In honor of MLK Day, Goldhirsh Foundation and LA2050 President Tara Roth reached out to her friend Michael Tubbs, founder of End Poverty in California (EPIC) and former Mayor of Stockton, to ask a few questions related to the legacy of Dr. King, and Tubbs’ ongoing work with issues such as guaranteed income and ending poverty.
On the connection between guaranteed income and Dr. King, Tubbs shares:
"Absolutely, my involvement in this movement is due to the work of Dr. King and his passionate support for guaranteed income as a solution to America’s addiction to poverty in his last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?"
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MLK DAY VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
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HONORING MLK IN LOS ANGELES
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We curated a map highlighting some of the many locations around Los Angeles County that memorialize Dr. King's life and message. Featured locations include The Dr. King Memorial Tree Grove within Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area and the Martin Luther King Jr. Park and Community Center in Long Beach.
Check out the MLK map on the @LA2050 Instagram →
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JANETTE ROBINSON FLINT | Executive Director, Black Women for Wellness
My favorite Los Angeles places and spaces...
PLAY: Griffith Park is one of my favorite places – Travel Town train rides, merry-go-rounds, and my absolute favorite is the Planetarium. In the past there were deer – not so much now – and the hiking paths are well-worn and friendly.
CREATE: Los Angeles is super-duper fabulous with free concerts – well we used to be. Grand Performances give you a chance to hear bands and people you might not have heard of outdoors with excellent acoustics. One of my favorites is Flypoet every first Friday, but the special once a year at John Anson Ford Theatre is all that.
CONNECT: So naturally, I want to share about Black Women for Wellness with our civic engagement and volunteer opportunities. However, when I don’t want to be in charge, have a good time, yet volunteer, it is the Pan African Film Festival. That is my jam – good movies, good people, and still helping spread the culture.
LEARN: Zócalo Public Square – intriguing topics, great conversation, and interesting people. Zócalo airs a podcast but records at different venues, I have been to Mercado and the Japanese American National Museum so generally speaking a two-for-one: culture and conversation.
LIVE: Each year there is a Japanese lantern outdoor light festival around the winter holidays, the Los Angeles County Arboretum’s botanical gardens are good spaces to wander around. Also, the Korean spas in Koreatown are world-class – for real. They will absolutely spoil you and set a high bar that spas in other places will have trouble meeting.
Follow @LA2050 on Instagram to see new Fave Five posts from impactful Angelenos.
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Multiple Positions Available, SEE-LA
Operations and Grants Manager, Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles
Green Schools Speaker, US Green Building Council-Los Angeles
Director of Accounting & Finance, Annenberg Foundation
Marketing Manager, City of Burbank / Burbank Public Library
Multiple Positions Available, Inner City Law Center
Director of Economic Development, Esperanza Community Housing Corporation
Director of Operations, Community Nature Connection
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Policy Analyst, Early Edge California
Volunteer Coordinator, Rainbow Labs
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STEM Teachers Fellowship, EnCorps STEM Teachers Program
Senior Staff Attorney, California Women's Law Center
Multiple Positions Available, California State Summer School for the Arts
Executive Director, Arts Bridging the Gap
Executive Assistant/Office Manager, Pasadena Playhouse
Multiple Positions Available, A Place Called Home
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Multiple Positions Available, Chrysalis
Development Director, Reading Partners
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Development Operations Assistant, ACLU of Southern California
Computer Science Education Fellow, 9 Dots
Multiple Positions Available, Library Foundation of Los Angeles
Training Coordinator, Maternal Mental Health Now
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Jan. 14, 10 am | Long Beach Martin Luther King Jr. Parade and Celebration
Jan. 15, 11 am | L.A. Works' MLK Day of Service
Jan. 16, 10 am | CAAM King Day 2023
Jan. 16, 11 am | 38th Annual MLK Kingdom Day Parade "Making America The Last Best Hope of The World"
Jan. 17, 6 pm | LA Metro Live Interactive Telephone Town Hall on 2023 Budget
Jan. 17, 7 pm | A Zócalo / Da Poetry Lounge Spoken Word Performance: Does Democracy Need Poets?
Jan. 18, 1 pm | SoCal Grantmakers: California Disaster Philanthropy Briefing - From Episodic Relief to Transformative Resilience
Jan. 18, 1 pm | LA County Board of Supervisors / Nonprofit Roundtable: Spotlight on Technology from Center for Nonprofit Management
Jan. 21, 10 am | Monterey Park's Lunar New Year Festival
Jan. 21, 3 pm | 9th Annual Port of Los Angeles Lunar New Year Festival
Jan. 24, 5:30 pm | California Historical Society: Communists in Closets - Queering the History 1930s-1990s
Jan. 25, 9:30 am | Finding & Accessing LA County Funding Opportunities presented by Center for Nonprofit Management and BDO FMA
Jan. 25, 2:30 pm | LA Green Jobs - Virtual Career Fair presented by USGBC-LA
Jan. 28, 1 pm | El Cine Presents My L.A. - A Filmmaking Workshop at LAPL
Jan. 28, 6 pm | Opening Celebration: The Fallacy of Borders by Amir H. Fallah presented by the Fowler Museum at UCLA
Jan. 31, 7 pm | How Has Computer Code Shaped Humanity? A Zócalo/Future Tense Event
Feb. 8, 4 pm | Otis College Visiting Writers Series: Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
Feb. 26, 9 am | CicLAvia - The Valley
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Find funding resources on our Goldhirsh Foundation website, which is regularly updated with a diverse range of grant opportunities!
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