March, 2025

Action Alliance Foundation (AAF) provides safe recovery residences for homeless alcoholics and addicts, including those struggling with mental health issues. We teach our residents how to create sober lives leading to futures full of hope and promise.  



Help them Home OC

AAF is thrilled to be a part of the annual collaborative effort, Help them Home OC, a giving day to overcome homelessness. We’ve partnered with other amazing organizations to raise $1.5 million that will create lasting change throughout Orange County. Save the date for April 23 and watch your email for additional information.

After struggling with substance abuse for more than 40 years, Catherine is now celebrating her sobriety, achieved on January 2, 2023. “While I was ‘dry’ two other times, I now know that true sobriety isn’t achieved until working a program like AA,” she explains. “AA saved my life!”

Catherine acknowledges that she has a history of issues with addiction, whether it’s been with substance abuse, eating disorders, sun exposure, romantic relationships and more. Thankfully, through her recovery journey, those issues are becoming a thing of the past.

It all began in her teens, when Catherine started doing a variety of drugs. By her mid 20s, she was able to get off hard drugs, but continued to drink and smoke pot.

Read Catherine's complete story here.

AAF Achieves Candid's Platinum Seal of Transparency for Second Consecutive Year

AAF is excited to share that we have earned the Candid Platinum Transparency Seal for 2025 after initially earning it in 2024. The platinum seal is the highest level of recognition offered by Candid and is awarded to non-profit organizations that meet the highest standards of transparency and accountability.  

To earn the Candid Platinum Seal, non-profit organizations must meet a rigorous set of criteria, including:

• Providing complete and accurate information about their mission, programs, finances, and governance on Candid
• Sharing their strategic priorities and information about their impacts
• Being open to feedback and engagement from the public

In 2024 fewer than one percent of U.S.-based non-profits received recognition with the platinum seal.

New Partnership with City of Anaheim Announced

AAF is pleased to announce that it was recently selected to serve as a sober living operator for the City of Anaheim, with an emphasis on serving residents recovering from opioid use disorder or OUD. In this new role, AAF has agreed to provide:

a) Safe, structured recovery residence beds along with a plan of action for employment and long-term housing

b) Consistent and reliable sobriety monitoring through UA drug testing

c) Enforcement of house rules, curfew, and a good neighbor policy

d) Linkage to essential resources and wraparound services

AAF thanks the City of Anaheim for entrusting us with this important role.