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The other [organizing] committee members are former L.A. Congressman Mel Levine, civics scholar and social entrepreneur Shawn Landres, UCLA Jewish history professor David Myers, political consultant Dan Loeterman and attorney Janice Kamenir-Reznik.
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Santa Monica’s Social Services Commission chair believes the City could see a significant portion of that money. “It has been really unrelenting in terms of across the county seeing the rise in the number of women and children who are homeless,” Landres said. “It’s just unacceptable. A rise in the number of seniors who are
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“I …look forward to the City now having the time and the energy to turn its attention to the many many many other challenges and opportunities before us.”
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Santa Monica’s Shawn Landres has been elected chair of the Los Angeles County Quality & Productivity Commission, which oversees the nation’s oldest and largest local government innovation fund. …He is the youngest commission chair in nearly two decades.
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The council heard from Shawn Landres, who serves on the City’s Social Services Commission. He called the measure “vital.” Landres said, “We as a City have invested so much to combat homelessness and to prevent homelessness. It’s time that other jurisdictions step up.” Although homelessness has long been an issue in Santa Monica, the City
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Shawn Landres, Ph.D., co-founder of Jumpstart, a Los Angeles think tank known for its research into charitable giving, says …”We do know that there are people with resources who are now choosing to give to a charity rather than buy that extra boat or that $5,000 case of Champagne. “There’s also a generational style that
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New data shows Hollywood’s big-ticket contributions have decreased in the years following the 2008 market crash as entertainment figures opt for new forms of philanthropy in a recovering economy.
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The report was drawn from a research project developed by Bill Parent, a lecturer in public policy, and urban planning professor Paul Ong. The primary authors of the report are Luskin Civil Society Fellow J. Shawn Landres and Shakari Byerly.
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It combines IRS data with a survey of 1,200 residents conducted by the study’s authors, J. Shawn Landres and Shakari Byerly, who wrote it with support from faculty and staff at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs’ Center for Neighborhood Knowledge.
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Charities can educate donors through seminars but the best recruiters are often other donors, particularly those who give through estate planning, said Shawn Landres, a UCLA Luskin School Civil Society Fellow and co-author of the study.
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