Tell us… how do you turn inspiration into impact?

After verifying votes for the My LA2050 Grants Challenge, the leaderboards have been updated!

Congratulations to the top 10 voted submissions in the five goal categories, among which one winner will be chosen to receive $100,000. We will also select another winner in each goal category to receive $100,000, irrespective of votes.

We are proud to announce that more than 70,000 voters participated in the challenge. We thank you, My LA2050 submitters, for your inspiring ideas and for engaging your community to help make LA the best place to learn, create, play, connect, and live.

LA is the best place to LEARN

• Citizens of the World Charter Schools, Los Angeles: A Peaceful Los Angeles: Developing the Hearts and Minds of Our Future Leaders
• 826LA & Young Storytellers: Inspiring tomorrow's storytellers today
• Promesa Boyle Heights at Proyecto Pastoral: Promesa Boyle Heights
• SBCC Thrive LA: Preschool Without Walls
• TheLab, Inc: TheLab: LA's Place for Scientific Exploration
• City Year LA, Partnership for Los Angeles Schools: Help At-Risk Students in South L.A. Get on Track to Graduate
• Palisades Charter High School (PCHS): Palisades Charter High - Guiding the Path to College and Career Success!
• LA Makerspace: Teach Kids Coding with Minecraft
• Youth Policy Institute: YPI's COLLEGE PROMISE: College Matched Savings Accounts
• Patrick Henry Foundation: Learning Through Dual Language Immersion

See all submissions in the LEARN category

LA is the best place to CREATE

• JVS Los Angeles: JVS Works: Creating Hope and Opportunity
• Los Angeles Review of Books: Los Angeles Review of Books Enabling LA Creativity
• Art of Acting Studio: Art of Acting Studio 1 Week Theatre Intensives for Incarcerated Citizens
• DSTL Arts, Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles, Trade School Los Angeles: The P.L.A.C.E.–The Partnership for Los Angeles Creative Education serving LAs emerging creatives!
• Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network: Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network
• Downtown Women's Center: She's Got Skills: From Homelessness to Jobs
• Public Matters: Urban Futures Lab: Reimagining LA's Civic and Creative Capital
• Los Angeles Center of Photography: Los Angeles Center of Photography Brings Life Changing Photography Classes to Boys & Girls Clubs
• Off The Saw: Creating a Space for the Creative Class
• Angel City Lumber: Angel City Lumber

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LA is the best place to PLAY

• Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County AKA The Music Center/Grand Park: A shady oasis for everyone in Grand Park
• Shane's Inspiration: Together We Play L.A.!
• Academy of Music for the Blind: Music School for Blind Children
• A Place Called Home: Play for Life in South LA
• Friends of the Hollywood Central Park (FHCP): Hollywood Central Park proves that LA is the Best Place to Play
• People for Parks: People for Parks' Community School Parks
• Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority: Franklin-Ivar Park project
• Trojan Swim Club: Swimming for Life: Water Safety and Competition for Inner-City Youth
• Compiler LA, Utopiad.org: Intersection Repair - Using art to create safer streets and stronger communities
• Kensington Presents: Kensington Presents: Free outdoor arts programming for all ages with California State Parks

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LA is the best place to CONNECT

• Culture Shock Los Angeles: C3: Center for Connecting the Community
• MAPS 4 College: Mapping the Transition Process: Bridging the Gap Between College and the Workforce
• CicLAvia: CicLAvia: The Route to LA's Future
• Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants, Inc.: Landscaping for Resilience: Ecologic and Social transformation with the Theodore Payne Foundation
• DUBLAB: DUBLABs Open Studio Initiative
• Tagliaferri Howard Architecture: Ballona Creek Pedestrian/Bike Connector Bridge
• CASA of Los Angeles: Be a Voice for LAs Foster Care Children!
• Los Angeles Promise Zone Initiative: Young Ethnographers: fostering youth development through the Promise Zone Survey
• Hollywood Curling: Hollywood Curling- Building the San Fernando Valley Curling Center in Los Angeles
• L.A. Works: L.A. Works: Volunteers for a Greater LA

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LA is the best place to LIVE

• the Alternative Travel Project: The Alternative Travel Project
• Golden Heart Ranch: Golden Heart Ranch... Creating Opportunities for Special Needs Young Adults.
• Joyful Heart Foundation: Joyful Heart Foundation's Survivor Retreat Model
• Santa Monica Cradle to Career: The Thrive Center at Samohi
• Heal the Bay: Dropping Knowledge Project – Building a Water-Literate L.A.
• TreePeople: Models of Mobilization
• Planned Parenthood Los Angeles (PPLA): Helping Los Angeles Youth Make Healthy Decisions And Access Care
• L.A. Compost and Kiss the Ground: Compost Hubs throughout Los Angeles
• LIFT-LA: LIFT-LA Member2Member Project
• Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) & US Green Building: Communities Building Resilience: South LA

See all submissions in the LIVE category