2026 Upton Sinclair Dinner Awards Journal

Upton Sinclair Dinner 2026 HONORING 50 YEARS OF SOLIDARIT Y & PROGRE S S

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With Deep Gratitude For 50 years, Liberty Hill has been shaped by a community of co-founders, donor-activists, partners, and supporters who believed that lasting change begins with community power.

Thank you for standing with Liberty Hill across generations.

Thank you for investing in grassroots leadership, bold ideas, and the movements building a more just Los Angeles.

As we celebrate 50 Years of Solidarity & Progress, we honor all those who have helped make this work possible and continue to carry it forward.

With deep gratitude to our co-founders, donor-activists, and the Liberty Hill community, and with special thanks to our Hero-level supporters for helping lead this milestone year.

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Solidarity & Progress This year, Liberty Hill Foundation marks an extraordinary milestone: 50 years of building power, investing in communities, and standing alongside the people and movements shaping a more just Los Angeles.

understand our role. We are here to help build lasting power — to invest in the people, relationships, and infrastructure that allow movements not only to win, but to endure.

We believe the future of Los Angeles depends on the leadership, wisdom, and vision of the people most impacted by injustice.

This anniversary is a moment to reflect, but also to give thanks. We are grateful to the organizers, partners, donors, board members, staff, and movement leaders who have carried this work forward across generations. Liberty Hill’s story has never been about any one person or institution.

It has always been about what becomes possible when people join in common purpose and shared belief.

That work feels as urgent today as ever.

Every day, our partners and communities continue to show what real leadership looks like: protecting tenants from displacement, fighting for young people to be supported rather than punished, building healthier neighborhoods, and advancing solutions grounded in dignity, care, and collective power.

Liberty Hill began in 1976 as a bold experiment in philanthropy. Our founders saw an opportunity for resources to flow differently.

They believed that communities closest to injustice should have a real voice in shaping solutions, and that grassroots organizing was worthy of long-term trust and investment.

As we celebrate this milestone year, we do so with our eyes on the horizon. Fifty years is not only a chance to honor where we have been, but to ask what we are building now for the generations to come.

To everyone who has helped shape Liberty Hill’s journey — thank you. Thank you for your partnership, your trust, your generosity, and your belief in what communities can achieve when they have the resources and power to lead.

That belief remains at the heart of who we are today.

Over the past 50 years, that commitment has helped seed and sustain movements that have reshaped Los Angeles. Together, this community has supported organizing that advanced housing justice, environmental justice, youth justice, LGBTQ+ justice, and new visions of a multi-racial democracy.

We have invested in leaders, backed bold ideas, nurtured coalitions, and stood with communities through moments of urgency, resistance, and hard-won progress.

We are honored to celebrate this milestone with you, and even more honored to keep building what comes next, together.

With gratitude,

Shane Murphy Goldsmith President & CEO

What has always distinguished Liberty Hill is not only what we fund, but how we

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CO-FOUNDERS & HONOREES

Anne Mendel, Win McCormack, Sarah Pillsbury, & Larry Janss

In 1975, four young people with inherited wealth gathered for a picnic in Topanga Canyon to imagine a different way to give. That conversation led Anne Mendel, Win McCormack, Sarah Pillsbury, and Larry Janss to create Liberty Hill Foundation in 1976.

In Liberty Hill’s early days, that vision helped seed movements for racial justice, housing, environmental justice, immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ justice, labor, and anti-nuclear organizing, while laying the groundwork for what would become one of the most enduring movement institutions in Los Angeles.

It was a bold philanthropic experiment rooted in a simple but radical belief: the people closest to injustice should help shape the solutions.

Fifty years later, their vision still shapes Liberty Hill’s work. Their legacy is evident not only in the institution they launched, but also in the generations of organizers, donor-activists, and community leaders who continue to carry it forward.

They built an institution committed to addressing root causes and trusting grassroots leadership. They helped establish Liberty Hill’s defining approach: catalytic early funding, deep partnership with organizers, and a groundbreaking Community Funding Board to shift grantmaking power toward the community.

