Winter 2007 – Volume 2, No. 1
On May 3, 2007, Elise Buik, president of United Way of Greater Los Angeles, delivered opening remarks at the State of the Nonprofit Sector conference, an annual event organized by the UCLA School of Public Affairs that brings together nonprofit, philanthropic and civic leaders from throughout Los Angeles County to discuss the sector’s development.
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At the State of the Nonprofit Sector conference, Helmut
K. Anheier, director of the Center for Civil Society at UCLA’s School of Public Affairs, provided an assessment on the scale and scope of nonprofit activities in the Los Angeles region.
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K. Anheier, director of the Center for Civil Society at UCLA’s School of Public Affairs, provided an assessment on the scale and scope of nonprofit activities in the Los Angeles region.
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The California Pan-Ethnic Health Network held Voices for Change: Advocacy Solutions for Healthy Communities on May 7, 2007. The day-long conference included a panel of experts discussing the movement for health care reform and its impact on communities of color. Panelists included (left to right): Robin Podolsky, Senator Kuehl’s Office; Carmela Castellano-Garcia, California Primary Care Association; Anthony Wright, Health Access California; Ruth Liu, California Health and Human Services Agency; Martin Martinez, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network.
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“Building a Policy and Advocacy Movement: What Does it Take” was the topic of a panel discussion at the Women, Health and Aging conference on May 7. Panelists included: Rinku Sen, Executive Director, Applied Research Center; Meredith Minkler, Professor of Community Healthy, UC Berkeley School of Public Health ; Crystal Crawford, CEO California Black Women’s Health Network; Marj Plumb, Consultant.
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Dolores Huerta, co-founder and first vice president emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (UFW), gave the keynote speech at Women, Health and Aging, a convening to begin dialogue on how to build an older women’s movement that would bring public awareness and support for policy and systems change.
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Journalist Jonathan Cohn discussed his new book Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis—And the People Who Pay the Price as part of the “Center Scene” public programming series of The Endowment’s Center for Healthy Communities.
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