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About Our Annual Awards Luncheon
Join us for our Annual Awards Luncheon, an amazing afternoon of celebrating case victories and client perseverance, honoring advocates, and thanking our dedicated donors!
Each year, Inner City Law Center presents two prestigious awards—the Humanitarian Award and the Katharine Krause Award—to champions who have worked to bring justice to people experiencing homelessness. Our Annual Awards Luncheon is our single biggest fundraiser of the year; the sponsorships pledged and funds raised make our vital year-round work possible.
About 25th Annual Awards Luncheon Honoree Dolores Huerta
Inner City Law Center is delighted to honor labor rights legend Dolores Huerta with our 2025 Humanitarian Award for her transformative work in underserved communities across Southern California. Her lifelong social justice work, from co-founding the United Farm Workers to advocating for housing and immigrant rights, has made a deep impact on the same Angelenos Inner City Law Center serves. In 2003, Huerta founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation, which operates resource centers offering low-cost services to promote economic security and empowerment. These centers are hubs of community support that address a wide range of needs, including housing insecurity. The foundation works to mobilize residents in overlooked communities, spreading awareness of tenant rights and organizing collective actions to fight housing injustice.
About 25th Annual Awards Luncheon Honoree Nithya Raman
Inner City Law Center is excited to honor Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman with our 2025 Humanitarian Award for addressing homelessness as a central focus of her work since taking office in 2020, emphasizing both compassionate outreach and systemic reform. With her keen understanding that the best way to end homelessness is to prevent it, Raman has prioritized renter protections, affordable housing preservation, and housing production. Raman proposed creating a bureau within the Los Angeles Housing Department to oversee homelessness investments, ensuring effective use of funds and improved coordination across city departments. Under her leadership, her district has experienced a 38% reduction in unsheltered homelessness.
About 25th Annual Awards Luncheon Honoree Robins Kaplan LLP
Inner City Law Center is proud to honor Robins Kaplan LLP with our 2025 Katharine Krause Award for its commitment to advancing justice for people experiencing homelessness. In 2024, the firm played a pivotal role in securing a landmark victory for disabled homeless veterans. In collaboration with Public Counsel, Brown Goldstein & Levy, and Inner City Law Center, the firm helped achieve a historic ruling that mandates significant reforms at the West Los Angeles VA Campus, including new housing and improved healthcare services for disabled veterans. Robins Kaplan provided over 19,500 hours of pro bono work in 2024, exemplifying the firm’s dedication to addressing critical legal needs, advocating for struggling populations, and making a measurable impact in communities across the country.
About 25th Annual Awards Luncheon Honoree Brown Goldstein & Levy LLP
Inner City Law Center is pleased to honor Brown Goldstein & Levy LLP with our 2025 Katharine Krause Award for its impactful pro bono work on behalf of many Inner City Law Center clients. Founded in 1982, Brown Goldstein & Levy devotes hundreds of hours a year to providing high-quality legal representation at no cost. Maintaining a robust pro bono practice is one way that it is closing the gap between those who can afford a lawyer and those who cannot. BGL has contributed more than 960 hours of legal services (valued at over half a million dollars) to Inner City Law Center clients over the past two years. These efforts have transformed the lives of unhoused veterans living in Los Angeles.
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