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Health Happens Here recognizes that health depends on much more than doctors offices and aims to shift thinking and policy making toward the reality that health happens where we live, learn, work and play.
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OPCC and Lamp Community are now united under one mission and one name: The People Concern. Because everyone should be housed, healthy and safe.
With 400 members and celebrating our 107th year, the Rotary Club of Los Angeles ("LA"5) is one of the largest, oldest and most prestigious community service organizations in Los Angeles and the world. Our membership includes influential business and civic leaders, all focused on community service and supporting one another. Working together, we contribute over $400,000 yearly in community grants, scholarships and international projects. Each week, members and guests of LA5 meet for fellowship, lunch and the opportunity to hear from a guest speaker. We also plan club, community and international service projects.
River LA was formed in December 2009 as the outgrowth of the recommendation from Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan. In 2009 and 2010, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Councilman Ed Reyes and Council President Eric Garcetti appointed the initial board of directors, who are all volunteers. Start-up funding for the organization came from CRA-LA. Additional funding will come from a variety of city, state, federal, foundation and private sources. River LA does not have any land-use authority or powers to implement eminent domain proceedings. Instead, it is working cooperatively and transparently with public and private stakeholders to carry out its mission. Its efforts are concentrated in the area covered by the Los Angeles River Implementation Overlay district (LA-RIO), and other similar districts, if subsequently established.
We invite volunteers who share our vision of service to the community. Become a part of this effort, and you will be amazed at the rewards that lie in store.
Maid cafes are a recent but quickly growing phenomena that originated in Tokyo at the turn of the millennium. They mainly appeal to anime fans, giving them the chance to interact with a stock character of many animes. However, anyone who relishes the idea of being waited on as if they where the master or mistress of a private estate instead of a mere cafe patron, might also enjoy a trip to a maid cafe. Not surprisingly, many butler cafes have also sprung up in order to offer the same experience to women who want to be pampered by attractive male domestics. While such “cosplay cafes” offer the usually assortment of food and drinks, the main attraction is the atmosphere and the waitstaff, and patrons will often pay for the chance to, for example, play a card game with their favorite maid. The closest parallel to a maid cafe one can find in American culture might be restaurants like Hooters, where the attractiveness of the waitstaff is the major selling point. However in terms of aesthetics, it would be hard for them to be more different. In some respects, they resemble a beauty salon, where many people consider the pleasant, congenial atmosphere to be as great an enticement as the services offered.
The California ABLE Fund - Advancing Biliteracy Leadership in Education The California ABLE Fund is a forward thinking partnership between the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE), Californians Together, with the California Community Foundation (CCF) serving as fiscal sponsor. The California ABLE Fund addresses the needs of California’s over 1.3 million K-12 students who are English Language Learners. The mission of the California ABLE Fund is to increase donor engagement and philanthropic dollars in order to build ongoing funding for leadership and educational projects, which develop and advance biliteracy and high academic achievement for English Language Learners. The purpose of the California ABLE Fund is to provide opportunities for supporters and new prospective donors to join in a collective impact on the educational development of English Language Learners, with options to utilize untapped funding vehicles for planned giving. This will be accomplished by growing a two-pronged philanthropic effort: (1) Fund for current projects that support the mission and purpose of the California ABLE Fund; and (2) Endowment Fund to advance the mission and purpose of the California ABLE Fund into perpetuity. The California ABLE Fund is the dream of CCF donor, Sandra K. Anderson, in partnership with the California Association of Bilingual Education (CABE) and Californians Together. You are invited to join the collective impact of forward thinking donors of all sizes who are supporting biliteracy and academic achievement for English Language Learners for generations to come through the California ABLE Fund. Consider, that in addition to supporting the mission of the California ABLE Fund with your generous donation, there are other ways you can contribute to the sustainability of ABLE through planned giving. Planned giving is a win-win approach to philanthropic donation that supports the California ABLE Fund mission and can benefit you now or in the future. A planned gift designated to the California ABLE Fund is a transfer of assets during one’s lifetime and/or as part of one’s estate plan. Planned gifts may provide tax benefits. We encourage you to consult with your financial advisor to discuss the tax implications of these options. You do not need to be wealthy to leave a legacy. Donor opportunities and benefits follow for your consideration. Bequests - One of the easiest ways to help involves simply naming the California ABLE Fund as a beneficiary in your will and living trust. A bequest may be for a particular dollar amount or percentage of your estate. Estate tax savings may be significant. Life Insurance Policy and Retirement Assets - Often overlooked by donors, naming the California ABLE Fund as a partial beneficiary of these assets can provide support for the California ABLE Fund mission. Life Income Gifts - Life income gifts allow you to leave a gift in the care of the California ABLE Fund, while earning income for yourself during your lifetime. The two most popular life income gifts are charitable remainder trusts and charitable gift annuities. Complex Gifts - If you are a business owner, own real property or have any other type of complex asset, giving options exist that can both help the California ABLE Fund and benefit your family financially. Endowement fund members become a special part of The California ABLE Fund donor family. They are honored at the annual CABE events, on the website, and at