 January 2014
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Catalyst Team
Ravi Shah
Senior Program Associate
Lauren Kay
Communications Manager |
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From the Desk of Paul Vandeventer
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Getting Back to Human Basics
We Angelenos may not see in our lifetimes a harder slap upside our civic heads than the searing report just released by the Kantor Commission's Los Angeles 2020 report, " A Time for Truth."
No one escaped some measure of responsibility for how the city has fallen into decline and the dire news that we're on the verge of death by a thousand cuts unless we take drastic action.
But the report features a glaring omission even as it represents a bill of indictment on a generation of this city's leadership - political, civic, business, even community leadership at the neighborhood level.
What's missing is the ground-level perspective of ordinary people. Where in "A Time for Truth" is the reality of those not ensconced in business suites and City Hall, but who talk to one another over the back fence, at the market, in the park or at barbecues and the beach?
To read the entire article, please click here.
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Welcome Our Newest Board Members
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Maria P. Aguilar, MD, is the resident psychiatrist for the Los Angeles County Northeast Wellness Center in Highland Park. Dr. Aguilar is a graduate of UCLA Medical and did her advanced training and residency in psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She left private practice in 1999 to devote herself to practicing community medicine in underserved Latino communities. She is a native Spanish speaker, born in Mexico where she lived until the age of thirteen. Dr. Aguilar is passionate about her work, strongly advocating a wellness and recovery model that empowers patients. Her program serves as a model for Los Angeles County and other communities across the United States.
 Ange-Marie Hancock, Ph.D. serves as a tenured professor in political science and gender studies at the University of Southern California, a position she's held since 2008. Previously, Dr. Hancock taught at Yale University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of San Francisco. She is widely and extensively published, has authored two books and has a third on the way. Dr. Hancock received her masters and doctoral degrees from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and studied politics at New York University as an undergraduate. She serves on the board of the Los Angeles chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Liberty Hill Foundation and is an active member of the American Political Science Association and the Western Political Science Association.
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Serving the Sector
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Bridget Hogan Cole (center), senior program director at Community Partners, served as moderator recently for an in-depth conversation on the current state of health care reform. The invitation-only event, hosted by Southern California Grantmakers, included speakers Dr. Robert Ross, president and CEO of The California Endowment, and Kim Belsh�, executive director of First 5 LA.
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Projects in the News
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Patrick Ball, executive director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, was featured in a Wired magazine piece, aptly titled "Data Mining on the Side of the Angels."
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The Los Angeles City Council last month unanimously passed an update to the Municipal Building Code making Los Angeles the first major city to require all new and refurbished homes to have a "cool roof." Climate Resolve held the "Hot City, Cool Roofs" conference earlier this year, which energized City Leaders to pass this groundbreaking legislation.
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Karen Mack, executive director of LA Commons, was recently elected president of the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners, which is responsible for setting policy for the city's system of 95 neighborhood councils.
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Welcome Our Newest Projects
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 Know the Glow
Project Leaders: Megan Webber and Sandra Roderick
Seeks to eliminate childhood blindness by raising awareness about glow-related eye diseases and educating the general public and medical community on how to identify "the glow" -- which shows up as yellow eye shine -- through simple flash photography.
The National Foster Youth Institute
Project Leader: Lisa Kurdziel
Aims to reform and strengthen child welfare systems at the national, state and local levels and drastically improve outcomes for foster youth, intending ultimately to reduce the number of youth in foster care by 50%. In addition, the Institute will create career pathways and job training opportunities for transition-aged foster youth and offer policy consulting to nonprofits that concentrate on reforming the foster child welfare system.
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From the Field
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Post-Holiday Follow-Up with New Donors
Now that we're in the new year, it's important to have a plan in place to build relationships with those new donors you connected with over the holidays. Here are a few resources to help you retain new donors:
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10 Tips for Creating Better Subject Lines
Do your newsletters and fundraising emails suffer from low open rates? Looking to find ways to stand out in a crowded inbox? Network For Good offers ten ways to improve your subject lines. | |
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LinkedIn Launches Volunteer Marketplace
Nonprofits can now use LinkedIn to recruit volunteers through its new program, LinkedIn Volunteer Marketplace. Prospective volunteers can search for board member and volunteer opportunities based on location, interest area, keywords and more. Posting an opportunity is not free, but nonprofits receive a 90 percent discount off of LinkedIn's standard rate for job postings. A 30-day volunteer posting is $19.50.
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About Us
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Community Partners works with social entrepreneurs, grantmakers and civic leaders to imagine possibilities, design solutions and see them through to results. Our work includes fiscal sponsorship, grantmaker partnerships, thought leadership and knowledge sharing.
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1000 N Alameda St, Suite 240
Los Angeles, CA 90012 | Phone 213.346.3210
Fax 213.808.1009 | info@CommunityPartners.org |
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