LuskinOIC 2026 Gala to Honor Leading Partners and Celebrate a Night of Music and Impact

LuskinOIC is thrilled to be honoring two incredible organizations at the 2026 Stand for Kids Gala. This year, the Everychild Foundation and the UCLA Health Sarcoma Team will be recognized for their contributions to the health and wellness of children in the greater Los Angeles area and beyond.

The Everychild Foundation will be receiving the Community Inspiration Award. The organization is a women’s collective that awards an annual $1 million grant to a project that serves as an innovative, replicable new approach to filling a critical unmet need of children. The Everychild Foundation also advocates for policies that ease the suffering of local children, specifically in areas of early childhood development, foster care, juvenile justice, and youth homelessness. The Everychild Foundation recently awarded LuskinOIC its annual grant to fund our Innovation Campaign, acting as the capstone to our $2.1 million MRI project. They also previously awarded funds to build the accessible playground at the LuskinOIC downtown campus. Previous Community Inspiration Awardees include the Los Angeles Chargers (2024).

The UCLA Health Sarcoma Team will be receiving the Power of Partnership Award. The UCLA Health Sarcoma Center is the third-largest sarcoma center in the country. Led by a team of expert physicians, the Sarcoma Team evaluates more than 100 patients and performs more than 500 surgeries annually. UCLA has pioneered techniques of limb-sparing surgery that allow patients to not only retain their limbs but also use affected joints almost immediately and return to active lifestyles quickly. One of the members of the team, Dr. Nicholas Bernthal, is one of LuskinOIC’s incredible doctors, as well as serving on the LuskinOIC Board of Directors. Previous Power of Partnership Awardees include the Perry Initiative (2023) and Students Run LA (2024).The LuskinOIC 2026 Innovation Gala will be held on Saturday, June 6, at Manhattan Beach Studios. The night will feature our wonderful awardees, as well as performances from DJ Shigeki Ito, students from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and The Voice finalist Marisa Corvo. Proceeds from the evening will benefit LuskinOIC’s Innovation Campaign, an $80 million, multi-phase project that will expand our facilities, advance research, and ensure every child has timely access to high-quality diagnosis and treatment.