Liberty Hill, L.A.'s Social Justice Foundation, Moving from Santa Monica to Los Angeles

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Jun 03, 2011, 01:38 ET

LOS ANGELES, June 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After 35 years in Santa Monica, Liberty Hill Foundation, L.A.'s social justice foundation, will be moving to Los Angeles.

The new address will be:

Liberty Hill Foundation
6420 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite #700
Los Angeles, CA 90048

The move will be effective July 5, 2011.

Over the last 35 years, Liberty Hill has invested more than $40 million in grassroots community organizing in Los Angeles County. Last year, a report by the National Center for Responsive Philanthropy found that for every dollar invested in community organizing in Los Angeles, L.A. saw $91 in benefits. (A majority of the organizations studied for the report were Liberty Hill grantees.) In the last decade, Liberty Hill's investment in organizing has resulted in nearly 100,000 low-income men and women registered to vote; 25,000 men and women raised above the poverty level by living wage jobs; $400 million secured for parks in low-income neighborhoods; legal safeguards to protect California's 25,000 LGBTQ high school students from harassment and violence; and L.A. operating the largest clean-fuel bus fleet in the country.

Liberty Hill's President and CEO Kafi D. Blumenfield, said, "In the next several years, Liberty Hill is embarking on a plan to become an even more effective, powerful, public foundation. A key part of that is our move to a central location on one of the city's great thoroughfares, Wilshire Boulevard. The move catapults us into greater Los Angeles and positions us to better serve our grantees and broaden our base of support."

Liberty Hill is first to identify community leaders at the frontlines of change. We invest in changemakers and equip them with the skills and relationships they need to build power and advance social justice. After more than 35 years, Liberty Hill is uniquely positioned to bring together forces for change and forge a common agenda for equality and opportunity in Los Angeles. Liberty Hill: Change. Not charity.

SOURCE Liberty Hill Foundation