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The California Endowment Videos |
Pedro Noguera, one of America's most important voices for healthy public education, explores the constant challenges and issues surrounding boys and young men of color in the June 17 Center Scene Public Program. Join us in this discussion of how the school, community, health, and labor systems are setting them up for failure, and how we can reverse these trends and build healthier communities for all youth.
Q & A : The Trouble with Black Boys: Pedro Noguera on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education
The House of Representatives Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a field hearing entitled "The 2010 Census: Participation of Hard to Count Communities in Non-Response Follow-Up" at The California Endowment on April 30, in Los Angeles.
The hearing examined ways to increase participation from populations underrepresented in the census. It also allowed those who live in hard to count communities to hear from trusted voices about the importance of being counted.
On Feb. 24, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger hosted the 2010 Summit on Health, Nutrition and Obesity: Action for Healthy Living at The California Endowment. Robert K. Ross, M.D., president and CEO of The Endowment, moderated the discussion with President Bill Clinton, Gov. Schwarzenegger and a group of diverse stakeholders on the best policy and practices to promote healthy living and yield immediate improvements in the health and physical fitness of Californians while combating the state's obesity crisis.
Legendary activist and farmworker advocate Dolores Huerta, actress Eva Longoria Parker, and California Rural Legal Assistance Executive Director Jose R. Padilla visited the Center for Healthy Communities to discuss the struggles of migrant worker youth and efforts to build healthier communities. More than 400,000 children labor in American farm fields without the health and labor protections other children enjoy. The program took place on Dec. 14, 2009.
Part 2 of The Harvest: The Story of the Children Who Feed America.
One fateful night in 1996, 16-year-old Dwayne Betts carjacked a man sleeping in a parking lot and suddenly became, in his own words, "a statistic." He spent nine years in adult prison and uses his book, A Question of Freedom: Learning, Survival and Coming of Age in Prison, and his experiences to confront questions about violence, race, opportunity and the criminal justice system. Betts is now national spokesperson for Campaign for Youth Justice, program director of D.C. Creative Writing Workshop and founder of YoungMenRead. The program took place on Dec. 1, 2009.
Part 2 of A Question of Freedom: Learning, Survival and Coming of Age in Prison.
Is California better off now than when Gov. Gray Davis was in office? The governor reflected on how the state has changed since he was recalled in 2003 and what our current fiscal crisis means for the future of California. In a conversation moderated by Patt Morrison of 89.3 KPCC, Gov. Davis discussed what it will take to bring California back to prosperity and how the next governor can ensure the health and well-being of the state's residents. The program took place on Aug. 20, 2009, at Center for Healthy Communities.
Across the country, a movement for a green recovery to heal our economy and lift up impoverished communities is taking shape. Watch this discussion with Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO of Green for All, to find out if we can create pathways out of poverty through a green-collar economy. She shared how her organization is working to create healthier and more prosperous communities through green jobs, and what you can do to stand up for people and the planet.
On May 12, The California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities held the public program, Who Glues Your Community Together through Food? A Night of Hidden Kitchens Featuring The Kitchen Sisters. The Peabody Award-winning radio duo The Kitchen Sisters ( Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) shared stories of their travels to California's Central Valley, where they recorded their upcoming episode of "Hidden Kitchens," and they interviewed special guests including youth, parents and neighborhood leaders who are using food to create more just--and healthier--communities.
On April 30, the The California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities offered the panel discussion, Breaking Down the Ballot: The May 19 Special Election and California's Health*. Moderated by Frank Stoltze, reporter, 89.3 KPCC, the panelists were Janis Hirohama, president, League of Women Voters of California; Jean Ross, founding executive director, California Budget Project and Stuart Waldman, president, Valley Industry and Commerce Association.
This Center Scene program discussed why the budget standoff nearly crippled California, its safety net and service providers across the state and how the propositions on the ballot in a special election can remedy the shortfalls. This educational forum began with a nonpartisan analysis of the ballot measures, including the two health care-related propositions, followed by a panel discussion, and question-and-answer session with the audience.
*Federal tax law prohibits The California Endowment, a private foundation, from conducting or supporting, with limited exceptions, any lobbying activity (supporting or opposing specific legislation, including proposed or pending legislation or ballot measures) or electioneering (supporting or opposing any candidate for public office). These restrictions apply to events sponsored by The California Endowment at our Center for Healthy Communities. Therefore, The California Endowment prohibits participants from lobbying in favor of or against specific legislation or expressing support for or opposition against any candidate for elected office at such events.
