"Helping to Change Communities from Within"
A Better LA’s Pete Carroll addressing the media about the Summer Night Lights program where 16 parks will have extended hours to help curb violence in our inner-cities.
Mayor Villaraigosa poses with the Youth Squad – 160 teenage paid interns who will work at the parks this summer.
Coach Carroll meeting the Youth Squad.
Coach Carroll with ABLA/SNL [...]
How many of us have walked through a Best Buy and wished that you could go on a shopping spree on someone else’s dime? Well, on Friday, for 14 special West Athens kids, that was exactly what happened. Andre Ethier of the LA Dodgers took the kids on a shopping spree to the West Hollywood [...]
“With crime in decline, a fragile sense of hope” By: Scott Gold – June 7, 2009
A Better LA Executive Director Brian Center: “There is a sense of possibility here,” said Brian Center, executive director of A Better LA, a nonprofit that combats violence in South L.A., funding gang intervention, “moonlight” basketball teams and other programs. [...]
This is why A Better LA exists, and why it will not relent in its pursuit for peace on the streets of inner-city Los Angeles.
Coach Carroll spent the morning at the memorial service for Dannie Farber Jr., the Narbonne High School football player who was gunned down at a Compton restaurant two weeks ago.
Farber, [...]
The Marshall Graduate School of Business held their 3rd annual”Marshall Madness” on Saturday, May 22nd at the North Gym on the USCcampus. The “Madness” is a 3 on 3 basketball tournament for studentsin the graduate program, and there was great competition amongst the 4teams that battled in the double elimination format.
The real winner of the [...]
May 28, 2009The Clergy and Lay Institute for Violence Prevention on May 28, 2009 proved to be both inspiring and informative to all of the students of the program. It was the second of three programs focusing on the integration of church into community intervention and participation in countering gang violence. The institute [...]
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