Our Partners

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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.

Partners and 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 budget.

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

Jose Navarro
Former Community Resident and PHD candidate at USC.

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: