SPONSORS & PARTNERS
Organizational Capacity:
Legacy LA is currently an incubator project of Community Partners, an umbrella organization that offers critical support, guidance and training to people with innovative ideas for building communities. Community Partners recognizes, invests in and celebrates the critical role individuals and groups play in achieving a just, vibrant civil society. Community Partners is a nonprofit charity exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Legacy LA Staff:
Exucutive Director, Maria Lou Calanche, former resident of the Ramona Gardens/Hazard Park Community and current professor at East Los Angeles College
Director of Youth Leadership Programs, Monique Moncayo, a 15-year Hazard Park patron and recent graduate of UC Santa Barbara
Gang Intervention Program Coordinator, George Sarabia, life-long resident of the Ramona Gardens Community and community activist
GRYD Prevention Senior Case Manager, Isaac Caldera, former resident of Ramona Gardens
GRYD Prevention Case Manager, Arlene Velo, community advocate
GRYD After the Bus Program Coordinator, Ana Garcia, former resident of Ramona Gardens
GRYD After the Bus Parent Advocates, life-long community residents, Martha Gonzalez and Martha Perez-Valle
GRYD After the Bus Mentors, current residents of the Ramona Gardens/Hazard Park community & college students, Joann Perez, Joseph Gomez, Alejandro Troncoso, and David Padilla
Administrative Assistant, Viviana Sosa, current resident of Ramona Gardens
Collaborations:
Gang Reduction and Youth Development Prevention:
Legacy LA has partnered with the Violence Intervention Program (Lincoln Heights) and Barrio Action Youth & Family Center (El Sereno) in order to provide programs to "at risk" youth ages 10-15 funded by the Mayor's Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Developmet (GRYD). Legacy LA has developed an After School Program housed at Murchison Elementary School that provides case management, academic support, and fun-filled programs (Workout Circuit, Guitar Lessons, Film Making) that will help keep our youth off the streets and on the path to a brighter future.
Gang Reduction and Youth Development Intervention:
Legacy LA has partnered with SEA Soledad Enrichment Action (Boyle Heights) and Barrio Action Youth & Family Center (El Sereno) to provide comprehensive case management and supportive services to the Ramona Gardens/Hollenbeck GRYD Zone.
Community Engagement:
Legacy LA has assembled a steering committee of community residents, stakeholders, and organization leaders from the Ramona Gardens Community to oversee the planning, development, and implementation of the comprehensive community needs and resource assessment, which will serve as the basis of the architectural programming plan and inform the budgeting for both the renovations and programming budgets.
Steering Committee (to be transformed into Programming Committee):
Sister Hilda Alfaro/Church Youth Leaders Santa Teresita Church; Leo Alvarez, community resident; Alma Garcia, Ramona Gardens Community Service Center; Martha Gonzalez, LA Voice/Santa Teresita/Ramona Gardens Community; Two Hazard Park Advisory Board Representatives; Tammy Membreno, Barrio Action Youth & Family Center; Veronica Pagan, Murchison Street School – LA’s Best Program and community resident; Hector Verdugo, Homeboy Industries – former Ramona Gardens resident; Raul Estrada, Executive Director, El Centro de Ayuda; Cesar Armindarez, Director Community Outreach, USC Civic and Community Relations; Sesshu Foster, Bravo Medical Magnet High School; George Sarabia, community resident; Carrie Sutkin, Hazard Park Advisory Board; and Jose Navarro, former community resident and PHD candidate at USC.
Advisory Board:
Experts on violence intervention: Dr. Astrid Heger, Violence Intervention Program, and Belinda Smith Walker, Girls and Gangs; on education: State Superintendent Jack O’Connell and Paula Crisostomo, Occidental College; on environmental sustainability: Larry Smith, former Executive Director of Northeast Trees; on community issues: Olivia Rodriguez, Los Angeles Commission for Women; on marketing: Will Caperton y Montoya, Department of Cultural Affairs; David Ambroz, Los Angeles Community College Foundation; and Dan Rosenfeld, LA Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas.
Sponsors:
The Advisory Board and the Planning Committee would like to thank the Annenberg Foundation, The California Endowment, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Councilmemer Jose Huizar, and the City of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation for their support. Representatives from the following offices will also be participating:
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
Councilmember Huizar
Assembly member Kevin De Leon
State Senator Gloria Romero
Supervisor Gloria Molina
City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks
