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20th Anniversary
Opportunity Bus TourFrom Chaos to Community
Tuesday, April 24, 2012Los Angeles, California
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Achieving great things in any community takes courage, vision, and
tremendous effort. What each of us does can make life better for everyone.
As we recognize the th anniversary of the Los Angeles Civil
Unrest, we applaud Operation HOPE for its years of providing
financial education and economic empowerment to our community.
Recognizing
extraordinaryefforts
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WELCOMELETTER
Dear Friends:
20 years ago this month, on April 29th, 1992, South Los Angeles and surrounding communities were
hit by the worst riot in U.S. history. Over 3,000 structures and businesses were destroyed, over 3,600
res started, over $1 billion in property damage, over 2,000 people injured and 53 deaths occurred. This
was the environment that caused the birth of Operation HOPE, America’s leading provider of nancial
dignity and economic empowerment. At Operation HOPE we believe that you cannot have a rainbow
without a storm rst, and no doubt, 20 years later, while real problems remain to be solved in our under-
served communities, it could be said that South Los Angeles and its surrounding communities have
made great strides from the chaos to becoming a community. This has been the result of an inspiring call
for leadership, innovation, private/public partnerships, and action from a diverse group of local leaders
representing community, faith, business, local government and the private sector.
Over the 20 years since the 1992 riots, over $1 billion have been “invested” in our under-served
communities in and around South Los Angeles alone because they remain under-served and
economically viable. While real work remains in key areas, including education, reversing the high school
dropout rate, a new era of jobs, fostering small business ownership and entrepreneurship, commercial
investment, homeownership and living wage skills for those living in our under-served communities, South
Los Angeles and its sister surrounding communities are in large part a success story of both psychical
revitalization, and individuals from diverse backgrounds and perspectives, working together as part of one
vision, and one city.
The goal of the HOPE 20th Anniversary Opportunity Bus Tour is to tell the story of bottom up community
success by offering a new perspective of South Los Angeles and a more balanced view of a diversecommunity on the move, “from chaos to community,” along with the many inspiring success stories that
give the community it’s authentic voice.
Credit goes to an interconnected group of community through the years. To individuals such as:
• Business leaders and individuals such as Peter Ueberroth, Barry Sanders, Tony M.
Salazar, Linda Griego and Bernard Kinsey, among others who ran Rebuild Los Angeles
(RLA)
• Reverend Dr. Cecil “Chip” Murray for the pioneering work he did while at First A.M.E.
Church and FAME Renaissance, with the support of Rev. Mark Whitlock, and forarguably bringing peace to the community following the unrest.
• Bishop Charles E. Blake of West Angeles Church of God in Christ, who built a multi-
million dollar cathedral, with black investors of faith, responsible mainstream banks, and
with his ministry.
• Earvin “Magic” Johnson and his Magic Johnson Theatre, Starbucks Coffee and Friday
Restaurant locations amongst other business ventures.
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• Local developers such as Marva Smith Battle-Bey, who literally rebuild industy,
retail and a return of jobs at Vernmont and Slauson Avenue, Danny Bakewell,
and others.
• Organizations such as the Greenlining Institute, who inspired hundreds of
billions of dollars to be committed to this and other areas by banks through the
Community Reinvestment Act.
• Government leaders such as City of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R.
Villaraigosa, County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, U.S. CongresswomanMaxine Waters, former County Supervisor Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, and
former State Senator and U.S. Congresswoman Diane E. Watson for the
Public purpose of capitalism “they directed into our community.”
• And of course the late, great Mayor Tom Bradley for his visionary leadership
We are honored to have you with us on this historic day as we mark the renewal of our
community from the riots of 1992, as well as the founding of Operation HOPE, which started
as a dream on May 5th, 1992 with a small budget and a vision to change the world. Today
Operation HOPE is a global leader for nancial education and empowerment for the poor, the
working class and under-served, having raised over $1 billion for investment in under-servedcommunities and served over 1.8 million youth, adults and families since 1992 across the state,
nation, South Africa, and now Morocco and soon, Saudi Arabia too.
With HOPE
Ambassador Andrew Young John Hope Bryant HOPE Global Spokesman Founder, Chairman and CEO
Operation HOPE, Inc.
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ABOUTOPERATIONHOPE
Operation HOPE is a Silver Rights Provider and Global Leader in Financial Dignity
Operation HOPE, Inc. (HOPE) is a non-prot, public benet organization, founded immediately
following the civil unrest of April 29, 1992 in Los Angeles. It is a leading social investment
banking and nancial literacy provider with a mission to eradicate poverty through nancial
dignity empowerment or what HOPE refers to as the Silver Rights Movement. HOPE provides an
array of economic tools and services, and serves as an effective facilitator, lender, advocate and
educator for and on behalf of underserved communities worldwide.
At the core of HOPE’s mission, to eradicate poverty and empower the wealthless, is a
movement to establish “silver rights,” or the rights to have nancial dignity; access to capital,
and equality of opportunity for the underserved. This new movement is focused on freeing and
enriching people’s spirit, to create a sense of nancial dignity and self-worth.
Through a series of public/private partnerships and strategic alliances, HOPE has developed and
implemented programs focused on connecting the minority community with mainstream, private
sector resources, and empowering under-served communities. While HOPE is actively and
directly involved in the communities it serves, the long range programmatic objective of HOPE is
to literally “drive itself out of business.” HOPE desires to slowly transition out of direct program
management, in areas such as lending, replacing the nonprot with private sector providers.
Further, HOPE desires to increase its direct support and involvement with community based
non-prot organizations. HOPE brings together, under one organizational umbrella, some of the
most talented, experienced and successful individuals from both the minority and mainstream
community. It does not promote either a “Great Society” or conservative bootstrap approach,but rather seeks to nd the sensible middle ground in every situation, wherein both parties have
an interest in the outcome.
HOPE seeks to bring true and sustaining “hope” to those living in underserved communities,
reminding them always that they are important and necessary, advocating important positions
on their behalf within City and State government, the halls of Congress, the Senate, and other
government, legislative and regulatory bodies. HOPE seeks to create sustainable change within
under-served communities by consistently promoting DIGNITY through opportunity, self-esteem,
self love, optimism and future aspiration.
HOPE advocates the positive merits of inner-city communities to big business interests,encouraging them to, in the words of HOPE Founder, Chairman and CEO John Hope Bryant,
provide “a hand up, and not simply a hand out,” and to “do well by doing good.” In communities
it serves HOPE views the residents as customers, deserving of rst class “customer service” and
priority attention.
Operation HOPE seeks to make the development and “privatization of inner-city and under-
served communities” a top priority; serving as a bridge and facilitator between mainstream and
minority communities. The mission of HOPE is empowerment. The objective of HOPE’s work is
life sustaining change, rooted in individual, vested interest.
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TABLEOFCONTENTS
11 Program Agenda
12 HOPE Legacy Awardees
14 Keynote Speaker
15-21 Opportunity Bus Tour Co-Chairs
22-23 Statements of Support
25-27 Host Committee Members
28 Bus Tour Moderators
29-30 Bus Tour Route
31-38 Bus Tour Points of Interest
39-45 Supporting Organizations
47-51 Statistical Information
52 Sponsors
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20 YEARSOFHOPE
It can be said with strength today,that this area was not just built back
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but built back better
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You are part of a greater community.Union Bank believes in the power of partnerships. That’s why we partner with
communities and organizations to make a positive difference in the places
where we work and live. To us, building a healthy community is the most valuable
investment of all.
Union Bank is proud to sponsor the 20th Anniversary Opportunity Bus Tour, and
honors Operation HOPE for its tireless commitment to the community.
Community Banking
Leticia Aguilar, EVP & Regional Executive, 213-236-6301
©2012 Union Bank, N.A.
