Our guest for this episode of the EmpowerLA Podcast is Nazario Sauceda, outgoing Director of the Bureau of Street Services. Nazario has a long history with the City and as strong a relationship with the Neighborhood Councils as anyone. In our conversation, Nazario stresses the important role his agency plays in the everyday lives of [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. I had an excellent time last Friday sharing about our Neighborhood Council system in Sacramento at Center for California Studies’ Our Voices: Advancing Civic Engagement in California Conference. It was especially good given the fact that many players in the civic engagement world in California did not know [...]
CityWatch, the online news portal, has launched a Neighborhood Council page in partnership with the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment a.k.a. EmpowerLA to support the 2016 Neighborhood Council election outreach. CityWatch is published to encourage grassroots civic engagement through information, ideas and perspective. Editor and co-founder, Ken Draper, was involved in the creation of the Neighborhood [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. Our EmpowerLA team is ending 2015 in a full sprint towards 2016 with awesome events just around the corner! As you know, the 2016 Neighborhood Council elections have started already with the launch of the online voter registration portal for our online voting pilot. We’re already approving the [...]
Daisy Sayangda, the Mayor of Santol, Philippines, and Robert Opena, law enforcement officer, visited EmpowerLA on Thursday to learn more about how our department works and to bring back ideas to Santol. Sayangda is trying to set up a Community Engagement Department in her municipality. She was particularly interested in how EmpowerLA trains our Neighborhood [...]
The Elections Team is here to help you when you need it. So to help guide your budget and key event/outreach planning, check out this quick "cheat sheet" to use as a basis for your planning. Questions? Email lisa@empowerla.org or jay@empowerla.org Click here for your Election Timeline per Region. Click here for your Neighborhood Council [...]
The Del Rey Neighborhood Council is proud to announce the 12th annual Del Rey Day, celebrating the Council’s 12th anniversary serving the Del Rey community. The festival will be held on Sunday, October 18, 2015 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Glen Alla Park, 4601 Alla Road, Del Rey 90292. Del Rey [...]
Greetings Neighborhood Councils… The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) has launched the 2016 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count! The 2015 Homeless Count was the largest census in the country, covering 4000 square miles and benefitting from the support of more than 5,500 volunteers. In 2015 the Count discovered that at any given point-in-time approximately [...]
On Saturday, October 24, at 10 a.m, EmpowerLA's General Manager is hosting an Elections Town Hall at Glassell Park Community and Senior Center to review the 2016 Neighborhood Council Elections Manual and to discuss the upcoming 2016 elections, including the implementation of citywide online voting. The Election Town Hall is an opportunity for Outreach Chairs, [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. We are so very excited about the Congress of Neighborhoods tomorrow! If you heart all things Neighborhood Councils like we do, then the Congress is the place to be tomorrow. With Council President Herb Wesson opening the Congress and Mayor Eric Garcetti closing the day, you’ll have 40 workshops to [...]
