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Lift to Rise

Lift to Rise brings together community advocates and leaders in the public and private sectors to radically increase housing stability and economic mobility for everyone who calls the Coachella Valley home.

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Lift to Rise Impact Report 2020-2022

Here’s a look back at our collective highlights, challenges, and successes from July 2020 – June 2022.

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Lift with us

True transformation is a community effort. The more we work together, the greater the change. Find out how you can support our Coachella Valley community.

Latest News

Lift to Rise builds coalitions to benefit our communities. Read our latest news, press releases, and blog posts to learn more.

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Deemed essential, California farmworkers risk disease and deportation

Deemed essential, California farmworkers risk disease and deportation
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Despite obstacles, thousands of affordable housing units are on the way in the valley. They still won’t be enough.

Dozens of projects are either under construction or in the works throughout the Coachella Valley, with city councils, planning commissions, and key stakeholders pitching in to push nearly 4,500 units of affordable housing forward.
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Lift to Rise’s 15 Million Dollar Housing Fund

“We know that we’re in a housing crisis… what this funding will do is help to catalyze and spur the production of affordable housing, so that there’s more housing that our families can afford.” President and CEO of Lift to Rise, Heather Vaikona states.

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Stories from Home

“We are here for the possibility of a stable family, to give them a better opportunity than we had in our homeland.”

— Flor Romero, Cathedral City Resident

Join our team

Lift to Rise is staffed with community leaders who bring a diverse range of personal and professional experience in support of our vision that all Coachella Valley families are healthy, stable, and thriving. Does this sound like you?

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Development Director Palm Desert, CA

Under the direction of, and in partnership with, the Chief Executive Officer, the Director of Development will support LTR’s revenue development goals through proposal writing and the management of philanthropic grant reports. This position will play a critical role in ensuring Lift to Rise secures, retains, and expands the philanthropic resources needed to advance the organization’s rapid growth and widening impact.

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Senior Policy Analyst Palm Desert, CA

The Senior Policy Analyst will work collaboratively with the Director of Data, Policy & Planning, other Lift to Rise staff, and key organizational partners to support local, state, and federal policy advocacy efforts around radically improving housing stability and economic mobility in the Coachella Valley

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