From grassroots community organizers to groups with nation-wide reach, meet the changemakers supported by Rose grants. Meet Current And Past Grantees. See The Database. Search The Database. Year :. Clear filters. The Debt-FREE Project is a new initiative for LA, but it is based on a successful project in Massachusetts and will provide vulnerable, low- income consumers with free legal assistance, information, and resources that address challenges stemming from consumer debt.
As the only program of its kind in the state, the goal is to reach individuals at critical junctures in the life of a debt by ensuring that consumers have access to an advocate or adequate knowledge to assert their rights on their own. Simultaneously, the Project will empower those same consumers and their families by connecting them to information and resources outside of the legal process that can prevent a future economic crisis from becoming a legal one.
This intervention will keep their lights on at home, provide a more stable roof overhead, and empower families to develop skills and strategies to break through cycles of generational poverty toward a more stable financial future.
Algalita is known as the organization that started the movement to end plastic pollution over two decades ago. Last year, they opened the first-of-its-kind environmental research and learning center in Long Beach, CA.
The facility is located at the end of the San Gabriel River, a mile-long waterway that originates in the San Gabriel Mountains and flows westward through the Los Angeles Basin before emptying into the Pacific Ocean. For this program, they plan to improve the water quality in this region by removing approximately 18 tons of harmful anthropogenic debris from the Los Cerritos Wetlands, the San Gabriel River bank, and the coast of Seal Beach.
