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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.
One Voice: College Access Pioneers
September 25, 2013
By: Susan Silbert, PhD Towards the end of the summer one of our students was ready to go to Stanford until his glasses were stolen. This isn’t a hurdle most incoming Cardinals have to face, but this ‘One Voice’ student wasn’t an ordinary Cardinal. One Voice students are exceptional minds who deserve the best education […]
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Microfinance in Boyle Heights: Lifting Women out of Poverty
September 18, 2013
By Eva Brune Martha, Clementina, Irene, Delia and Elsa meet weekly in a tiny storefront in Boyle Heights. Each is holding a green booklet with neatly stacked dollars and coins tucked inside. The chatter moves from children getting ready for school to a community get-together scheduled for the next Sunday: “vamos a bailar, no?” The […]
Read MoreHeart of Los Angeles (HOLA): Steering Youth Towards Success
September 11, 2013
By Tony Brown In person, Heart of Los Angeles is an inspiring and lively community of students. Walking around our campus in the afternoon, you hear laughter. You see students practicing their clarinets outside, and you might even smell the “College Cooking on a Budget” class put on by our Operations Director/moonlighting chef. On paper […]
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'I Have a Dream' Rings True and Deep, 50 Years Later
August 28, 2013
Fifty Years later, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I have a dream speech’ is as powerful today as it was then. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, […]
Read MoreFinding The Way Home: An Artist's Journey
August 21, 2013
By Nuttaphol Ma Years ago, my father visited me when I was working in Hong Kong as a marketing manager for a US multinational. We took a road trip heading north to Shantou, an area where natives speak the same dialect as my grandfather. “Do we have relatives here?” I asked my father. He responded, […]
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Art is My Antidote: Fabian Debora
August 14, 2013
By Fabian Debora Art has kept me sane through the worst times of my life. It got me expelled when my 8th grade teacher ripped apart a drawing of mine, and reappeared as graffiti when I turned to gang life. It stopped me from killing myself. Now my vision is on murals throughout California, funded […]
Read MoreArtist and CCF Fellow Jennifer Moon's Journey Through Addiction to Personal Revolution
August 7, 2013
By Jennifer Moon My name is Jennifer Moon and I am one of CCF’s 2013 Emerging Artist fellows, though it would be more accurate to describe my emergence as a comeback. From UCLA and graduate school, to prison, and back into the art world; the emotional and spiritual journey that brought me through the chaos […]
Read MoreGreat Potential: Latinos in a Changing America
July 25, 2013
By Steve Moya Here’s an important question: What is the Latino role in an aging America, with declining fertility rates and growing global competition? On a practical level if you’re a Baby-Boomer who’s going to buy your House? Or who is going to pay the significant portion of your lifetime Medicare bills that your contribution […]
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BLOOM Initiative's First Year: Successes and New Partnerships
July 24, 2013
This blog originally appeared on the Black Gives Back Blog. Click here to view the original post. Ninety-Three Percent of BLOOM Youth Have Not Violated Their Probation On June 26, 2013, the California Community Foundation (CCF) celebrated the one-year anniversary of its Building a Lifetime of Options and Opportunities for Men (BLOOM) initiative with a […]
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From Where I Stand: Homelessness in Los Angeles
July 17, 2013
By Steve Hatter When I look out of my 5th floor window at night, I can see folks sleeping in their cars and on the street. In Los Angeles, there are more than 58,000 homeless people and many find their way here, to skid row, night after night. More than 5,000 sleep on sidewalks, under […]
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