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 [...]
The City of Los Angeles Budget Advocates produced their very first Radio Show on March 1, 2015. The Special Guests included Los Angeles City Controller Ron Galperin and the General Manager of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment Grayce Liu. Did you miss it? Watch a video of the entire show here: https://vimeo.com/121143272 Join us again [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well. I’ve been getting wonderful stories of Neighborhood Councils changing the world for the better, one neighborhood at a time. From hillside drilling issues in Porter Ranch to the Sex & Child Trafficking Summit held in Van Nuys to the National Night Out events held by Neighborhood Councils throughout the [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well. I’m back in the office and playing a lot of catch up this week. I wanted to thank Cindy Cleghorn, Joanne Yvanek-Garb and Jay Handal for their articles updating you on their great work with the Congress of Neighborhoods, PlanCheckNC and the Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates. It was [...]
When the US State Department organizes tours for international delegations, the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment is often a destination on their itinerary. It turns out the EmpowerLA model is known to people all over the world. They know that Los Angeles is the capital of civic engagement, and they want to see it first-hand. Just [...]
