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Illumination Foundation


Country United States
State California
City Irvine
Address 2691 Richter Ave #107
Phone 949-273-0555
Website http://www.ifhomeless.org/

Illumination Foundation Reviews

Most Useful Comment
  • May 2, 2020

It was a Friday evening in April, when director of Bridges located at 1000 N. Kraemer Place in Anaheim, CA announced to more than 100 people, that if they so chose to lodge in Marriott Hotels managed by the Illumination Foundation, they could order online at Walmart, etc. to care for their needs. That included food too, as many people are on different diets, some may be vegetarian, Kosher, etc.

Bridges staff were very secretive as to what would really go on at these hotels, and failed to let the clients know what exactly they would be signing up for.

Cathy Hollingsworth works at the corporate office at the Illumination Foundation. A black woman, who is manly, aggressive and needs to be a prison warden, manages the Marriott Springhill Suites located at 7872 Edinger Ave. Huntington Beach, CA 92647. (657) 6700

Tuesday April 28th, 2020 around 4 p.m. Jasmine showed up with two white shuttles, to transport people, the least favorite people at Bridges, to the Springhill Suites. As the women were heading out the door, Naomi a staff member at Bridges stated out loud, that they would be able to order online at Walmart.com etc.

As soon as the women were loaded in the van, Jasmine announced that the women would never be able to order anything again. Diane and her daughter were assigned to room 306. Ms. Bartel was assigned to a room I did not know about. When I arrived to my room, it must have been dirty because one of the towels in the bathroom was covered in bowel movement. When we arrived to the hotel, all of our belongings were searched. Jasmine threw anything away she didn't approve of, even snacks. To make a long story short, the rooms weren't kept cleaned, we weren't provided any cleaning products or vacuums to care for the rooms. The Marriott beddings was removed and replaced with low-quality, thin sheets and very thin blankets. The room seemed like a place to suffer in sickness or death.

Our temperatures were taken around the clock. Our medicines were taken from us, and they brought them to us in envelopes. We were told we couldn't leave for any circumstance unless to the doctor or pharmacy. My hair was falling out so badly, I had to consult with my doctor via video consulation for him to prescribe something for me. I asked Jasmine if I could order hair care products to be delivered and she said no. She made me leave what I had packed at Bridges.

The first evening we were there, a crazy woman across from room 230 threw the dinner cart over, and we were denied dinner that night. Meals were supposed to be served three times a day plus two snacks. This was a lie, it didn't happen. We were lucky if one meal a day was served. It was awful treatment. The rooms not being cleaned concerns me. Were we deliberately exposed to COVID-19? Was it the intention of the Illumination Foundation to kill us or do some type of irreparable harm to us? What's sad is that Bridges staff were in on this.

Yolanda Viramontes knew about the set-up the whole time. She is foul and unethical and not to be trusted. A man by the name of Julio who drives for Bridges, is very aggressive and abusive to many of the female clients. He refuses to drive them to the grocery store on the daily runs. He needs to be fired. He assaulted one of the women there. He was given a job there because his mother is a security guard there. Many of the staff are Hispanic and are either related or know each other. It's not a good thing to be at the mercy of uneducated people who in desperate times will do anything for money, including participate in human trafficking.

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Most Useful Comment
  • Aug 14, 2017

Well look out the Nigerian scam artist have upped their game instead of charging you $200 for documents for some so called inheritance they now have a new scam they are posing as agents of the illuminati to try to get your money to be part of the illuminati. They won't charge you for membership but they'll charge you for something else that you would have to do to be a member. They promise to pay this thing called a benefit or a parcel which is a lot of money that you get once you o through the initiation. But here's the catch you can't go through the initiation until you pay the money. I don't care how cunning they are. If they ask you for money for anything THEY ARE A SCAM AND YOU WILL HAVE LOST YOUR MONEY

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  • Sep 5, 2016

We were asked to do a rush job so they could impress Peter Ueberroth and his daughter so they would donate and become large donors to the Illumination Foundation.

The project was to transform a vacant 1/3 acre piece of land covered with trash in the middle of a residential community known to house and be frequented by Orange County, California gang members in Stanton, CA, into a play area and community center to help feed the local residents in less than 30 days!

We accomplished this and were heavily praised by Paul Leon, all Exec. Mgt., all Board Members and donors that attended the Grand Opening, as well as the Mayor and City Officials... only to be stiffed and never paid a dime!

Paul Leon even had his sister, Amelia Leon, who claimed to be a Sr.Exec and Grant Writer for the Foundation, write me a personal check for $10,000 to passify me... the check was stopped by Amelia Leon 5 days later after we had drawn $2,500 off of it! The bank made us reimburse them the $2,500!

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