LA Street Vendors: A Better Economy through Low-Income Entrepreneurs
ELACC & LURN led a campaign to support LA’s approximately 10,000 street vendors.
Learn moreYoung Ethnographers: fostering youth development through the Promise Zone Survey
Los Angeles Promise Zone Initiative will provide students living in the Los Angeles Promise Zone with summer jobs as young ethnographers to conduct 1,800 surveys measuring how the Promise Zone is improving lives.
Learn moreLos Angeles Review of Books Enabling LA Creativity
Los Angeles Review of Books will profile an LA writer or artist each day of the year, bringing exposure, locally and globally, to the vibrant creative community in Los Angeles.
Learn moreNo Right Brain Left Behind and Green Dot Public Schools’ Salamander Project transformed a neglected library at Locke High School into an Innovation...
Surf Bus partners with LA City Department of Recreation and Parks to connect LA's low-income, at-risk youth with the ocean and provides transportat...
Defy equips program participants (whom we call Entrepreneurs in Training, or EITs) with the skills and tools to become productive and committed emp...
CASA of Los Angeles will recruit and train 250 new volunteers who will serve as court-appointed advocates on behalf of abused and neglected youth i...
Homeboy Industries deployed an integrated curriculum of ten classes that help end the intergenerational cycles of violence.
Downtown Women’s Center leveraged the power of for-profit/non-profit partnerships to work toward ending homelessness for women in Los Angeles throu...
826LA inspired over 1,000 Angelenos to volunteer and help students across Los Angeles to make great leaps in learning.
NHM works with underserved communities to reimagine their environments as vibrant spaces for play through inspiring programs that encourage everyon...
"Welcome, Neighbor" is a campaign to activate Angelenos across the city through their Neighborhood Councils to welcome and support their newest nei...
UCLA Grand Challenges will publish a draft work plan to transform the LA region to 100% sustainability in water and energy by 2050.
Los Angeles Bioscience Hub, in collaboration with East Los Angeles College (ELAC), will create the Biotech Leaders Academy, establishing a pipeline...
Girls Academic Leadership Academy (GALA), LAUSD's first all-girls public STEM high school will create a makerspace to provide students with hands-o...
The Incubator School built an open source entrepreneurial education for the 21st century.
Via its Cleantech 2 Edtech program, Caltech aims to explore promising, new clean energy and water technologies, work with LAUSD and LADWP to pilot ...
YouthCare is an intergenerational respite and memory care program. For three hours, twice a week, student-senior pairs play games, participate in a...
Los Angeles County is working to keep young people out of the juvenile delinquency system by providing “diversion” programs. However, youth in fost...
We will activate Angelenos to engage in and build an inclusive economy that support LA’s 50,000 street vendors, whose entrepreneurship contributes ...
Even with significant financial aid, many college students in Los Angeles are without stable shelter (20% of community college students) or food in...
“EVERYONE IN: Preventing Homelessness” will help 30,000 people avoid homelessness by creating affordable housing & helping Angelenos keep their homes
Tierra del Sol Foundation will work with 500 adults with developmental disabilities, connecting them with volunteer opportunities at 120 nonprofit ...
Mission Asset Fund brought Lending Circles for Citizenship and the Security Deposit Loan Program for the first time to Southern California.
TRUST South LA developed a plan to create affordable homes for local families, with a plan to make better use of the 3000 acres of underutilized la...
Sierra Club will develop a campaign to help Los Angeles equitably transition towards 100% clean energy. The campaign seeks to engage residents and ...
City Year Los Angeles and Partnership for LA Schools expanded by offering one-on-one mentorship to Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights and Jorda...
Over the course of 22 Saturdays, Big Citizen HUB will build a pipeline of social changemakers by bringing together 236 diverse young people, ages 1...
In partnership with a revered barber in Long Beach, Covenant House will open a barber college for traditional students and homeless youth. The soci...
We empower teachers to prepare and inspire students for the future of STEM through dynamic training and mentoring on the state adopted, industry re...
The Pershing Square Park Advisory Council installed two playgrounds at the corner of 6th and Olive.
CicLAvia facilitated events where the streets are “owned” by the pedestrians and cyclists.
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media is a research-based organization working with the entertainment industry to improve gender balance in ...
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) will provide at least 180 of LA's 320,000 veterans and their families with support as they transiti...
Community Health Councils, C-Lab (Columbia University), and 596 Acres’ LA Open Acres Project built a web portal to transform thousands of acres of...
The Special Olympics built capacity to recruit 30,000 volunteers for the World Games in LA in 2015.
Based in Lancaster, CA, the Lost Angels Children’s Project will provide 50 at-risk, disadvantaged, and foster youth with hands-on vocational traini...
The Trust for Public Land transformed trash-filled alleys in South Los Angeles into walkable, bikeable, beautiful green alleys.
EnrichLA built 75 school gardens, and will offer their Garden Ranger Program to at least 5,500 additional students.
Public Matters implemented Market Makeovers at a Boyle Heights corner store.
The Triforium is a 70s-era, six-story, 60-ton polyphonoptic sculpture and public art project in Downtown Los Angeles that has never been able to ac...
AltaSea aims to leverage its STEM network to provide middle school students with ocean-based programs including, lessons on sustainable methods for...
StreetCraft LA will empowered low income, at risk, and unemployed youth to improve their economic future through creative economy entrepreneurship.
Rock the Vote will help build a new generation of Los Angeles civic leaders and volunteers through: 1) Democracy Class, a fun, interactive high sch...
Citizens of the World will develop a model incorporating social-emotional learning into everyday curricula, emphasizing self-regulation and social ...
The Man2Man Project will connect multiple generations of men and boys for the dual purpose of helping young dads to become great fathers and preven...
People for Parks will unlock six new community school parks in 2016, providing more than 25,000 Angelenos access to a safe park within 1/4 mile fro...
Venice Community Housing (VCH) kindly requests support for its art installation project, an activity of the organization’s Arts Community Collectiv...
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence will educate and empower Los Angelenos to take meaningful action to stem the flow of crime guns and end gu...
LA Troka takes health, nutrition, and urban gardening education to the streets of LA. Visiting schools, libraries, and other community centers and ...
Heal the Bay, in partnership with Pacoima Beautiful and the Pacific American Volunteer Association, will launch a multi-language conservation proje...
Opportunity Fund will provide access to capital to 240 underserved LA small business owners in collaboration with 10+ community organizations helpi...
9 Dots is seeking a $100,000 LA2050 grant to support a high quality K-6 computer science (CS) education for 6500 elementary school students and to ...
The Hammer Museum utilized $100,000 to curate an artisanal pop-up village in Westwood.
Grand Park will pilot the installation of permanent shade structures designed by a local artist at the park in Downtown Los Angeles.
Harlem Lacrosse - Los Angeles is a sports-based youth development organization that provides opportunities, relationships, and experiences that put...
MoveLA seeded a countywide public conversation around public transportation with a digital media platform and strategy.