As 2018 settles in, it is bringing important and exciting opportunities to the NCSA and its members and supporters. YOU are needed to shape the NCSA’s direction in 2018 and beyond Can you believe that next month marks three years since the NCSA held its first public forum, and embarked on vital and innovative community [...]
Tuesdays this Fall at LA Law Library, learn all the things you “didn’t know you needed to know” about building your business. Experts in law, finance and marketing, among other subjects, will present this 14-part series giving entrepreneurs and business owners the practical and comprehensive training needed to set up a business for long-term growth and [...]
We are pleased to announce the 2018 schedule of community training workshops for the Neighborhood Data for Social Change platform. Participants will learn to access data for specific neighborhoods and cities within Los Angeles County, learn more about the data and understand why specific data sets are important, and conceptualize data stories to better tell the stories [...]
Center will provide wrap-around services and resources for families and victims of violence at LAC+USC Medical Center. LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti and Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis joined Councilmember José Huizar, the Los Angeles Police Department, The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the Violence Intervention Program, and LAC+USC staff today to celebrate the [...]
Recycling Your Christmas Tree... Make it a green holiday this year and recycle your tree! In addition to wrapping paper, boxes and gift packaging, the City of Los Angeles offers residents the opportunity to recycle their Christmas trees. Dead, dry trees can be a fire hazard, and when they go to landfills they release greenhouse [...]
“Ending the housing affordability crisis is essential to securing Los Angeles as a place where every Angeleno — no matter their income — has an opportunity to build a life in our community. Everyone in L.A. deserves a place to come home to, and the Affordable Housing Linkage Fee is a critical investment in making [...]
The Department of Neighborhood Empowerment is excited to announce IgniteLA, a program for young women that builds civic knowledge and leadership skills to bolster civic engagement. Through a grassroots network of 97 Neighborhood Councils, EmpowerLA promotes civic engagement and improves government responsiveness to local needs. Each Neighborhood Council consists of volunteer stakeholders who meet [...]
LOS ANGELES—Mayor Eric Garcetti hosted an employment fair today to connect hundreds of job seekers with opportunities to join the effort to end homelessness. The Mayor was joined by Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Councilmember Curren Price, as well as more than 30 homeless services providers and partners looking to fill more than [...]
Griffith Park is the newest location where you can pick up a short-term bike rental in the city of Los Angeles, if you don't mind riding on hills. The bicycles are rented from a dockless bike-share system, meaning riders can pick up and drop off the bikes anywhere in the park's service area. The system [...]
NOVEMBER 30, 2017 Mayor Eric Garcetti, who chairs the Metro Board, led a preliminary discussion during today’s meeting about a new initiative he has championed, Twenty-Eight by ‘28. The purpose of the initiative is to leverage dollars from Measure M — the largest local infrastructure measure in U.S. history — to complete and accelerate 28 [...]
