Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable announced the award of 6 Impact Awards on Tuesday, May 21. The special awards are to the Passage Program at Los Angeles Southwest College. The program is a collaborative effort of staff and faculty at Southwest College to boost graduation rates of young African-American males. This year 12 young men received their degrees as a result of the Passage Program.
The six awardees were chosen based on their work, effort, and essays they wrote on the importance of leadership and service to the community.

“The Passage Program is the kind of program that gives me and my organization great pride and fulfillment in supporting,” says Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson, “There is no higher calling than to promote and recognize academic achievement in our communities and encourage our young scholars to be to be the best and attain their best.”

May 13, 2013
for Immediate Release
Contact: Debbie Washington

909-214-5844

 Building Self-Sustaining Communities Project

Special May Impact Awards

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable announced 8 special May Impact Awards on Monday, May 13. The special awards are to the Passage Program at Los Angeles Southwest College, Ability First, and  Bad Kiss Productions founder Mack Hopson. The awards are part of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable’s Building Self-Sustaining Communities Project. The Project supports organizations and individuals working in underserved communities in Los Angeles and other cities on need and self-help programs. The Southwest College program, Ability First, and the BK production company have through their sustained efforts to promote education, wellness and the cultural arts has markedly enhanced the educational and cultural well-being of their communities.

“Budget cutbacks and the on-going struggle of small community service groups for funding have made it more imperative that we help fill the funding gap to boost them in their efforts to build community sustainability in under-served communities,” says Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson, “The Building Self-Sustaining Communities Project aims to further community self-reliance and independence. This is the pathway to citizen empowerment.”

May 13, 2013
for Immediate Release
Contact: Debbie Washington

909-214-5844

Building Self-Sustaining Communities Project

Special May Impact Awards

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable announced 8 special May Impact Awards on Monday, May 13. The special awards are to the Passage Program at Los Angeles Southwest College. Ability First, and  Bad Kiss Productions founder Mack Hopson. The awards are part of its Building Self-Sustaining Communities Project. The Project supports organizations and individuals working in Los Angeles and other cities most underserved communities. The Southwest College program, Ability First, and the BK production company have through their sustained efforts to promote education, wellness and the cultural arts has markedly enhanced the educational and cultural well-being of their communities.

Wells Fargo Foundation is a major partner with the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable’s Impact Micro Award Program.

“Budget cutbacks and the on-going struggle of small community service groups for funding have made it more imperative that we help fill the funding gap to boost them in their efforts to build community sustainability in under-served communities,” says Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson, “The Building Self-Sustaining Communities Project aims to further community self-reliance and independence. This is the pathway to citizen empowerment.”

May 3, 2013
for Immediate Release
Contact: Debbie Washington

909-214-5844

Building Self-Sustaining Communities Project

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable Awards 100^th Impact Micro Award in May

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable announced on Friday, May 3 its 100^th Impact Micro Award. The 100^th award was among the nine Impact Micro Awards for May. The May awards are part of its Building Self-Sustaining Communities Project. The Project supports organizations and individuals working in the most underserved communities in Los Angeles County and other cities. In May, we selected five teachers from The Watts Learning Center, three teachers from Crenshaw High School, and the organizations: the Prayers & Squares Ministry, and Wisdom From the Field Inc.  The funds will go to provide the teachers with much needed classroom materials, books, tapes, visual aids, office supplies, and computer equipment. The funding for the two organizations selected will go to assist them in their counseling, tutoring, and service providing to the sick and disabled.

“The 100^th Impact Micro Award this month marks a true milestone in our community donor program that began in June, 2011. The program was initiated to meet the crucial need for funding of grassroots, community service, and advocacy groups and fund starved inner city schools. We felt it imperative that we help fill the funding gap to boost them in their efforts to build community sustainability in under-served communities,” says Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson, “ Building Self-Sustaining Communities Award Program aims to further community self-reliance and independence. This is the pathway to citizen empowerment.”

The organizations and individuals that received Impact Awards are listed on the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable website; http://www.laupr.org

Wells Fargo Foundation is a major partner with the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable’s Impact Micro Award Program.

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable will make its next Building Self-Sustaining Communities Awards in June. Information and nominations for the Awards

Information: 909-214-5844

April 28, 2013
for Immediate Release
Contact: Debbie Washington

909-214-5844

Special Impact Micro Award to American Youth Symphony

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable announced a special Impact Micro Award to the American Youth Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles on Sunday, April 28. The AYS has provided world class musical training and performance experience for a diverse range of young musicians for years. The AYS exemplifies the best in young musicianship and the promotion of multi-culturalism in the arts and classical music world.

The Impact Micro Awards are made to support organizations and individuals that have a proven track record of commitment to building community sustainability projects, activities, and service. Wells Fargo Foundation is a major partner with the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable’s Impact Micro Award Program. Their mission, work and accomplishments are spotlighted on the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable website: http://www.laupr.org/

“Budget cutbacks and the on-going struggle of arts groups for funding have made it more imperative that we help fill the funding gap to boost them in their efforts to build community sustainability in under-served communities,” says Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson.