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PROGRAM AGENDA
8:00 am: Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:25 am: Program BeginsRear Parking Lot of HOPE Financial Dignity Center, Baldwin Hills
Welcome and Acknowledgements
Lance W. Triggs Executive Vice President, Operation HOPE M ASTER OF CEREMONIES
Invocation
Displaying of Colors and Singing of National Anthem
Dorsey High School Police Cadets and Dorsey High School Choir
Keynote Remarks
Secretary John BrysonU.S. Department of Commerce
Opening Remarks
Peter Ueberroth Former Co-Chairman, Rebuild Los Angeles (RLA) E VENT CO-CHAIR
Special Remarks
HOPE Legacy Awards
Introduction and Closing remarks
John Hope Bryant Founder, Chairman and CEO, Operation HOPE
E VENT CO-CHAIR
10:00 am: 20th Anniversary Opportunity Bus Tour
Quincy JonesChairman and CEO, Quincy Jones Productions
Councilman Eric Garcetti13th District, City of Los Angeles
Councilwoman Jan Perry9th District, City of Los Angeles
Dr. Cecil “Chip” MurrayChairman, Cecil Murray Center for CommunityEngagement
Forescee Hogan-RowlesChief Executive Ofcer, Community FinancialResource Center (CFRC)
Blair TaylorPresident and CEO, Los Angeles Urban League
Ambassador Andrew YoungHOPE Global Spokesman
Sweet Alice HarrisFounder and Executive Director, Parents of Wa
Ruben GuerraChairman and CEO, Latin Business Associatio
Hyepin ImPresident and CEO, Korean Churches for
Community Development (KCCD)
Bishop Charles E. Blake, Sr.Pastor, West Angeles Church of God in Christ
The Seventh in Succession, Presiding Bishop,
The Church of God in Christ, Inc.
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HOPELEGACY AWARDEES
Jackie Dupont-WalkerPresident
Ward Economic Development Corporation (WEDC)
Bob GnaizdaFormer Policy Director
The Greenlining Institute
Peter UeberrothFormer Chairman
Rebuild Los Angeles
Tim Wennes Vice Chairman and Chief Retail Banking Ofcer
Union Bank
Pastor Mark WhitlockSenior Minister
Christ Our Redeemer AME Church
In Memoriam
Muhammad A. NassardeenFounder
Recycling Black Dollars
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20TH ANNIVERSARYOPPORTUNITY BUS TOUR
Secretary John BrysonU.S. Department of Commerce
HOST COMMITTEE
BUS TOUR MODERATORS
Bishop Charles E. Blake, Sr.Pastor, West Angeles Church of
God in Christ
The Seventh in Succession
Presiding Bishop, The Church of
God in Christ, Inc.
John Hope BryantFounder, Chairman and
Chief Executive OfcerOperation HOPE
Quincy JonesChairman and Chief Executive Ofcer
QUINCY JONES PRODUCTIONS
Dr. Cecil ‘Chip’ MurrayChairman
Cecil Murray Center forCommunity Engagement
Peter UeberrothFormer Chairman
Rebuild Los Angeles (RLA)
Honorable Antonio R. VillaraigosaMayorCity of Los Angeles
Ambassador Andrew YoungCivil Rights IconChairman, Atlanta Olympic Games ’96
CO-CHAIRS
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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SECRETARY JOHN BRYSONU.S. Department of Commerce
John Bryson was appointed by President Obama as the 37th Secretary of
Commerce and sworn into ofce on October 21, 2011. Bryson has nearly three
decades of business experience, including 18 years as Chairman and Chief
Executive Ofcer of Edison International. Secretary Bryson is a key member of
President Obama’s economic team working to implement the administration’s top
economic priority: accelerating job creation. He works to strengthen the economic
recovery and U.S. competitiveness, and he serves as the voice for the business
community in the President’s Cabinet.
As Commerce Secretary, Bryson oversees an agency charged with helping
make American businesses more innovative and successful at home and more
competitive abroad. Bryson’s priority as Commerce Secretary is to help American
businesses “build it here and sell it everywhere.”
He is focusing in particular on three areas that create more American jobs:
supporting advanced manufacturing, helping U.S. companies increase exports, and
encouraging more companies to invest in or expand operations in the U.S. First,
as co-chair of the White House Ofce of Manufacturing Policy, he is coordinating
government-wide efforts to support and strengthen America’s manufacturing
sector, especially advanced manufacturing. Second, he is leading the president’s
National Export Initiative to double U.S. exports and create millions of jobs. Third,
he is driving the federal effort to increase business investment in the U.S. through
SelectUSA, America’s rst-ever national investment advocacy program.
In addition, Secretary Bryson is working to implement historic reforms to the U.S.
patent system; foster “clusters” that create jobs by maximizing strengths in U.S.
regions; strengthen online security and privacy for both businesses and consumers;
and, invest in coastal communities, weather, and oceanic sciences.
Before becoming Commerce Secretary, Bryson served as Chairman and Chief
Executive Ofcer of Edison International, the parent company of Southern CaliforniaEdison and Edison Mission Group, from 1990 to 2008. At Edison, he led the utility
through the California energy crisis. As CEO, he created a competitive power
subsidiary, the Mission Group, which expanded across the U.S. and was a global
leader in the privatization of power plants and electric systems in Australia, New
Zealand, Thailand, the Philippines and several European countries.
Bryson is a graduate of Stanford University. He and his wife Louise have four
daughters.
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BISHOP CHARLES E. BLAKE, SR.Pastor, West Angeles Church of God in ChristThe Seventh in SuccessionPresiding BishopThe Church of God in Christ, Inc.
Charles E. Blake was appointed the seventh in succession as Presiding Bishop by
the General Assembly of the 6.5 million member Church of God in Christ November
12, 2007. At the 101st Holy Convocation, during the quadrennial elections in
2008, Bishop Blake was re-elected as Presiding Bishop for another four-year term.
As Presiding Bishop, Blake has become the new face of, and an international
spokesperson for Pentecostalism as it is known today. Bishop Blake served asJurisdictional Prelate of the First Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Southern California
comprised of more than 250 churches for 25 years.
He is the pastor of West Angeles Church of God in Christ with a membership of
over 24,000. West Angeles is deeply involved in providing not only for the spiritual
life of its people, but also it provides more than 80 programs for the psychological,
social, and economic enhancement of the community.
Bishop Blake is a humble humanitarian and communitarian. He is the chief
executive ofcer of Save Africa’s Children, a program of the Pan African Children’s
Fund. The group has assisted over 300 grassroots and faith-based projects insub-Saharan Africa, reaching over 90,000 AIDS-affected children. Save Africa’s
Children supports more than 100 thousand children in 340 orphan care programs
throughout more than 23 nations on the continent of Africa.
April 6, 2009 in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama tapped Presiding
Bishop Charles E. Blake to serve on his 25-person White House Advisory Council
on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He was also tapped as one of four
to speak at the Democratic National Convention’s rst Ecumenical Service, where
he pronounced his status as pro-life democrat and challenged both democrats and
republicans to protect the rights of the unborn and born alike.
Bishop Blake has received numerous awards, commendations, and accolades.
In 2003, Bishop Blake was awarded the Harvard Foundation Humanitarian Medal
for his work with Save Africa’s Children and its mission to support orphanages
throughout that continent. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
designated “Bishop Charles E. Blake Day”, February 5, 2004.
Bishop Blake is married to Mae Lawrence Blake. They have three children and eight
grandchildren.
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JOHN HOPE BRYANTFounder, Chairman and Chief Executive OcerOperation HOPE
Author of Inc. Magazine-CEOREAD business bestseller LOVE LEADERSHIP: The
New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass), Mr. Bryant is the only
African-American bestselling business author in America today.
A member of the founding class of the Young Global Leader for the World
Economic Forum, an Oprah’s Angel Network award recipient, a TIME Magazine
50 (Leaders) for the Future (94’), John Hope Bryant is a social entrepreneur and
businessman, the founder, chairman and chief executive ofcer of OperationHOPE, advisor to the last three sitting U.S. presidents and recognized by the last
5 U.S. presidents. Bryant is a noted thought leader, author, public speaker, and an
innovator in the business of empowerment, writing regularly for the Hufngton Post.
Mr. Bryant serves U.S. President Barack Obama as Chairman of the Subcommittee
on the Underserved and Community Empowerment for the President’s Advisory
Council on Financial Capability. Prior to that Mr. Bryant served U.S. President
George W. Bush as vice chairman of the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on
Financial Council, and chairman of the Council Committee on the Underserved.
For President Obama, Mr. Bryant focuses primarily on the establishment of local
nancial literacy councils for cities, counties and states.
