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When was the last time you left a panel discussion – that most ubiquitous of nonprofit and civic sector experiences – feeling like, yes, that was really worth my time? My guess is that it’s
At Community Partners, our present strength and future value pivot on whom we know and the depth of our rootedness in the communities of the Southern California region. Improving the quality of
New York Times reporters Tim Arango and Adam Nagourney recently kludged together a mish-mash of old tropes about Los Angeles, tossed in a bit of stew about the long-standing troubles at the Los
A plague has settled upon the land. It’s the lightly tossed about trope in political discourse that privatization of government services like health care makes sense in the name of efficiency. In
Let me—if you were unable to attend—bring you a taste of our recent annual holiday gathering, a stellar event
The horror of gun assaults reverberating too often in the news produces its own peculiar brand of numbness, the retreat into which is certainly an understandable response to the continual
You’ve probably seen at least one local TV newscast where a camera pans a long line of weary, desperate people waiting outside a big arena to be tended by volunteer doctors, dentists and other
Saturday morning, and the public library conference room thrums with the growing rumble of gathering voices as the meeting time approaches. One young woman clutches several pages of handwritten
The social entrepreneurs who succeed through their work with Community Partners come from many backgrounds, yet each shows a “maker” bent. While all of us, to one extent or another, are takers and
When a leader takes pains to stand distinctly apart from and even contrary to virtually every other leader in the pack, what does that deliberate sort of disjunction from the mainstream suggest?
Add a measure of youthful optimism and intelligence to any setting and watch the energy flow. If you’re lucky, sparks will ignite the atmosphere around you in the form of smart young folks like