The City Project seeks a Development Director for all programmatic and operational fundraising. The ideal candidate will have a track record in successfully maintaining existing donor relationships, as well as developing new opportunities. The individual should possess excellent relationship-building, public speaking abilities and writing, as well as interpersonal skills. This individual will have [...]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — This sprawling metropolis is built atop one of the richest oil basins in the world. Wells dot the city landscape, some hidden behind hollow building facades much like a Hollywood movie set, or, in the case of Beverly Hills High School, encased in [...]

LA StreetSummit 2010
Biking, Walking and Beyond
Where: LA Trade Tech College
Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010
Time: 10:30am-5pm
Speaking at the LA StreetSummit 2010:
Carl Anthony, former President of Urban Habitat and former head of the Sustainable Metropolitan Communities program at the Ford Foundation.
Anthony is a nationally recognized leader in the African American community who has been in the forefront [...]

Spending cuts at the grassroots
Bill Boyarsky

Amazingly, the city community building meeting room was filled with anti-spending cut protestors at the inconvenient hour of 6 p.m. Wednesday, and the stars of the evening were the students from Lincoln High School.
The meeting was held at Ramona Hall Community Center on North Figueroa Street by the Los Angeles [...]

The Center for Health Improvement and California Health Policies Forum highlights The City Project’s work in a Policy Brief on Tackling Obesity by Building Healthy Communities: Changing Policies Through Innovative Collaborations in December 2009.
The Policy Brief reports as follows:
Attacking Obesity Among the Underserved in Los Angeles
The City Project in Los Angeles envisions creating “a comprehensive and [...]

Convening the 2010 Governor’s Summit on Health, Nutrition and Obesity: Action for Healthy Living, in Los Angeles on February 24, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Bill Clinton will bring diverse stakeholders — including members of the California Convergence — to discuss the best policy and practices to combat obesity and
improve the health and physical fitness [...]

The City Project celebrates Black History Month
Juanita Tate, a longtime community activist and founder of Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles, passed away on July 5, 2004.
Juanita Tate was our hero, our inspiration, and our long time client. The City Project had the honor of representing her and Concerned Citizens in the people’s victories [...]

The Los Angeles Unified School District, in response to a community campaign, has adopted a plan to enforce physical education requirements requiring an average of 20 minutes of physical education in elementary schools every day and 40 minutes in middle and high schools. The school district, the second largest in the nation, is enforcing [...]

Saturday, January 02, 2010
CALIFORNIA
City falls years behind in finishing Eastside park
* Ground was broken at Ascot Hills in 2005, but only scant areas are open to the public.
Home Edition, Main News, Page A-3
Metro Desk
21 inches; 850 words
By Louis Sahagun
Against a backdrop of smiling children, cheering officials and rolling grasslands, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa [...]

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Ascot Hills Where’s the Park?

Griffith Park on the East Bank of the Los Angeles River

Preserve History and Green Space at El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument and Father Serra Park

Keep Baldwin Hills Clean and Safe for Generations to Come

Diversify Access to and Support for National Parks and [...]