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Operation HOPE, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping low- and moderate-income Americans thrive in an ever-changing economy, announced today that City National Entertainment CEO Kelly Coffey has joined its Global Board of Advisors.Ms. Coffey is the chief executive officer of City National Entertainment, Private Banking and Wealth Management, where she is focused on bringing City National and RBC’s expertise to the bank’s Entertainment, Private Banking and Wealth Management clients, while her

L.A. Times Names AHF’s Lyle Honig Mojica Best CFO

Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey, former Congressman, environmental champion, and partner in the San Francisco Bay Area law firm Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, died of congestive heart failure peacefully at his home in Winters, California, in the care of his wife of forty-two years, Helen, and their five dogs. He was 96.McCloskey was a rarity in American politics – his actions were guided by his sense of justice, not by political ideology. He hated inequity and did not hesitate to take on members of his ow

Out of the Closet Thrift Store and HIV testing site wins annual readers’ choice award

In a new ad, running Sunday, October 30, AHF criticizes the disastrous state affordable housing in Los Angeles, noting that between dealing with the city and DWP, it impossible to get anything built in less than five yearsWhile the city proclaims homelessness is an emergency, 1,500 people continue to die on L.A.’s streets every year

In new ad running Sunday, October 23, AHF criticizes the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) as an “unaccountable bureaucracy” getting in the way of organizations like AHF from providing affordable housingAHF’s ad notes that while homelessness rages, DWP does nothing to help, but charges outrageous amounts to non-profits and cannot provide the power that is needed on a timely basis. AHF urges the DWP to “Come down from your ivory tower and genuinely help right now!”

In a new L.A. Times ad (Sunday, September 11), AHF’s Housing Is A Human Right highlights results of its recent investigation and tally revealing 4,612 hotel rooms throughout Los Angeles that could be repurposed as housing for homeless and extremely-low-income individualsAn average of 1,500 unsheltered or homeless individuals die on the streets of Los Angeles each year

The Los Angeles Business Journal event, sponsored in part by Wells Fargo and The Los Angeles Rams, honored "the amazing work of the nonprofit community along with the corporate citizens and businesses that support them. From the tireless work of nonprofit leaders, teams, and programs, to the efforts of individuals and companies who donate their time, funds, and efforts to improve the communities they serve."This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businessw

AHF rolls out two new national billboard and public health ad campaigns promoting COVID-19 booster shots and encouraging at-risk individuals to get tested for STDs, including HIV, and get treated and into care, if needed

Initiative Marks Key Milestone in Reducing the Funding Gap for Startups Led by Women, Minorities, and Other Underrepresented Founders

AHF’s Healthy Housing Foundation purchases 158-unit, 1896-era historic hotel on West 4th Street in downtown L.A. to repurpose as housing for low-income and formerly homeless peopleFoundation will also run a full-page ad in this Sunday’s Los Angeles Times (10/17) highlighting the acquisition and promoting adaptive reuse of existing older buildings as housing stock

In latest advocacy ad in the Los Angeles Times (Sun., Mar. 21, 2021) AHF’s Housing Is A Human Right warns Mayor Garcetti and the Los Angeles City Council: ‘Don’t Blow It!’ on homelessness

Caliva set the pace for cannabis innovation in 2020 by launching Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter’s MONOGRAM line, expanding its delivery and retail footprint in key California markets, and entering into definitive transaction agreements with Subversive Capital Acquisition Corp. (NEO: SVC.A.U, SVC.WT.U; OTCQX: SBVCF) ("SCAC"), a special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”), to form TPCO Holding Corp. (“The Parent Company”), the largest vertically integrated cannabis platform in California

Red Nation International Film Festival Bestows Its Humanitarian Chief Dan George Award To Acclaimed Directors Josh and Rebecca Tickell

Wells Fargo Pledges to Help Provide 50 Million Meals in Collaboration with Feeding America; Donates $100,000 to ACM Lifting Lives COVID-19 Response FundAwards Show to Broadcast Live from Nashville on Wednesday, Sept. 16, on CBS

AHF’s Healthy Housing Foundation first offered use of a turnkey Van Nuys hotel to government officials over 2 months ago following a statewide call to action by the governor for hotel owners and agencies to temporarily house the homeless and/or isolate suspected coronavirus patients As L.A. city and county officials fall abysmally short in their efforts to provide emergency shelter or housing for the homeless during the pandemic—Los Angeles has only housed 3 homeless people under Gov. Newsom’s Project Roomkey—U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter issued a ruling last week forcing local governments to develop a plan for doing so by this Friday

Sweetener Products Company selected as Vernon Corporate Citizen and Ron Gustafson of Coast Packing Company as Vernon Citizen of the Year Award

Los Angeles City Council Endorses Proposition 10 as Key Solution to Addressing Housing Affordability Crisis #YesOn10

AHF, Coalition to Preserve L.A., & Others Offer Comment, Criticism The 2018 homeless count for the City and County of Los Angeles will be released this afternoon 5/31/18 AHF, which launched the Healthy Housing Foundation in October 2017 to address and help house the homeless, and the Coalition to Preserve L.A., will offer comment & criticism on the new homeless count as well as measures the City & County could be taking to better address the crisis.

OPEN HOUSE & PRESS BRIEFING, Wednesday, February 14th — 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. PUBLIC REMARKS at 11:30 a.m. Also: New ‘Homeless’ billboards echo iconic ‘Hollywood’ sign, cut to the heart of the crisis in L.A. and also expose bureaucrats’ lax response (See: ‘LAScandal.org’)

Columnist Shreds Gilead’s Lame Excuses for Sky-High Drug Prices, Notes ‘Yes on Issue 2’ Campaign