Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.latimes.metro From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: RIOT BRIEFS Foundation Provides $240,000 to Promote Social Change Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 06:47:12 EST Message-ID: HEADLINE: RIOT BRIEFS Foundation Provides $240,000 to Promote Social Change Publication Date: Tuesday November 3, 1992 BYLINE: A foundation that specializes in making "seed" grants to experimental ventures for social change has given $240,000 to groups addressing problems underscored by the spring riots. The Santa Monica-based Liberty Hill Foundation made the grants through its Fund for a New L.A. The largest donation to the fund was $185,000 from Comic Relief. Other donors were the Jewish Fund for Justice, the McKay Foundation and the Urban Foundation of the First United Methodist Church. Grants ranging from $10,000 to $35,000 were made to 14 community organizations. They include the Asian Pacific Dispute Resolution Center, the Black Awareness Community Development Organization, Comite pro Paz en el Barrio, the Korean Immigrant Workers Assn. and the United Neighborhood Organization. This article is copyright 1992 The Los Angeles Times Home Edition. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM