Alhambra Latino Association
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Mission & Goals
    • ALA History
    • ALA Board
    • Meetings
  • Scholarships
    • How To Apply
    • Important Dates
  • Join Us
    • Student Volunteers
    • Events >
      • Scholarship Awards
      • Loteria 2023
  • Contact
  • Donate!
    • Community Partners

Alhambra Source Awards Local Organizations With Generous Donations Honoring Co-Founder Michael Parks

4/14/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
​Alhambra Latino Association (ALA) and Alhambra Preservation Group (APG) received large donations from the now closed nonprofit media publication Alhambra Source. The contribution honors the devotion of the recently deceased Michael Parks, Alhambra Source co-founder, to the Alhambra community and its vital community organizations.
 
Launched in 2010, Alhambra Source served the diverse communities of the San Gabriel Valley with unique stories that highlighted immigrant narratives and student voices. Built on two years of research by professors and students at USC Annenberg’s School for Communication and Journalism, Sandra Ball-Rokeach and Michael Parks led the nonprofit news outlet until it’s closure in 2020.

The contributions from the Alhambra Source Fund was initiated by Ball-Rokeach following the passing of Parks this year. Ball-Rokeach is an esteemed professor emerita of communication at USC Annenberg, and former director of the Communication Technology and Community Program. She collaborated with Parks, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and editor for The Los Angeles Times, to train young journalists in the SGV to voice their stories and partner with local non-profits like Alhambra Latinoc Association and Alhambra Preservation Group to ignite civic engagement in the city of Alhambra and the San Gabriel Valley.
 
“Michael was a pioneer in stressing the importance of local news for the ability of communities to participate in democracy.” Sandra Ball-Rokeach

For more information, contact alhambralatinoassociation@gmail.com.

Read The Los Angeles Times obituary on Michael Parks published January 9, 2022.
 
About the Alhambra Latino Association and Alhambra Preservation Group
 
The mission of ALA, as a nonprofit organization, is committed to support the educational and cultural growth of the children and parents in the Alhambra Unified School District. 
 
The Alhambra Preservation Group seeks to ensure that the historical, architectural and cultural resources of our city are identified, protected and celebrated for their contributions to Alhambra’s heritage, economy and environment.
 
 
 To learn more, visit alhambralatinoassociation.org.
 
For more information, contact: Dominic Tovar, alhambralatinoassociation@gmail.com
0 Comments

    Dominic Tovar

    Alhambra Latino Association Board Member since 2017.
    ​ 

    Archives

    April 2022

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Alhambra Latino Association 
P.O. Box 6062 Alhambra, CA 91802
(626) 692-5282
© COPYRIGHT 2022. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Alhambra Latino Association is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization
​under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. 
Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law.
Tax ID: 95-4646116