


Several community organizations, brands and other partners gathered in Rancho Dominguez on Wednesday to collect toys and other necessities for families impacted by the Los Angeles fires.
The event, hosted by Project Blue and supported by more than 20 community partners, including Top Dawg Entertainment, got underway at St. Albert the Great Middle School.
Community members came out on Wednesday to donate hygiene products, baby supplies, clothing, non-perishable food and drinks and more for victims of the Palisades and Eaton fires.
Top Dawg Entertainment, a music label led by Anthony Tiffith — best known as the former home to Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar — hosted an annual Christmas concert and toy giveaway at Nickerson Gardens, a public housing project in Watts.
The 11th annual edition of that Christmas concert and giveaway just recently passed, so community groups in the Watts neighborhood had extra toys to give out to fire victims — which will be delivered alongside other items collected during the Wednesday donation drive.
“Top Dawg (Anthony Tiffith) comes in this community every year and provide toys and gifts and clothes for the kids in the community,” Donny Joubert, president of the Watts Gang Task Force, said. “And so we had extra toys to bless these kids that had their Christmas and were took away from this fire.”
All items collected during the drive, the news release said, will be directly delivered to families — and to animal shelters, community centers, and other nonprofits for distribution.
“Living here in the inner city, one thing that I’ve learned just over the years, we have always been blessed and fortunate with resources finding their way here,” Project Blue CEO Marc Maye said, “and now, it’s an opportunity for us to put our resources together and make their way back to the other side.”