LA2050 Grants Challenge

Announcing the 2023 Winners!

Together with our funding partners, we are granting $2.5 million to 42 organizations making LA better for all.

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It's Giving Equality

El Hajj Malik Shabazz Islamic Center

Elevated Minds Embracing Righteousness and Gaining Equality (EMERGE, Los Angeles)

Elevated Minds Embracing Righteousness and Gaining Equality (EMERGE, Los An

Supporting first-generation college student career success

America Needs You

Holistic Retreats 4 People Impacted by Incarceration

The Heart Center Inc

Youth-built Cargo Bicycles For Mobility Justice

Empowering Black Women Through Project Management

LIVE & FAITH Consulting

Increasing financial wellness for LA's entrepreneurs

Small Business Majority

The 3.3.3. Challenge

From First Gen to First Job

Enriching Lives Through Dance and Art

The Cypher Spot

Human Trafficking Survivor Chapter Promoting Income Equality

Rebecca Bender Initiative

Will Power to Youth

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles

Evidence-Based Team Mentoring Program for Youth

Los Angeles Team Mentoring

Homeboy Art Academy

Homeboy Industries

Strengthening Local Ecosystems Through Food

Prosperity Market

ACTIVATE

TheGiveGo Foundation

Bloom LA - Guide for Emerging Climate-Solvers

Leadership Initiative for Neurodivergent Artists

Project Miracle

Inclusive Career Guidance and Life Planning for Students

Get Focused, Stay Focused

Here We Thrive: Health & Economic Resiliency

Here We Thrive: Health & Economic Resiliency

Gift of Life Hero's Burial Funds

Junior Achievement Finance Park

Junior Achievement of Southern California

Creative Workforce Development through Arts Education

Los Angeles County High School for the Arts

Build Your Own Dreams

The Urban Warehouse

Creative Publishing Skills for Underserved Youth

Job Training and Employment Assistance for Transitional Age Youth

Coffee with a Cause

Sonic Advancement

Uplifting youth and building community through storytelling and skill building.

Boyle Heights Beat

Workforce Development Program for Victims and Survivors of Domestic Violence

Jenesse Center, Inc.

Advancing Economic Equity For Los Angeles Residents Through Technology Training

Per Scholas Los Angeles

PUENTE's College and Career Program

PUENTE Learning Center

Inclusively broadening the population of American Theatre practitioners

American Deassimilationist Theater

Girls Who Graduate College Earn More

Motivating Our Students Through Experience

Black Male Teachers: Recruitment to Homeownership

Watts of Power Foundation

Moving Carwash Workers from Wage Equity to Entrepreneurship

CLEAN Carwash Worker Center

Paws For Life Reentry: Making People Whole Again

Paws For Life K9 Rescue

College Success

Operation Jump Start

"I AM VICTORIOUS"

The C.U.P. of Empowerment Coalition

Transforming the Face of Los Angeles' Tech Sector to Be More Inclusive of the Communities It Serves.

America on Tech [AOT]

Untold Stories of the Harbor

San Pedro Skatepark Association

Rising Together for A New Economy

Latino and Latina Roundtable of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valley

Empowering the future generation of female filmmakers and changemakers!

Women's Voices Now

Navigating Life

After Life Initiative

To Expand our LA Tech Career Academy Efforts for 300+ Marginalized LA Youth

Nature For All - Environmental Career Path Leaders

The Power of Wellness Team Effort

Home of Kings and Queens

Powering benefits navigation with smart design

Fund for Guaranteed Income

The Cultivate Program: Capital and Coaching for LA's Young Entrepreneurs

Inclusive Action for the City

Opportunities for People Who Have Been Incarcerated

Homies Unidos, Inc.

