2022 Impact Report

One Down Dog is more than a yoga studio.

We're a community, a place to deepen your practice, connect with others, and give back to the larger community. Let’s dive into how awesome you made us in 2023!

✊ ODDgives Classes:

ODDgives is a program created to elevate diverse voices and give back to underserved communities. These classes are donation-based classes for a non-profit of the teacher’s choosing, either open to all or affinity-style classes exclusively for students from historically marginalized communities.

Total donations: $5,033

For 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:

Over the holiday season, you all helped us donate over 50 toys to A Place Called Home's holiday toy drive! A Place Called Home's mission is to inspire, encourage, and support the young people in South Los Angeles to achieve social, emotional, and economic success.

You also helped us donate $850 to Miry's List! Miry is an ODD student who "accidentally founded" a nonprofit providing 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 never want finances to get in the way of a student's ability to practice with us! 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 ODD Fam in 2022:

1. Through your donations to the ODD Fund, we were able to give 8 BIPOC students scholarships to our YTT programs in the amount of $9,875 in 2022!

2. The ODD Fund also helped support 56 students in paying for their membership costs!

3. Lastly, we donated over $1000 in yoga gift certificates to local schools and nonprofits for fundraising events in 2022!

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