Liberty Hill Leaving Santa Monica After 35 Years

Liberty Hill, a social-justice foundation that has spent its entire 35-year history in Santa Monica, announced Friday that it is relocating next month.

Effective July 5, the foundation's new address will be 6420 Wilshire Blvd. (Ste. 700), between San Vicente Blvd. and Crescent Heights Blvd., in Los Angeles. In Santa Monica, its location has been 2121 Cloverfield Blvd.

"In the next several years, Liberty Hill is embarking on a plan to become an even more effective, powerful, public foundation," Liberty Hill President and CEO Kafi D. Blumenfield said in a statement. "A key part of that is our move to a central location on one of the city's great thoroughfares, Wilshire Boulevard. The move catapults us into greater Los Angeles and positions us to better serve our grantees and broaden our base of support."

The foundation uses a combination of grants, leadership training and alliance-building to affect social and environmental change in Los Angeles County. According to the Liberty Hill, it has poured more than $40 million into grassroots community organizing since the foundation started. Over the past decade, its investment has helped register 100,000 low-income individuals to vote. The investment has also facilitated 25,000 individuals to secure living-wage jobs and rise the poverty level.

Liberty Hill has also worked to secure hundreds of millions of dollars for parks in low-income neighborhoods; helped protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning high school students in California from harassment and violence; and assisted Los Angeles in operating the U.S.'s largest clean-fuel bus fleet.