John Hope Bryant has served on several corporate boards, serves as a member
of the NYSE Euronext Financial Literacy Advisory Committee, the advisory board
for the Gallup Government Leadership Academy, the advisory board for the Kaplan
University Business School, is a former UN goodwill ambassador to the U.S., a
partner with former U.S. President Clinton and his foundation teaching nancial
literacy, and working with HOPE global spokesman Ambassador Andrew Young,
is bridging civil rights to silver rights. Mr. Bryant is author of top 10 U.S. business
bestseller for 2010, LOVE LEADERSHIP and BANKING ON OUR FUTURE, a book
on youth and family nancial literacy.
John Hope Bryant has received more than 500 awards and citations for his
work to empower low-wealth communities including the Use Your Life Award by
Oprah Winfrey, and named a “Community Hero” by People Magazine on the 10th
anniversary of the worst urban civil unrest in U.S. history. In December, 1994, Mr.
Bryant was selected by TIME Magazine for their “America’s 50 Most Promising
Leaders of the Future” cover story. In 2010, Mr. Bryant received the Andrew
Goodman Hidden Heroes Award, in honor of slain civil rights leader Andrew
Goodwin.
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QUINCY JONESChairman and Chief Executive OcerQUINCY JONES PRODUCTIONS
An impresario in the broadest and most creative sense of the word, Quincy
Jones’ career has encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist,
lm producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, TV producer, record company
executive, magazine founder, multi-media entrepreneur and humanitarian. As
a master inventor of musical hybrids, he has shufed pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz,
classical, African and Brazilian music into many dazzling fusions, traversing virtually
every medium, including records, live performance, movies and television.
Celebrating more than 60 years performing and being involved in music, Quincy’s
creative magic has spanned over six decades, beginning with the music of the
post-swing era and continuing through today’s high-technology, international
multi-media hybrids. In the mid-50’s, he was the rst popular conductor-arranger
to record with a Fender bass. His theme from the hit TV series Ironside was the rst
synthesizer-based pop theme song. As the rst black composer to be embraced
by the Hollywood establishment in the 60’s, he helped refresh movie music with
badly needed infusions of jazz and soul. His landmark 1989 album, Back On The
Block--named “Album Of The Year” at the 1990 Grammy Awards-- brought such
legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Miles Davis together
with Ice T, Big Daddy Kane and Melle Mel to create the rst fusion of the be bopand hip hop musical traditions; while his 1993 recording of the critically acclaimed
Miles and Quincy Live At Montreux, featured Quincy conducting Miles Davis’ live
performance of the historic Gil Evans arrangements from the Miles Ahead, Porgy
and Bess and Sketches of Spain sessions, garnered a Grammy Award for Best
Large Jazz Ensemble Performance. As producer and conductor of the historic “We
Are The World” recording (the best-selling single of all time) and Michael Jackson’s
multi-platinum solo albums, Off The Wall, Bad and Thriller (the best selling album of
all time, with over 50 million copies sold), Quincy Jones stands as one of the most
successful and admired creative artist/executives in the entertainment world.
Through his personal foundation, The Quincy Jones Foundation, Jones raisesawareness and nancial resources for initiatives that support global children’s issues
in areas of conict, malaria eradication, clean water and efforts to restore the Gulf
Coast (post-Katrina). Philanthropic partners include Malaria No More, Millennium
Promise, and R&B singer Usher’s New Look Foundation.
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DR. CECIL “CHIP” MURRAY ChairmanCecil Murray Center for Community Engagement
Dr. Murray is a native Floridian with an undergraduate degree from Florida A&M
University. He received his Doctorate in Religion from The School of Theology at
Claremont and Doctor of Humane Letters from Hebrew Union College, Whittier
College, University of Southern California, University of Judaism, and Antioch
University . He has lectured and been adjunct professor of Iliff University, Seattle
University, School of Theology Claremont, Fuller Seminary, and Northwest
Theological Seminary. He has been featured in Time Magazine, Ebony Magazine,
CNN, Network News, religious periodicals, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles900, and other print and television media.
In 1977 Dr. Murray was assigned to First African Methodist Episcopal Church, the
oldest black church in Los Angeles. His new church family had 300 active members
in 1977. They received his vision to set a re in the hearts of his members to be a
church that extends beyond the walls. The re and spirit of love spread, and the
congregation grew to 17,300 members. The ministry of the church spilled beyond
the walls of the church with some 40 task forces that include health, substance
abuse, homelessness, emergency food and clothing, general and specialized
housing, tutoring, entrepreneurial training, employment services and the like.
President George Bush named the First AME Church the 177th Point of Light for itscourageous outreach in community services.
Rev. Murray retired in November 2004 as the senior minister at First AME Church,
Los Angeles. Dr Murray currently serves as Professor, Senior Research Fellow at
the Center for Religion, University of Southern California and holds the Tanzy Chair
of Christian Ethics, University of Southern California.
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PETER UEBERROTHFormer ChairmanRebuild Los Angeles
Peter V. Ueberroth is managing director of Contrarian Group, an investment and
management company. He is also an owner and co-chairman of the Pebble Beach
Company.
Peter founded First Travel Corporation in 1962. When he sold the company in 1980
it was the second-largest travel business in North America.
From 1980 to 1984, Peter was president of the Los Angeles Olympic OrganizingCommittee, the organization responsible for staging the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic
Games, the rst privately nanced Games, resulting in a surplus of $238 million, tha
continues to support youth and amateur-related sports programs throughout the
United States.
He served as the sixth Commissioner of Major League Baseball between 1984 and
1989.
He serves on the board of directors of The Coca-Cola Company, Aircastle LTD
(AYR), and Easton Bell Sports.
Peter graduated from San Jose State University, earning a degree in business.
While in college, he competed in the 1956 U.S. Olympic water polo trials. He has
twelve honorary degrees and was Time Magazine’s Man of the Year in 1984. His
1985 book Made in America was a bestseller.
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THE HONORABLE ANTONIO R. VILLARAIGOSA MayorCity of Los Angeles
Antonio R. Villaraigosa is the 41st Mayor of Los Angeles. Born on January 23,
1953 in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, he is the oldest of
four children raised by a single mother, Natalia Delgado.
Villaraigosa’s sense of civic justice and political action began at a young age. As a
high school student, he volunteered with the farm workers movement, led student
walkouts and organized an African-American student union.
During his junior year of high school, Villaraigosa dropped out, but eventually
returned to school at the encouragement of his English teacher, Herman Katz.
After graduating from Theodore Roosevelt High School, Villaraigosa attended
UCLA, where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in History. He went on to attend the
People’s College of Law, a night school dedicated to public-interest law.
By the age of 25, Villaraigosa was elected president of a local union representing
civil rights workers and lawyers in six states. Over the next fteen years, Villaraigosa
continued this work as a union organizer for the Service Employees International
Union, United Teachers Los Angeles, and then as President of the Los Angeles
chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Federation ofGovernment Employees.
In 1994, Villaraigosa was elected to the California State Assembly and, four years
later, his colleagues elected him the rst Assembly Speaker from Los Angeles in 25
years.
Elected as the Councilmember to Los Angeles’ 14th District in 2003, Villaraigosa
was widely credited with resolving the Metropolitan Transit Authority transit strike,
creating the largest passive park on the Eastside and Los Angeles, and protecting
funding for the Arts.
In 2005, Villaraigosa ran for Mayor of Los Angeles on a platform of bringing the City
together to take on the big challenges. He was elected on May 17, 2005 and sworn
in as Mayor on July 1, 2005.
On March 3, 2009, Mayor Villaraigosa was reelected and took the oath for a second
term on July 1, 2009.
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AMBASSADOR ANDREW YOUNGCivil Rights IconChairman, Atlanta Olympic Games ‘84
Andrew Young is co-founding Principal and Chairman of GoodWorks International.
This involvement allows him to execute his life-long mission of energizing the private
sector to advance economic development in Africa and the Caribbean. He puts
corporate executives in contact with leaders and key inuences in the regions’
emerging markets, facilitating the formation of successful business partnerships. He
also offers strategic advice to corporations on doing business successfully in those
markets, and advises several governments on sound policy-making.
Ambassador Young’s vision of advancing economic development with private
sector involvement was honed during comprehensive leadership positions in public
service and private industry. His varied background provides GWI clients with a
uniquely qualied advisor who has a global perspective on business expansion.
