WHAT MAKES THE FOUNDATION UNIQUE?
Although the foundation is new and small, its size and newness become assets that allow it to be innovative and creative. With no cumbersome bureaucracy, it can be versatile, offer personal hands on care, and work in ways that may appear non-traditional. It can try new things, be willing to experiment and innovate to seek and develop untried ideas. The work that it has already accomplished, demonstrates its ability, organization, and commitment. It works closely with its communities and can quickly see and identify the practices, and individuals, making an impact in dynamic, visionary, non-traditional ways. It is willing to trust their success. Older more traditional foundations may not be as willing to offer these groups support. It knows its community. It can adapt itself quickly to change as it happens and can identify the projects it chooses, will have a transformational and exponential effect. Its leadership is completely dedicated to its mission and vision.
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This is a new moment in our history. The Foundation for Economic and Social Justice seeks to ameliorate some of the basic causes of the present inequities and injustices. It seeks change and social transformation and is prepared to work to see that it happens.
These problems are immense. We understand that, but… are we comfortable as a nation, a Los Angeles sinking into the future… a city, a community in which we have seen a huge increase in the number of millionaires and billionaires, while at the same time we have more people living in poverty than we have ever had before? That is the moral issue we have to address. At its core the Foundation’s ultimate mission is to bring about systemic changes to eliminate or at least ameliorate extreme poverty and hunger. This is a very ambitious mission which many not be accomplished in a very long time but it is the underlying objective for all the undertakings of the Foundation. |