Liberty Hill is the Home for Progressive Los Angeles
Our Mission: 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.
Our Vision: 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.
Liberty Hill’s Impact
Grantee Highlights: Building Power
Through our Agenda for a Just Future, Liberty Hill invests in organizations, campaigns, and movements that are building power and winning lasting change across our region. In this next chapter of LA’s social justice story, organizers are confidently owning and wielding their power to protect their wins, defend against backlash, and most importantly, continue the fight to “build the good.”
Expanding the Focus on Ending Youth Incarceration
“It is time to close these facilities and provide apathway to freedom for those unjustly confined. Let us unite in this crucial cause for the bettermentof our community and future generations.” – Dominique Davis, Young Women’s Freedom Center
Electoral Power Building During An Election Year
“Resources from the Liberty Vote grant supported ICS in training hundreds of grassroots community leaders to speak with local voters and provide them with critical information on how they could exercise their right to vote, as well as what was at stake in the election. Due to this work, we were able to help secure hundreds of millions of dollars for affordable housing for low-income residents in Los Angeles County.” – Henry Perez, Executive Director of InnerCity Struggle
Housing Justice in Action
“I have been fighting for dignified housing for years now. I was a tenant in an illegal housing unit. The landlord harassed me day and night, and I fought back. I am a housing insecure senior citizen, and I will continue to fight for myself and my community. With the revenue generated by Measure A, Los Angeles County will be able to house thousands of people. That’s why I door knocked to get support for Measure A, that’s why I’m hopeful for the future.” – Maria Briones, 8th City District Chapter Elected Chairperson, ACCE
Defending Environmental Progress & Pushing Forward
“We’re taking incremental steps and fighting the good fight to make sure that we get what we need for our community members.” – David Diaz, Executive Director of Active SGV
Building Foundation, Corporate & Government Partnerships
Liberty Hill works in collaboration with many organizations and partners who help power progress and transformational change in Los Angeles. From foundations to local government and their various departments, to groundbreaking partnerships with sports teams like the Dodgers, Liberty Hill is teaming up with a diverse list of partners to amplify our impact across our region.
LA Dodgers Foundation Partnership
As a powerful ally of our work over the years, the Dodgers Foundation has been unwavering in its commitment to our shared vision of social justice, equity, and community empowerment.
New Statewide Environmental Leadership Initiative
In 2024, we announced the inaugural cohort of our new Environmental Leadership Initiative (ELI)—a groundbreaking fellowship program that invests in the development, empowerment and growth of emerging leaders dedicated to advancing environmental justice in communities across the state.
EJ Ready Partners with White House EJ Council on Bus Tour
As part of our EJ Ready initiative to leverage funds from the federal government and ensure communities that have been overburdened by pollution and historic underinvestment benefit from EJ-related funding locally, Liberty Hill and the Resource Legacy Fund hosted its inaugural EJ Ready Bus Tour.
Donor Activists: Building the Way Forward
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.
Individual Donor Activists
Our donor activists put their passion into action. Their generous unrestricted gifts allow us to continue to power the grassroots movements shaping LA.
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.
Giving Circles: Collective Impact Through Philanthropy
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.
Honoring Liz Levitt Hirsch
Longtime Liberty Hill Champion Elizabeth “Liz” Levitt Hirsch was a fierce supporter of the arts, community, and social justice. Her work to empower communities across Los Angeles through the power of the arts will leave a lasting legacy!
The 41st Annual Upton Sinclair Celebration Highlights
Building Community
Narrative Change Roundtable with Mayor Bass
Legal Aid Foundation & Purple Lily Awards
Free the Youth Press Conference
Liberation Fund Prom
Pride Poetry Night at Grand Performances
NBC News Now National Day of Racial Healing
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.
Together, we’re creating lasting change and making an impact in L.A.
To learn more about our important work and progress over the years, download our past Impact Reports in the sidebar.