Building Hope With Community.

Thank You for a Wonderful Dancing Under the Stars This Year!

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to all the artists, honorees, sponsors, donors, and attendees for contributing to the success of this year's Dancing Under the Stars. We thank the Mercado La Paloma restaurants for another year of providing us with their culinary delights. Your support strengthens our ongoing mission of building hope with community.

For those who couldn't join us in person, you can still make a tax-deductible donation by clicking the link below.

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Your support is vital to Esperanza Community Housing, where the power of community makes a positive impact on people's lives.
 

Mercado La Paloma is located in the Figueroa Corridor of South Los Angeles, a neighborhood that is full of creative and hard-working entrepreneurs, community spirit, artists, musicians, and cultural traditions.  In 1999, in response to the suggestion of some residents in Esperanza’s housing developments for a local version of the bustling markets that they had left behind in their home countries, the idea for Mercado La Paloma was born.

 

Visit the Mercado.

Mercado la Paloma is Esperanza's long-term economic development project. Visit the Mercado and see all that the creative and vibrant community of South LA have to offer.
 

View the South Central Archives

The South Central Archive documents, preserves, and celebrates intergenerational stories by Indigenous, Black, Brown, Immigrant, LGBTQIA2S+, system-impacted, and people of all abilities in South Central.
 

Learn More About How Esperanza and Mercado La Paloma are Creating a Culture of Health