Ambassador Young has served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations
and as Co-Chair of the Atlanta Committee for the Centennial Olympic Games. He
served two terms as Mayor of Atlanta, one of the fastest growing cities in the world,
was elected Congressman three times, and is a leading gure in the civil rights
movement. He currently serves on the Boards of several Fortune 500 companies
and was appointed by President Bill Clinton to Chair the $100-million Southern
Africa Enterprise Development Fund. Ambassador Young is on the National SecurityCouncil Advisory Board, and remains active in numerous charitable activities and
organizations.
He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, the French Legion of Honor, the Bishop Walker Humanitarian
Award and over 60 honorary degrees from prestigious universities around the world
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STATEMENTSOFSUPPORT
BOAR D OF SU PER V I SOR S COU N T Y OF LOS AN G ELES
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G LOR I A M OLI N A SUP ERV ISOR, F IRST DIST RICT
Apr il 24, 2012
Dear F r iends:
W ar m gr eet ings ar e ex t ended t o Oper at ion HOP E on t he
oc c asion of y our 20t h Anniv er sar y Oppor t unit y Bus T our . I applaud Oper at ion HOP E f or y our longst anding and
c ompr ehensiv e ef f or t s t o empow er and enr ic h our div er se
c ommunit ies t hr ough adv oc ac y and out r eac h. Y ou t ouc h
c ount less liv es, and ser v e as an inspir at ion f or our c it y ,
c ount y and r egion.
Best w ishes f or a suc c essf ul and memor able c elebr at ion.
Sinc er ely ,
GLORI A MOLIN A Super v isor , F ir st Dist r ic t
H E R B J. W E S SO N, J R.
P R E S I D E N T, LO S A
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“ F r om C haos t o C ommuni t y”
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Commi t tee Member for the
HOPE 20 th Anni versar y
Oppor tuni t y Bus Tour an
d
Ceremon y. This e ven t th
rough economic educa tion
and empo wermen t o f fers
communi t y residen ts in un
derser ved communi ties op
por tuni ties for economic
gro w th.
Emerging from the chaos
o f the Los Angeles Rio
ts, Opera tion HOPE was
founded to break do wn the
barrier be t ween pri vileged
and poor. Toda y, HOPE is
America 's leading nonpro
fi t organi za tion dedica ted
to financial li terac y and
economic empo wermen t
. Opera tion HOPE (HOP
E ) impro ves the economi
c
quali t y o f li fe for indi viduals, families an
d communi ties through pro
grams tha t
crea te s takeholders: con
ver ting check cashing cus tomers in to
banking
cus tomers, ren ters in to
homeo wners, small busi
ness dreamers in to small
business o wners, and min
imum wage workers in to
li ving wage workers. I
commend Opera tion HOPE
for their con tinued commi t
men t and e f for ts to ensure
tha t the voice and concern
s o f the underser ved are no
t onl y heard bu t addressed
in the medical, poli tical, ed
uca tional, social and econo
mic arenas.
Bes t wishes for a success f
ul and memorable e ven t.
Sincerel y,
HERB J. WESSON, JR.
Presiden t, Los Angeles Ci t
y Council
Councilmember, Ten th Dis t
ric t
A better L.A. is our business
We’re proud to support Operation Hope’s 20thAnniversary Opportunity Bus Tour. Your work is indeedan example of how individuals from different racesand backgrounds, as well as leaders from government,community, faith and the private sector can and didfind a way to work together for the good of all.
By being the voice of business, helping its members grow and promoting collaboration, theLos Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce seeks full prosperity for the Los Angeles region. As a trustee
for the current and future welfare of the region, we champion economic prosperity and quality of life.
www.lachamber.com
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STATEMENTSOFSUPPORT
Congratulations to
APRIL 24, 2012
Supervisor Mark Ridley-ThomasLos Angeles County • Second District
http://ridley-thomas.lacounty.gov• [email protected]
500 W. Temple St., Rm. 866 • Los Angeles, CA 90012
213-974-2222 (phone) • 213-680-3283 (fax)
on theirOperation HOPE
20THANNIVERSARYOPPORTUNITY BUSTOUR
A pr il 24, 2012
D ear F r iends:
O n behalf of t he Cit y of Los Ang eles and t he Eig ht h D ist r ict , w elcome t o t he 20 t h Anniv er sar y
O ppor t unit y Bus T our host ed by O per at ion H O P E.I am pleased t o k now t hat since M ay 5, 1992, O per at ion H O P E cont inues t o ex pand economic
o p por t unit y in under ser v ed communit ies t hr oug h economic educat ion and em pow er ment .
O per at ion H O P E has also im pr ov ed t he economic qualit y of lif e f or indiv iduals, f amilies and
communit ies t hr oug h pr og r ams t hat cr eat e st ak eholder s: conv er t ing check cashing cust omer s int o
bank ing cust omer s, r ent er s int o homeow ner s, small business dr eamer s int o small business ow ner s,
and minimum w ag e w or k er s int o liv ing w ag e w or k er s. Best w ishes f or an en joy able and successf ul ev ent . Res pect f ully ,
BERN ARD C. P ARK S Councilmember
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CALIFORNIA.At Bank of America, we’re working every day to help support small businesses,
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giving to fuel the local economy and create stronger communities.
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to help support their work in
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businesses in 2011, to help them
grow, hire and strengthen the
area economy.
= 10,000 Homeowners = $1 Million= $50 Million
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Dr. Lula Ballton
Director of Community and
Economic Development
Church of God in Christ, International
Orson Aguilar
Executive Director
The Greenlining Institute
Jacque Bee
Co-Executive Director
RBD Communications
Councilman Joe Buscaino
15th District
City of Los Angeles
Earl ‘Skip’ CooperExecutive Director
Black Businsss Association of
Los Angeles
Coucilman Eric Garcetti
13th District
City of Los Angeles
Representative Karen Bass
33rd District
U.S. Congress
Darrell Brown
Senior Vice President and Regional
Manager
US Bank
Tim ChrismanChairman
Federal Home Loan Bank of
San Francisco
Assemblyman Mike Davis
48th Distrcit
California State Assembly
Ruben Guerra
Chairman and Chief Executive Ofcer
Latin Business Association
Sweet Alice Harris
Founder and Executive Director
Parents of Watts
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Denise Hunter
President and Chief Operating Ofcer
FAME Corporate Ministries
Hyepin Im
President and Chief Executive Ofcer
Korean Churches for Community
Development (KCCD)
Bernard Kinsey President, KBK Enterprises
Former Co-Chair, RLA
Crystal Mitchell
Co-Executive Director
RBD Communications
Rev. Dr. John J. Hunter
Senior Minister
FAME
Michael Jones
President and Chief Executive Ofcer
Crenshaw Chamber of Commerce
John Mack
Vice President
Los Angeles Police Commission
Pat Means
President and Founder
Turning Point Magazine
Supervisor Gloria Molina
1st District
County of Los Angeles
Rick Hartnack
Vice Chairman
US Bank
Robert McNeely Senior Executive Advisor
Union Bank
HOSTCOMMITTEE
Forescee Hogan-Rowles
President and Chief Executive Ofcer
Community Financial Resource Center
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Victor Parker
District Director, Los Angeles
U.S. Small Business Administration
Councilman Bernard Parks
8th District
City of Los Angeles
Councilwoman Jan Perry
9th District
City of Los Angeles
Supervisor Mark Ridley-
Thomas
2nd District
County of Los Angeles
Mark Robertson
President and Chief Executive Ofcer
Pacic Coast Regional
Blair TaylorPresident
Los Angeles Urban League
Gary Toebben
President
LA Chamber of Commerce
Pastor Mark Whitlock
Senior Minister
Christ Our Redeemer AME Church
Councilman Herb Wesson
President
Los Angeles City Council
John Sotoodeh
Regional President, Southern Californ
Wells Fargo
Tunua ThrashExecutive Director
West Angeles Community
Development Corporation
Tim Wennes
Vice Chairman
Union Bank
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Najee Ali
Director and FounderProject Islamic H.O.P.E.
