Advancing the Mission | Defending the Future

2022 Impact Report

We will not rest until society provides equality and Justice for All.

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Liberty Hill is the Home for Progressive Los Angeles

Liberty Hill is a laboratory for social justice and social change. We leverage the power of community organizers, donor activists, and allies to advance social justice through strategic investment in grants, leadership training, and campaigns.

Liberty Hill envisions a society in which all people have a powerful voice, including those currently shut out of our democracy, people cut off from opportunities because they are poor, because of their skin color, because of their gender or sexual orientation, because of where they live, or where they were born.

We fuel grassroots organizing and activists fighting for change.

We prioritize building power in communities impacted by systemic oppression.

We provide a community where donor activists can engage beyond their gift.

Victory Takes a Village

By Shane Murphy Goldsmith, President & CEO

"We have to continue to defend our values and center people with lived experience. We have to continue to invest in local efforts that prove our methods work. And we have to fight to implement our victories and ensure this critical work is funded and carried out. Thank you for keeping up the fight and standing beside us as we push forward toward a more just future."

By the Numbers

$17M

Grants Awarded

1,730

Community Activists Trained

348

Organizations Trained

2022 Victories

How Liberty Hill Powers Change

Our North Star is to build power in communities most impacted by systemic oppression to achieve justice and equity.

Our Priorities

Power In Partnership: From Wins to Implementation

No movement is an island. Our grantees work across many issue areas and often partner with other community organizations and unique partners to make change possible through collective power-building, strategy and campaigns. Together, they are fighting to implement the policy victories that have been so hard fought through the movements for racial justice, economic and housing justice, environmentaland climate justice, youth and transformative justice, and LGBTQ and gender justice.

Bridging the Fights for Reproductive Health & Housing Justice

Bell Gardens Rent Control

"When the pandemic hit, we had to adjust all of our strategies. We worked with our partners and a group of Latina women in Bell Gardens for two years, organizing a pilot program, listening and engaging with the community to find out what they needed. As a reproductive justice organization, we had never done housing work before, but we were able to jump into coalitions and learn a lot from our partners in this housing justice work about what had been going on locally in Bell Gardens." –Laura Jimenez, Executive Director – CA Latinas for Reproductive Justice

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Canvassing to Save Lives

Working Together to End Toxic Neighborhood Drilling

"This success is the result of years of tireless advocacy from the partners in STAND-L.A. and our allies—but most importantly—this victory exemplifies the community power you can build through organizing. BWW fully intends to remain part of these efforts to center the voices of Black South LA residents who’ve too long been oppressed by environmental racism.” –Tianna Shaw Wakeman, Black Women for Wellness

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Creating Care-First Models For Youth

The First Steps to Ending Youth Incarceration As We Know It

“ This work is the culmination of days, months, and years of collaboration, learning, strategizing, and organizing between dozens of organizations and hundreds of people. Educating and mobilizing are key to building power, and that is what LAYUP and its coordinating partners seek to achieve—people power.” –Milinda Kakani, Children’s Defense Fund California

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Bridging the Fights for Reproductive Health & Housing Justice

Bell Gardens Rent Control

"When the pandemic hit, we had to adjust all of our strategies. We worked with our partners and a group of Latina women in Bell Gardens for two years, organizing a pilot program, listening and engaging with the community to find out what they needed. As a reproductive justice organization, we had never done housing work before, but we were able to jump into coalitions and learn a lot from our partners in this housing justice work about what had been going on locally in Bell Gardens." –Laura Jimenez, Executive Director – CA Latinas for Reproductive Justice

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Canvassing to Save Lives

Working Together to End Toxic Neighborhood Drilling

"This success is the result of years of tireless advocacy from the partners in STAND-L.A. and our allies—but most importantly—this victory exemplifies the community power you can build through organizing. BWW fully intends to remain part of these efforts to center the voices of Black South LA residents who’ve too long been oppressed by environmental racism.” –Tianna Shaw Wakeman, Black Women for Wellness

Learn More

Creating Care-First Models For Youth

The First Steps to Ending Youth Incarceration As We Know It

“ This work is the culmination of days, months, and years of collaboration, learning, strategizing, and organizing between dozens of organizations and hundreds of people. Educating and mobilizing are key to building power, and that is what LAYUP and its coordinating partners seek to achieve—people power.” –Milinda Kakani, Children’s Defense Fund California

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Bridging the Fights for Reproductive Health & Housing Justice

Bell Gardens Rent Control

"When the pandemic hit, we had to adjust all of our strategies. We worked with our partners and a group of Latina women in Bell Gardens for two years, organizing a pilot program, listening and engaging with the community to find out what they needed. As a reproductive justice organization, we had never done housing work before, but we were able to jump into coalitions and learn a lot from our partners in this housing justice work about what had been going on locally in Bell Gardens." –Laura Jimenez, Executive Director – CA Latinas for Reproductive Justice

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Putting a Passion for Justice into Action

No matter how you connected with Liberty Hill: You are part of a community. You are part of a solution. You are part of a movement for change.

Donor Activists

Liberty Hill Sustainers, Changemakers, Advocates, and Champions are the backbone of our support and help fuel our mission to create a more just L.A!

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Donor Advised Funds (DAFs)

Our Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) are a crucial component of Liberty Hill’s laboratory of social change philanthropy, offering opportunities to fund new and innovative models for empowering the most oppressed communities and supporting systemic change.

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Giving Circles

Liberty Hill’s Giving Circles are self-directed groups of dynamic individuals who pool their donations to make a greater impact on the issues that matter to them.

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Board

Liberty Hill Foundation is guided by a vibrant and dedicated group of volunteer Board members who represent all parts of the social justice ecosystem of Los Angeles.

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Partnerships Lead the Way to Progress

CFBMOC in Partnership

Stay Housed Program Increases Impact

STAND-L.A. Coalition Moves Mountains Together

Financials

Our fight to ensure justice for all is a collective one. We call Liberty Hill the Home for Progressive Los Angeles because we have always been a beacon for those who want to support the democratization of philanthropy.