About a year ago, you helped launch One Month Away, an eviction and homelessness prevention plan. When we launched, we had no idea how important this work would become…
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Consider this photo of one resident’s front porch. She’s a mother, a wife, a professional, and she’s battling cancer during a pandemic.
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If you know anyone who needs an example of stellar affordable housing having a huge impact on people who need it most, introduce them to Talmadge Gateway.
Opened in 2017, Talmadge Gateway is San Diego’s first 100% permanent supportive housing for homeless seniors…
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Nearly 40 years ago, our founders mobilized around a shared belief in the power of community.
Too often when a community or neighborhood faces a problem, the community isn’t seen as the key to solving that problem. It happened at our founding, when non locals began carving up streets and making decisions about our community without our consent, and it still happens today.
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Exciting milestone alert! Together, we’ve helped over 300 evictions! Your donations are helping these households stay safely in their homes and off the streets.
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Friends, this is why we’re working in partnership with the San Diego Latino Health Coalition and amazing promotoras like Miriam! Resources are out there. Education is out there. A healthy reopening of our economy is possible, but we must work in partnership and focus on more equitable services if we’re going to get there!
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“I love getting involved in new things, trying new things and just exploring. I’ve been in many clubs and organizations, just trying to get an idea of what I like to do. I really want to keep growing as a person, ya know?”
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“From the get-go, my parents—being immigrants—instilled in me the value of hard work,” Erick shared. “I’ve worked hard, and now I’m set to graduate valedictorian of my high school.”
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Like so many young people in City Heights, Hana knows the struggle, hustle, and resilient hard work of a new immigrant here. Her parents taught her the value of education, and now she is going to college and majoring in aerospace engineering.
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“My family immigrated to the United States from Vietnam when I was three years old. I still remember landing in LAX...”
Thang is one of the winners of our City Heights Legacy Scholarship, and he has big plans. He worked hard and overcame plenty of obstacles to reach this point. He seems happy, but he remembers hard times.
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Latinos are dying at a much higher rate to COVID-19.
34% of San Diego county are Latinx, yet they make up 61% of infections and 45% of the deaths.
So what can we do? It’s a tough, complicated question, but that's why it's so important we ask it—and we are doing something about it!
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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.
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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.
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As if launching a new business weren’t challenging enough, Andrew Benavides launched a year before the pandemic.
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Great news! A second round of funding is now available for small businesses battling to survive the pandemic!
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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!
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“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.”
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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.
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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!
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