Vivian Bowers
Owner
Bowers Dry Cleaning
Leo Cablayan
Market Vice President, Los AngelesOperation HOPE
Ivory ChambeshiProgram Administrator
Vermont Slauson Economic Development Corporation
Eric Clay
Area VP, HOPE Financial Literacy Dignity CentersOperation HOPE
Ronea Crockett-Williams
Home Mortgage ConsultantWells Fargo
Joy Elliott
Director
PACE
Mike Jones
President and Chief Executive OfcerCrenshaw Chamber of Commerce
Martice Mills
Manager, Small Business Development
FAME Assistance Center
Larry SpringsRealtor and Former President
The Consolidated Board of Realtists
Linda Wilson
Owner
Box Brothers Shipping
BUS TOURMODERATORS
Cathay Bankis proud to support the
Operation HOPE
20th Anniversary Opportunity Bus Tou
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BUS TOURROUTE
This route will consist of one (1) stop at the Quincy Jones
Elementary School located at East 900 33rd Street.
Depart Operation HOPE Financial Dignity Center
located at 3721 S. La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
at 10:00 am:
1. RIGHT out of Operation HOPE Center parking lot to
Sycamore Avenue
2. RIGHT on Sycamore Avenue to Rodeo Avenue
3. RIGHT on Rodeo Avenue to King Boulevard eastbound
4. RIGHT on Buckingham Road to Santa Rosalia Drive
5. Turn LEFT on Santa Rosalia Drive to Stocker Avenue6. LEFT on Stocker Avenue to Crenshaw Boulevard
7. RIGHT on Crenshaw Boulevard to Slauson Avenue
8. LEFT on Slauson Avenue to Normandie Avenue
9. RIGHT on Normandie Avenue to Florence Avenue
This part of the tour will feature the Baldwin Hills
Shopping Center, the Crenshaw corridor commercial
district, Marlton Square and the ash point for the
1992 riots at Florence and Normandie Avenues.
10. LEFT on Florence Avenue to Vermont Avenue11. LEFT on Vermont Avenue (northbound) to Exposition
Boulevard
12. RIGHT on Exposition Boulevard (eastbound) to
Figueroa Avenue
13. LEFT on Figueroa to Jefferson Boulevard
This will feature long standing automotive, textile and
other manufacturing business in addition to housing
and business statistical data. The new Metro Culver
City line, Exposition Park and USC commercial
developments.
14. RIGHT on Jefferson Boulevard (eastbound) to 36
Street/Grifth15. LEFT on 36th Street/Grifth (northbound) to the Quincy
Jones Elementary School located at 900 East 33rd
Street. Buses will stop and park at the school.
This forty-ve minute stop at the Quincy Jones
Elementary School will feature remarks by Quincy
Jones, Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, John Hope
Bryant and school ocials.
16. Depart from Quincy Jones Elementary school
eastbound on 33rd Street to Central Avenue17. LEFT on Central Avenue to Adams Boulevard
18. LEFT on Adams Boulevard (westbound) to Figueroa
Avenue
19. RIGHT on Figueroa Avenue (northbound) to Olympic
Boulevard
20. LEFT on Olympic Boulevard (westbound) to Crenshaw
Boulevard
This part of the tour will feature information on
the upcoming commercial development along the
Figueroa corridor, LA Live and Korea Town.
21. LEFT on Crenshaw Boulevard to King Boulevard
22. LEFT on Rodeo Avenue (west) to La Brea Avenue
23. LEFT on La Brea Avenue to Coliseum Street
24. RIGHT on Coliseum Street to Sycamore Avenue
25. RIGHT on Sycamore Avenue to Operation HOPE
parking lot
This part of the tour will feature the West Angeles
Cathedral, the Crenshaw business corridor, WalMart
and Macy stores and the Rave movie theatre.
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QUINCY JONESELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Leading the Way for Financial Dignity
Quincy Jones, as national co-chair for HOPE’s 5MK Initiative and the rst celebrity to come on
board to champion the initiative, will become the rst celebrity to have his life’s story woven
through HOPE nancial literacy curriculum, as a way of making nancial dignity and economic
literacy relevant and engaging to students.
The Five Million Kids Initiative (5MK) focuses on properly channeling the economic energy of
disadvantaged youth by entering classrooms in impoverished communities to teach kids how
to get ahead—through nancial dignity, economic education and entrepreneurship. These
courses are taught by role models in their community. Ambassador Andrew Young and music
legend Quincy Jones help bring positive role models—to kids across the country.
Banking on Our Future, Celebrity Edition is the nancial dignity classroom curriculum that will
be used to deliver the empowering messages of HOPE’s Celebrity Ambassadors. The rst in
the series of specialized curriculum is Quincy Jones. Commemorating April as Financial Literacy
Month, HOPE will launch the Banking on Our Future, Quincy Jones Celebrity Edition at the
Quincy Jones Elementary School during Operation HOPE’s Opportunity Bus Tour on April 24th.
Mr. Jones will personally present the curriculum to the school, along with Operation HOPE
Founder, Chairman and CEO John Hope Bryant.
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BANKING ONOUR FUTURE
C E L E B R I T Y E D I T I O NQ U I N C Y J O N E S John Hope Bryant
Founder, Chairman & CEO
of Operation HOPE
“Your future is so brightit burns my eyes.”
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones is the rst celebrity to have his life’s story woven intoHOPE’s Banking on Our Futurenancial dignity curriculum.
Banking on Our Future modules:- A Course in Dignity- Basics of Banking- Checking and Savings Accounts- Credit- Investments
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Galen CenterOne hundred and twenty-four years ago, USC founders
envisioned an on campus arena to further unify the Trojan
community. On October 21, 2006, that dream became a
reality with the opening of the Galen Center - new home to
USC’s basketball and volleyball programs.
The center puts the Trojan teams on an appropriately
impressive stage, allowing the Trojans to strut their stuff
in a 255,000 square-foot arena with 10,258 seats, and
utilize new locker rooms for home and visitors, as well as
a state-of-the-art weight room and medical training room.
An attached 45,000 square-foot pavilion contains additional
practice room with three sections including enough spacefor 4 full basketball courts or 9 volleyball courts as well
as seating for 1,000 - along with space for coaches and
administrative ofces. Galen also has function rooms, a
ticket ofce, concession stands and merchandise stores
for visitors to the new complex and will house the Athletic
Department Hall of Fame.
L.A. LiveL.A. Live is an entertainment complex in Downtown Los
Angeles, California adjacent to the Staples Center. L.A.
Live, an investment of $2.5 billion, was developed by Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), Wachovia Corp,
Azteca Corp and investment rm MacFarlane Partners with
help from Los Angeles taxpayers. It has 5,600,000 square
feet (520,257 m2) of apartments, ballrooms, bars, concert
theatres, restaurants, movie theaters and a 54-story hotel
and condominium tower, on a 27-acre (10.9 ha) site. The
complex became home to AEG and Herbalife headquarters
in December 2008.
Nokia Plaza
Nokia is a 40,000-square-foot (3,716 m2) open-air plaza that
serves as the central meeting place for L.A. Live. The plaza
provides a broadcast venue featuring giant LED screens as
well as a red carpet site for special events.
Nokia Theatre and Club Nokia
Nokia Theatre is a music and theatre venue seating 7,100
while Club Nokia is a club venue with a seating capacity o
2,300 for live music and cultural events. On March 11, 2008
the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced
with AEG that the venue would be the home to the PrimetimeEmmy Awards ceremony from 2008 until at least 2018.
Grammy Museum
On May 8, 2007 it was announced that the Nationa
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences would establish
a museum dedicated to the history of the Grammy Awards
The museum opened on December 2008 for the Grammy
Awards 50th anniversary. It consists of four oors with
historical music artifacts. Embedded on the sidewalks at the
L.A. Live streets are bronze disks, similar to the Hollywood
Walk of Fame, honoring each year’s top winners, Record o
the Year, Best New Artist, Album of the Year, and Song othe Year.
Hotels and residences
The centerpiece of the district is a 54-story, 1,001 room
two-hotel hybrid tower, constructed above the parking
lot directly north of the Staples Center. Built by Webco
Builders, the skyscraper contains both an 879-room JW
Marriott hotel on oors four through 21 and a 123-room Ritz-
Carlton hotel on oors 22 through 26. Floors 27 through
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52 hold 224 residences at the Ritz Carlton condominiums.
Groundbreaking for the structure took place in June 2007.
