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February 4, 2025

Joining Forces to Continue Support for LA Fire Relief

Following last month’s financial grants to support wildfire relief efforts in Los Angeles awarded by All Within My Hands (AWMH), our Foundation is teaming up with long-standing partners and vendors to provide goods to those in need.

Based in Los Angeles, Baby2Baby is a nonprofit that provides children living in poverty across the country with diapers, clothing, and all the basic necessities that every child deserves. One of AWMH’s Helping Hands honorees in 2022, Baby2Baby is committed to critical local services, providing essential items to more than one million children across the country in homeless shelters, domestic violence programs, foster care, hospitals, and underserved schools as well as to children who have lost everything in the wake of disaster. In the wake of this particular disaster occurring in its own backyard, Baby2Baby is expanding beyond its primary focus, children, and stepping in to provide for the whole family.

We know from close-knit members of the Metallica Family who have been actively volunteering to support first responders and relief efforts that there is a huge demand for clothing, particularly for men. Learning this, the Met Store has donated over 11,000 shirts, along with an additional 2,600 from our merchandise distributor Merch Traffic. AWMH connected with longstanding partners at Wolverine, who stepped in to provide tactical gear and footwear (1000 shirts, 1600 pairs of pants, 600 pairs of boots).

Over 100,000 people have been displaced as a result of these fires. As such, there is a dire need for a means to keep and carry the few items salvaged and received through donations. Our friends at TravelPro came forward with a gift of more than 200 suitcases in various sizes.

Baby2Baby has volunteered its warehouse to receive and distribute these goods. To transport the pallets and pallets without disrupting the relief systems already in place, we tapped into a long-time touring vendor of ours and dedicated supporter of AWMH’s Metallica Scholars Initiative, Upstaging Inc. Upstaging is providing 52’ truck and a driver as its contribution to the cause.

WAYS TO GET INVOLVED

Join the music community rallying around LA by donating to win awesome prizes through fundraisers we’ve contributed to run by Ernie Ball (benefiting MusiCares Fire Relief Fund and the LAFD Foundation) and Fandiem (benefiting the California Community Foundation Wildfire Recovery Fund).

Contribute directly to organizations providing vital services in wildfire relief and recovery efforts, including AWMH’s two grant recipients, the California Community Foundation (CCF) Wildfire Recovery Fund and the Pasadena Community Foundation (PCF) Eaton Fire Relief and Recovery Fund.

DONATE TO WIN WITH ERNIE BALL

DONATE TO WIN WITH FANDIEM

SUPPROT CCF’S WILDFIRE RECOVERY FUND

SUPPORT PCF’S RELIEF & RECOVERY FUND