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Weekly CEO Message 4/3/20

Hello Friends, Three weeks ago, we started holding a conference call every morning with all of our program managers and coordinators to make sure we are communicating more than ever in these constantly changing times. At

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Weekly CEO Message 3/27/20

Hello LA Corps Family, As we all take this crisis week by week (day by day), I know that staying connected to one another is giving me strength. Last week, I shared that conservation corps like

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Free Environmental Workforce Training 2020

Help revitalize our communities. Sign up to participate in our LA Corps EPA Environmental Workforce Training. Be one of 60 “Brownfields” Program trainees to participate in this year’s FREE environmental workforce job development training, funded by the

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Corona Virus Update 3/16/20

Update from Our CEO Dear Corps Family and Friends, For decades, conservation corps around the country, including the LA Conservation Corps, have repeatedly stepped up to support our communities in times of crisis and be of

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Read the LA Corps response to COVID-19

In the Press

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!

7.29.19 – Mattress Recycling Council Announces New Alliance with Los Angeles Conservation Corps and City of Los Angeles

7.25.19 – The River Corps is Back

7.15.19 – Mattress Recycling Council Announces New Alliance with Los Angeles Conservation Corps and City of Los Angeles

7.8.19 – LA Conservation Corps Re-Launches River Corps Program in Partnership with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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