We honor the co-founders of Liberty Hill Foundation for imagining a different kind of philanthropy — one rooted in solidarity, shared power, and belief in the transformative leadership of communities.

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EMCEE

Eric Garcetti Ambassador, Global Climate Diplomacy

Eric Garcetti is a leader, educator, diplomat, and public servant whose career has been defined by bringing people together to build healthier, more just, and more prosperous communities.

He currently serves as Ambassador for Global Climate Diplomacy for C40 Cities, representing cities in international climate negotiations and advancing urban leadership on the climate crisis.

President. In 2013, he was elected the youngest mayor in Los Angeles history and was re-elected in 2017 by the widest margin in the city’s history.

Garcetti’s public service record includes landmark work on climate, labor standards, parks, affordable housing, civic equity, and access to opportunity.

He also helped secure Los Angeles’s successful bid to host the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

From 2023 to 2025, Garcetti served as U.S. Ambassador to India, where he helped deepen ties between the world’s two largest democracies across trade, education, health, defense, and peopleto-people exchange.

Tonight, we are pleased to welcome Eric Garcetti as emcee for Liberty Hill’s 50th Anniversary Upton Sinclair Dinner. His long record of public leadership, civic vision, and commitment to Los Angeles makes him a fitting guide for an evening celebrating five decades of solidarity, progress, and community power.

A fourth-generation Angeleno, Garcetti spent more than two decades in elected office in Los Angeles, including 12 years on the City Council and six as Council 5

HONOREE & KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Angélica Salas Executive Director CHIRLA

Angélica Salas is one of the nation’s most respected immigrant rights leaders and a transformative force in Los Angeles organizing. An immigrant from Durango, Mexico, she came to the United States as a child to reunite with her parents and experienced undocumented life, deportation, and legalization firsthand. That lived experience has shaped a lifetime commitment to immigrant justice.

services, day laborer centers that became national models, drivers’ licenses for undocumented Californians, and critical wins for undocumented students and immigrant families. She has also played a national leadership role in immigration reform efforts and helped build influential coalitions including the Fair Immigration Reform Movement and the National Partnership for New Americans.

Salas joined CHIRLA in 1995 and became Executive Director in 1999, growing the organization into one of the country’s largest and most effective immigrant-led institutions.

A graduate of Occidental College and recipient of an honorary doctorate from her alma mater, Salas has spent decades turning courage into policy, organizing into power, and immigrant communities into a decisive force for justice.

Under her leadership, CHIRLA has advanced major local, state, and national victories for immigrant communities, including expanded access to legal

Tonight, we are honored to welcome her as a speaker whose leadership reflects the very spirit of people power that Liberty Hill has championed for 50 years.

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HONOREE & KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Joanna Jackson President & CEO Weingart Foundation

Joanna Jackson is a philanthropic leader whose work is rooted in a deep commitment to racial justice, transformation, and the belief that philanthropy can help drive real change. With more than 25 years of experience across the nonprofit, philanthropic, and public sectors, she became President & CEO of the Weingart Foundation in June 2024 after serving in multiple leadership roles there since 2008.

Southern California through trustbased, multi-year support, movement infrastructure, impact investing, and cross-sector partnership. Her vision of philanthropy is grounded in love, justice, and transformation. She has spoken powerfully about the need to align not only grantmaking, but also institutional practice and capital, with the communities most impacted by inequity.

That approach has helped position Weingart as a leader in trust-based and justice-centered philanthropy.

Prior to Weingart, she held roles at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, The California Endowment, the City of San Jose, and other mission-driven organizations. She also serves on the boards of Southern California Grantmakers and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.

A proud graduate of Spelman College and Baruch College, Jackson brings both strategic rigor and moral clarity to her work. Tonight, Liberty Hill honors Joanna Jackson for helping model the kind of philanthropy our movements need: courageous, accountable, and rooted in partnership with community.

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1976-1989: Taking Root: The Evolution of Liberty Hill Liberty Hill began as a bold experiment in social justice philanthropy — one rooted in the belief that community voices, not traditional gatekeeping, should shape where resources flow.

1976: Liberty Hill was founded by Anne Mendel, Win McCormack, Sarah Pillsbury, and Larry Janss.