The project was completed in the rst quarter of 2010.
ESPN Zone and broadcasting studios
The second phase of development included a 12,300-square-
foot (1,140 m2) ESPN broadcasting studio, as well as an
ESPN Zone restaurant built on the corner of Figueroa Street
and Chick Hearn Court. In an effort to expand coverage of
West Coast sports, ESPN began broadcasting the 1 AM ET
(10 PM PT) edition of SportsCenter from the studio on April
6, 2009.
Regal Entertainment Group The $100 million Regal Entertainment Group movie complex
includes 14 screens and 3,772 seats. It includes a three-
story art-deco-style atrium and an 806-seat theater called
the “Regal Premiere House” intended for “lucrative”
premieres. The theater complex became the West Coast
agship location for Regal, the largest theater chain in the
United States.
Restaurants
L.A. Live is also host to a set of mid to high scale dining
including Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, Katsuya,
Lawry’s, Rock’N Fish, Rosa Mexicano, The Farm ofBeverly Hills, Trader Vic’s, Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill, and
Yard House.
Expo Line The Expo Line is a new Metro Rail light-rail line under
construction between Downtown Los Angeles and Santa
Monica. Expo phase 1, from Downtown Los Angeles to La
Cienega Station is slated to open on April 28, 2012 and to
Culver City in June 2012.
Construction of Expo phase 2 (from Culver City into
downtown Santa Monica) started in September 2011 with
a completion date of 2016. The east-west route follows
primarily along Exposition Boulevard with a terminus station
at 4th/Colorado in Santa Monica about a half-mile walk from
the Pacic Ocean. It will be operated by the Los Angeles
County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
It will reuse the right-of-way of the Los Angeles and
Independence Railroad / Santa Monica Air Line which was
closed in 1953 and will be the rst passenger rail line to
serve the Los Angeles Westside since the abandonment o
the Pacic Electric Railway.
Chestereld Square Shopping Center This modern, innovatively-designed, master-planned
development is the rst of its kind for South Los Angeles
A 325,000-square-foot shopping center constructed on
31 acres, with a harmonious mix of shops and restaurants
and leased to such national tenants as Home Depot, Food
4 Less, McDonald’s, Starbucks, IHOP, and Walgreen’s
Chestereld Square is envisioned as a critical mass o
economic development serving as a cornerstone for the
revitalization of South LA with the creation of jobs and
quality retail outlets for this long, underserved community This project was completed in 2004 and enjoys 100%
occupancy.
Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw Plaza Today, Baldwin Hills is home to the largest middle and upper
middle class African American community in Los Angeles
This hillside neighborhood ties together one of the mos
important strongholds of African American culture; forming
the residential nexus of the Crenshaw community.
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Since the 1960’s Baldwin Hills has been a destination for
doctors, entertainers and politicians. The term “the Black
Beverly Hills” was born, with celebrities including Ray
Charles, Ike and Tina Turner, Nancy Wilson, and former Los
Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley settling into the lovely hillside
homes.
The Baldwin Hills district of Los Angeles developed the
Broadway-Crenshaw Center in November, 1947. This
center is considered the oldest regional shopping center in
operation in the United States.
The center was originally anchored by The Broadway
and May department stores, and encompassed 555,000
square feet of retail space, including a Woolworth 5 & 10
and Von’s Supermarket This open-air center underwent
a major redevelopment in the late 1980’s. As a result, in1989 a new 858,000 square foot, 2-level enclosed regional
mall opened anchored by May Company, Sears, Broadway,
and a freestanding Albertson’s supermarket. In 1995 Magic
Johnson Theatres opened a 15-plex cinema, followed in
2003 by the rst ever opening of a 3-level Wal-Mart in the
former Broadway building.
The Baldwin Hills Crenshaw area has undergone many
permutations over the decades. Through it all the area
has continued to endure and today is a tight-knit enclave
determined to preserve its past while looking boldly toward
the future.
The Crenshaw District The Crenshaw District (also known as Crenshaw) is a
neighborhood and district in southwestern Los Angeles,
California. It derives its name from Crenshaw Boulevard,
one of the city’s principal thoroughfares.
Crenshaw is bordered by Chestereld Square on the east,
Hyde Park on the south, View Park-Windsor Hills on the
west. It includes Leimert Park. The district’s boundaries
are roughly Van Ness and Arlington Avenues on the east
Exposition Boulevard on the north, La Brea Avenue near
Baldwin Hills on the west, and roughly Stocker Street &
Slauson Avenue on the south. The Crenshaw Strip is the
area directly on Crenshaw between Exposition Boulevard on
the north and Vernon Avenue on the south.
Education
The area is part of the Los Angeles Unied School District
Crenshaw High School, which is south of Martin Luther King
Boulevard and east of Crenshaw Boulevard, is the loca
public secondary school.
Charter schools in the area include the KIPP Academy
of Opportunity middle school, Celerity Nascent Charte
School, the New Design Charter School (built in 2004), the
View Park Preparatory Charter High School, and the View
Park Preparatory Charter Middle School.
Neighborhood
Crenshaw is a largely residential area of single-story
Mediterranean bungalows and low-rise apartment buildings
with an industrial corridor along Jefferson Boulevard.
Developed from the early 1920s onward, Crenshaw wasinitially a very diverse neighborhood of Whites (including
many Jewish Americans and other Eastern Europeans)
Covenants on property deeds barred African Americans
and Asian-Americans from owning real estate in Crenshaw
During preparations for the 1932 Summer Olympics
which heralded Los Angeles’ arrival as a major world city
Crenshaw’s medians and sidewalks were planted with
hundreds of the towering palms that, to this day, dominate
the area’s otherwise low-rise skyline.
After courts ruled segregation covenants to be
unconstitutional, the area opened up to other races. A large
Japanese-American settlement ensued, their neighborhood
can still be found along Coliseum Street, east and west of
Crenshaw Boulevard. African Americans started arriving in
the 1960s and by the 1970s, they were the majority.
Since the 1970s, Crenshaw and neighboring Leimer
Park have formed one of the largest African American
neighborhoods in the United States, despite heavy damage
from the 1992 riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
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The population of Crenshaw in 2006 was around 27,600.
Recently, with increased middle-class African American
migration to newer neighborhoods such as the Antelope
Valley, Moreno Valley and other areas of the Inland Empire
African Americans make up 63.34% of the population,
followed by Latinos, 30%, White, 16.89% and Asian, 4.37%.
Notable buildings
A misconception is that Crenshaw Christian Center is
located in the Crenshaw district. Crenshaw Christian Center
is actually located at 7901 Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles.
The church was originally situated in the Morningside Park
district of Inglewood on Crenshaw Boulevard at Hardy
Street.
The “Crenshaw Square” sign, a local landmark, had been
in serious disrepair for years. In 2007, it was replaced by a
modern red-and-green sign that lights up at night.
Santa Barbara Plaza is a shopping center in the district. This
aging center is in disrepair and is a failed redevelopment
project, for which much nancial investment has been made
but little has been achieved.
The Holiday Bowl was a center of activity during the 60s
and 70s in Crenshaw. It featured a sushi bar known as theSakiba Lounge with live musical acts. Its historic Googie
architecture has been retained by the new Starbucks in that
location.
KoreatownKoreatown is a neighborhood in the Mid-Wilshire district of
the city of Los Angeles, California known for its concentration
of Korean American people and institutions. Home to
a population of over 120,000 and covering just under
3-square-mile (7.8 km2), it has one of the highest population
densities of all neighborhoods in Los Angeles.
Koreatown experienced the hardest crime and destruction
during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Hundreds of Korean-
owned businesses were looted, damaged or burned down
and an unknown number of Koreans physically attacked.
By the second day of rioting, the LAPD and County Sheriff
had been overpowered by the number of rioters forcing the
departments to pull all units from patrol. As violent rioters
next turned its attention to reghters, the LAFD also
recalled their teams. This left unchecked crime and res
which quickly expanded. The Korean-American community
seeing the police force’s abandonment of Koreatown
organized gun-wielding groups to protect businesses and
area residents. Open gun battles were televised live as
shopkeepers defended their business from the crowds o
violent looters
The neighborhood is in the midst of a construction boom tha
has helped fuel an inux of new residents priced out from
nearby Los Feliz and West Hollywood. The neighborhood
is known for its many commercial and residential mid
and high rise towers, its rich collection of pre-1940 brick
colonial revival buildings, Asian high fashion boutiques, andholding the largest concentration of nightclubs and 24-hou
businesses and restaurants in Southern California.
