Reports

These 25 groups, among many, are holding the line in 2025 for key LA communities under attack, working nationally to defend our democracy, and leading local recovery through the long reach of the wildfire's devastation. They are navigating immense pressure while still imagining what’s possible–your support can help them adapt and continue leading through the crises with resilience and resistance in this rapidly shifting landscape.

We know that this work does not begin or end with any one moment or action. Our partners remain on the frontlines every day—defending immigrant rights, supporting families impacted by unjust enforcement, and building long-term strategies to advance justice.

The range of the fires in Los Angeles has left few unscathed who lived or worked in their path. Liberty Hill strives to ensure collective care and justice, and that no community is overlooked or alone in the relief and recovery process.

Investing in community-led solutions to end system involvement for girls & gender expansive youth.

Liberty Hill’s 2023 Impact Report is here! Explore our progress, read stories of frontline victories, and discover the next steps in the fight for justice for all.

We believe the people most affected by injustice should be leading the fight for change—from the protest march to the ballot box.

A seven-year vision to strengthen the youth development field in Los Angeles County

Liberty Hill Foundation announced the release of its new “Power of Persistence” report highlighting the decade-long battle of local residents and community organizers to end toxic neighborhood oil drilling in Los Angeles.

Liberty Hill’s 2022 Impact Report is here! Explore our progress, read stories of frontline victories, and discover the next steps in the fight for justice for all.

As the leader in progressive philanthropy, Liberty Hill brings 40-plus years of social change expertise to the table to advise you on your giving decisions and ensure that your generous gifts are making the greatest impact possible.

As the leader in progressive philanthropy, Liberty Hill brings 40-plus years of social change expertise to the table to advise you on your giving decisions and ensure that your generous gifts are making the greatest impact possible.

The independent report—commissioned by Liberty Hill Foundation with support from the California Endowment—examines the implementation of this acquisition and rehabilitation program and makes the case that CLTs can be an important model in responding to the housing and homelessness crisis as an alternative to traditional affordable housing.

As the leader in progressive philanthropy, Liberty Hill brings 40-plus years of social change expertise to the table to advise you on your giving decisions and ensure that your generous gifts are making the greatest impact possible.

Liberty Hill envisions a society in which all people have a powerful voice, and control over their reproductive health, including women of color and other femmes who are frequently shut out of our democracy, and cut off from opportunities.

Liberty Hill's 2021 Impact Report focuses on our collective power and the many ways our community is fighting to advance, transform, support and demand Justice for All. It also details the progress we made this past year in the face of the continuing pandemic.

The ultimate goal of the Ready to Rise partnership is to build a system that replaces the traditional structures of punishment and incarceration with emerging best practices centered on healing, learning, and opportunity.

With support from voters, Los Angeles County is investing billions of dollars from Measures W, H, A, and M in clean, safe water, housing and homeless services, parks and open space, transportation, and climate resilience. These projects have the potential to transform our quality of life in Los Angeles County.

The 2020 Impact Report details the progress we made in the face of a global pandemic and a national reckoning on racial justice. We hope you will be proud of what we were able to accomplish together and inspired by the fighting spirit that keeps the fires of justice burning through even the darkest of times.

In 2017, Liberty Hill launched the Agenda for a Just Future to tackle critical issues by working to end youth incarceration as we know it, fight for a roof over every head, and eliminate toxic neighborhood oil drilling.

The purpose of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation report is to provide an evaluation of the first year of the campaign, including its equity implications, the effectiveness of its outreach and areas for growth.

Liberty Hill is a laboratory for social change philanthropy. We leverage the power of community organizers, donor activists and allies to advance social justice through strategic investment in grants, leadership training and campaigns.

The Guide to Green directories list financial and technical assistance programs for businesses. We currently have two Guides, one for the City of Los Angeles and another for the City of Commerce. Want to green your business or share some tips? Liberty Hill’s new resource guides for businesses summarize nearly 50 assistance programs. Find grants, loans, tech training and more when you download our “Guide to Green.”

Written by Public Counsel and the UCLA Community Economic Development Clinic in collaboration with Eastside LEADS and the Liberty Hill Foundation, this report describes how tenants across unincorporated LA County are facing larger rent increases, higher rent burden, and more evictions than ever before.

A Case Study Brief of L.A.’s Brothers, Sons, Selves Coalition offers accounts from Los Angeles County’s boys and young men of color on the health crisis they face. Informed by the tactics, principles and analysis of the Brothers, Sons, Selves, Coalition, the case study describes how the Coalition’s approach and key strategies allowed for the policy wins, implementation and replication to improve schools across California.

(2017) The Vision 2020 Youth Policy Platform compiles relevant research and feedback obtained from ongoing student focus groups, organizational surveys and coalition planning, along with youth leaders’ ambitions to create a more just world for boys and men of color.

Green Zones and Grassroots is an analysis of California investments to fight global warming and the resulting impact on disadvantaged communities. It geographically maps such programs as tree planting, solar energy incentives, bike pathways, low-income weatherization and clean vehicle rebates.

This report offers testimony from Angelenos living with the consequences of L.A.'s underregulated oil industry. Too little is known about the effects of expanded and unconventional oil-extraction techniques when there's drilling in L.A.'s backyards.

Advantaging Communities recommends policies to advance equitable development in environmental justice communities through the unprecedented investment potential of California's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF).

This UCLA Community Scholars 2014 Report provides 19 different strategies for EJ communities to advance environmental and economic sustainability through a pilot "Green Zone" model which utilizes innovative land usage to improve the vitality of local toxic hot spots.

Brothers, Sons, Selves: Young Men in Los Angeles Are Ready for Change (2012) offers testimony from African American, Latino and Asian American/Pacific Islander boys and young men in L.A. County and discusses how and why these youth face a health crisis that jeopardizes the future prosperity of all Californians.

This study of African American philanthropy in Los Angeles represents just the beginning of intensifying interest within the African American community about our philanthropic assets and power, and how to deploy them.

Something remarkable has occurred in Los Angeles. New constituencies and new coalitions have emerged in dramatic fashion. How did Los Angeles go from the despair of 1992 to the vibrant organizing of 2012?

Hidden Hazards: A Call to Action for Healthy Livable Communities (2011) provides new evidence of the high density of air pollution hazards and exposure in certain areas of Los Angeles – hazards that are “hidden” from the view of regulatory agencies because they are not contained in their official databases.