Charity is important. But Liberty Hill creates lasting change by reforming policies, introducing new standards and safeguards and advancing equality and opportunity for all.

Over the last 10 years, here's what our approach has meant to the men, women and children of Los Angeles.

• Nearly 100,000 low-income men and women registered to vote
• Legal safeguards to protect California's 25,000 LGBTQ high school students from harassment and violence
• $480 million in annual L.A. purchases "go green"
  
• 25,000 men and women raised above the poverty level by living wage jobs
• $400 million secured for parks in low-income neighborhoods
• 700,000 L.A. Unified high school students have access to college-prerequisite courses
• 30,000 low-income downtown residents spared homelessness
• Near two-thirds reduction in prison recidivism through pioneering reentry program for women
  
• 400,000 L.A. bus riders ride the largest clean-fuel bus fleet in the country
• $1.74 million in back wages for men and women working at poverty wages in Koreatown supermarkets