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Press Releases

New Affordable Housing Community Opens In Santa Ana, Offering Stability To Orange County’s Most Vulnerable

Permanent Supportive Housing Solution to End Homelessness for OC’s Most Vulnerable Breaks Ground
WISEPlace Makes Huge Step Toward Ending the Cycle of Homelessness with Plans to Build Transformative Permanent Supportive Housing
WISEPlace Chosen as a 2021 Nonprofit of the Year!
WISEPlace partnered with Orange County Community Foundation to raise more than $2.1 million during “Help Them Home” Giving Day
WISEPlace launches program to provide community support for women in crisis
WISEPlace women’s shelter raises $188,200 during 24-hour “Help Them Home” fundraiser
WISEPlace women’s shelter and Jamboree Housing launch an expanded shared vision to build supportive housing

In the News

New Housing Community Opens in Orange County for Domestic Violence Survivors
For 138 local nonprofits, a Samueli Foundation check is in the mail
For 138 local nonprofits, a Samueli Foundation check is in the mail
On KCAL 9, CEO, Brateil Aghasi, Advocates for Survivors of Domestic Violence
OC Community Foundation raises record amount in 2023 drive
Learn how $12 million in U.S. Bank Foundation grants will support communities
Steadfast Security and WISEPLACE Join Forces to Combat Homelessness: ICSC Western 2023
Nonprofits Break Ground on 47 New Affordable Homes in Santa Ana
Groundbreaking of our FIRST EVER Affordable Housing in nearly 100-year history!
Breaking Ground on New Supportive Housing Project
The Orange County Register – Former YWCA in Santa Ana will Convert from Shelter to Supportive Housing
NBC4 – TV Broadcast featuring Orange County Supervisor, Katrina Foley
SPECTRUM NEWS – New Permanent Supportive Housing Coming to Santa Ana
KPCCFM (NPR) – ALL THINGS CONSIDERED – Radio Broadcast featuring WISEPlace CEO, Brateil Aghasi and Orange County Supervisor, Katrina Foley
NBC4 – TV Broadcast featuring WISEPlace Graduate Testimonial
GOOD DAY LA Interviews Alumni, Participant and CEO, Brateil Aghasi at WISEPlace 05/23/22
KVEA – TELEMUNDO – TV Broadcast with WISEPlace Announcing Landmark Building Expansion to Provide Permanent Supportive Housing (Spanish)
WISEPlace Board Member Eileen Padberg Accepts 2021 Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser Award
WISEPlace CEO, Brateil Aghasi on Good Day LA for Help Them Home 2022
WISEPlace Leader, Brateil Aghasi, Cited Among Leading Women in Business
AFP Honors Eileen Padberg, WISEPlace Board Member as the 2021 National Philanthropy Day Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser
WISEPlace Chosen as a 2021 Grant Recipient from U.S. Bank
2021 Hope and Housing Alliance Campaign Launch Reception
WISEPlace Board Member, Eileen Padberg Honored as 2021 Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Orange County
Laguna Beach Women’s Collective Gives $100K to 5 Southern California Nonprofits
Could You Live in the Streets for 10 Years Waiting to Find a Home?
WISEPlace Chosen as a 2021 Nonprofit of the Year!
WISEPlace CEO Brateil Aghasi Panelist for Titan Table Talk: Power of Female Voice
City of Irvine Mayor, Farrah Kahn asks WISEPlace CEO, Brateil Aghasi to Adopt the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Parker Aerospace and Parker Foundation grant WISEPlace $10,000 contribution
City of Santa Ana Recognizes WISEPlace for Women’s History Month
CEO, Brateil Aghasi Named 2020 Difference Maker by the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce
Mesa Verde Living – Charity Spotlight on WISEPlace
Community Chat with United Way | Gender, Domestic Violence, and Homelessness
These dudes are made for walking. Costa Mesa friends turn 100K-step challenge into a mission for charity.
Caring as a Career: The field of nonprofit management can be rewarding as well as challenging.
First Foundation Awards $260,000 to Nonprofits through Its ‘Supporting Our Communities’ Program
Beyond #46: WISEPlace serving homeless woman
First Foundation’s Supporting Our Communities Partner, WISEPlace, Awarded AHEAD Grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco to Help Homeless Women 
The Crowd: ‘Help Them Home’ event raises money for O.C.’s homeless
Newport-based OC community resilience fund announces COVID-19 grants
Online fundraising campaign for groups assisting homeless people raises more than $700,000 in one day
Powerful Women in Media Celebrate Woman’s History Month
Our CEO, Brateil Aghasi, dispels myths about homelessness in this United Way video. Take a look.
Homelessness
Working Together to address homelessness in Orange County
WISEPlace’s Vision is to Uplift and Transform Women
WISEPlace celebrates 90 years of ending homelessness for women
Melvin Gordon visits WISEPlace on behalf of his Beyond the Flash Foundation
Real Estate News: WeWork opens its first members-only offices in Newport Beach

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