Lauren's House 4 Positive Change Inc

What Lauren's House 4 Positive Change Inc does

Lauren's House 4 Positive Change is an active 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2009 that provides free academic, socioemotional, and family-support programs in San Mateo County, California. It serves low-income students in grades 1-12 and their families in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park through after-school, summer, tutoring, cultural-enrichment, and community-service activities. In 2025, the organization reported serving 39 students with 15-20 volunteers and no paid staff; that year's activity included 80 field trips or classroom visits, 100 hours serving seniors and homeless people, and 350 hours of family support.

Its core offering combines intensive reading, academic tutoring, socioemotional learning, cultural field trips, guided community service, meals, transportation, and family support. Delivery is in person at East Palo Alto SDA Church and Belle Haven Branch Library, with school-district relationships, community events, referrals, and web registration used to reach participants. The disclosed technology is standard web, registration, and online-donation infrastructure rather than a proprietary platform, and the input identifies no API or AI capability.

The business model is philanthropy-led: individual donations, corporate grants, and foundation funding are the primary revenue sources, and all services are free. The organization raised $10,983.43 in 2025 from grants and donations. Its community-led go-to-market combines a close Ravenswood City School District relationship, local sites, community events, word-of-mouth referrals, volunteers, and online registration and donation touchpoints; there is no paying customer base.

Name

Lauren's House 4 Positive Change Inc

Legal name

Lauren's House 4 Positive Change Inc

Website

https://laurenshouse.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Lauren's House is a volunteer-led nonprofit providing free academic, socioemotional, cultural-enrichment, and family-support programs to low-income students in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park through after-school, summer, tutoring, and community-service activities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Youth Development Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Child Care Services (62441), Educational Services (61)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

School-Based Mental & Behavioral Health Services (EDAJAIAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Community & Nonprofit Before/After Care Programs (Early Years) (EDACAHAD)

Keywords

• Youth development programs
• After-school academic support
• Socioemotional learning services
• Family assistance services
• Community youth tutoring

Headquarters

HQ city

Menlo Park

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: Primary revenue stream consisting of individual donations, corporate grants, and foundation funding. The organization raised $10,983.43 in 2025 from grants and donations. Fundraising goal for 2024 was $20,000.
2. Merchandise Sales: Sale of merchandise items supporting emotional development of children, youth, and families. One hundred percent of proceeds go back to support Lauren's House after-school and summer programs.
3. Events and Fundraisers: Read-A-Thon events (e.g., March 2026 Read-A-Thon targeting $2,000 raised). Community members and students participate in reading activities with proceeds supporting programming.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Lauren's House provides free after-school and summer education and youth-development programs for low-income students in grades 1-12 in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park. These programs combine intensive reading, tutoring, socioemotional support, cultural enrichment, community service, meals, and transportation, while separate year-round family support assists with housing, benefits, child welfare, driver's licensing, and health insurance access.

Product overview

Lauren's House 4 Positive Change Inc is a nonprofit offering a unified portfolio of free youth development programs. The core offerings are the After-School Program (running mid-August to early June) and Summer Program (mid-June to mid-August), both serving students in 1st-12th grade from low-income families in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park. These programs integrate Intensive Reading, Tutoring and Peer Mentoring, Cultural Enrichment and Field Trips, Community Service, and Meals and Transportation. The organization also provides year-round Family Support Services addressing housing, unemployment, health insurance, and child welfare navigation. A merchandise shop sells items supporting the programs, with proceeds funding operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• After-School Program Free after-school program for students in grades 1-12 offering intensive reading, academic tutoring, cultural enrichment, guided community service, nutritious meals or snacks, and pick-up and drop-off transportation. It runs from mid-August to early June at East Palo Alto SDA Church.
• Summer Program Free summer program for students in grades 1-12 featuring intensive reading, outdoor activities, cultural enrichment, field trips, guided community service, nutritious meals or snacks, and pick-up and drop-off transportation. It runs from mid-June to mid-August, with field trips across the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Family Support Services Year-round support for families in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, including assistance with affordable housing, unemployment benefits, driver's license tests, Child Protective Services navigation, and health insurance enrollment.
• Merchandise Shop Online store selling merchandise related to the emotional development of children, youth, and families; 100% of proceeds support Lauren's House's after-school and summer programs.

