Are You Giving Love for the Holidays?
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An LGBT Perspective on Hannukah Symbols
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Brothers Sons Selves Brief Legislators
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We're grateful! A Thanksgivukkah list of "justice won" in 2013.
Nov 20, 2013What are we thankful for this Thanksgivukkah? Let us count the many things we fought hard for and won in 2013.
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Liberty Hill's Fund for Change Now Accepting Letters of Inquiry
Nov 19, 2013 -
Saying Goodbye to Kafi D. Blumenfield
Nov 15, 2013These are bittersweet days as Kafi D. Blumenfield prepares her departure as President and CEO. Shane Murphy Goldsmith, just back from maternity leave, will be stepping into the role December 1, 2013.
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Frontlines to Headlines October 2013
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Liberty Hill Grantee Spotlight on Khmer Girls in Action
Nov 04, 2013On October 8, 2013, the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) passed a resolution to end the practice of using suspensions and expulsions as disciplinary actions.
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It Takes a Cadre
Nov 01, 2013She’s a 2013 White House Champion for Change, but Catherine
Eusebio stretches her nonprofit salary by living with her parents. An undaunted
Dreamer, she’s building a career with the help of the immigrant rights
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Liberty Hill Opposes Whittier/Matrix Oil Drilling Project
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The People's Bridges to Government
Oct 11, 2013An amazing five of the people in attendance at the Liberty Hill Commissions training are now sitting members of a City, County or State commission.
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Frontlines to Headlines Sept.- Oct. 2013
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LBUSD Votes to Improve Discipline and Keep Kids In School
Oct 08, 2013(Long Beach) Tonight, the Long Beach Unified School District passed a resolution to promote positive alternatives to exclusionary school discipline by a unanimous vote. The resolution urges LBUSD schools to provide alternatives to suspensions and expulsions by expanding Restorative Justice programs that support all students in becoming healthy, thriving adults.
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Your Ticket To The Los Angeles Green Festival
Oct 05, 2013Liberty Hill is pleased to announce that once again this year, we're a sponsor of Green Festival L.A.
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Five Things Would-Be Commissioners Ought to Know
Sep 27, 2013Councilmember Bob Blumenfield addressed the Liberty Hill Commissions Training program offered by our Wally Mark Leadership Institute in June 2013 and offered five pithy pieces of advice to would-be commissioners.
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33 Grants Advance Social Justice
Sep 14, 2013This Liberty Hill Foundation allocated $984,000 to 33 outstanding community organizing groups working on economic, environmental and LGBT justice.
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Frontlines to Headlines August
Sep 08, 2013Here’s the monthly round-up of links to some of the news media stories about Liberty Hill and our grantees.
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A Neighborhood Champion
Sep 06, 2013The positive environment at Rolland Curtis Gardens only exists because David Mosley and his neighbors fought a long, intensive community campaign to preserve the complex’s long-held status as affordable housing when a developer tried to force tenants out.
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No, You're Not Imagining Things: You did just hear Liberty Hill on KPCC 89.3!
Sep 02, 2013No, You're not imagining things: You did just hear Liberty Hill on KPCC 89.3 FM!
As always, we are eager to spread the word about social justice, and we are hoping that these provocative shorts on KPCC will help us do it.
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Meet our "Change L.A." Honorees
Aug 23, 2013Liberty Hill's September 8, 2013 "Change L.A." party with a purpose is right around the corner.
An Exhaltation of Summer Interns
Aug 16, 2013This summer, Liberty Hill Foundation has had a full complement of six student interns working with us to advance environmental and economic justice, to expand LGBTQ rights, and to combat poverty.
Look Who's Helping Change L.A.
Aug 15, 2013It takes a village to advance movements for change, and Liberty Hill's Community Media Partners and our Leader Sponsors are an integral part of our work to support grassroots organizing in L.A. As supporters of September 8's "Change L.A." party with a purpose, these businesses and organizations are helping get the word out about this terrific event.
