Joel Simonds
President @Partnership for Growth LA
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WORK HISTORY
President @Partnership for Growth LA
Los Angeles, CA, US
Partnership for Growth LA (PFGLA) is a community development corporation, founded in 2020 as a partnership between McCarty Memorial Christian Church and Jewish Center for Justice. It was founded with the purpose of addressing core needs vital to community member’s quality of life, such as food access, job and economic security, primary education support, and workforce development — and doing so in a manner that builds community ownership and cooperative development.As a Black/Jewish CDC partnership, our mission is to catalyze generational community wellness and cooperative development among South and West LA communities through effective and replicable systems to address food insecurity, economic development, and housing affordability.We envision a world that embraces non-traditional economic development that is supported by traditional infrastructures, to allow greater access to health, wellness and financial security. We work to dissolve neighborhood borders as barriers to financial opportunity and wellness.
EDUCATION
UC Santa Barbara
Religion/Religious Studies
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion-Los Angeles
Rabbinical Studies
UC Santa Barbara
Bachelor's degree
ABOUT JOEL SIMONDS
Executive Director at Jewish Center for Justice
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