Early support seeded movements in housing, immigrant rights, environmental justice, and more.

1983: The first Upton Sinclair Dinner helped grow Liberty Hill’s public identity and reach.

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1990–2005: Building Power to Win As movements across Los Angeles grew stronger and more connected, Liberty Hill invested in the infrastructure needed to win lasting change, helping coalitions move from isolated victories to structural reform.

Liberty Hill backed organizing that advanced labor, immigrant, reproductive, and housing justice.

Donor learning tours connected supporters to frontline communities.

1997: The Living Wage Coalition secured a landmark ordinance raising wages for over 10,000 workers.

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2006–2016: Investing in Enduring Power During this era, Liberty Hill expanded its role as a backbone institution, investing not only in campaigns, but in the people, leadership, and relationships needed for movements to last.

2006: Liberty Hill grantees help lead one of the largest immigrant rights mobilizations in Los Angeles history.

Leadership development became a core strategy for building power.

Liberty Hill deepened its role as a connector across movements.

Programs like the Wally Marks Leadership Institute invested in leaders shaping LA’s future.

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2017–2026: Shaping the Future Building on decades of organizing and movement infrastructure, Liberty Hill entered a new era defined by community-led solutions, transformative policy change, and a deeper commitment to shifting power itself.

Ready to Rise expanded community-based alternatives to youth incarceration.

2017: The Agenda for a Just Future sharpened Liberty Hill’s focus on youth, housing, and environmental justice.

Today, Liberty Hill continues to invest in leadership, narrative change, and collective action for the future of Los Angeles.

Environmental justice campaigns drove historic victories against neighborhood oil drilling.

Housing justice efforts advanced rent stabilization, eviction defense, and community-led solutions.

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Then: They Started It All Liberty Hill began with a simple but radical idea: that philanthropy could look different if community power sat at the center.

The co-founders helped launch a new vision for philanthropy in Los Angeles.

What started as a bold experiment became a lasting force for justice in Los Angeles.

From the beginning, the Community Funding Board reflected Liberty Hill’s belief in shared power.

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Then: Growing Our Community As Liberty Hill grew, so did the circle of donor-activists, board members, and community leaders who helped sustain a different vision for social justice philanthropy.

The Upton Sinclair Dinner became a gathering point for movement and philanthropy.

Liberty Hill’s community grew across generations of supporters, organizers, and allies.

Early donor-activists helped shape more than an institution — they helped shape a movement.

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Now: Advancing the Mission Fifty years in, Liberty Hill remains a community shaped by donor-activists, staff, board members, movement leaders, and supporters carrying the work forward together.

New generations continue to shape Liberty Hill’s future.

Across gatherings, campaigns, and shared spaces, Liberty Hill’s people remain its strongest asset.

Today’s community reflects a long tradition of donor activism and collective action.

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Now: Building the Good This anniversary is not only about looking back. It is about recognizing the people, relationships, and communities that continue to shape Liberty Hill today.

Liberty Hill’s story has always been carried by people in relationship.

Across generations, the work has endured because the community has.

What began as an experiment became a lasting home for community power.

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Donor Activism SHARED VALUES, SHARED INVESTMENT

Giving Circles build on a long Liberty Hill tradition: collective investment rooted in shared values, community, and a belief that philanthropy can and should be participatory.

Collective giving has long been part of Liberty Hill’s culture.

Giving Circles create space for donors to learn, build community, and act together.

This tradition reflects Liberty Hill’s deeper commitment to shared power.

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THE FUTURE OF COLLECTIVE GIVING

Today’s Giving Circles carry Liberty Hill’s legacy of donor activism into the future — building community, deepening shared purpose, and investing in the movements shaping Los Angeles now.

The Next Gen Giving Circle reflects a new chapter in Liberty Hill’s donor community.

As Liberty Hill looks ahead, Giving Circles offer one vision of how the community grows.

Collective giving continues to connect people to movement work in meaningful ways.

