Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable Help Program Expands

August 1, 2012
for Immediate Release
Contact: Debbie Washington
310-258-9796

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable Expands Building Healthy Communities Initiative to America’s Most Impoverished Neighborhoods

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable on Wednesday, August 1, announced the expansion of its Building Healthy Communities Initiative in the nation’s most impoverished neighborhoods. The aim of the Building Healthy Communities is to help build self-reliance and sustainability in the nation’s most underserved neighborhoods in the areas of violence prevention, at risk youth training, leadership mentoring and tutoring, financial education, health and nutrition awareness, arts, cultural and media training, college financial support, and civic engagement. The program will award Impact Micro Awards to community organizations that best fulfill that mission.

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable will work with community leaders in the targeted neighborhoods to select and support those organizations and individuals that have a consistent track record in working to improve health, education, and economic uplift programs in their cities. Impact Micro Awards will continue to be given as in the past to groups in Los Angeles and other cities to build community self-reliance and sustainability.

“The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable’s  Building Healthy Communities Initiative will support the on-going efforts of community leaders in America’s most underserved neighborhoods, “ says Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson, “ In their fight against poverty, and to boost health,  education, and public services in their communities.”

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LAUPR Impact Micro Awards to Date

• Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles
• Community Services Unlimited
• Southern California Cease Fire Coalition
• The Neighborhood Youth Achievers
• Project Cry No More
• Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Academy
• The Young Visionaries Youth Leadership Academy
• RUACH Christian Community Fellowship
• Global Wellness Project
• Prayer & Squares Ministry
• Park Hills Youth Scholarship Fund
• Eso Won Books
• Rodger F. Clayton Foundation
• Famli, Inc.
• Centro Latino for Literacy
• MAZON
• Korean American Historical Society (KAHS)
• Youth ‘N Motion Academy, Inc.
• The Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community
• Mollys Mutts and Meows
• The Children’s Dental Center of Greater Los Angeles
• Angels for Sight
• Friendship House Association of American Indians, Inc. of San Francisco
• West Angeles COGIC Save Africa’s Children
• The Los Angeles Youth Orchestra
• The Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles
•  Pathways to Your Future in Los Angeles
• Healthy Communities of Brownsville
• Casa of Cameron & Willacy Counties in Brownsville, Texas.
• Fight Against Obesity Foundation
• The CASA Women’s Shelter in Pine Bluff, Ark.
• The Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley in McAllen, Texas.
• Women Alive
• Special Needs Network.
• Cadre; Redefining Parenting in South L.A.,
• The Drew League Foundation
• The Institute for Black Parenting, Inc.
• Women’s Leadership Project at Gardena High School, Los Angeles Unified School District