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable will announce its May Awards on Friday May 3.

April 11, 2013
for Immediate Release
Contact: Debbie Washington

909-214-5844

Building Self-Sustaining Communities Project

April Impact Awards to Chicago’s St. Dorothy Elementary School Teachers

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable announced its Impact Awards for March on Thursday, April 11. The April awards are part of its Building Self-Sustaining Communities Project. The Project supports organizations and individuals working in Los Angeles County and other cities most underserved communities. In April, we selected ten teachers from Chicago’s St. Dorothy Elementary School to receive individual Impact Micro Cash Awards. The funds will go to provide the teachers with much needed classroom materials, books, tapes, visual aids, office supplies, and computer equipment. Severe budget cutbacks within the Chicago School District and other school districts nationally have sharply restricted the funds teachers and administrators have to provide materials for students.

Wells Fargo Foundation is a major partner with the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable’s Impact Micro Award Program.

“Budget cutbacks and the on-going struggle of small community service groups for funding have made it more imperative that we help fill the funding gap to boost them in their efforts to build community sustainability in under-served communities,” says Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson, “The Building Self-Sustaining Communities Project aims to further community self-reliance and independence. On a personal note, it gives me special pleasure to award the teachers at St. Dorothy our cash awards. I was a proud graduate of St. Dorothy in the 1960s. The awards allow me to give back to a school that did so much to set me and legions of other young African-Americans on our achievement and life career path.”

April 11, 2013
for Immediate Release
Contact:

Pedro Baez

424-239-0097

Angela Hoffman

323-630-2649

Community Alert:

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable Invites Community Residents to Jackie Robinson Movie Showing

Complimentary Tickets for Area High School Students

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable invites community residents to fill the Baldwin Hills Rave Theater Sunday, April 14, at the 5:20 PM showing of Number 42, the bio picture of baseball and civil rights great Jackie Robinson. The Roundtable will make available 20 complimentary tickets to area high school students. In addition tickets for early arrivals can be purchased at the student discount rate courtesy of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable.

“The Robinson biopic is a special must see for young and old, but especially for young people to see and understand the valiant fight that Robinson and other civil rights fighters of his day waged against racial bigotry, injustice and violence,” says Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson, “that made America a better place for young and old people of today.”

April 10, 2013
for Immediate Release
Contact: Debbie Washington

909-214-5844

Building Self-Sustaining Communities Project

Young Scholar Impact Award Announced

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable announced its first Young Scholar Impact Award on Wednesday, April 10. The award is part of its Building Self-Sustaining Communities Project. The Project supports organizations and individuals working in Los Angeles County and other cities most underserved communities. The first Young Scholar Impact Award was made to Audtrell Williams, an honors graduate in June of Long Beach Jordan High School. He will be attending Morehouse College in Atlanta in the fall. The funds will go to help provide young scholars like Audtrell with financial support for books, filing fees, and travel.

Wells Fargo Foundation is a major partner with the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable’s Young Scholar Impact Award Program.

“We are pleased to do our financial part to support the education and career advancement of the of our young scholars who are our community and nation’s future leaders,” says Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson, “ I encourage you to visit Audtrell Williams website athttp://www.gofundme.com/2jeiz0 to further help him reach his needed funds goal.”

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable

February 4, 2013
for Immediate Release
Contact:

Earl Ofari Hutchinson                                                                                                       

323-383-6145

Press Advisory:

Family Pays Memorial Tribute to Essie Mae Washington Williams

The family of Dr. Essie Mae Washington Williams, educator, civil rights activist, author and daughter of Strom Thurmond, paid a memorial tribute to Mrs. Washington Williams on Monday, February 4. Mrs. Washington Williams passed away Sunday, February 3 in Whiterock, South Carolina.

“On behalf of the Williams family we are deeply saddened by the loss of the matriarch of our family,” says Mrs. Maria Hutchinson, Mrs. Washington William’s first born granddaughter, “We have plans for a dedication to the memory of our mother and grandmother and great-grandmother.”

Mrs. Hutchinson further notes, “Her passing is a great and deep loss for our family. The autobiographical saga of her life and family history touched so many people outside of our family. And for that she will always be remembered.”

“Mrs. Washington-Williams dedication to education, civil rights and her monumental story of growing up in the Jim Crow Deep South was a moving story of triumph, “says Earl Ofari Hutchinson, President, Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, “The public revelation that she was the daughter of Strom Thurmond touched off a renewed national discussion on race, gender and identity in America. On a personal note, I am truly honored to have known her and talked with her at our many family gatherings. This deepened my admiration for her.

Mrs. Washington Williams was truly an America treasure.”

Mrs. Washington Williams family thanks all for their prayers and thoughts. She leaves behind 3 children, 13 grandchildren, and 11 great grandchildren.