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Leadership & Staff Shane Murphy Goldsmith President/CEO Courtney Kassel Chief Communications Officer Julio Marcial Chief Impact Officer

Deepika Kandula Senior Director, Organizational Systems & Effectiveness Diego Bravo Program Director, Ready to Rise

Jack McCurley Chief Operating Officer

Ely Flores Program Director, Bold Vision and ELI

Angela Reyes Chief Financial Officer

Emily Phillips Data Manager

Manal J. Aboelata Chief Program Officer

Evelyn Boone Controller

Corey Matthews Chief Strategy Officer

Griffin Hatlestad Program Director, Housing

Nisha Randhava Chief Advancement Officer _________ Andres Magaña Deputy Director, PR & Community Engagement Angel Moreno Senior Manager, Human Resources Angelo Logan Senior Director, Environmental & Climate Justice Araceli Centeno Director, Thriving Communities Ariella Reiss Senior Director, Finance & Accounting Charlette Wilburn Vice President, People Operations

Jessica Prieto Senior Program Manager, Public Partnerships

Lisa Small Senior Director, Youth & Transformative Justice Mike Dennis Senior Director, Housing Justice Natalie Perez Marketing Communications Coordinator Neva Chevalier Executive Assistant, Board Liaison Ricardo Chavira Senior Director, Marketing & Communications Roni Hooper Senior Director of Foundation & Government Grants Sonya Glover Senior Manager of Events

Jill Freidmutter Senior Database Manager

Stephanie Alvarado Vice President, Advancement

Jordan Haynes Senior Manager, Donor Relations

Tekaysha Reese Executive Assistant, Impact

Joy Friedman Senior Director, Donor Organizing

Thaise Boyd Senior Accountant Vanessa Gomez Grant Accountant

Juontel White Vice President, Impact Operations

Veronica Phillips Senior Grants Writer

Justin Suarez Program Manager of Grants

Yesenia Rodrigues Program Manager

Kayla Edgell Accounts Payable Specialist

Yulissa Alvarez Executive Assistant, People Operations

Kristin Thomas Program Coordinator Lia Williams Program Coordinator

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Board

Amelia Williamson Co-Chair

Marta Ferro Board Member

Timothy Silard Board Member

Jon Christensen Co-Chair

Veronica Flores Board Member

Dominique Tan Board Member

Mark Smith Treasurer

Shimica Gaskins Board Member

Belen Vargas Board Member

Angel Roberson Daniels Secretary

Julie Hermelin Board Member

Sarah Pillsbury Co-Founder & Emeritus Advisor to the Board of Directors

Mary Ann Braubach Board Member

Jennifer Ito Board Member

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In Memoriam We honor the cherished members of the Liberty Hill community who are no longer with us. Their contributions, courage, and care remain part of the legacy we carry forward.

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Wallis Annenberg Ed Asner Elaine Attias Leo Baefsky Ruth Beaglehole Laurie L. Becklund Leonard I. Beerman Harry Belafonte Suzanne Biegel Susan Blumenfield Blasé Bonpane Marcia Burnam Bob Chartoff Mae Churchill Jed Dannenbaum Toby D'Oench Marjorie Fasman Ralph Fertig Leo Frumkin Lark Galloway-Gilliam Ted Gardner Lanny Gertler Deborah Goldman Daniel Greenberg Ted Hajjar Tom Hayden Alice Heidy Billie Heller Irene Hirano Dan Hirsch Liz Levitt Hirsch Sam Ho Dave Johnson Betty Jean Kivel Lee F. Lainer Michael Latt James Lawson Norman Lear Shirley Lens Stephen O. Lesser

John Lewis Patrick Lippert Mary Lloyd-Estrin William S. Louchheim Shirley Magidson Wally N. Marks Jesse N. Marquez Betsy Mazursky Meg Mazursky Paul Mazursky Lillibeth Navarro Andrea Nevins Bob Olodort Max Palevsky Bernice Johnson Reagon Jaime Regalado George Regas Bernard Rollins Susan Sandler Betty Warner Sheinbaum Stanley K. Sheinbaum Alan Sieroty Jean Sieroty Beatriz Solis Moe Stavnezer Gary Stewart Madeleine Stoner Mario Vasquez Susan Watanabe Mary Brent Wehrli Hannah Weinstein Paula Weinstein Jeri Weiss Haskell Wexler Eugene Williams David Wolf Kent Wong Peg Yorkin Howard Zinn

