HELP Finish the Job of Re-Powering LAMI’s Brigantines with MORE Environmentally-Friendly Engines and Generators! $20,000 MATCH Announced! Watch a video of the ingenious and difficult task of replacing an engine in a 110-ft wooden tall ship! Blood blisters. Splinters. Welding I-beam tracks. Disassembling and Reassembling the Nav Cabin. Hundreds of hours spent in pretzel-like contorted body…
20 years ago, Los Angeles Maritime Institute staff and volunteers completed the ambitious undertaking to build from the keel up twin 110-ft brigantines designed explicitly for youth education, sail training, and open-ocean voyages. The construction took place in the center of what is now LA’s Waterfront. It was a phenomenal endeavor exemplifying the commitment to…
Help Celebrate and Ready the Ships for Youth Programs Share Stories and Donate to the 100 Years Campaign Today! You’re Invited to Los Angeles Maritime Institute’s 100 Years Campaign! 2021 marks the 80th birthday for American Pride and 20 years since the construction of the twin brigantines, Irving Johnson and Exy Johnson. Learn all about…
VOTE to return Festival of Sail to the LA Waterfront Labor Day weekend with free sails and educational and career training opportunities for young people! Los Angeles Maritime Institute NEEDS YOUR VOTE in Councilman Joe Buscaino’s Community Grants Challenge. Voting ends Monday May 31. VOTING is FREE and as a supporter of LAMI you are eligible to vote. Use LAMI’s…
Millions of Americans are relieved to start receiving their Rescue Plan stimulus support, desperately working to make ends meet during these challenging times. If you are fortunate to not be economically vulnerable like so many of the families we serve, please consider making a donation to Los Angeles Maritime Institute and let kids get back…
Los Angeles, CA – Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Task Force on Out-of-School Enrichment Time today announced a city-wide partnership, with the support of the Broad Foundation, bringing together 26 of Los Angeles’s great STEM organizations to offer free STEM courses for LAUSD students this fall. Participating organizations range from major museums to universities and are working together with…
Help us make masks for LAMI Hats off, but masks on to a wonderful LAMI volunteer who has organized this mask-making effort. Please contact us if you can help in any way with this effort. Thank you!
Last Friday Congress passed and the President signed into law the CARES Act: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. This law, section 2204, allows individuals who do not itemize deductions to make an Above-The-Line charitable Deduction of $300 for the 2020 tax year. We respectfully ask you to Show Your CARES for LAMI by…
