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Community Progress Makers (CPM) Winners Series: The Los Angeles LGBT Center

The Community Progress Makers fund is a $20 million, two-year initiative by the Citi Foundation to support high-impact community organizations that are driving economic opportunities in their communities. These 40 change agents are addressing a range of urban challenges in the U.S., from economic development and affordable housing to environmental sustainability and urban infrastructure. In addition to core operating grant support, Community Progress Makers have access to technical assistance from leading experts and are part of a learning cohort to share best practices.

LISC LA was named part of the 2018-19 City Progress Makers cohort and joins organizations working in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, and Washington D.C. The Los Angeles cohort is made up of 7 dynamic organizations that are leading economic and housing inclusion initiatives across the County. LISC LA’s  partner, Los Angeles LGBT Center is also one of the forty winners of the Community Progress Makers fund.

Since 1969 the Los Angeles LGBT Center has cared for, championed, and celebrated LGBT individuals and families in Los Angeles and beyond. The Los Angeles LGBT Center fights to build a better world in which LGBT people can be healthy, equal, and complete members of society. Today the Center's nearly 700 employees provide services for more LGBT people than any other organization in the world, offering programs, services, and global advocacy for the LGBT community.

In addition to being the leading service provider for LGBT people in LA, the Center also provides affordable housing to homeless youth and seniors. In April 2019, the Center opened the Anita May Rosenstein Campus, which includes 99 units of affordable housing for seniors, 100 beds for homeless youth, new senior and youth centers, 25 units of supporting housing for young people, a commercial kitchen to feed homeless youth and seniors, ground floor retail space, and 350 subterranean parking spaces for residents and visitors to their adjacent property, the Village at Ed Gould Plaza in Hollywood.

LISC is proud to have provided a loan through the New Generation Fund to support this transformative project that will provide a safe, supportive, and healthy place that LGBT youth and seniors can call home.

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Miranda Rodriguez, Assistant Program Officer
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