special annual donor events. Yes, I will support the California ABLE Fund to advance biliteracy and leadership in education! Please count on my pledge of: Donation I am interested in supporting the launch of the California ABLE Fund in the following amount of: $10,000 $5,000 $1,000 or other amount $ Yes, I am interested in setting up an appointment to learn more about including the California ABLE Fund in my planned giving and/or estate. I am interested in the following options: Bequests I am interested in learning about naming the California ABLE Fund as beneficiary in my will and/or living trust. My bequest can be for a particular dollar amount or percentage of my estate and I understand my estate tax savings may be significant. Life Insurance Policy and Retirement Assets I am interested in naming the California ABLE Fund as a partial beneficiary of assets to provide support for the education of English Language Learners. Life Income Gifts I am interested in a life income gift that allows me to leave a gift in the care of the California ABLE Fund, while earning income during my lifetime. I realize that the two most popular life income gifts are charitable remainder trusts and charitable gift annuities. Complex Gifts I am a business owner, own real property or have other types of complex assets. I am interested in my giving options which can both help the California ABLE Fund and benefit my family financially. Other How can I provide my donation? Please contact me. I would like to submit my donation via website at: www.calfund.org/CaliforniaABLEfund Enclosed is my check of $ payable to: CCF - California ABLE Fund 221 South Figueroa Street, Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90012
After several trips to Africa I realized the necessity to address the growing rate of poverty, illiteracy and hopelessness my African sisters are subjected to on a daily basis. As a result of my involvement with several philanthropic organizations in the United States who address issues concerning challenges women face around the world, I decided to channel my energy towards tackling, as best as I can, the problems confronting the dispossessed African woman. Upon consultation with like-minded people, I invited equally determined California-based professional African women to join me in this cause: the empowerment of the African woman. In the Spring of 2013, Upward African Woman was born. One of the goals UAW has been tasked with is ensuring that these dispossessed African women acquire marketable skills through vocational training and education to enable them obtain sustainable employment or start a business on the road to relative economic independence. It is significant to note that since establishing UAW, I have come to depend on the loyalty and passion of the most amazing group of women who share the same level of hard work, sacrifice, and love for UAW's mission and especially of the African woman. Together, and in a brief period of time, we have set up projects that are already providing direct benefit to African women in Ghana and Nigeria.
EAA represents approximately 5,000 City employees who are employed in every City department and Bureau and work at almost every one of the City’s 1,200 locations. Our members are involved in every aspect of service to the citizens of this great city. EAA hires only the most-qualified and dedicated individuals for its professional staff. This provides the maximum benefit for members and engenders respect from their counterparts at the City. EAA utilizes the same care in its selection of outside assistance, employing the finest labor legal counsel in southern California and using only union shops for its printing and consulting needs. The level of salary, benefits, and job protection currently enjoyed by City employees is a direct result of EAA's bargaining for those salaries and benefits. EAA has returned from the bargaining table with respectable wages, quality medical and retirement benefits, and excellent protection of its members' jobs. In recent years, EAA has stepped to the forefront in demanding fair treatment for all and in addressing the disparity in wages and benefits between the DWP and other City departments. In recent years, EAA has renewed its dedication to the larger labor community. EAA actively joins with its fellow unions in the Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor Coalition, the Jewish Labor Committee, the Harry Bridges Institute, and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. EAA members hit a high-water mark in 2006. For the first time in their history, they emphatically rejected a contract offer from City management. Their subsequent job actions garnered great respect in the labor community of southern California and produced a landmark contract agreement well in advance of the normal time frame for agreement. As a result of the members' demonstrated strength, a new era of cooperation is taking form between EAA and management through the mechanism of "mutual-gains bargaining". The cooperation was most recently demonstrated in the 2010 MOU's in which both parties recognized that sustainability for the future is beneficial to all. Additionally, all bargaining units are now covered by Fair Share (Agency Shop) provisions ensuring that the costs of representation are fairly shared by all. We are confident that the best is still to come.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, under the vibrant leadership of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, presents an inspiring array of music from all genres - orchestral, chamber and Baroque music, organ and celebrity recitals, new music, jazz, world music and pop - at two of L.A.’s iconic venues, Walt Disney Concert Hall (www.LAPhil.com) and the Hollywood Bowl (http://www.HollywoodBowl.com). The LA Phil's season extends from September through May at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and throughout the summer at the Hollywood Bowl. With the preeminent Los Angeles Philharmonic at the foundation of its offerings, the LA Phil aims to enrich and transform lives through music, with a robust mix of artistic, education and community programs.
Gallery Row is located in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles adjacent to the Fashion District, Civic Center, Historic Downtown, and Old Bank District. With the Walt Disney Concert Hall and MOCA on Grand Avenue to the west, Little Tokyo to the east, LA Live! and the Staples Center to the south, Gallery Row is in the center of cultural activity.
L.A.'s Performing Arts Destination. Home to LA Opera, LA Phil, Center Theatre Group, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale as well as the dance series, Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center.