Connecting underemployed graduates to meaningful careers

Rebuilding Lives: Empowering Justice-Impacted Individuals

Transformational Living Homes Inc

Support for Formerly Incarcerated folks

Dignity and Power Now

Creating Generational Change Through Educational Funding

Andres y Maria Cardenas Family Foundation

Promotorx in the Park

Vision y Compromiso

Addressing the Benefits Cliff for Artists

Long Beach Youth Ready 2 Rise Ambassadors Training Program

Building Community One Stitch at a Time

Quilting for Community

Lived-Experience Mentorship, Leadership & Entrepreneurial Development

DEUCE Community

Inclusive Marketplace promoting culture & economic development

The Goddess Mercado

Empowering Angelenos with Housing and Supportive Services

Dream Live Hope Foundation

living I.N.T.A.C.T.

Why? I AM a Woman

Business School 4 All

The South LA Cafe

Success Pods

Success Stories Program

Preparing the Next Generation Workforce

The Peoples' Workshop: Building New Futures

Trained Teens Help Seniors with Technology

Generation Connect

South Central Business Builders Program

Reimagining life education with LyfeLit

Healing & Empowering Through Arts Employment

People's Pottery Project

The Actors' Gang Alumni Advocacy Project

The Actors' Gang

Building Worker Wealth Through Employee Ownership

Reuniting Children With Their Incarcerated Parents

Center for Restorative Justice Works

Youth Radio Apprenticeship at Dublab

Equity Through Action: Empowering Students of Color in LA

Private School Axis

Combatting Recidivism through Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

The Lonely Entrepreneur

Generational Revolutionary Owners Winning Numbers

Just As You Are Legacy

WestCal Pre-Apprenticeship Program

WestCal Academy

LA:RISEing

Goodwill Southern California

CLUES: COLLABORATIVE LEARNING FOR URBAN EVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Veteran Supplemental Support Network

Empowering youth to launch meaningful careers

Fulfillment Fund

Inspiring a generation of diverse creators

PLUS ME Project

Financial Literacy For Low-Income Immigrant Community

East Wind Foundation For Youth

EmpowerYouth: AI-Driven Entrepreneurship Training

April Parker Foundation

CineSessions High School Media Mentorship Program

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles

Advancing equity through education & career development

Giving Returning Citizens Opportunities to Win (GROW)

Capital Readiness for Underrepresented Entrepreneurs

Polk Institute Foundation

Navigating Money Systems: VITA & Financial Coaching

Chinatown Service Center

Spicy Green Book Food Market

Spicy Green Book

Launched in L.A.

Los Angeles Urban League Youth Biz Camp

Los Angeles Urban League

Black Photographer Incubator Program

Black Image Center

Life Ownership Program

Sharp Circle Inc.

Empowering LA's Media Educators

Television Academy Foundation

Creating Sustainability: Certified apprenticeships for foster and system-impacted youth.

CYLA: Building A More Equitable Future

City Year Los Angeles

Feline Food and Vaccines for South LA (FFAVSLA)

Kitty Bungalow Charm School for Wayward Cats

GYA Youth Employment Program

Glendale Youth Alliance

Transforming Futures: Developing Hollywood's Next Generation

Enhancing Lives of Justice Impacted Adults

A Step to Freedom

WeBuild: A Creative Digital Art Agency and Talent Incubator

YouthSource: Securing Economic Advancement through Education

Para Los Niños

Art Abolitionist Incubator

Infinite Paths to Success: Exploring Careers

Step Up Women's Network

Above the Poverty Line

Open Arms Food Pantry and Resource Center

Chances 4 Change Re-Entry Resource Access Center

Chances 4 Change, Inc.

LAUSD Career Discovery and Financial Literacy

Building Blocks for Kids

Workforce Training For Adults with Disabilities

ICAN California Abilities Network

Help Continuation School Students Get Good Jobs

Sharefest Community Development, Inc.

