Closing the Opportunity Gap | Advancement Project Los Angeles

June 30, 2010
	Advancement Project is Hiring! Advancement Project has two positions open in our Los Angeles Office - Management Associate and Administrative Coordinator. more »


June 11, 2010
	Groundbreaking Training Professionalizes Work of Community Heroes Twenty‐seven frontline gang intervention workers will graduate on June 11, 2010 from the Urban Peace Academy, the nation’s only training program for the courageous people who help to keep the peace in Los Angeles’ gang hot zones. more »


May 23, 2010
	An educated weapon will combat gangs L.A. Times' Scott Gold reports on the Advancement Project’s Urban Peace Academy/Los Angeles Violence Intervention Training Academy (LAVITA). more »


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Connie Rice on transformative philanthropy and new models of civil rights work.

Khydeeja Alam Legislative Advocate
	Khydeeja works with legislators and advocates to support equity issues in public schools, child care and preschool, and gang intervention, learning at the foot of the master, Sharon Scott Dow.

The goal of Advancement Project from the beginning was to pursue civil rights in a different way by combining legal and policy expertise with technology and data analysis, and cultivating respectful relationships with community leaders.

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The Summer of Success: Case Study of One Proven Solution to the Gang Epidemic

The problem of gang violence can be solved. In the summer of 2003 in "The Jungle," a crime-ridden neighborhood of Los Angeles home to four feuding gangs, gang homicides dropped to 0 compared to 9 in the summer before.