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LA2050 is a community-guided initiative, operated by the Goldhirsh Foundation, driving and tracking progress toward a shared vision for the future of LA.

Our most significant program is the LA2050 Grants Challenge – an annual call for ideas to make LA the best place to connect, learn, live, play, and create with more than $1 million in grants available. The Grants Challenge is unique in that it turns the power of grantmaking over to the public through online voting.

Since 2013, we have launched 10 cycles of the Grants Challenge, giving more than $10 million to 140 local social impact organizations with the help of hundreds of thousands of people casting votes in support.

For last year’s Grants Challenge – LA2050 X, in recognition of our 10th anniversary – we went big. We engaged 140 Youth Ambassadors in telling their friends, family, and neighbors to vote. We enlisted more than 50 community partners in spreading the word. And, for the first time, we launched pop-ups that brought in-person voting to iconic locations around LA. In total, almost 12,000 people cast more than 80,000 votes to determine the issue areas that would be funded. And, together with our Funding Partners, we awarded $2.5 million to 51 local social impact organizations out of a record-breaking 615 applicants.

Now, we are excited to be in the midst of our 2024 Grants Challenge.

Together with the LA2050 community, we developed five goals for Los Angeles in the year 2050 – to make Los Angeles the best place to connect, create, learn, live, and play.

The goals were shaped through the engagement of tens of thousands of Angelenos and input from experts, advisors, and partners. Each of the goals is supported by a set of metrics that, taken together, define what it will mean for us to achieve success.