status quo, shaking up men’s health research and transforming the way health services reach and support men.

10. Entertainment Community Fund - The Entertainment Community Funds provide human services nationally for people who work in film, theater, television, music, opera, radio and dance. They're there for everyone on stage, on camera, and behind the scenes to support a life in the arts.

11. Pacific'o on the Beach Employee Fire Relief—Pacific'o on the Beach Employee Fire Relief is a fundraiser to help the employees of Pacific'o on the Beach who were affected by the wildfires.

12. Pilipino Workers Center (PWC)—The Pilipino Workers Center is a grassroots non-profit that organizes the low-wage and immigrant Pilipinx communities in the United States. It builds collective power to demand better living and working conditions and secure the dignity, safety, and economic stability of the Pilipinx community.

13. Fitness 4 All Bodies - Fitness4AllBodies teaches coaches, gym/studio owners, and people in the fitness industry to better understand how our bodies are connected to systems of oppression, how those systems are reinforced by the fitness industry, and how to develop a social justice lens and apply it to their work.

14. ACLU Drag Defense Fund - The Drag Defense Fund supports the ACLU’s LGBTQ+ rights work at a time when drag performers and the LGBTQ+ community are facing threats across the country. In the face of these threats and censorship, you can fight back with the ACLU for the protection of all our rights.

15. The American Cancer Society - The American Cancer Society is the leading cancer-fighting organization with a vision of ending cancer as we know it, for everyone. We are the only organization working to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

🎁 Holiday Donations:

During the holiday season, we brought an extra dose of warmth and generosity. Thanks to your incredible support, we raised $1110 for Miry's List! Miry is an ODD student who "accidentally founded" a nonprofit that provides a mechanism for people to directly help new arrival refugee families with the incredible challenge of resettlement in the United States.

🙏 From ODD's Community to ODD's Community:

We believe that yoga should be accessible to everyone, regardless of financial circumstances. The ODD Fund provides financial assistance in paying for classes and/or memberships to students who need it. Mutual aid is our biggest tool for support. Here's how you helped your fellow ODDFam in 2023:

1. Provided 4 BIPOC students scholarships to our YTT programs in the amount of $4,400 !
2. Help support 48 students in paying for their membership costs!
3. Beyond our studio walls, we donated memberships to 27 local schools and nonprofits in the amount of $5,090!

We are SO proud of this community! Thank you, ODDFam for continuing to make One Down Dog more than a yoga studio. 💛