For five, six years, Margarita and her boys moved from shelter to shelter. Through all of it, she kept one promise to herself. “I decided not to give up because of where I’m coming from,” she says. “My kids were small. I needed that help. That’s one of the reasons I don’t want to give…
For many young people in our community, the programs that shape them have an end date. For years, students were graduating out of our programs at just 13, right when the pressures of school, sports, and growing up start to mount. Marc Maye, CEO of Project Blue, saw that gap and couldn’t look away. “He…
Most origin stories start with a vision. Ours starts with admitting, “I told you before, I hated you.” That’s how our CEO, Marc Maye, opens a recent conversation with LAPD Officer Coughlin, a longtime officer in Watts and one of the people Marc credits with shaping who he is today. There’s no hesitation in how…
Some people coach from the sideline. Officer Lester Bodiford coaches from the heart of the community. The Los Angeles Rams have named Officer Bodiford of LAPD’s Community Safety Partnership (CSP) Harvard Park a First Responder Spotlight, recognizing the work he does in uniform as a community hero. To the young athletes of the Watts Rams,…
for Los Angeles’s Inaugural Race Against Gun Violence Event, Bringing Together Dozens of Community-Based Organizations from Across the Region Community running event raised nearly $20,000 to support grassroots gun violence prevention initiatives and brought together more than 450 participants from across Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (August 18, 2026) – Project Blue, a nonprofit organization dedicated…
Ana never had her own room. The oldest and the only girl in her family, she shared a bedroom with one of her younger brothers while her parents and two youngest brothers slept on a single mattress. “I would get kicked at night,” she remembers, laughing. “We were really cramped in there, there was no…
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