Neighbors and Friends, a minority- and women-owned café, opened on Nov. 1 in Old Town Pasadena with support from the Local Initiatives Support Corporation of Los Angeles (LISC LA) and its Asset Building for Communities of Color (ABC) program.
Sixteen BIPOC-led small business owners from South Los Angeles and the Crenshaw District celebrated the completion of Local Initiatives Support Corporation Los Angeles’s (LISC LA) first-ever Leveraging Real Estate cohort on May 22, at ORA Cafe in Leimert Park.
Tige Charity founded Kids in the Spotlight, Inc. (KITS), a nonprofit that empowers youth in foster care through filmmaking.
Vermont Slauson Economic Development Corporation honors local women leaders and held a 60-Second women-owned business pitch competition to celebrate Women’s History Month.
Top financial institutions have concluded that while most businesses were negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses within the personal care and retail sectors will have a longer path to recovery than most, having seen a 45% decrease in revenue in 2020.
Although affirmative action has been banned in California since 1996, there has never been a more opportune time to reverse this damaging decision, which has hindered governmental efforts to address racial and gender opportunity gaps. Make no mistake, Proposition 16 is a direct result of repeated calls to action from the Black Lives Matters movement, as our nation reckons with its historical and present-day racial inequities.