Building on LA's Social Capital
Mission Asset Fund brought Lending Circles for Citizenship and the Security Deposit Loan Program for the first time to Southern California.
Learn moreNext Generation Science Standards: Empowering Teachers to Empower Students for the Future of STEM
We empower teachers to prepare and inspire students for the future of STEM through dynamic training and mentoring on the state adopted, industry recognized Next Generation Science Standards.
Learn moreWelcome, Neighbor: Making LA the most welcoming place in America
"Welcome, Neighbor" is a campaign to activate Angelenos across the city through their Neighborhood Councils to welcome and support their newest neighbors, refugee families resettling in Los Angeles.
Learn moreCommunity Health Councils, C-Lab (Columbia University), and 596 Acres’ LA Open Acres Project built a web portal to transform thousands of acres of...
EnrichLA built 75 school gardens, and will offer their Garden Ranger Program to at least 5,500 additional students.
Girls Academic Leadership Academy (GALA), LAUSD's first all-girls public STEM high school will create a makerspace to provide students with hands-o...
Harlem Lacrosse - Los Angeles is a sports-based youth development organization that provides opportunities, relationships, and experiences that put...
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 creat...
Citizens of the World will develop a model incorporating social-emotional learning into everyday curricula, emphasizing self-regulation and social ...
Even with significant financial aid, many college students in Los Angeles are without stable shelter (20% of community college students) or food in...
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...
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...
NHM works with underserved communities to reimagine their environments as vibrant spaces for play through inspiring programs that encourage everyon...
Tierra del Sol Foundation will work with 500 adults with developmental disabilities, connecting them with volunteer opportunities at 120 nonprofit ...
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...
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...
ELACC & LURN led a campaign to support LA’s approximately 10,000 street vendors.
Los Angeles Bioscience Hub, in collaboration with East Los Angeles College (ELAC), will create the Biotech Leaders Academy, establishing a pipeline...
The Incubator School built an open source entrepreneurial education for the 21st century.
Defy equips program participants (whom we call Entrepreneurs in Training, or EITs) with the skills and tools to become productive and committed emp...
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...
In partnership with a revered barber in Long Beach, Covenant House will open a barber college for traditional students and homeless youth. The soci...
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...
Homeboy Industries deployed an integrated curriculum of ten classes that help end the intergenerational cycles of violence.
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 Pershing Square Park Advisory Council installed two playgrounds at the corner of 6th and Olive.
StreetCraft LA will empowered low income, at risk, and unemployed youth to improve their economic future through creative economy entrepreneurship.
MoveLA seeded a countywide public conversation around public transportation with a digital media platform and strategy.
The Special Olympics built capacity to recruit 30,000 volunteers for the World Games in LA in 2015.
Opportunity Fund will provide access to capital to 240 underserved LA small business owners in collaboration with 10+ community organizations helpi...
Grand Park will pilot the installation of permanent shade structures designed by a local artist at the park in Downtown Los Angeles.
CicLAvia facilitated events where the streets are “owned” by the pedestrians and cyclists.
Via its Cleantech 2 Edtech program, Caltech aims to explore promising, new clean energy and water technologies, work with LAUSD and LADWP to pilot ...
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...
YouthCare is an intergenerational respite and memory care program. For three hours, twice a week, student-senior pairs play games, participate in a...
No Right Brain Left Behind and Green Dot Public Schools’ Salamander Project transformed a neglected library at Locke High School into an Innovation...
The Trust for Public Land transformed trash-filled alleys in South Los Angeles into walkable, bikeable, beautiful green alleys.
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...
Downtown Women’s Center leveraged the power of for-profit/non-profit partnerships to work toward ending homelessness for women in Los Angeles throu...
We will activate Angelenos to engage in and build an inclusive economy that support LA’s 50,000 street vendors, whose entrepreneurship contributes ...
Los Angeles Promise Zone Initiative will provide students living in the Los Angeles Promise Zone with summer jobs as young ethnographers to conduct...
AltaSea aims to leverage its STEM network to provide middle school students with ocean-based programs including, lessons on sustainable methods for...
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media is a research-based organization working with the entertainment industry to improve gender balance in ...
UCLA Grand Challenges will publish a draft work plan to transform the LA region to 100% sustainability in water and energy by 2050.
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...
Public Matters implemented Market Makeovers at a Boyle Heights corner store.
Venice Community Housing (VCH) kindly requests support for its art installation project, an activity of the organization’s Arts Community Collectiv...
826LA inspired over 1,000 Angelenos to volunteer and help students across Los Angeles to make great leaps in learning.
Los Angeles County is working to keep young people out of the juvenile delinquency system by providing “diversion” programs. However, youth in fost...
Sierra Club will develop a campaign to help Los Angeles equitably transition towards 100% clean energy. The campaign seeks to engage residents and ...
Heal the Bay, in partnership with Pacoima Beautiful and the Pacific American Volunteer Association, will launch a multi-language conservation proje...
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...
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 Hammer Museum utilized $100,000 to curate an artisanal pop-up village in Westwood.
“EVERYONE IN: Preventing Homelessness” will help 30,000 people avoid homelessness by creating affordable housing & helping Angelenos keep their homes
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...
LA Troka takes health, nutrition, and urban gardening education to the streets of LA. Visiting schools, libraries, and other community centers and ...