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From Palmdale to Paramount, from Beverly Hills to Boyle Heights, individuals and organizations are working tirelessly to create a better future for Los Angeles County. #LAtogether was launched by the California Community Foundation to amplify L.A.’s voices of change, draw connections between diverse communities and share innovative new approaches to building Los Angeles together.
Protecting the Vulnerable: The Los Angeles County Elder Abuse Forensic Center
December 18, 2013
By Rose Veniegas Imagine: Mrs. White, a 73-year-old widow with Parkinson’s, hypertension, diabetes and a history of stroke, is cared for by her son. She was admitted to the hospital after she fell down and lay on the floor for 36 hours before being brought to the emergency room by her neighbor. Unfortunately, stories of […]
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Pitch Perfect: Lessons Learned from Social Innovation Fast Pitch
December 4, 2013
By Yana Simone At New Earth, we like to think we do good things. After all, our arts and education based mentorship programs that are designed to support teens transitioning from incarceration to life at home have yielded compelling results: Our recidivism rate is a mere 15% among 13-18 year olds while L.A. County has […]
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Delivering Care Where Care is Needed
November 20, 2013
By Eva Brune, California Community Foundation Earlier this month, CCF 2013 Unsung Hero Don Manelli and the Care Harbor team took over the Los Angeles Sports Arena and turned it into a clinic to deliver much-needed health services to close to 4,000 underserved and uninsured Angelenos. The preliminary data on the breakdown of services provided […]
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Maria Suarez: Human Trafficking Survivor and Unsung Hero
November 13, 2013
Editors note: Maria Suarez is an example of how one person’s story of tragedy can turn to triumph despite unthinkable and often unspeakable challenges. As a teenager, her life was forever changed when she was “bought” by her employer and held captive as his slave for more than five years and then sent to prison […]
Read MoreFrom Gumballs to Scholarships: Unsung Hero Ezequiel Olvera
November 7, 2013
Editors Note: Motivated by his own experience investing in a gumball machine at 11 years old, CCF 2013 Unsung Hero honoree Ezequiel Olvera engages youth in East LA/El Sereno to participate in a hands on creative extracurricular business program that provides business and entrepreneurship opportunities and also removes economic barriers that might prevent them […]
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Unsung Hero Donald Manelli, Care Harbor's President and Founder
October 30, 2013
Editors Note: Donald Manelli is the President and Founder of Care Harbor, an organization producing free clinic events that provide medical, dental and vision services to thousands of uninsured and underinsured in our community. Mr. Manelli was selected as the California Community Foundation’s 2013 Unsung Hero of Los Angeles because of the work he has […]
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2013 Unsung Hero Ron Finley: Empowering L.A. Residents to Grow Their Own Food
October 23, 2013
Editors Note: Ron Finley of the Ron Finley Project is one of five recipients of the 2013 Unsung Heroes of Los Angeles Awards. Ron, a fashion designer and green activist, helps build vegetable gardens in South LA to help empower residents to grow their own healthy and organic food in their community. We were so […]
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2013 Unsung Hero Sophie Alpert: Rebuilding Lives, Piece by Piece
October 16, 2013
Editors Note: Sophie Alpert is the founder of the nonprofit organization Piece by Piece, which offers mosaic workshops and materials free of charge for residents in the underserved communities of Los Angeles. Through sales of their artwork, Piece by Piece provides opportunities for participants to earn supplemental income, with the goal of empowering each person […]
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A Collaborative Approach to Immigrant Integration.
October 9, 2013
By Aida Cardenas On August 24th, Building Skills Partnership collaborated with CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles) to host a Citizenship Drive in Los Angeles, where volunteers and attorneys assisted more than 50 low-wage building service workers and other immigrant community members apply for their citizenship. This was in response to a […]
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Omar Brownson: Cast a Vote Today!
October 3, 2013
By Omar Brownson, Executive Director of the Los Angeles River Revitalization CorporationWhat LA landmark did Mayor Garcetti just select to welcome visitors at LAX? The Los Angeles River. Less than three years ago when I was asked to become the first executive director of the LA River Corp., I did not even know that LA […]
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