At Venice Family Clinic, we believe everyone deserves quality health care regardless of income, insurance or immigration status. We need your help now more than ever, as we continue to promote health equity for all.
Annual membership gifts support our operations and allow Venice Family Clinic to deliver innovative services and programs to all those who need us: from vaccines to medical treatments to mental health care to food distributions to housing support to early childhood development classes and so much more. Our comprehensive approach to health care gives our patients the care they need to live a healthy and full life.
Our annual membership levels range from $2,500 to $100,000 or more. Members join a select group of community leaders who share a profound commitment to advancing the Clinic’s mission and maintaining good health for everyone in our community. Members have access to special events and exclusive opportunities to engage with Clinic leaders and other like-minded supporters.
Please give an annual membership gift today, and help Venice Family Clinic promote health and well-being for individuals and families in need, from the Santa Monica Mountains through the South Bay.
Venice Family Clinic’s membership program began in the 1980s when a group of dedicated donors came together to find ways to get their friends to join them in supporting the Clinic. They created the Silver Circle Gala, an exclusive fundraising event for annual membership donors.
Although we no longer host a Silver Circle Gala each year, we have creative events and engagement opportunities for our members. Memberships provide invaluable support for our ongoing operations, as well as our effort to address six major areas of need in our society, as part of the initiative we call The Power of Us:
If you have questions about membership or other ways to support Venice Family Clinic, please contact us at VFCgiving@mednet.ucla.edu or (310) 392-9255
Venice Family Clinic will once again host a signature membership event in Fall 2023. Details coming soon.
In October 2022, we hosted a very special evening at Sony Pictures Studios to celebrate the collective impact of our community and pay tribute to Liz Forer’s 28 years of visionary leadership.
Check out our photo album here.
Members and art lovers were treated to food and entertainment and a sneak peek at the art on display at an exclusive party at our first ever Venice Art Gallery at Santa Monica Place.
Supporters gathered at KCRW’s new space to discuss the relationship between food and health equity with Evan Kleiman, host of KCRW’s Good Food, Dr. Wendy Slusser, pediatrician and one of the Clinic’s 50 Visionaries, Amy Rowat, professor at UCLA, and Rick Nahmias founder and executive director of Food Forward.
Deborah McLeod, Director of Gagosian Beverly Hills, provided an exclusive walk through of Nathaniel Mary Quinn: Hollow and Cut
Members were invited to a private tour of Google’s newest office at the Spruce Goose hangar in Playa Vista. Historians and architects joined us to talk about the design and cultural significance of the site.
In 2019, Ivy Kagan Bierman, an entertainment lawyer at Loeb & Loeb and advisor to #TimesUp and the ADL received the Humanitarian Award and shared how she was drawn to supporting the Clinic because of her interest in protecting the safety and health of women and minorities.
Check out our photo album here.
Members were invited to an exclusive VIP preview party at Google Los Angeles where they had early access to bid on art at the silent auction on the evening before Venice Family Clinic Art Walk & Auction opened to the public.
Members gathered at a private residence for a dynamic discussion with Michael Govan, CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of LACMA, Kristin Sakoda, executive director of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and C. Ian White, CEO of the Charles White Archives.
Bennett Simpson, Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art gave members a private walk-through of 2019 Venice Family Clinic Art Walk & Auction Signature Artist Laura Owens’s Los Angeles presentation at the museum.
In 2018, Funny or Die and Between Two Ferns received the Humanitarian Award for their work to raise awareness about the Affordable Care Act. In a twist, they returned the award to someone they considered to be worthy of it, Dr. Karen Lamp, and Zach Galifanakis interviewed her in an impromptu Between Two Ferns episode.
Watch the video of “Between Two Ferns: The Venice Family Clinic Edition.”
2020 offered a set of complex and converging events that have had a significant impact our lives as well as the lives of our patients: a global pandemic, a call to action on racial equity and an ongoing fight to ensure that everyone in our community has access to quality health care. In light of this challenging reality, we launched a virtual event series featuring conversations with content experts about the intersection of health and justice.
Please click on the tiles below to watch the recordings.
If you have questions about our program or would like to make a gift contact our Development team at 310 392 9255 or VFCGiving@mednet.ucla.edu