Sign A Rama Santa Monica has an ongoing commitment to supporting a number of non-profit organizations that are working to better our community and our world. 

Sign A Rama Santa Monica is a long-time supporter of the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD).  LAPD creates performance work that connects lived experience to the social forces that shape the lives and communities of people living in poverty. LAPD is committed to creating high-quality, challenging performances that express the realities, hopes, and dreams of people who live and work in Los Angeles’ Skid Row, and is dedicated to building community and to the artistic and personal development of its members.

Sign A Rama Santa Monica regularly donates excess and scrap materials, and discards from our production process to reDiscover.   reDiscover promotes creativity in early childhood and elementary education while encouraging environmental responsibility by recycling everyday discards donated by business and gives them new purpose as hands-on learning materials.

Sign A Rama Santa Monica supports OPCC .  OPCC, (Ocean Park Community Center), is a network of shelters and services for low-income and homeless youth, adults and families, battered women and their children and people living with mental illness.  Sign A Rama Santa Monica recently donated new signage for OPCC’s Samoshel facility, which provides emergency and transitional housing and services for 70 homeless adults.  The program includes on-site case management, counseling, 12-step meetings, on site clinician for crisis intervention and therapy, legal assistance, housing referrals and employment assistance.

Kodo Arts Sphere America (KASA) is a nonprofit organization created in 2002 by Kodo and American taiko representatives. Incorporated and operated from its base in California, KASA’s mission is to facilitate intercultural exchanges and communication between Japanese and American taiko players and communities. 

Sign A Rama Santa Monica congratulates Dr. Kevin Bales on the publication of his ground-breaking book The Slave Next Door.

In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In The Slave Next Door we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher in the kitchen of the neighborhood restaurant, the kids on the corner selling cheap trinkets, the man sweeping the floor of the local department store. In these pages we also meet some unexpected slaveholders, such as a 27-year old middle-class Texas housewife who is currently serving a life sentence for offences including slavery. Weaving together a wealth of voices—from slaves, slaveholders, and traffickers as well as from experts, counselors, law enforcement officers, rescue and support groups, and others—this book is also a call to action, telling what we, as private citizens, can do to finally bring an end to this horrific crime.