On April 14, the Center for Healthy Communities presented, Partners for Peace: Barrios Unidos and the Movement to End Violence. The interactive discussion focused on building trust with communities, working across sectors and advocating for healthy, peaceful communities. Panelists from the Santa Cruz community peace movement and guest speakers from Los Angeles' leading organizations on violence prevention will share their best ideas and engage in a dialogue with the audience about them.
Panelists include Daniel "Nane" Alejándrez, director, Barrios Unidos; Nora Benavides, activist and neighborhood developer; Scott MacDonald, chief probation officer, Santa Cruz County Probation Department; Otilio Quintero, assistant director, Barrios Unidos; and Michael Watkins, superintendent of schools, Santa Cruz County. The event was moderated by Patt Morrison, host, 89.3 KPCC and columnist, Los Angeles Times.
On March 12 the Healthy Homes, Healthy Kids panel discussion at the Center for Healthy Communities explored the innovative approach of four pioneering nonprofit leaders who teamed up to eradicate slum housing in South Los Angeles. Unsatisfied with the traditional response to this public health crisis, they took a new approach to an old problem and have achieved unprecedented results in the fight for healthy homes and healthy kids. Moderated by Patt Morrison, host, 89.3 KPCC and columnist, Los Angeles Times, the panel featured Becky Dennison, co-director, Los Angeles Community Action Network; Gilda Haas, executive director, Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE); Nancy Halpern Ibrahim, executive director, Esperanza Community Housing Corporation; and Jim Mangia, president and CEO, St. John's Well Child and Family Center.
Watch the Q&A session
On Feb. 24, The California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities hosted the panel discussion Stimulus and Health Care: Where Will the Money Go? Moderated by Daniel Zingale, senior vice president for Policy, Communications and Public Affairs, The California Endowment, panelists Jeremy Cantor, program manager, The Prevention Institute; J. Mario Molina, M.D., president and CEO, Molina Healthcare, Inc.; and Gloria Rodriguez, president and CEO, Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County, explored whether the money meant to improve the health of the economy can do the same for the most vulnerable Californians.
Boundary Crossing Leadership emerged at the California Endowment in 2002 as a strategy to help prepare health leaders to work across the boundaries of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, class and profession in efforts to create collaborative solutions to health. "Boundary Crossing Leaders" are committed to social justice, equity, inclusion and the empowerment of disenfranchised communities to create healthy communities.
This video series, prepared by Luna Productions for The California Endowment, contains short profiles of some of the organizations and individuals who participated in The Endowment's program in 2006-07, including:
During the recent presidential election, we witnessed the immense impact of effective community organizing. Activists built relationships on the ground and online and, for the first time in a presidential campaign, truly harnessed the power of social media to build a social movement.
This Nov. 20 Center Scene public program featured experts in civic engagement (Allen Gunn, executive director, Aspiration; Jessy Tolkan, director, Energy Action Coalition; and Chris Rabb, Afro-Netizen) who shared how any organization or campaign can use those same strategies to support its social justice work and build healthy communities. The panel was moderated by Sloane Berrent, director of business development, Causecast.
In the face of a faltering economy, where will health care rank among the next president's top priorities? Just weeks before the election, Center Scene Public Program welcomed a distinguished panel to provide the inside scoop on how much health reform to expect in the new administration. Mark Halperin, editor-at-large and senior political analyst for TIME and author of the recent book The Undecided Voter's Guide to the Next President, took a break from the campaign trail to moderate the panel of Chris Lehane, Democratic strategist, former press secretary to Vice President Al Gore and former spokesperson and counsel to President Bill Clinton; and Jim Brulte, a Republican politician who served as a California State Senator, representing the 31st district, from 1996 to 2004, and also served as the California State Senate Republican Leader from 2000 to 2004.
This is the Q&A session from the October 2008 "The Change We Need: Can Either Presidential Candidate Reform Health Care" panel discussion.
If all the parking spaces in downtown Los Angeles were spread across one lot, more than 80 percent of downtown would be reserved for cars. And yet, two-thirds of the county's children don't have a park within walking distance of their homes.
On the eve of the second annual Park[ing] Day LA, Center Scene Public Program hosted panelists Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, professor, UCLA Department of Urban Planning, and Joe Linton, author, activist and co-founder of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition; and moderator Amanda Sigafoos, business development, Rios Clementi Hale Studios, as they explored how Los Angeles uses its land and what those choices do to our health. The panel discussion occurred on Sept. 17 at The California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities.
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