Mental Health Therapy for Justice-Involved

Friends Outside in Los Angeles County

LA's College Comeback: Tackling Income Inequality

Southern California College Access Network

Shutter Stars

Dynasty Fashion Photography

Bringing Great Music close to Home

San Fernando Valley Symphony

Re-Imagine LA Public Education for Formerly Incarcerated and BIPOC Youth

Pico Youth & Family Center

Transforming Lives One Run at a Time

Skid Row Running Club

C11 College-bound program for low-income youth

The Thrive in Joy Nick Fagnano Foundation

What Connects Us

Zocalo Public Square

Life Imitates Dreams: Advance Creative Communities

Creative Pathways for Formerly Incarcerated Youth

Anti-Recidivism Coalition

Lost Angels Work Program

Lost Angels Children's Project

Empowering Voices: Lyrical Revolution's Musical Journey

Lyrical Revolution

BroadStage Cultural Heritage Residency Programs

On To Higher Pathways

Social Justice Learning Institute

Pathway to Re-entry Post Incarceration Starting over Strong!

P2P Community Development Inc

Black Filmmakers + Global Training = Amplified Voices

The Charles Burnett Graduate School of Global Cinema

CAD and Computer Modeling Pathway Cohort

Conservation Corps Youth Enterprise

San Gabriel Valley Conservation Corps

Transforming Lives: From Incarceration to CEOs

Igniting L.A.'s Economic Growth Through Financial Education

The Acevedo Foundation

Creating Koreatown's First Zero-Waste Store

CRSP aka Los Angeles Ecovillage Institute (LAEVI)

Mothers of Movement (M.O.M.) Program

A Mother's Love Foundation

Mychal's Learning Place Job Training Programs

Mychal's Learning Place

STOKED Gap Year

Stoked Mentoring Inc

Breaking Down Barriers, Building New Stories

The Social Impact Center

Casters Coffee Roasters

A World of Opportunity for LA Youth

Exploring Your Potential/EYP Ventures

R.E.A.D.Y. (Resources Education and Assistance for Deserving Youth).

Chics Helping Inner City Adolescents

Cultivating Creators

Bob Baker Marionette Theater

On the Road of Rebuilding

Gateways Hospital and Mental Health Center

Unlocking Potential for People, Plants, Place

Alma Backyard Farms

Career Launch: Connecting LA Talent to

Workforce development for system-impacted Angelenos

Ignite Youth Leading Change

Ignite Youth Leading Change

Filling the Gaps through Youth Employment

UrbanPromise Los Angeles

Grow Business Development and Resources

Sustainable Co-operative Economies & Community Empowerment

Collective REMAKE

1 live, interactive, 8-professional musician, Blues and R&R concert with education for 5-schools in the Los Angeles area.

Saturday Night Bath Concert Fund

Margin to Mainstream: Art & Enterprise for Unhoused Youth

Safe Place for Youth

Find Your Drive, Accelerate Your Future

Arts & VR for Incarcerated Youth

Empowering Young Musicians: Musician Advancement Program

Harmony Project

Lifting Families out of Deep Poverty through CalWORKs Home Visitation Program (HVP)

Western Center on Law & Poverty

Disabled Access to Creative Industry Employment

Yes I Can Unity Through Music and Education

College & Career Success for BIPOC Youth

Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA)

Bridging Urban Culture to Agriculture

Boonoob

Pathways2Success

Advancing The Seed, Inc.

Elevate Young Voices

The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company

Building Communities for Inclusive Success

Keeping Konnected Inc.

Watts Project: Media Empowerment & Health Equity

Everyone Can Eat

Intro to the Industry

Hollywood HEART

Disability Inclusion in the Music Industry

Jazz Hands for Autism

Youth Apprentice Training Program

City of Los Angeles, Department of General Services

Empowering Today's Young Adults: Advocates for Progress

Young Invincibles

The Creative Career Center, by Las Fotos Project

Las Fotos Project

Native Women in Film & Television

Red Nation Celebration Institute

Solving the Hygiene Insecurity Issue in Los Angeles County.