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Institute for Reading DevelopmentminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2026Provider of Reading Skills Program that Lauren's House plans to partner with for transitioning to a more comprehensive, individualized reading program (approximately $2,900 for 12 students for three months).
• Ravenswood City School DistrictcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary school district partnership where Lauren's House works most closely with students in East Palo Alto. Students are referred through the district.
• Eastside College Preparatory SchoolminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSchool partner supporting Lauren's House programs.
• Menlo SchoolminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSchool partner with a dedicated liaison (Jacqueline Larsen) who leads inclusion and belonging curriculum for summer programs and manages social media.
• Gunn High SchoolminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSchool partner supporting Lauren's House programs.
• Palo Alto High SchoolminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSchool partner supporting Lauren's House programs.
• Sacred Heart Schools AthertonminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSchool partner supporting Lauren's House programs.
• Saint Francis High SchoolminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSchool partner supporting Lauren's House programs.
• East Palo Alto Seventh-Day Adventist ChurchcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary program location partner at 994 Beech St, East Palo Alto. Co-organization referenced in liability waivers alongside Lauren's House and Central California Conference of Seventh Day Adventist Church.
• Allegheny West Conference of Seventh-Day AdventistsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReligious organization partner supporting Lauren's House programs.
• Grace Community Seventh-Day Adventist ChurchminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReligious organization partner supporting Lauren's House programs.
• Pacific Union ConferenceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReligious organization partner supporting Lauren's House programs.
• Stanford UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversity partner with dedicated liaison (Fadie Arabo, Stanford junior) providing tutoring and program support.
• Belle Haven Branch LibrarycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary tutoring location partner at 413 Ivy Dr, Menlo Park, where after-school tutoring takes place from mid-August to early June.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area: Youth mentoring nonprofit pairing adult and high-school volunteers with at-risk youth for academic and socioemotional support; comparable volunteer-driven mentoring model targeting low-income youth in the same Bay Area geography.
• My New Red Shoes: Bay Area nonprofit serving low-income and foster youth with enrichment and academic support programs; comparable community-based, volunteer-supported model focused on socioemotional and educational outcomes for at-risk youth.
• 100 Black Men of the Bay Area: Community-based nonprofit providing mentoring, academic support, and youth development programming for at-risk youth in the Bay Area; comparable volunteer-driven, community-led model targeting socioemotional and academic outcomes.
• Reading Partners: National nonprofit delivering volunteer-led literacy tutoring to low-income K-12 students in under-resourced schools; directly comparable on the intensive-reading / tutoring component that anchors Lauren's House's academic programming.
• Peninsula Bridge: Menlo Park-based nonprofit providing academic enrichment, mentoring, and college-prep programming for low-income middle school students, drawing heavily on Stanford and local private-school volunteers; closest peer in mission, volunteer pipeline, and target geography.

Broad incumbents

• Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula: Regional youth development nonprofit serving K-12 students in East Palo Alto, Redwood City, and Menlo Park with after-school, summer, and SEL programming; directly comparable in target population and service mix but materially larger in scale, staff, and funding.
• YMCA of Silicon Valley: Regional operator running after-school, summer, family support, and SEL-aligned youth programming across the Bay Area, including Palo Alto and East Palo Alto; broad incumbent with overlapping wraparound services (meals, transport, enrichment) at greater scale.
• Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County: Large social-services nonprofit providing family support, housing navigation, benefits enrollment, and youth services across the Bay Area; comparable on the family-support / case-management arm that Lauren's House delivers alongside its youth programs.

Others

• Ravenswood City School District: The primary referral partner and de facto customer for Lauren's House programs; comparable ecosystem participant because its free-and-reduced-lunch student population defines the demand pool that Lauren's House and other after-school operators compete to serve.

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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