By Daily Press staff
A Santa Monica-based charitable group passed out more than 20 grants to a wide variety of Los Angeles community organizations, including groups representing garment workers, promoting immigrant rights and working to increase affordable housing.
The Liberty Hill Foundation, an organization that’s donated nearly $30 million since its 1976 founding, gave away a total of $735,000 to 23 community groups.
“Liberty Hill’s investment this summer of nearly three-quarters of a million dollars is a reflection of our willingness to invest significant resources in expanding prosperity and equality in Southern California,” said executive director Torie Osborn in a press release.
One of the largest grants — $35,000 — went to the Garment Worker Center, an organization representing about 100,000 workers. The center works to increase wages and eliminate hazardous conditions common in Los Angeles garment sweatshops.
Liberty Hill also gave a one-year $32,000 donation to Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches, a network of mid-sized black churches working to promote education as an alternative to crime.
Other groups getting a cut of Liberty Hill’s goodwill include Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates, Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness, and Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 29, 2005. Read the original PDF.