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Thank You to Our Sponsors HEROES Abby Sher Anonymous (2) Barbara Cohn Jon Christensen & Ursula Heise Molly Munger & Stephen English Stephanie & Harold Bronson Sylvia Patton JUSTICE CATALYSTS Celia Bernstein & Brad Kesden The California Endowment Katie McGrath & JJ Abrams Family Foundation Weingart Foundation Win McCormack CHAMPIONS Anonymous Beth Burnam Black Freedom Fund Charles Fields California Community Foundation The California Wellness Foundation Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund Heather Joy Rosenberg & Josh Joy Kamensky and Ocean & Mountain Communications Kafi Blumenfield & Councilmember Bob Blumenfield Marta Ferro & Starfish Impact Mahdesian Family Paula & Barry Litt Steve Phillips The Narrative Method Torie Weiston-Serdan

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Thank You to Our Sponsors ORGANIZERS

CHANGEMAKERS Allison Thomas Amity Foundation Belen Vargas Cathy Salser Charles F. Johnson & Anne Johnson Community Support Engagement - AFT 1521 David Bohnett Foundation David Callahan Dean Hansell Ethan Goldstine First 5 LA James Irvine Foundation Jared & Janina Rivera Jennifer Gregg John Densmore Jon Wiener Katharine King Kathy Kobayashi & Hal Barron Latino Community Foundation Lauren White & Alex Gansa Loraine Lundquist Manuel Pastor Mary Ann Braubach Miguel Contreras Foundation Natural Resources Defense Council Roberta Conroy Social Impact Fund The Eli and Edyth Broad Foundation Trice Koopman & Mark Freund Zuzana & Shawn Landres

Amalgamated Bank Amelia Williamson Angell Foundation CAST LA CHIRLA Connie & Keith Rohman Dominique Tan Elizabeth Zaillian Flora & Andrew Birdzell GYL CPA Janet Levin & Frank Gruber Jemmott Rollins Group, Inc. Jennifer Ito Joyce & Joseph Ybarra Julie Hermelin Kaci Patterson LA84 Foundation Larry Janss Liz Heller & John Manulis Los Angeles Rams Nancy L. Cohen & Jonathan Parfrey PICO California Play Equity Fund Rita Taggart Rosenberg Foundation Shamya Ullah Sierra Health Foundation Southern California Grantmakers Social Justice Learning Institute SRI Wealth Management Group Greenberg Foundation Torie Weiston-Serdan Trust for Public Land Unite Here Local 11 United Way of Greater LA Wally N. Marks, III & Suzy Marks Webb Family Wendy Chang & Cause Communications Whitney Green

TABLE HOSTS Alison Morgan & Parke Skelton Stella T. Maloyan

NAME LISTINGS Catalyst California Mona Field Jennifer Gregg Jeffrey Hersh & Rick Ayres Cassie & Garo Gardener Manjikian Peter Olney US Equity Research

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OUR DEEPEST GRATITUDE FOR THE DEDICATION AND SUPPORT OF OUR UPTON SINCLAIR DINNER 2026 CO-CHAIRS AND CO-HOST COMMITTEE. Co-Chairs: Mary Jo Von Mach Michele Prichard Torie Osborn Kafi Blumenfield Shane Murphy Goldsmith Co-Host Committee: Celia Bernstein Mary Ann Braubach Stephanie & Harold Bronson Wendy Chang Jon Christensen Barbara Cohn Marta Ferro Richard Foos Fran Jemmott Rollins Mary Lassen Paula Litt Suzy Marks Alison Morgan Jane Peebles Sarah Pillsbury Michele Prichard Margarita Ramirez Abby Sher Julie Thompson & Brogan T. de Paor

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Thank you to long-time supporters Julie Thompson and Brogan T. de Paor for their activist video archive footage and their continued support through the years. Your footage has brought our history to life and helped tell the story of our evolution. Thank you for your support!

A HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE CONSULTANTS, DESIGNERS, MUSICIANS, CREATIVE AND FUNDRAISING PROFESSIONALS WHO WORKED WITH US TO MAKE OUR 50TH ANNIVERSARY UPTON SINCLAIR DINNER A SUCCESS! Betterdays Studios Film Production Freedom Singers Entertainment JJLA Event Production Joseph Escobar Design Production Kristen Schwarz Journal Design The Shambles Entertainment Stella T. Maloyan Philanthropic Advisor Trista Harris Mural Design

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Our Mission To expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians.

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Fifty years ago, the founders of Liberty Hill imagined and built a different kind of philanthropy.

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Join us in imagining and building a different kind of Los Angeles for the next 50 years.

Jon Christensen & Amelia Williamson Co-chairs of the Board of Directors of Liberty Hill Foundation

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Upton Sinclair 1878-1968

Joe Hill 1879-1915

“Y’ know, Upton, that speech you gave on the little Liberty Hill at San Pedro Harbor got the harbor bosses’s knickers in a twist, especially when you got your skinny Commie ass arrested for reading the constitution. That was really sumpin’.”

“Thank you Joe, my friend. Y’know, I feel compelled to confess that I worry whether the progressive labor movement has the staying power to remain relevant, powerful, and true to its basic vision for the long-term, multigenerational future.”

“Upton, I’m guessing that each future generation will just have to muddle along confronting injustice in their own way, just like we did when we were kids. Let us remember the teachings of Rabbi Tarfon:

“It is not incumbent on thee to finish the work, Neither are thee at liberty to desist from it.”

THE LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION NOT DESISTING FOR FIFTY YEARS

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Win, Anne, Larry & Sarah.

Proud grandparents of the Liberty Hill Foundation for 50 years.

Joe Hill

by Alfred Hayes, Earl Robinson I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, alive as you and me.

Says I, “But Joe, you’re ten years dead.”

“I never died,” says he, “I never died,” says he.

“The Copper Bosses killed you Joe, they shot you Joe,” says I. “Takes more than guns to kill a man,” Says Joe “I didn’t die,” Says Joe “I didn’t die.”

And standing there as big as life and smiling with his eyes, Says Joe, “What they can never kill went on to organize, went on to organize.”

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Larry Janss

Congratulations to Liberty Hill on 50 years of fighting for justice and equity.

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Today’s Democrats could aspire just to returnToday’s us to Democrats could aspire just to return us to some pre-Trump “normal.” But for millions some pre-Trump “normal.” But for millions of Americans, that isn’t nearly good enough. of Americans, that isn’t nearly good enough.

The country needs a Democratic Party that seeks The country to needs a Democratic Party that seeks to create a new and far better “normal”—and that’s create a new and far better “normal”—and that’s willing to fight the people standing in the way.willing to fight the people standing in the way.

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“May we not just grieve, but give.

May we not just ache, but act.”

— Amanda Gorman, Hymn for the Hurting

Thank you Liberty Hill for being our home base for giving and connecting us to the best of LA since 1988.

Love, Celia and Brad

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Celebrating Liberty Hill’s 2026 Fund For Change Community Funding Board

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Congratulations Liberty Hill on your 50th Anniversary! Thank you for your commitment to social justice and dedication to making Los Angeles a better place in which to live, work, and play.

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Celebrating 50 Years of Impact Southern California Blacks in Philanthropy honors the Liberty Hill Foundation for ve decades of advancing justice and investing in community.

We are proud to stand with you, always.

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Honoring 50 years of powering movements and driving justice.

Congratulations, Liberty Hill Foundation.

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“We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.”

Bayard Rustin We salute Liberty Hill’s 50 years of nurturing, training, networking and supporting generations of amazing troublemakers.

With deep appreciation, Paula & Barry Litt

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THE MAHDESIAN FAMILY & SERVICON CARES CONGRATULATE LIBERTY HILL ON 50 YEARS OF JUSTICE-DRIVEN CHANGE!

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To Mary Jo & Sarah, who helped make Liberty Hill a special place.

