Redeemer Community Partnership

“Anna Parks, a director, is wife of Richard Parks, president.”

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“The board, independent of compensated officers or any employees and all related parties, sets compensation using national non-profit comparability data. The discussions and votes are recorded in the minutes.”

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“Client Note 1 - Program Service Accomplishments (Continued)Over the course of the year, Redeemers staff compiled collision data, created bi-lingual educational brochures, posters, and community surveys; and organized opportunities to gather community input and surface a shared vision for making Normandie Ave safe, beautiful and accessible.Community members engaged extensively by surveying neighbors door-to-door; distributing advertising materials to laundromats, dry cleaners, donut shops, and bike shops; providing monthly updates to neighborhood council and neighborhood association meetings, placing Make Normandie Beautiful yard signs throughout the community to announce meetings, and by supporting and participating in community workshops. Youth provided input through a PhotoVoice project. Residents provided feedback at a Walk & Roll Audit and a Bike Audit. Over the first part of the year we hosted two in-person workshops before the pandemic and a final open house online. A shared vision surfaced through these exchanges. Residents envisioned a community where neighbors walk and bike to school and to one anothers homes, instead of driving. Where active streets breathe new life into moribund business corridors. Where active transportation is a safe, viable alternative to modes that burn fossil fuels. Residents envision Normandie Ave. as a beautiful entrance to South LA and to home, instead of a high-speed raceway. Neighbors envision a community where not needing to own a car helps keep our community affordable and preserves the diversity that we treasure. Residents envision a community where a network of safe streets bridges the historic divide between the USC campus and the community connecting residents to the commercial, cultural, recreational, educational, and public transportation resources of Exposition and University Parks. In short, residents prioritized streets that were safe, beautiful and inviting for everyone, but especially for those walking, biking, and rolling.Encouraged by the strong community engagement, the City extended the project south to MLK Blvd. and north to the Santa Monica Freeway and added investments around Vermont Ave. Elementary Schoola priority Safe Routes to School project for LAUSD. The project calls for repairing sidewalks, adding pedestrian lighting and signalized pedestrian crossings, planting street trees and developing two low-stress bike routes. These low stress bike routes will be improved with speed bumps, traffic circles, and curb extensions to safely connect residents to parks and children to their schools. Redeemers staff has worked tirelessly over the year to support the City of Los Angeles grant writing efforts. The $18 million grant proposal will compete statewide for a share of the $440 million to be awarded in early spring 2021.emPowerWorking in partnership with the Liberty Hill Foundation, Redeemer Community Partnership launched emPower, a program to connect residents to energy efficiency rebates and to help income-qualified families access lower utility rates, utility bill cash assistance, free appliances and more. emPOWER seeks to overcome barriers to sustainable energy usage commonly experienced in low-income and working-class communities of color. emPOWER works by matching household needs with local and statewide resources to help residents maximize potential savings and use of available incentive programs.The program (1) makes sure that low-income households are taking advantage of all available financial aid options, (2) promotes low- or no-cost energy efficiency programs, like solar panel installations, home improvements, and appliance rebates to meet basic energy needs and save even more on energy bills, and (3) informs residents of electric and hybrid vehicle options, explains incentives, and consults with residents to determine the feasibility of using a clean energy vehicle or transit and shared mobility vouchers with the trade-ins of older, high-polluting vehicles. Th”