Koreatown is among the most diverse neighborhoods in
the United States. Although the Latino community (54%)
as a whole, is the largest ethnic demographic in Koreatown
Korean-Americans are the single largest nationa
demographic at 23% followed by those of Mexican ancestryat 22%.
With its rich diversity, an emergence of a new multiculturalism
between the Korean and Latino populations in Koreatown
has begun to foreshadow an unprecedented change fo
American history. Most Korean businesses draw thei
employees and, in many cases, customers from the
surrounding area’s large Latino population. The relationship
is such that Korean business owners are learning Spanish
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in increasing rates and Latinos are learning Korean. Several
Korean churches and community centers in Koreatown
offer free Spanish and Korean to local residents. It is not
unusual to nd Latino employees in restaurants and grocery
stores speaking Korean with customers or Korean store
owners engaging Latino customers in Spanish. Moreover,
it is common to see Korean American customers eating in
Latino restaurants and Latin American customers eating
in Korean restaurants. A visual example of this rich and
unique cultural exchange between Koreans and Latinos in
Koreatown is the recent popularity of Korean inspired taco
trucks in LA that feature classic Mexican food items infused
with Korean ingredients.
Koreatown now brims with vibrant nightlife and commerce,
and the construction of mid-to-high end residential buildings,
including numerous apartments and condominiums,
continues to attract new residents. Recently, Koreatown
has been infused with college students due to inexpensive
housing, public transit to UCLA and USC, and a vibrant
nightlife.
Central AvenueIt was a streetcar line, cleared 122 years ago to shuttle
commuters to the rst suburb of South Los Angeles. It
housed some of the nation’s rst middle-class African American families, and its clubs and hotels were the
laboratories where West Coast jazz was born. “The Avenue”
was a place of promise, of strolls in your Sunday best --
“something very elegant,” said City Councilwoman Jan
Perry. There are 7,000 miles of roads in Los Angeles. Few
have shouldered more than South Central Avenue.
Near its northern end, Central Avenue passes through
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles’ oldest Japanese neighborhood
and now a historic district listed on the National Register
of Historic Places. On Central Avenue just north of First
Street is the former Hompa Hongwangi Buddhist Temple.
It was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
No.313 in 1986. Across Central Avenue from the Temple
is the Japanese American National Museum, and north of
that is the original (and largest) branch of the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, now known as the Geffen
Contemporary at MOCA.
In the 1200 block of Central Avenue is the 1930s era
Streamline Modern Los Angeles bottling plant of the Coca-
Cola company, designed to resemble an ocean liner
complete with porthole windows and metal-railed catwalks
It was declared Los Angeles Historic-cultural Monumen
#138 in 1975.
At 2300 Central is the Lincoln Theatre (now closed), opened
in 1926 and long the leading venue in the city for African-
American entertainment. It was declared Los Angeles
Historic-Cultural Monument # 744 in 2003. At 4233 Centra
Avenue is the Dunbar Hotel, Los Angeles Historic-Cultura
Monument #131 since 1974. During the era of segregation
when they were barred from the city’s major hotels, the
Dunbar was the hotel at which visiting black celebrities were
most likely to stay. The Hotel is also listed on the NationaRegister of Historic Places. At 4261 Central Avenue is Los
Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #580, the 1925 Golden
State Mutual Life Insurance Building, original headquarters
of one of the leading African-American owned businesses
in California. And yet this same corridor is in the midst of a
$150-million-plus construction jag.
A full-service grocery, a Fresh & Easy Neighborhood
Market, is open at Central and East Adams Boulevard
That will anchor another mixed-use project, a $32-million
development with 18,500 square feet of retail space and 79
affordable-housing apartments.
Vermont Slauson Economic
Development CorporationSince 1981, the Vermont Slauson Economic Development
Corporation (VSEDC) has stimulated economic developmen
in South Los Angeles through commercial projects
affordable housing initiatives and business development
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What began as an organizing effort by a group of concerned
community members has blossomed into an organizationthat has completed over $60 million in development
projects, helped launch over 200 businesses and created
over 3,000 jobs. Compelled by the vision of a thriving,
economically-vibrant and empowered community, VSEDC
strives to make transformative impacts in the community
to encourage commercial enterprise, home ownership and
entrepreneurship.
The primary mission of VSEDC is to facilitate community
development of the South Los Angeles area by providing
programs structured to revitalize the physical, economic and
social life of the community. In order to realize this objective, VSEDC has developed and implemented a comprehensive
approach to community economic development that
includes business development, technical assistance and
training, residential housing, commercial and industrial
development.
Figueroa Corridor The Figueroa Corridor anchors Downtown to the south and
is best known for being home to the University of Southern
California, Exposition Park and the Shrine Auditorium. The
memories that echo through this community include the
Olympic Games, the Academy Awards, a Nobel Laureate,and world-class museums. The area is recognized for
being rich in historic and contemporary architecture, as well
as exceptional educational institutions from kindergarten
through college.
The diversity of the Figueroa Corridor’s attractions is mirrored
by the diversity in its residents, workforce, and visitors.
From the families and children that visit the museums, to
the college students that live nearby, to the people of all
ages that worship in the many religious institutions, a wide
variety of people enjoy all that the neighborhood has to offer.
With new businesses, residential units, and community and
cultural amenities going up every year, this is an area on the
rise.
Exposition Park
Exposition Park is home to the Natural History Museum of
Los Angeles County, California Science Center, California
African American Museum, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum,
Los Angeles Sports Arena, Exposition Park Rose Garden,
an IMAX theatre, and several community institutions.
Shrine Auditorium
At the time the Shrine Auditorium was built in 1926, it was thelargest theatre in the United States. Constructed in Spanish
Colonial Revival style with numerous Moorish details, the
Auditorium continues to host high-prole events and is the
former host of the Grammy, Academy, and American Music
Awards.
The University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC) is one of the
world’s leading independent research universities and is
distinguished by renowned faculty, innovative public service
programs, and highly competitive admissions standards
USC has grown from a college of 53 students at its founding
in 1880 to more than 32,000 students today.
Felix the Cat Sign
The historic Felix the Cat sign, located above the Felix
Chevrolet car dealership, is not only one of the Figueroa
Corridor’s most unique landmarks, but also signies the
prominent role the automotive and movie industries have
played within Los Angeles. Felix the Cat became associated
with Chevrolet in 1923, and the sign was erected in 1958.
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Black Business Association
Since 1970, the Black Business Association (BBA), a 501(c)
(3) non-prot organization, headquartered in Los Angeles,
has been instrumental in the incubation and development of
more than 15,000 African-American businesses. Nationally,
it has access and inuence with more than 85,000 African- American-owned and women/minority-owned rms via
strategic alliances with more than 100 women/minority trade
associations in more than 42 states nationwide.
The Black Business Association’s mission is to advocate
and promote the development of African-American owned
businesses with the goal of creating a rm economic base
that support the self-determination and survival of the
African-American and urban community by:
• Identifying and creating nancial opportunities forthe growth and stability of African-American owned
businesses;
• Being a community voice that advocates for the
success of small businesses;
• Being a conduit for the merging of resources, values,
prots, technology and people;
• Promoting development and support of minority
business enterprises within the domestic and
international economies by encouraging and
generating greater access to market opportunities and
capital;• Providing training for entrepreneurial professional
development;
• Supporting and contributing to the economic base
and progress of the African-American community; and
• Developing coalitions that support our political
endeavors to effectively achieve public recognition
and political inuence for African-American business
owners.
Community Financial Resource Center
The Community Financial Resource Center (CFRC) is a non
prot organization offering comprehensive and innovative
ways to build wealth for historically underserved residents
and small business owners in South L.A. and across L.A
County. The organization provides commercial lending
opportunities- including micro loans, peer lending, and
small business loans – along with business training, asset
development programs, and banking programs. CFRC
has served nearly 100,000 low income clients since its
inception in 1992. Its programs have resulted in nearly
$14 million in economic activity and the retention and
creation of thousands of jobs. The transformative power of
CFRC’s services – combined with its clients’ enterprise and
hard work – improves the nancial standing of individuals
launches and sustains small businesses, and generates
economic activity that strengthens entire neighborhoods.
