The photographs featured here are from Heart Gallery Los Angeles, a special exhibit featuring Los Angeles foster youth designed to highlight the need to find adoptive families for waiting children. These children love to laugh and learn and play but most of all they dream of finding a permanent loving family to call their own. Ensure these children receive their most wished-for gift. Here is a select Wish List kids have sent to SantaCAN. Surprise them. Send them a gift today.
Alfonso, 14
Fender FA-100 Acoustic Guitar with Gig Bag Natural
$119.99
Jaylon, 12
Razor A Kick Scooter
$38.56
Jacob, 2
Big Band Drum Set
$27.95
Audrey, 7
Baby Alive Make Me Better Doll
$29.97
Guillermo, 8
Adidas 14 MLS Glider Ball
$18.98
Diana, 8
Easy Bake Ultimate Oven
$55.67One gift will go a long way!
Buy & Send a GiftOther ways you can contribute and help a child.
Read What wish granters are saying ...
I hope you have a very Merry Christmas! I work as a photographer, so I was very impressed that you wanted a camera! I was about your age when I got my first camera and have loved taking pictures ever since. I hope you enjoy it and create some wonderful images with it :)
I wish you all the best,
It takes a strong young woman to walk in such powerful boots.
Stay focused. Stay spirited.
Stay fierce.
Happy holidays-as a foster kid myself-sharing the love.
Pay it forward where you can-even in the smallest ways.
I hope you have a WONDERFUL holiday season. You picked such a great gift-my husband and I are both artists and love it. It's something you'll enjoy for your entire life...even if you're just doodling on a restaurant napkin, which we sometimes do! :)
I'm sure you'll make lots of great, creative interesting art.
Meet Kevin
This film is part of a series called “Change a Child’s Life” featuring Los Angeles area foster children telling their own stories in their own words. There are more than 100,000 foster children in the United States who need a place to call home. It is our hope that by raising awareness about the youth and sharing their hopes and dreams we can help them find permanent loving families. Your generous contribution will really make a difference.
Our Mission
Children’s Action Network is proud to present the second annual SantaCAN—a unique gift drive for Los Angeles foster youth and we are asking for your help to ensure that this is a wonderful time for these children by making sure they each receive their most wished for gift from a wish list they compiled.
SantaCAN began as a small annual holiday party for at-risk youth twelve years ago and has grown into an online event that last year granted holiday wishes for more than 600 children in foster care in Los Angeles County. This year, our goal is to grant the wishes of 1,000 children. Children’s Action Network is so grateful to our supporters who made this possible.
A very special thank you to Anne Simonds for championing SantaCAN and the Disney VoluntEARS and DIRECTV for including this in their holiday giving campaign.
2015 Sponsors
Honorary Santa
Super Elf
- The DIRECTV Family
- Amy and Paul Blavin
- Carol and Frank Biondi
Master Toymaker
- Tamar Sagher
Gingerbread Maker
Santa's Helper
- Barker Family
- Rotenberg Family
- Jennifer Perry
- Vardalos Gomez Family
- Wendy Piatt
- Leslie Gilvert Lurie
- Joanie Berkley
Stocking Stuffer
- Silveri Family
- Diana Meehan
- Eileen Ludwick
- Madeline McFadden
- Swiller Family
- Julie Araskog
- Amy Young
- Erica Hightower
- Jennifer LaCorte
- Connie Britton
- Kathleen ORielly
Gift Wrapper
- Jan Levine
- Elizabeth Grossman
- Hedvig A.
- Mary Jeanne Wilson
- Karoline Newell
- Katie Aviv
- Erin Miles
- Jo Kaplan
- Barbara Yaroslavsky
- Linda May
- Donna Sussman
- Sal Randazzo
- Joy Gorman
- Molly Sakahara
- Suzanne Scott
- Donna Antebi
- Alexander Family
- Suzanne Emerson
- Erika Cho
- Cheryl Spound
- Meghan Willis
- Loretta Simonds
- Eve Rodsky
- Fahi Hallin
- Kay Faguet
- Wendy Smith
- Ilene Resnick
- J Ricciardi
- Leah Grossman
- Kim Sandorf
- Jennifer LaCorte
- Micki Sauer
- Kaylyn Blank
- Hillary Milken
- Kara Corwin
- Allison Burnett
- Jill Cepela
- Joyce Rey
- Heather Matarazzo
- Gracie Wheelan
- Suzanne Scott
- Eva Anderson
- Leila Cohan-Miccio
- Sarah Sprague
- Jennifer Crose
- Lealand Hage
- Logan Keegan
- Jennifer Arnold
- Deborah Valenti
- Brian Yates
- Karen Birnbaum
- Jon Edwards
- Robert Hepburn
- Nic Riccardo
- Marielle Williamson
- Rebecca Vaughan
- Amy Nicholson
- Willa Michaelsen
- Scott Schaeffer
- Juliette Williamson
- Lori Ellison
- Joe John
- Andrew Woods
- Christopher Ryan
- Trace Coughlin
- Karen Jacobs
- Philip Nobile
- Winnie Wechsler
- Alicia Malone
- Zaina Madain
- Matthew Perry
- Sandra Goodhue
- Stephanie Chandler
- Abby Maxam
- Mason Maxam
- Edward Maxam
- Nicole Cadena
- Jessica Davis
- Cherlene Nerland
- Heather Richards
- Schuyler Helford
- Gigi Levangie
- Allyn Morse
- Meredith McManus
- Ali Rubinfeld
- Debrah Farentino
- Schuyler Helford
- Linda Daly
- Kaitlin McKeown
- Sam Dinsmoor
- Pamela Marcus
- Kelly Allen
- Eva Anderson
- Natalie Campisi
- Jackie Pomeroy
- Allison Draper
- Stephen Fernandez
- Carrie Williams
- Lindsey Pollard
- Mira Zimet
- Jamie McGurk
- Diane Drake
- Janmarie Perry
- Moira Leeper
- Angela Harvey
- Jennifer Figueroa
- Sara Soto
- Javier Salazar
- Daniela Palombo
- Danielle Pope
- Francesca Oprandi
- Priscilla Burton
- Stacey Murray
- Mary Leslie
- Debbie Kirchen
- Ashley Van Buren
- Christian Gulliksen
- William Eckman
- Francesca Garrard
- Stephen Fernandez
- Sahar Hosseinarab
- David Ryan
- Sabrina Nouadir
- Nick Ciarelli
- Jennifer Crose
- Karen Jacobs
- Nathan Parr
- Jane Munna
- Stacy Gardner
- Laura Nanni
- Tselane Prescott
- Douglas Gillett
- Jeremy Little
- Asia Mechikoff
- Angela Peavy
- Brenda Kelly Grant
- Evan Jennings
- Christina Karaba
- Chris Coye
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