 April 2016 |
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Catalyst Team
Ravi Shah
Senior Program Associate
Lauren Kay
Director of Communications |
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From the Desk of Paul Vandeventer
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Vacations...and Why We Must Take Them
The car has new tires. That pesky sprinkler valve leaks no more. Workmen have estimated the cost of upgrading to new, energy efficient windows. My annual physical exam was completed. Six new trailing rosemary plants grace our front yard slope.
Those are a sampling of a few things that occupied my time and attention during a recent two-week spring vacation. Others included sleeping late every morning, running for an hour every day in Pasadena's lovely Arroyo Seco, visiting the new Broad Museum downtown with my younger son who was home from college, and escaping for a weekend to the coastal valleys north of Santa Barbara. I visited my aging mother and shared breakfast with my brother and his wife. I lazed by a friend's Mt. Washington swimming pool, talking politics and poker strategy, as our families enjoyed Easter Sunday together.
It seems so mundane to say it, but time away from the rigors of work makes a remarkable difference in how things look upon returning to the office. A routine board meeting the day after coming back re-focuses and invigorates the whole thrust and purpose of the organization. Planning for a new initiative, advanced a few more steps in my absence by a capable colleague, reveals even more potential than was evident just a few short weeks ago. A discussion with consultants about
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Projects in the News
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Project leader Jessica Meaney of Investing in Place was a guest on KCRW's Press Play with Madeleine Brand to discuss a new city-wide plan for fixing LA's broken sidewalks. Hear her thoughts about the "Fix and Release" plan here.
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The LA Times has chosen David Kipen, founder of Libros Schmibros, as a regular contributor to the Books section. Libros Schmibros, a project of Community Partners, is a lending library that puts low-or no-cost books into all hands, native and immigrant, Eastside and West.
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City Plants' Arbor Day Celebration, which included Mayor Eric
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Maria Spin of Multicultural Communities for Mobility was interviewed on KPCC's Take Two as part of her inclusion in the California Community Foundation's Portraits of Compassion. Part of CCF's 100th anniversary celebration, the project showcases 30 "Unsung Heroes" of Los Angeles County who are working to improve our region.
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Generation Progress highlighted WriteGirl as an example of a rehabilitation program that helps break the cycle of recidivism prevalent in low-income and high-crime communities. In the article, Executive Director Keren Taylor explains how the program equips incarcerated girls with writing skills that help them "advocate for their own path forward" to life beyond incarceration.
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Board & Staff News
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Bonnie Boswell, a new member of Community Partners' board, leads an investigation into lead poisoning in LA and its impact on South LA families on her PBS-SoCal Series "The Hidden Health Crisis." The three-part series began on on Sunday March 27th at 5:30pm on PBS SoCal. Watch the whole series here.
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Community Partners' President & CEO Paul Vandeventer will present on Networks that Work at the upcoming annual conference of The Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence. The conference will be held on May 10th. Entitled " Innovation and the Courage to Fail," it presents on the nonprofit sector's most relevant topics and current issues. | 
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After 10 years of gracious and dedicated service to the Community Partners board, Deidre Lind is stepping down to focus on her growing responsibilities as President of the Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles. An advisory board member before she formally joined the board, Deidre brought discernment and a strong sense of community spiritedness that strengthened our work.
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Welcome Our Newest Projects
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Los Angeles Housing Observatory
Project Leader: Helmi Hisserich
Los Angeles Housing Observatory will be a "civic research and knowledge library" designed to facilitate connections across LA City departments, policy leaders, researchers, community development organizations, housing developers, business leaders, communities and residents who all need to share information about housing in Los Angeles.
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Multiple Language Assets in Los Angeles
Project leader: Hilda Maldonado
Multiple Language Assets in Los Angeles will explore the question of how the multiple languages used in Los Angeles can be leveraged as assets, rather than deficits.
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California Partnership
Project Leader: Maribel Nunez
California Partnership is an economic justice coalition of community groups, organizing and advocating for policies which reduce poverty Both this project & the Housing Observatory are made possible with a grant from the Durfee Stanton Fellowship to enable leaders to think deeply about the intractable problems in their sector, and to tease out solutions that will improve life for the people of L.A.
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Program Director
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Program Director
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Program Assistant
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Events and Learning Opportunities
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Social Media Training: Member-Leaders
Thursday, May 5; 4-5:00pm
This training is for members of unions, advocacy groups, and NGOs. Are you a member of an organization whose work and issues you care passionately about? Want to know how to advance this work and these campaigns more effectively on social media? This training is for you. Register here.
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Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Webinar for Nonprofits
Thursday, May 5; 10-11:30am
Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits is a comprehensive 256-page book packed with more than 500 best practices. This free webinar will feature one best practice from each of the book's sixteen chapters and will provide the basis for writing and implementing a comprehensive fundraising and content strategy. Register here. |
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From the Field
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New Open Data Source for LA
Los Angeles' new GeoHub gives city staff, nonprofit organizations, businesses, app developers, and the general public access to the city's location-based data through a new online portal. The information can be used by stakeholders to collaborate to address goals, initiatives, and challenges.
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36 Useful Apps & Online Tools for Nonprofits
Want to track in real-time the performance of your campaign hashtags? There's an app for that. Want to easily broadcast live from special events or while on location? There's an app for that too! Learn more about these resources, and a number of free online tools available to nonprofits, here.
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Getting Overhead Funded: Series
This three-workshop series (April 21, May 19, and June 15) is designed to equip nonprofits with the best strategies for navigating and understand new federal regulations regarding nonprofit overhead funding in government contracts.
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Nonprofit Management Tools and Trends Report 2015
The Tools and Trends Report contains survey data for nonprofit leaders that gauges current and anticipated use of 25 popular management tools, user satisfaction, and how effort expended on implementation relates to favorable tool ratings. In addition, the survey queries nonprofit leaders on 21 trends to see how the most popular tools connect with the current thinking about what it takes to manage effectively.
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ICYMI
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2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference
The Nonprofit Technology Conference last month brought together over 2,000 nonprofit professionals from around the world for over 100 sessions exploring technologies, best strategies, and pressing issues. No worries if you didn't make it: all plenary sessions were recorded and posted here.
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About Us
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