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Los Angeles Urban League President Blair H. Taylor talks about the improvements around Crenshaw High School with the help of Neighborhoods@Work.  Pres. Taylor was part of an all star panel featured on MSNBC's Morning Joe featuring Rev. Al Sharpton, NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and entertainer John Legend.  You can watch the full program after the jump.

Los Angeles Urban League (LAUL) Youth Community Development Council

FY’ 2010

Request for Proposal

The Los Angeles Urban League (LAUL) Youth Community Development Council is pleased to accept applications for its first grant cycle.

What is LAUL Youth Development Council?

The LAUL Youth Community Development Council is a 14-member youth committee funded through the Youth Opportunity Movement of Los Angles and the Union Bank Foundation.  This committee is responsible for awarding $1,000 in grant funds for community service learning projects to organizations that serve the South Los Angeles Area.  Please note these are cost reimbursement projects.

Who can apply?

Focus on education solutions for urban and at risk communities with host Joe Scarborough and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, among others.

Taylor is extremely active in urban educational issues and school reform and serves as the President of the Board of Directors for the Greater Crenshaw Educational Partnership (GCEP). He will highlight the League’s successes and continued progress in urban education reform through the efforts of Neighborhoods@Work, a five-year, holistic neighborhood change model in the Park Mesa Heights neighborhood of South LA surrounding and including Crenshaw High School.

Professor Steven Goldsmith of Harvard focuses a chapter on Neighborhoods@Work in his new book - The Power of Social Innovation: How Civic Entrepreneurs Ignite Community Networks for Good. Attached is an excerpt about the League by Professor Goldsmith.

Dear League Supporters:

Over the past few weeks, I have been involved in one of the most disturbing University of California incidents in recent memory, as the University of California San Diego’s African American students have been subjected to a very disturbing series of incidents.

It started with the “Compton Barbeque” a few weeks ago - an event which openly mocked Black History month, and made the African American students on campus feel persecuted and vulnerable. That was followed by a series of incidents, including the hanging of a noose and later a KKK hood in public spaces, and the open defiance of Caucasian students (who voiced their support for their free speech rights to humiliate African Americans) via campus television and publications.

The Los Angeles Urban League has responded to these incidents swiftly, and supported the growing coalition of Social and Civil Rights Organizations that have united with the students to find solutions. As many of you know, one of the underlying issues for such campus racial strife is the exceptionally low number of African American students on the campus (African Americans only represent about 1.5% of the student body at UCSD). Chris Strudwick-Turner (our Marketing VP) and I worked with community leaders on a similar issue at UCLA over the past few years. The ultimate result was a more than doubling of African American students at UCLA. We intend to bring the same approaches to this problem.

League President & CEO Blair Taylor visited the KTLA Morning News for Black History Month. Blair discussed National Urban League's 100th Anniversary and the pending 2010 State of Black LA Report with Michaela Pereira, Mark Kriski, Sam Rubin, and Jessica Holmes. Talk also included Obama Administration's focus on supporting holistic neighborhood change models like League's Neighborhoods@Work and the hope that South LA is selected to receive the significant federal funding.

Update: Now watch video from the event above.

On the announcement of her pending retirement, the Los Angeles Urban League and President & CEO Blair Taylor salutes the years of service of Congresswoman Diane Watson to Los Angeles, the state of California. Diane Watson and the League have worked together for the betterment of lives for decades. From her tenure on the Board of Education, to the California State Assembly to her service to the country as a member of Congress and ambassador to Micronesia, Watson has been an exceptional public servant, a trusted ally of the League and a fearless champion of the constituents we serve in the African American community and other minority communities.

In the Winter 2010 Newsletter:

• Head Start Enrollment and Employment Fair
• Neighborhoods@Work takes the National Stage
• Annual Board Luncheon
• Jim Hill Golf Tournament
• Neighborhoods@Work Success Stories

• National Urban League President Marc Morial blogged about the China Delegation for Black Enterprise.
• NUL has also posted pictures on NUL.org and on their Facebook page.  Become a Facebook fan of the Los Angeles Urban League!
• Eurweb has also posted photos from the trip.
• The LA Sentinel has a great article on the delegation’s plans in Beijing.