The submissions are in!

Funding & Prize Partners

• The Goldhirsh Foundation, founder and organizer of the LA2050 Grants Challenge, providing $1 million in grant funds to organizations working on the top-voted issue areas.
• The Annenberg Foundation, addressing the critical issues of our time through innovation, community, compassion, and communication since 1989.
• The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, funding organizations working with young people to decrease income inequality, find quality jobs, or advance within careers.
• The Elbaz Family Foundation, investing in organizations working on environmental and educational causes.
• The Fox Foundation, supporting nonprofit sector innovation, sustainability, and success by investing in mission-based earned income ventures.
• The John N. Calley Foundation, supporting organizations with outstanding applications that consider youth.
• The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, funding proven programs that level the playing field and investing in solutions driven by the communities we serve.
• The Snap Foundation, supporting projects that develop pathways to the creative economy for underrepresented youth in Los Angeles.
• The R&S Kayne Foundation, investing in people and collaborating with communities to empower positive change.

Evaluation Partner

• Social Justice Partners Los Angeles (SJP), serving as our external evaluation partner. SJP is a membership organization that connects community leaders to nonprofits to tackle Los Angeles’ toughest challenges. All proposals are reviewed, scored, and evaluated by members of SJP.

Media Partners

• KCRW creates and curates music discovery, NPR news, cultural exploration and informed public affairs. From Los Angeles to around the world, KCRW.com.
• Local and national news, NPR, things to do, food recommendations and guides to Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire.
• Upworthy changes what the world pays attention to by telling truly great stories

Outreach Partners

We are grateful to the following organizations for helping spread the word about this year’s Grants Challenge:

• #HashtagLunchbag

• A Sense of Home

• Advanced Healthcare Administration

• Alcott Center for Mental Health Services

• AltaSea

• America On Tech

• Anti-Recidivism Coalition

• Arts for Healing and Justice Network

• Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson

• Atwater Village Neighborhood Council

• Bob Baker Marionette Theater

• Boyle Heights Beat

• Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics

• CareerSpring

• Children Now

• CicLAvia

• Citizens of the World Charter Schools

• Community Partners 4 Innovation

• Concrete Queenz

• Council on American-Islamic Relations, Los Angeles

• Covenant House California

• Defy Ventures

• DignityMoves

• dublab

• Education Through Music-Los Angeles

• El Hajj Malik Shabazz Islamic Center

• Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project

• Every Day Action

• Everybody Dance LA!

• Everyday Arts

• First Place for Youth

• Flavors From Afar

• Flintridge Center

• Food Access LA

• Fostering Media Connections

• Friends of Ballona Wetlands

• Friends Of Cabrillo Aquarium

• Friends of the Los Angeles River

• Garden School Foundation

• Gay For Good

• Girls Club of Los Angeles

• Glendale Youth Alliance

• Graduate School of Black Cinematic Arts

• Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association

• Grid110

• Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles

• Hacker Fund

• Harmony Project

• Heal the Bay

• Healing California

• Health Care in Action

• Heart of Los Angeles

• Helpline Youth Counseling

• Highland Park Neighborhood Council

• Housing Works - Los Angeles

• Inclusion Matters by Shane's Inspiration

• Inner City Law Center

• Jr Heroes Academy

• Kid City Hope Place

• L.A. Works

• LA in Common

• LA-Tech.org

• Library Foundation of Los Angeles

• Lopez Urban Farm

• Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice

• Los Angeles City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez

• Los Angeles City, Department of Neighborhood Empowerment

• Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator

• Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

• Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell

• Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn

• Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger

• Los Angeles Dysautonomia Network

• Los Angeles Maritime Institute

• Los Angeles Music and Art School

• Los Angeles Neighborhood Iniative

• Many Mansions

• Michelson 20MM Foundation

• Move LA

• No Make Up Foundation 

• North East Trees

• Pacific Opera Project

• Para Los Niños

• Pasadena City Councilmember Tyron Hampton

• Pasadena Village

• People’s Pottery Project

• Piece by Piece

• Resilience Rising

• RuckusRoots

• Safe Place for Youth

• Silver Lake Neighborhood Council

• Social Justice Learning Institute

• Social Justice Partners Los Angeles

• Surf Bus Foundation

• Teen Talk App

• Thai Community Development Center

• The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights

• The National Foster Youth Institute

• The RightWay Foundation

• Tiyya Foundation

• United We Stand

• Village At Sherman Oaks BID

• Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum

• Wrkz

• YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles - Santa Anita Family YMCA

• Young & Healthy

• Zócalo Public Square