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The Katie McGrath & J.J. Abrams Family Foundation is proud to celebrate Liberty Hill Foundation's 50 years of solidarity & progress and congratulates tonight's honorees: Co-Founders Larry Janss Win McCormack Anne Mendel & Sarah Pillsbury

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CONGRATULATIONS LIBERTY HILL 50 YEARS OF CHANGE, NOT CHARITY _______

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HAPPY 50TH LIBERTY HILL Much admiration and gratitude to Sarah Pillsbury, Shane Goldsmith, the past and current Liberty Hill leaders, staff, Boards, grantees, and donor activists.

Your achievements have unfailingly demonstrated the effectiveness of your deep commitment to a thriving Los Angeles for all.

Onward!

Molly Munger & Steve English

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“Steve Phillips situates our present crisis exactly where it belongs—within the long, unfinished struggle to make real the promise that all are created equal. . . . He reminds us that backlash is not new, but neither is resistance.”

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Starfish Impact proudly celebrates 50 years of progress, people power, and possibility alongside Liberty Hill Foundation.

Together, we are advancing a more just and equitable Los Angeles—today, and for the next 50 years and beyond.

With deep gratitude and admiration, we honor Larry Janss, Win McCormack, Anne Mendel, and Sarah Pillsbury. Your vision in founding Liberty Hill—and your enduring commitment to its mission—continues to inspire and drive meaningful change. We are proud to celebrate you and this remarkable milestone together.

“Justice is what love looks like in public.”

— Cornel West In Community & Solidarity, Marta Ferro & The Starfish Impact Team

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Thank you Dan & Diana Attias for your many years supporting Liberty Hill.

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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SOLIDARITY & PROGRESS Congratulations to Liberty Hill Foundation on 50 years of advancing social justice. Your visionary leadership to champion grassroots movements across Los Angeles for Change not Charity has helped transform our region for the better.

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Celebrating LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION and the Upton Sinclair 2026 Honorees: Larry Janss, Win McCormack, Anne Mendel, and Sarah Pillsbury Wendy Chang, Liberty Hill Foundation Champions Chair

Celebrating a long and fruitful partnership with wonderful people.

Congratulations to Liberty Hill board and staff members.

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- THE GRAPES OF WRATH Haskell Wexler’s life was dedicated to peace and justice.

He studied history and fought for peace ALL of his life.

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Congratulations to the founders, the leaders, the team members, the organizers, and the supporters for 50 years of vision, progress, and solidarity towards a more equitable and sustainable Los Angeles.

To the next 50, and the 50 after that!

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The LA84 Foundation celebrates the Liberty Hill Foundation’s 50 years of progress and advancement of social justice in Los Angeles. Congratulations to the Upton Sinclair honorees and honoree speakers.

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We join Liberty Hill in recognizing this year’s honorees for their activism and contributions to drive social justice in L.A. Congratulations on 50 years of solidarity and progress!

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The Liberty Hill Legacy Circle: A Celebration of Connection In honor of our 50th anniversary, we’re gathering to celebrate the generosity that ensures future generations of organizers and communities have the resources they need. Join a growing community of supporters building a future that reflects their deepest values by making a legacy gift as part of this milestone moment. By including Liberty Hill Foundation in your estate plans, you can carry your values forward and help sustain this work for the next 50 years and beyond. Together, we can ensure a more just and equitable Los Angeles for generations to come.

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Harness your power to build a stronger future Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) are a crucial component of Liberty Hill’s laboratory of social change philanthropy, offering opportunities to fund new, innovative models for empowering communities and supporting systemic change.

WHY LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION? Liberty Hill brings 50 years of social change expertise to the table to advise you on your giving decisions and ensure your generous gifts are making the greatest impact possible. As your partner in philanthropy, we provide advice on high-impact strategic grantmaking, trust-based philanthropy, intergenerational and next-generation giving, and help facilitate authentic and meaningful relationships with nonprofits addressing critical issues such as housing justice, environmental justice, youth and transformative justice, and LGBTQ & Gender justice.

Join a growing movement of individuals, families and organizations who are mobilizing their philanthropic capital through their DAF at Liberty Hill to generate a greater impact—while optimizing charitable tax benefits.

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