The Community Financial Resource Center (CFRC
opened its doors to the community in March 1993 as Los
Angeles’ rst public private partnership. It was designed
as a collaborative effort of 34 local banks, the City of Los
Angeles, and community leaders, to respond to the disma
community reinvestment activity in South Central Los
Angeles. Following nearly two years of community hearings
and planning, CFRC was incorporated to meet the economic
development challenges and capacity building needs of Los
Angeles’ low-income neighborhoods.
To date, CFRC and its service providers directly inuenced
economic development in Los Angeles County by assisting
nearly 100,000 residents and contributing over $14 million
to the local economy through its fundraising, lending, and
program development efforts. CFRC’s economic impac
is reected in the 3,421 jobs created/retained through
CFRC programs, which has resulted in approximately
$119,735,000 invested back into the community.
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Crenshaw Chamber of Commerce
The Crenshaw Chamber of Commerce is committed to
the development of the Crenshaw Corridor as a matrix for
commerce and culture that attracts economic investment,
tourism, and fosters community pride. The Chamber creates
a mechanism to increase the economic development for
new and small businesses by providing access to technical
assistance, collective networking, support and training.
The Crenshaw Chamber of Commerce develops a value-
added partnership with other city chambers, businesses,
corporations and residents within the community. The
Chamber keeps abreast of city, county, and state legislation
and ordinances that affect the growth and business
endeavors of the Crenshaw Corridor.
The Crenshaw Chamber of Commerce website www.crenshawchamber.com helped to promote and optimize
our 260 chamber businesses locally and on-line through:
member coupons, advertising pages, created chamber
company websites, links to our members existing company
websites, categorical business directories (including location
search by Google maps), submitted events, e-blasts,
and a whole lot more are all included in member’s annual
membership.
First AME Church, FAME Renaissance and
FAME Assistance Corporation
First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles is
the oldest church founded by African Americans in the City
of Angels. In 1872 Ms. Biddy Mason received the vision
from God to establish a church that would minister to themind, body and soul of all who would join that small band of
believers. That vision and small band of believers has grown
to what is now a congregation of more than 19,000 members
and several dozen ministries within 13 corporations that
bless and reach tens of thousands of seekers in greater
metropolitan Los Angeles.
Built on the foundation laid by Bishop Richard Allen, who
in the City of Philadelphia in 1787 started the movemen
that later became the African Methodist Episcopal Church
FAME Church nds joy in being the “First To Serve.”
FAME Renaissance is an economic development program
within the FAME Assistance Corporation (FAC). FAC is a
non-prot 501(c)(3) corporation afliated with the 19,000
member First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los
Angeles (FAME).
Prior to the Civil Unrest in 1992, economic developmen
was practically non-existent in urban Los Angeles. Since
1992, FAME Renaissance has been a driving force in the
economic development of South Central Los Angeles andthe surrounding communities. For twelve years programs
have been developed which exceeded goals for lending
enterprise development and job creation as part of a
comprehensive plan to build South Central Los Angeles
economically, socially, mentally & politically.
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Korean Churches for Community
Development
Since its inception in 2001, Korean Churches for Community
Development (KCCD) has organized and reached out to the
4,000 Korean-American churches and other communities
across the nation. KCCD has hosted several nationalconferences, including two in conjunction with the White
House. These conferences have helped to train faith and
community leaders in economic development.
Under Ms. Hyepin Im’s leadership, KCCD has also transformed
the lives of individuals living in nearby communities, through
strategic private and public partnerships (more than 200 to
date) which have resulted in innovative initiatives designed
to help address major challenges in the Asian-American
community. These initiatives have included home ownership,
foreclosure prevention, nancial literacy, health and wellness,marriage and family strengthening, job training, working with
at-risk youth, as well as technical assistance and capacity
building to faith-based and non-prot organizations.
Upcoming projects from KCCD include the ongoing
SAIGU campaign, dedicated to commemorating the 20th
Anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots through community
events and initiatives.
Latin Business Association
The Latin Business Association is one of the most inuentia
business associations in the United States. The LBA
represents the business interests of over 700,000 Latino-
owned businesses in California and is the premier and
largest Latin business organization in the nation.
Since its inception in 1976, the mission has been to “Build
Economic Wealth and Opportunity” for Latino and minority
owned businesses and entrepreneurs. In doing so, the
LBA has become the voice of Latino business, receiving
signicant national and international recognition.
The LBA is a relationship-driven organization. Meeting othe
members will prove to be an investment of your time that
will yield dividends for years to come. Participation in LBA
programs, events and member business functions wiltranslate to valuable business opportunities and enhance
the growth of your business.
We encourage you to join the LBA today and get involved
It’s essential to the success of your business and your
professional growth.
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Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
By being the voice of business, helping its members grow and
promoting collaboration, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of
Commerce seeks full prosperity for the Los Angeles region.
As a trustee for the current and future welfare of the region,
the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce champions
economic prosperity and quality of life.
The L.A. Area Chamber’s early focus promoted the region’s
abundance of opportunities in agriculture and international
trade. These early members successfully advocated for a
deep water port and secured water resources for the city.
As Los Angeles matured into a major metropolitan center,
the Chamber transitioned its focus into civic and political
activities. These activities include International Trade,
Education, Environment, Transportation, Advocacy, and
Arts and Culture. The Chamber has demonstrated a long
standing leadership role in the Los Angeles community onthese issues.
Los Angeles Urban League
Founded in 1921, the Los Angeles Urban League is
recognizing more than 90 years of service to the Los Angeles
communities. The League is the city’s premier organization in
advancing equal opportunities on behalf of African Americans
and other minority youths and adults through innovative job
training, job placement, youth achievement and businessdevelopment programs. Through Neighborhoods@Work
award-winning programs, services and advocacy activities
(with six ofces located in the Crenshaw District, South Los
Angeles, and Pomona), the Los Angeles Urban League
serves over 100,000 constituents annually. Blair H. Taylo
serves as the President & CEO of the Los Angeles Urban
League, one of the largest and most successful afliates of
the National Urban League, which has afliates in 100 cities
throughout the United States.
The Los Angeles Urban League has been at the forefronof identifying and addressing issues that are of concern to
African Americans and other minorities in Los Angeles and
throughout the state of California. The mission of the League
is to enable African Americans and other minorities to
secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights
through advocacy activities and the provision of programs
and services in the uniquely diversied city and region o
Los Angeles. Beyond its talented and dedicated staff
one of the strongest assets of the League is its Board of
Directors which includes business leaders, corporations and
individuals who are committed stakeholders in the successof neighborhood change. The Los Angeles Urban League
has been recognized for excellence by the National Urban
League, including the highest national honor as Afliate o
the Year. Our auxiliaries – the Young Professionals and the
Guild – have also received national recognition for exemplary
service. President and CEO Blair H. Taylor was honored as
one of the Top 50 Nonprot Leaders of Power and Inuence
in the nation for 2009 and 2010 by The NonProt Times.
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Recycling Black Dollars
Recycling Black (RBD) is a 501 (c) 3 Non-Prot Corporation
founded in 1988 by Muhammad A. Nassardeen.
RBD’s mission is to aid in the economic development of
the African American community by encouraging support
of Black businesses. Recycling Black Dollars teams with
organizations, churches and Fortune 500 corporations in an
effort to encourage vending and contract opportunities for
Black businesses.
RBD works with banks and other funding organizations to
provide capital for the development and expansion of the
Black business community. Recycling Black Dollars is
also committed to providing ongoing training seminars for
our entrepreneurial youth. Membership services include:
assistance with business plans, marketing and promotionalsupport, the RBD Resource Black Business Resource
Guide, a monthly e-newsletter, internet advertising,
mentoring programs for young entrepreneurs, accounting
and bookkeeping services and a host of other support
services.
The U.S. Small Business Administration,
Los Angeles District Oce
The SBA Los Angeles District Ofce oversees the larges
SBA lending market in the country, covering 129 cities within
Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. Ove
the last 20 years, the Los Angeles District Ofce assisted in
nancing 58,966 small businesses with $26.5 billion to st