Allie Mayernik

Allie Mayernik is the director of the For the Need Foundation, a nonprofit 501c3 organization headquartered in Simi Valley, California. She assumed the director role at the beginning of 2024 after years of involvement that began in childhood when her parents founded the organization in 1999. Mayernik earned a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in Psychology and Applied Mathematics from Hillsdale College in Michigan. She has expanded the foundation from a single chapter to three active chapters with a fourth emerging, now supported by two staff members and roughly 200 volunteers operating under a 98 percent volunteer model. The organization received the California Nonprofit of the Year Award in 2023. Prior to her current position Mayernik gained experience through volunteer roles at the Boys and Girls Club of the Greater Conejo Valley, Love Inc, New Life Christian Counseling, Neighborhood Legal Services, and her local church where she served as head usher. Her professional website is ForTheNeed.org.