On April 23, at the 2013 Upton Sinclair Dinner, Liberty Hill is proud to present the Upton Sinclair Award to Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, executive producers of "Homeland."

Since 1991, Jaime Zeledón has been a leader at People Organized for Westside Renewal (POWER), a Liberty Hill grantee organization that works in low income areas of West L.A. on affordable housing, education, social safety-net and other issues.

How does Liberty Hill Foundation make the gala Upton Sinclair Dinner so successful? Meet Liberty Hill's marvelous Table Captains.

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Liberty Hill, L.A.'s social justice foundation, presents a round-up of media coverage of its partner grantee organizations.

The contemporary challenges and untapped resources facing the African American community launched a spirited lunchtime conversation at Liberty Hill's Uplifting Change Summit this year.  USC Professor Ange-Marie Hancock moderated a panel featuring artist Mattie McFadden-Lawson, entertainment lawyer Virgil Roberts and actor Jesse Williams.

Liberty Hill’s fourth Uplifting Change Summit takes place Thursday February 28th.

Liberty Hill Foundation shared dozens of photos of its grantees in action-- marches, demonstrations, press conferences, viewing parties educational forums and more.

Liberty Hill grantee organizations make news.

Liberty Hill Foundation announces its 2013 Leaders to Watch.

Kristin (right) at the White House with Peggy Saika, Carol Lee and Preeti Kulkarni

From Liberty Hill's departing Deputy Director, Donor Services:

Dear Liberty Hill Family,

left to right: Eric Ares, Kerri Gallagher, Paulina Gonzalez

Byline: Barbara Osborn

News fromt he media about community groups funded by Liberty Hill Foundation.

Kesa Kivel developed this curriculum for middle school, girls, a video "Never Give Up! Ama's Journey to Freedom on the Underground Railroad."

 Author Connie Rice signs a book for Margarita Ramirez.

Alliance of California for Community Empowerment

There's been some heavy lifting done by volunteers and interns at Liberty Hill lately.

Over the next couple of months, the Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments on Prop 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, and ultimately, ruling on both cases. Here are our top-tier news sources on the story.

Legal Eagles:

Byline: Joe Edwards, special contributor

Where do women’s rights fit into the Liberty Hill picture? Everywhere!

"The important message for young queer people,” says Isaias Guzman, a freshman in political science at UC Berkeley, “Is that they have the ability to make it better right now at their own schools."

This month, Liberty Hill grantee groups worked on voter registration drives, community benefits agreements and campaigns for immigration reforms, clean drinking water, transit justice and foreclosure prevention.

Why do you vote? We started asking people and it turns out the answers and more varied and complex than you might expect

Korean Resource Center (KRC) is the winner of the $10,000 grant from the LIberty-Hill Good Maker challenge "Turn On the Turnout." KRC will launch the “My Parents Vote for Our Future” project, empowering Los Angeles Korean American youth to engage their parents in civic life and elections.

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By Joseph Edwards
Liberty Hill hosted one of its highly regarded van tours to stops along the frontlines of change in L.A.—this time to explore the frontiers of ethical dining accompanied by activists with Restaurant Opportunities Centers United L.A. (ROC-LA).

Community-customized voter guides are one of the tools Liberty Hill's grantee groups bring to Get Out the Vote organizing.

Here are remarks made by Vincent, Liberty Hill's Deputy Director of Common Agenda, at today's Grantmakers for Children Youth and Families Annual Conference in El Paso, where he received that groups' first-ever Emerging Leader in Philanthropy award.

Liberty Hill is partnering with GOOD Magazine and The Goldhirsh Foundation to award $10,000 to the most promising L.A. area project to mobilize voters.

We've posted photos of some of the many events and actions that Liberty Hill grantee members and leaders participated in during September in an album on our Facebook Page.

Liberty Hill's Queer Youth Fund Announces 2012 Grants of $500,000 To Advance Safety, Self-Determination Queer Youth Fund Announces 2012 and Justice for LGBTQ Youth

Liberty Hill Announces $716,500 in 2012 Fund for Change grants to community organizing social justice groups in Los Angeles.

Roosevelt High student at InnerCity Struggle teach-in on school discipline.

Byline: Vincent Jones

Here’s a round-up of links to recent news stories about Liberty Hill grantees.

Byline: Joseph Bernardo

Byline: Melissa Montalvo

An important hearing took place last week in Sacramento to emphasize the importance of returning to common sense discipline in our schools and on our streets, and insuring that our young men have the opportunity to thrive. Here is the account of Vincent Jones, Sr. Program Officer in charge of Liberty HIll's Brothers, Sons, Selves campaign on last week's trip to Sacramento with more than a dozen young L.A. leaders.

I’m a youth organizing intern with Liberty Hill grantee organization InnerCity Struggle and work with members of the Roosevelt High chapter of United Students to change “zero tolerance” policies that were making school attendance and behavior problems worse, not better.

Dream Summer internship program team.

California is on the brink of becoming a national leader on a radical idea: keeping students in school is better for students, schools and communities.