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This week I am turning the figurative mic over to Gaby Jimenez, a long-time staff member and valued colleague, to share some news. Thank you, Wendy Dear Friends, In 2018, The Corps Network, an association for
Taking Action on Climate Change
Dear Friends, Did your hearts swell along with mine at the sight of a young Angeleno stepping up to the microphone on Inauguration Day and boldly and beautifully speaking truth to power about the work we
Happy Holidays
Dear Friends, ‘Twas the Tuesday before Christmas and all through the Corps Crews were pulling together to achieve even more… Forgive the silliness, poetry isn’t our strong suit here. But, as I have been sharing with
Let’s Keep it Clean & Green
Dear Friends, I am again reminded of the deep and meaningful partnerships and collaborations thatthe Corps has built over the last three decades and that have sustained us during thisdifficult year. Chief among those is our
The Power of Gratitude
Dear Friends, In case we don’t ask enough, how are you doing? Last week, we kicked off a meeting of the senior management team with that simplequestion. The answers we got, though, were anything but simple.
Time to Choose Your Path!
Dear Friends, “I’m built from everything that was meant to break me, and I won’t settle foranything less than what I’m striving for.” Corpsmember Dulce Dear Friends, What are you built from? After a year of
Read the LA Corps response to COVID-19
In the Press
2023
7.12.2023 – LA RIVER RANGERS: Oportunidad de trabajo para jóvenes angelinos y protección del medio ambiente
4.08.2023 – River Rangers program hires young Angelenos to clean up, advocate for the LA River
3.24.2023 – LA Conservation Corps is Creating a Greener Los Angeles
3.03.2023 – Black History Month Spotlight: Simboa Wright
2022
9.20.2022 – Community Comes Together To Restore Habitat In Redondo Beach
8.31.2022 – Traveling Tidepools: Supporting Workforce Training Through a Unique Partnership
8.24.2022 – NBC4 LA Conservation Corps Building a New Homeless Village
6.6.2022 – Corps Director Carlos Campero Interview with El Nuevo Sol
4.14.2022 – Community Champions: LA Conservation Corps beautifies our neighborhoods
4.04.2022 – 2022 Project of the Year: Pallet Partnership – LA Conservation Corps, Civicorps, San Jose Conservation Corps
2021
6.21.2021 – Corps Thanks Friends for a Successful Virtual Spring Luncheon
4.15.2021 – Pandemic impacts habitat restoration at LAX Dunes
3.23.2021 – Food Waste Recovery Program Builds Nourishing Partnerships
3.19.2021 – LA Corps Response to AAPI Attacks
3.16.2021 – Meet Carlos Campero, Arborist and Director of Conservation Programs at Compton Creek Natural Park
3.3.2021 – Public Comment Open for New OHV Grant Submissions
2.24.2021 – Tiny home village being built in North Hollywood to serve as lifeline for the homeless
2.17.2021 – Tree Equity: “Good Shade” Project to Address Shade Disparities in LA
2.16.2021 – LA Conservation Corps and Pallet™ Announce Partnership
1.14.2021 – Corps joins effort to bring “Good Shade” to Alondra Park
1.13.2021 – Corpsmembers Get Coastal Restoration Experience on Malibu Living Shoreline Project
2020
11.20.2020 – LA Corps Teams Up with Conservation Corps of Long Beach and the New Climate Action Corps
10.29.2020 – Bank of America Names LA Conservation Corps 2020 Neighborhood Builder
4.22.20 – Called to Action – How the LA Corps is Stepping Up for Its Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic (cherie.com)
4.3.20 – Corpsmembers have COVID-19 questions answered via Corps podcasts
4.2.20 – Los Angeles Conservation Corps: Still Working in the Time of Virus (Palacio Magazine)
2.21.20 – Getting to The Finish Line: A Clean & Green Program Story
2.20.20 – In Her Own Words
2.20.20 – Green Together Collaborative Addresses Climate Resilience in San Fernando Valley
2.4.20 – LA Corps College and Career Fair (video)
1.29.20 – Media Alert: College and Career Fair in Watts 1/31
1.29.20 – New 18/19 Gratitude Report is Available
1.29.20 – Alumni Spotlight
2019
12.5.19 – Artist Brings Awareness to Nonprofit with “Promised Land” Paintings
12.2.19 – Project Spotlight: Food Waste Prevention & Rescue
11.21.19 – Heroic Youth Leaders are Treated to an Early Thanksgiving
8.29.19 – 9/28 National Public Lands Day
8.21.19 – NBA Star Russell Westbrook Joins Initiative to Promote Job Skills For At-Risk Young Adults
8.20.19 – NBA Star Russell Westbrook Joins Initiative to Promote Job Skills For At-Risk Young Adults (PEOPLE)
7.31.19 – 2019 YES Summit!
7.25.19 – The River Corps is Back
7.2.19 – Project Spotlight: Baldwin Hills Trail & Storm Water Restoration Project
6.29.19 – LA Conservation Corps Spruces Up Boyle Heights Park (CBS 2 | KCAL 9)
6.29.19 – LA Conservation Corps Spruces Up Boyle Heights Park
6.23.19 – Community Aquarium Closes After 20 Years in Redondo Beach (NBC 4)
6.12.19 – From Momenta to movies and more: Reynolds senior participated in the Momenta Workshop in February 2019, taking a series of photographs for the L.A. Corps (Univ. of Nevada)
5.23.19 – Officials Seek Volunteers to Log Photos of Urban Critters Captured by L.A.-Area Wildlife Cameras (KTLA)
5.22.19 – Community improvement projects to beautify neglected streets of Westwood (Daily Bruin)
5.15.19 – NBC4 and Telemundo 52 Los Angeles Award $225,000 in ‘Project Innovation” Grants to Local Nonprofits (NBC 4)
4.26.19 – Go Green with the LA Corps
4.4.19 – ‘Smart’ Trash Cans Debut in Little Tokyo (Rafu Shimpo, LA Japanese Daily News)
3.1.19 – Corpsmembers LEAP Into Action
3.1.19 – Much to be Grateful for
3.1.19 – Bye Bye Mattress