FRONTLINES TO HEADLINES! July 2013
Aug 09, 2013FRONTLINES TO HEADLINES: News about Liberty Hill grantees!!
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Queer Youth Fund 2012-2013 Grants Announced
Jul 26, 2013Liberty Hill Foundation is pleased to announce the 2012-2013 grant recipients of the Queer Youth Fund.
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Diving into a Toxic Hotspot
Jul 19, 2013These bright young students are voluntarily dedicating their break to the four-week Summer Institute offered by Pacoima Beautiful, a 16 year-old community-based organization that is one of the anchor organizations behind the innovative “Clean Up, Green Up” environmental justice campaign that Liberty Hill has long supported.
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An Update from Liberty Hill CEO Kafi D. Blumenfield
Jul 18, 2013Sorrow. Pain. Dismay. Discouragement. Anger. That describes the tone of conversations in our office this week about the not guilty verdict in the murder trial of George Zimmerman. The trial illustrates the depths of racial tensions in America and how profoundly they affect us all.
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Frontlines to Headlines, June 2013
Jul 11, 2013A monthly round-up of news stories about Liberty Hill Foundation grantee organizations.
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L.A.'s Radical Past Recalled on Video
Jul 05, 2013Angelenos share histories and political memories in video interviews shot and compiled by Julie Thompson and Brogan De Paor, creators of the Los Angeles Activist Video Archive and longtime Liberty Hill supporters.
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Shane Goldsmith Named Next President and CEO of Liberty Hill Foundation
Jul 02, 2013iberty Hill Foundation’s Board of Directors has named Shane Murphy Goldsmith as the next President and CEO of the Foundation.
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You Can't Win Without Data
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City Council says Aye to Next Phase of "Clean Up Green Up"
Jun 21, 2013On June 19, the Los Angeles City Council voted 12-0 to research, analyze and draft "Clean Up Green Up" policy recommendations for three pilot areas of the city: Pacoima, Boyle Heights, and Wilmington.
Queer Youth Fund Supports Training for Young Women Filmmakers in S.F.
Jun 07, 2013We checked in on Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project's “Filmmaker Training Program,” which received a multiyear grant from Liberty Hill Foundation’s Queer Youth Fund in 2009.
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FRONTLINES TO HEADLINES MAY, 2013
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Immigration and the Holiness Code
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Timely Philanthropic Opportunities - Spring-Summer 2013
May 29, 2013By Blanch Ross
Grantee Spotlight
Periodically, Liberty Hill makes recommendations of exceptionally timely philanthropic opportunities for our donor advised account holders. This time we are recommending two of our Fund for Change grant recipients, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment and Restaurant Opportunities Center. -
LAUSD Votes to Shift School Discipline and Limit Suspensions
May 14, 2013the Los Angeles Unified School District adopted the School Climate Bill of Rights by a vote of 5 to 2. Approval of the resolution bans “willful defiance” suspensions and directs LAUSD to enact common sense approaches to school discipline and expand programs that support all students in becoming healthy, thriving adults.
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You Oughta be a Commissioner
May 14, 2013Liberty Hill is offering a Commissions Training Program to ensure that appointees to Los Angeles commissions are drawn from diverse communities and can help civic leaders make good decisions for all communities.
Will LAUSD Ban Harsh School Discipline Today?
May 14, 2013(Los Angeles) Hundreds of youth, parents and community leaders will descend on LAUSD headquarters to demand the passage of the School Climate Bill of Rights—a resolution that would enact common sense approaches to school discipline and expand programs that support all students in becoming healthy, thriving adults. If passed, the landmark proposal would ban “willful defiance” suspensions from LA schools -- a first for a major school district.
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Pros Say Suspensions Don't Work
May 13, 2013This opinion piece was written in support of the proposed "School Climate Bill of Rights," the first campaign of Liberty Hill Foundation's Brothers, Sons, Selves initiative..
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Harsh School Discipline in the Spotlight at Select Committee Briefing
May 07, 2013The Brothers, Sons, Selves initiative is involved in an important event this Friday, May 10, 2013. Here is the advisory for this event.