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Women Organizing Resources Knowledge and Services (WORKS) Announces Organizational Changes
After 23 years as Founding President and CEO of WORKS, Channa Grace is stepping back from some management responsibilities for WORKS to allow her to spend more time on her own health and wellness, while continuing to support WORKS’ housing development, tenant services and community advocacy efforts in key projects….
88th and Vermont Earns Platinum LEED Certification – It’s Green!
88th & Vermont, WORKS’s most recently completed affordable housing and supportive services development in South Los Angeles, has been awarded Platinum certification – the highest level of certification – through the LEED® for Homes Midrise Program as of June 2020, recognizing the many environmental and energy-saving features incorporated in its…
It Took Three Years of Blown Deadlines, But L.A. Opens Its First Homeless Housing Project
LA Times By Doug SmithSenior Writer Jan. 7, 2020 5 AM PT For months, the wooden frame rising at 88th and Vermont stood as a constant reminder of the unfulfilled promise of Proposition HHH, the $1.2-billion bond for homeless housing that Los Angeles voters approved more than three years ago….
Mayor Garcetti Celebrates Opening of First HHH-funded Supportive Housing Development
January 6, 2020 Mayor Eric Garcetti today celebrated the opening of 88th and Vermont, the first HHH-financed supportive housing development to be completed since the bond measure passed in 2016. The Mayor was joined at the ceremony by Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, Councilmember Herb Wesson, as well as numerous community leaders….
WORKS Awarded Grant from Enterprise under EARPS COVID Response Initiative
WORKS is one of seven Southland organizations to receive a grant from Enterprise under the Emergency Action for Resident and Partner Sustainability program (EARPS), a national initiative with a local programmatic version to support local nonprofit affordable housing organizations with: Grants to help organizations stay afloat and meet their residents’…
WORKS Receives Enterprise Trailblazer of the Year Award
Enterprise Community Partners in Southern California anointed WORKS, including Channa Grace and the entire WORKS team, Enterprise Trailblazer of the Year, at its 12th annual Southland Social Gala on October 17, 2019. Two other exemplary leaders were honored at the same ceremony, including: Dr. Manual Pastor, James Rouse Spirit of…
88th & Vermont Seeks LEED Platinum Certification
WORKS is pleased to announce that its newly constructed 88th & Vermont development seeks LEED Platinum Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council Download Here: https://www.worksusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/88th-Vermont-LEED-article.pdf
WORKS Receives Developer of the Year Award!
In the fall of 2016, the Southern California Association of Non Profit Housing (SCANPH) honored W.O.R.K.S. with its prestigious Homes Within Reach Developer of the Year Award. The award, presented at SCANPH’s annual conference, recognizes “excellence in affordable housing” in the southern California housing community. Executive Director Channa Grace recognized…
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Spoken Word and Advocacy charge up Young Burlington Youth!
Get Lit and The Painted Brain burst onto the scene in February 2016 at WORKS’ Young Burlington housing development in the Pico Union neighborhood of Los Angeles, getting our millennial residents charged up to write and perform and to advocate for a world free of the stigma that surrounds mental…
