By Daily Press staff
A local social justice organization will receive the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs’ Community Advocacy Award next month.
Liberty Hill Foundation was established in 1976 and has since given away more than $17 million to grassroots community organizations throughout Los Angeles County. The foundation’s executive director, Torie Osborn, also will be recognized in conjunction with the award.
“My grandfather believed that California was a place where people came to seek a better life,” said Zeb Rice, grandson of former California Gov. Pat Brown. “The foundation motto is ‘Change not Charity’ and that’s exactly what Liberty Hill funds — the work of community leaders determined to solve the problems of hunger, homelessness, low wages and bigotry — and solve them once and for all.”
The award will be presented by Rice on April 3 at the institute’s 22nd Annual Awards Dinner at 6 p.m. at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown L.A.
Osborn has been with Liberty Hill since 1997, in which time she has doubled the amount of grant money distributed each year and increased the institute’s public profile on social justice issues, according to a press release.
The Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs, located on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles, is a non-profit, non-partisan center for applied public policy research and community engagement.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 27, 2003. Read the original PDF.