Khalisa has a background in public health and is passionate about more holistic, nuanced approaches to making communities more healthy. As she put it, “health is a big part of quality of life. When people are healthy, their quality of life is often higher.”

Considering our mission statement is ‘improving the quality of life in City Heights’, it’s no surprise we’re so excited to have Khalisa onboard.

Whether it’s a group of neighbors choosing to march in solidarity, a few friends taking a road trip, or a family taking a bike ride together, there’s something important that happens when we choose to go places together.

As if launching a new business weren’t challenging enough, Andrew Benavides launched a year before the pandemic.

Great news! A second round of funding is now available for small businesses battling to survive the pandemic!

Participants of the Better By Bike Scavenger Hunt are saying how excited they feel to get out into the community in a healthy, safe, and fun way with their families!

The issues of eviction, fair housing, and homelessness can seem enormous and out of reach, but we are not powerless to help! Take a minute to donate to our One Month Away eviction prevention work here.

“As a child my father would take me to the San Diego Waste landfill to show me the negative impact waste has on the environment. Despite his broken English and third grade education, he motivated me to become an advocate for sustainable changes in my community.”

From an Ethiopian refugee camp to being a student at Mira Costa College, Roda continues to face challenges, but she refuses to allow anything to interfere with her goals of graduating from college.

Last week, a friend and community member named Tranisha Dangerfield passed away. Here are just a few of the fond memories, tributes, and words of encouragement our community has for her. Rest in power, dear friend!

A huge thank you to our friends and partners over at Price Philanthropies for this generous write-up! It’s been our honor to work alongside you guys in this community. Here’s a cross-post of what they wrote…

We’re excited to announce the annual City Heights Legacy Fund Scholarship is a GO! See eligibility requirements and the application via the button below, and stay tuned for more info and stories of past winners!

Friends, we are witnessing a global uprising, a groundswell of racial justice, but simply witnessing it isn’t enough. We must deepen our commitment to practicing anti-racism, and one great step is to make a commitment to educating ourselves.

This pandemic has devastated small businesses, and we’re jumping in to help. Click to read more and apply for funding to help keep your business operating.

“COVID 19 disproportionately impacts people of color, black people. More that 40% of people in my neighborhood are unemployed and are having to choose between food and rent…”

If we reach this goal, a funding partner will provide an additional $100k, totalling $200k for small businesses struggling under COVID-19 in City Heights!

The City of San Diego will begin budget discussions very soon, and with that comes debate over rent relief for the thousands of struggling households in our communities. Here are 5 things to consider.

We are outraged, disgusted, but not without hope as we join the millions of Americans standing in solidarity and saying Black Lives Matter. By speaking up, the community refuses to allow the murders committed against black women and men to ever be considered normal or acceptable.

40 years ago, our community faced many challenges, but the defining struggle was against the devastation caused by the instillation of the 15 freeway.

Today, after nearly four decades spent working alongside our neighbors, we face a new defining struggle: the housing crisis.

In 2019, our Resident Services team received, processed, packaged, and distributed 390 ‘packages’ of emergency food.
In just March and April of this year, the team distributed 321 packages of emergency food. That means we’re on pace to provide more emergency food in 10 weeks than we did in ALL of 2019!

Friends, COVID-19 is one of the most challenging moments of our lives. While we physically distance, it's important to stay socially connected—and stay up to speed on what’s happening in the community!