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The Goldhirsh Foundation and its LA2050 initiative have promoted Mariam Bagdady to the position of Social Media and Communications Assistant.

Previously, while a senior at USC Annenberg, Bagdady worked with the Foundation as a part-time Social Media and Communications Fellow, prior to joining the team full-time in June. At USC, she was a USC Norman Topping Scholarship recipient and graduated

 with a Communication degree, Law emphasis.

Bagdady brings writing and reporting skills to the Foundation, having written for multiple publications including 

TMZ, SCene Magazine, and Flaunt Magazine.

When Bagdady was hired as a Fellow, she told us she is devoted to being an advocate for all communities and aims to help Los Angeles become the best that it can be — whether it be addressing racial inequity or prison reform.

“I am both honored and thrilled to be a part of the Goldhirsh Foundation team — one so dedicated to providing Los Angeles and its residents with the best resources available,” she said. “I hope that through my time at the Foundation, I can be a pivotal part in Los Angeles’ strive to be ruled by passion, not injustice.

Bagdady has already worked with her colleagues on a wide range of platforms and projects, including the organization’s signature annual 

This spring, approximately 15,000 Angelenos cast more than 105,000 votes in the Grants Challenge, telling us what ten issues matter most to them. Next, hundreds of nonprofit organizations, social enterprises, and government agencies submitted grant applications based upon their ideas to address those ten issues. This autumn, dozens of grants will be awarded by LA2050 and our Funding Partners.Bagdady also recently launched the 

 and a monthly news and information IG Reels series, “LA2050 Time.”

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Mariam Bagdady Promoted to New Position at Goldhirsh Foundation and LA2050

LA2050 has been honored with multiple awards. 

Our team is humbled to be in such good company with the other finalists and winners.

Nonprofit Organization of the Year (Growing), 

Tara Roth named one of 20 Most Influential Civic Leaders – and one of the 500 Most Influential People, 

Winner - General-Non-Profit, Excellence (Film & Video), 

Silver - Social Video for Social Responsibility, 

Silver - Community Outreach for Human & Civil Rights, 

Bronze - Branded Content - Not For Profit, 

Bronze - Best Local Awareness Program for Human & Civil Rights, 

Finalist - Most Innovative Awareness Campaign, 

Los Angeles Business Journal Citizenship Awards

Distinction - Campaign-Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, 

Distinction - General Charitable Organization, 

Honorable Mention: Social Good Partnership – Local, 

State of California Senate Certificate of Recognition, 

LA2050 is an award winning initiative! 

We’re proud to share that, last night, we won a Shorty Impact Award!

We took home a Silver in the Original Content - Video category, for our documentary, “

in the category were the winner, “Gone Native,” by Moore + Associates and Joey Clift, and receiving Gold, MTV Entertainment Studios’ “Teen Wolf: Holland and Colton Mental Health is Health.”

The Shorty Impact Awards are the cause-centric spin-off of the famous Shorty Awards celebrating the best social media and digital work. Earlier this year, 

LA2050’s newsletter won a Shorty Award.

In the LA2050 video, viewers meet the leaders of three of the scores of extraordinary organizations who, during the past decade, are LA2050 Grants Challenge winners:

Dominique and Ilka Perkins, who met while incarcerated and, upon release in 2019, started People’s Pottery Project.

Rudy Espinoza, executive director of Inclusive Action for the City, and Caridad Vasquez, who helped lead the effort to legalize street vending.

Jamiah Hargins, founder of Crop Swap LA, which services food deserts - places in urban areas that don’t have access to fresh fruits and vegetables.

The video also features commentary from Tara Roth, president of the Goldhirsh Foundation and LA2050, and concludes with a montage of portraits of dozens of the extraordinary people who do urgent work every day in communities throughout the vast county of Los Angeles, California.⁠

https://shortyawards.com/8th-impact/la2050-join-the-movement

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LA2050 is a Shorty Impact Award Recipient!