Tell us… how do you turn inspiration into impact?

The 2019 My LA2050 Grants Challenge

$1 Million. 10 Winners. One Year to Shape LA.

Submissions open on February 28th!

Together, shaping the future of Los Angeles.

LA2050 is an initiative driving and tracking progress toward a shared vision for the future of Los Angeles.

We worked with the LA2050 community to develop five broad, aspirational goals to reach our shared vision.

Together, we can make LA the best place to:

Learn: Our region offers opportunities for lifelong learning, allowing all residents to contribute their skills, talents, and abilities to society.

Create: Our region empowers its residents to use their creativity by fostering entrepreneurship, cultural diversity, and inclusivity.

Play: Our region is a place where people of all ages have easy access to clean, safe, and sustainable public spaces.

Connect: Our region is a place where every resident has the opportunity and tools to engage and interact with other Angelenos, and is empowered to contribute meaningfully to civic life.

Live: Our region’s residents have the economic resources and cultural capital to lead active, healthy lives, and everyone benefits from a sustainable environment.

How we do it

LA2050 deploys financial, human, and social capital to build a better future--a future for Angelenos, shaped by Angelenos.

We accomplish this through research and reporting, grantmaking via the My LA2050 Grants Challenge, and tracking progress on the indicators and goals.

Reports: We conduct research and reporting to inform residents and leaders about the status of the region and the progress toward our goals.

Read our reports

Challenges: We provide grants in each of our goal categories to help people get great ideas off the ground.

See our challenges

Metrics: We use data-backed metrics to measure whether we are on the right path to reach our goals.

View our metrics

Activations: We also engage Angelenos by curating and hosting events, activations, and digital meet-ups.

See our activations

Jobs: If a job has the potential for positive impact in one of our goal categories, we'll post it on our jobs board.

See our jobs

We are confident that with your help, we will shape the
LA story anew – and build the LA2050 of our dreams.

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