The Los Angeles Maryvale Guild (formerly The Los Angeles Orphanage Guild) is a charitable organization of women dedicated to raising funds and awareness for Maryvale, Los Angeles’ oldest charity and one of Southern California’s most trusted and longest-running providers of services for the underserved.
Currently, Maryvale provides a sixth month wrap-around program for unhoused mothers and their young children. This programming provides living skills, financial education, job placement, and mental health support addressing trauma as well as early education services for the children.
Supporting the Families of Maryvale
Spring Gala 2024
When you help a mother in need you change the trajectory of an entire generation.
The annual Los Angeles Maryvale Guild Spring Gala will be held on Friday, April 26, 2024 at the Petersen Automotive Museum. This event is one of the highlights of the LAMG’s fundraising efforts and we are so grateful to all of the members, friends, and vendors that give their support. The Gala benefits Maryvale’s Seton House, a program that gives unhoused single mothers the safety, education and support they need to change their lives.
“All the good we do is done by inspiration and the good use we make of it”
- St. Vincent de Paul
Maryvale’s Mission:
With loving and compassionate hearts, we seek to heal, educate, and empower those who need us most, lifting up one individual, one family, one community at a time.
The Seton House Project
Seton House seeks to provide safe housing for unhoused single mothers, empowering them with the tools to help change the trajectory of their lives. We intend to cultivate a compassionate environment where mothers can focus on personal development, while learning life skills to sustain a positive and productive lifestyle for themselves and their children.
2023 - 2024 Executive Board
Co-Presidents
Cindy Fairbank & Maureen Schultz
1st Vice President (Gala)
Kristine Shimizu-Eagan & Valerie Szabo Kiley
2nd Vice President (BFBF Luncheon)
Mary Curry, Debbie Caldwell, Mary Kay Lalli & Johanna Dawson
3rd Vice President (Membership)
Jackie Brooks & Stephanie Silvers
Treasurer
Patty Cruikshank
Assistant Treasurer (Greater Giving & Taxes)
Nancy Lewis
Assistant Treasurer (Dues)
Holly Luntzel
Recording Secretary
Angela Siuta-Pechin
Assistant Recording Secretary
Krystyna McNicoll
Corresponding Secretary
Mo Keckeisen
Stephanie Silvers, Debbie Caldwell, Holly Luntzel, Mary Curry, Angela Siuta-Pechin, Krystyna McNicoll, Maureen Schultz, Patty Cruikshank, Valerie Szabo Kiley, Kristine Shimizu-Eagan, Mo Keckeisen, and Jackie Brooks
Absent: Cindy Fairbank, Mary Kay Lalli, Johanna Dawson, and Nancy Lewis