August 30, 2010 |  | City Manager Salaries in L.A. County Reveal Gender Inequity
Advancement Project’s analysis of City Manager salaries reveals that female City Managers earned on average 27% less than their male counterparts. Salaries for City Managers overall, however, do not reflect the excesses of Bell. more » | | | | | August 26, 2010 | | Out of Sight, Out of Mind
"Out of Sight, Out of Mind," is a documentary by Advancement Project about the fight for justice and community in the Gulf Coast. more » | | | | | June 30, 2010 | | Advancement Project is Hiring!
Advancement Project has two positions open in our Los Angeles Office - Management Associate and Administrative Coordinator. more » | | | | | June 11, 2010 | | Groundbreaking Training Professionalizes Work of Community Heroes
Twenty‐seven frontline gang intervention workers will graduate on June 11, 2010 from the Urban Peace Academy, the nation’s only training program for the courageous people who help to keep the peace in Los Angeles’ gang hot zones. more » | | | | | May 23, 2010 | | An educated weapon will combat gangs
L.A. Times' Scott Gold reports on the Advancement Project’s Urban Peace Academy/Los Angeles Violence Intervention Training Academy (LAVITA). more » | | | | | March 03, 2010 | | The switch has been flipped!
HealthyCity.org is now an information + action resource for all of California
more » | | | | | February 24, 2010 | | Academy launches March 2, 2010
The Advancement Project’s Urban Peace Academy/Los Angeles Violence Intervention Training Academy (LAVITA) will launch on March 2, 2010 with the beginning of the Spring Basic 101 Session. more » | | | | | February 17, 2010 | | Racial Disparities in Stimulus Funding
An analysis by Advancement Project of state ARRA fund allocations in 2009 and their diversity levels reveals states with greater racial and ethnic diversity received less funds in 2009. more » | | | | | February 02, 2010 | | Policy Analyst joins the next generation of leaders
Maribel Meza, Policy Analyst has been chosen to participate in an intensive five-month leadership institute, the 2010 New Leaders Council, which combines skills-based training, mentorship, networking, and professional advancement. more » | | | | | January 15, 2010 | | Connie's on ABC this Sunday, January, 17th
"LAPD… Transforming the Dream," which chronicles the long history of friction between law enforcement and urban communities, will air this Sunday at 2 p.m. on the ABC network. more » | | | | | January 12, 2010 | | Co-Directors Honored at YMCA's 39th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Brotherhood Breakfast
Constance Rice and Molly Munger of The Advancement Project will share the YMCA's Human Dignity Award for their efforts in promoting equality in education. more » | | | | | January 07, 2010 | | Mayor Villaraigosa, Advancement Project announce launch of gang intervention academy
The new academy - the first comprehensive gang intervention academy in the country - will work to professionalize the work of interventionalists by developing standards, curriculum and oversight for community crisis intervention workers. more » | | | | | October 26, 2009 | | Thank You!
Thank all of you that made our 10th Anniversary Event such a great success! Over 300 of our colleagues, partners, funders, supporters and co-conspirators gathered to celebrate what Advancement Project has become, and to talk about its future as we move forward. more » | | | | | June 04, 2009 | | Mapping a Better World
Co-Director John Kim and Healthy City are featured as the Economist looks into how interest groups use mapping tools and internet-based information sources to campaign for change. more » | | | | | March 24, 2009 | | "Water Cooler Conference" targets care, early learning for children
A broad coalition representing business, politics, labor, academia, high-tech and philanthropy is convening in Sacramento to brain-storm ideas on improving early care and education for children from birth to five years of age. more » | | | | | March 23, 2009 | | Job Announcement
Advancement Project is looking for a Temporary Full-Time Public Finance Research Analyst. Read the full job description more » | | | | | February 26, 2009 | | 2nd Call Honors Rice, Belafonte
Legendary entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte and Los Angeles civil rights attorney Connie Rice were the honorees at the first annual “2nd Chance at Loving Life” Awards Benefit Dinner held at the Crown Plaza Hotel/LAX Feb. 20. more » | | | | | February 24, 2009 | | Education Remarks of President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama's Address to Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 highlighting the importance of education. more » | | | | | January 23, 2009 | | Water Cooler Conference March 24-25, 2009 - Sheraton Grand, Sacramento
Welcoming preschool, zero to three, prenatal to five, birth to eight, K-12, P-16 and higher education teachers, providers, administrators, parents, activists, advocates, philanthropists, and policy-makers and their staffs.
more » | | | | | October 03, 2008 | | Two New Bills to Improve Preschool and Child Care Quality
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell, Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, Assembly Member Dave Jones, and leading early education advocates highlighted two new laws that will improve the delivery of quality preschool and child care services to California's children. more » | | | | | October 02, 2008 | | Healthy City unveils new features
We launched version 3.0 of HealthyCity.org on June 18th, 2008. Now, just four months later we are proud to announce several new features and functions. more » | | | | | September 25, 2008 | | Districts, teachers unions and charters advocates come together on bill to reduce overcrowding
Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law today SB 658, a bill that will fund school facilities to reduce overcrowding at schools on multi-track calendars, and also significantly increase state funding for charter facilities. more » | | | | | July 13, 2008 | | LA's Gang Emergency
The Los Angeles Times editorial board says urgent development of an evidence-based program, coordinated with the county and the school district and with clear accountability in the Mayor's office, is a test of whether city government can work. more » | | | | | June 18, 2008 | | Healthy City 3.0!
Next generation of HealthyCity.org unveils new "My Healthy City" service that will allow users to customize, and many more new features. more » | | | | | June 06, 2008 | | John Kim named Co-Director
Advancement Project is pleased to announce that at its recent June 2 meeting, the Advancement Project Board of Directors named John Kim to the leadership position of Co-Director. more » | | | | | April 24, 2008 | | First 5 commissioner urges school bonds to build preschools too
Molly Munger, a First 5 California state commissioner and founder of the Advancement Project Los Angeles, said that the next statewide school construction bond must include funding for new preschool classrooms. more » | | | | | April 20, 2008 | | California public schools seek private money just to cover the basics
Schools across the California have long sought to raise private funds to supplement the basic funding they receive through the state. The current state fiscal crisis has parents digging deeper into their own pockets, and in the end, poorer communities may fall even further behind. more » | | | | | April 15, 2008 | | Mayor Villaraigosa announces plan to fight gang violence
In his State of the City address on April 14, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa unveiled a gang reduction strategy that adopts core recommendations from our January 2007 report on the city\'s gang violence efforts. more » |
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