The City of Los Angeles is in the initial stages of developing an Urban Forest Management Plan (UFMP) funded by a grant from CAL FIRE. The goal of the UFMP is to help guide the planting, care, protection, and sustainability of the City’s urban trees. LA's Urban Tree Canopy cover is only 21% - lower than [...]
On Sunday, June 24th EmpowerLA hung out with CicLAvia participants in the Valley. The 26th edition of CicLAvia invited all of us to experience the northeast San Fernando Valley in the communities of Pacoima, Arleta, and Panorama City. We came together through this joyous, car-free event, experiencing Los Angeles and our fellow Angelenos in [...]
Budget Day last Saturday was the best one yet! Check out event recaps below from EmpowerLA's John Darnell, and from newly-elected Budget Advocate Connie Acosta, of Echo Park Neighborhood Council. By John Darnell, EmpowerLA Thank you to all of those who attended Budget Day 2018. It was another successful event where board members and stakeholders [...]
This week, the second session of the Civic Youth Leadership Academy was hosted at El Pueblo Historic Monument. Topics covered were Mexico's entwined history with Los Angeles and Mayor Garcetti's stance on Los Angeles being a sanctuary city for immigrant Angelenos, especially in light of the current political climate in the country. Students also learned about the 1962 Farm [...]
NANDC and the office of Los Angeles City Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson will partner for SunFest 2018, a free event in South LA that will bring together the community to kick off the start of summer. The event will feature live music, rides, games, entertainment, free food, giveaways and more. SunFest 2018 will take place: Saturday, June 30, 2018 [...]
Every year, the National Association of Commissions for Women (NACW) gathers people from across the country to share best practices, build relationships, and discuss ways to better address gender inequality. In August, we are bringing the NACW to Los Angeles! In a post #MeToo world, LACSW wants to leverage the powerful rise in civic engagement to achieve systematic change [...]
Online family registration for the 11 th Annual Valley Disaster Preparedness Fair (the largest in Los Angeles) opens on Sunday, July 1, 2018. Please encourage your stakeholders to register and attend by visiting www.ValleyDisasterFair.com. Registration will also be available at the Fair. Registrants receive a personalized Welcome to the Fair email that will include information [...]
Check out this cool video that shows you, with full overhead graphics, what our Downtown L.A. Civic Center can be in the very near future. It's all part of the Civic Center Master Plan that Councilmember Huizar called for in 2015. The plan will save hundreds of millions of dollars by centralizing City employees and [...]
Valley Measure A meeting to be held in Van Nuys on June 30th. The Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust is hosting these meetings on behalf of the LA County Regional Parks & Open Space District, to inform community residents and local organizations about how they can advocate for -- or apply for funding for -- parks, gardens, [...]
Community-based arts organization LA Commons will host its eighth annual Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks in Leimert Park, the African American cultural hub of Los Angeles. The Festival features a procession and live musical performances at which traditional artists, youth groups, and diverse community members engage in a celebrating the global African village, [...]
