“Distributing food, prayer – and a sense of change”
That headline is straight from the front page of yesterday’s LA Times, with a story highlighting gang intervention as a way of combating urban violence. The story mentions three LA nonprofits: the Dream Center (a church ministry with a presence in New York as well as Los Angeles), A Better LA (a nonprofit founded by USC football coach Pete Carroll, which funds 26 gang interventionists in South LA), and the Advancement Project (based in LA and Washington, DC, founded by civil rights attorneys to advance policy changes through a variety of innovative tools).
Understated quote (from reporter Scott Gold), “Gang intervention is, by definition, a messy line of work.”
