LA2050 Ideas Hub

A searchable database of great organizations and bright ideas from all of the LA2050 Grants Challenges.

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There are 3111 ideas in the Ideas Hub

A greener Los Angeles together

North East Trees
🎉 2023 Winner

Co-Creating Health Solutions with Young People

Peer Health Exchange
🎉 2023 Winner

Co-Empowering Youth Through Healing Art

Arts for Healing and Justice Network
🎉 2023 Winner

DignityNOW: Ending Unsheltered Homelessness

DignityMoves
🎉 2023 Winner

Safe Street Slow Jams

Los Angeles Walks
🎉 2023 Winner

Source-to-Sea: The LA River And Me

Friends of the Los Angeles River
🎉 2023 Winner

Strengthening Local Ecosystems Through Food

Prosperity Market
🎉 2023 Winner

Top Rated LA Restaurant Expands Culinary Program in Support of Refugees & Immigrants

Flavors From Afar
🎉 2023 Winner

Transforming Lives: From Incarceration to CEOs

Defy Ventures
🎉 2023 Winner

Venice Boulevard For All

Streets For All
🎉 2023 Winner

Bold, Empowered, and Thriving Immigrants in South Bay

Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition
🎉 2022 Winner

Climate-Ready Native Plant Landscaper Training

Theodore Payne Foundation
🎉 2022 Winner

Free healthcare for the homeless

Healing California
🎉 2022 Winner

Hottest in LA: the Bus Stop Heat Bracket

Climate Resolve
🎉 2022 Winner

In-School Music Education Program for Under-Resourced Schools

Education Through Music-Los Angeles
🎉 2022 Winner

Increasing Food Access and Security for Black Women

Black Women for Wellness
🎉 2022 Winner

LA Cleantech Incubator Equity Innovation Program

Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
🎉 2022 Winner

LA Top 101 Restaurant Spearheaded by Refugee Global Chefs

Flavors From Afar
🎉 2022 Winner

Los Angeles Parks for People

The Trust for Public Land
🎉 2022 Winner

Nature For All Leadership Academy

Nature for All
🎉 2022 Winner

Support System-Impacted Young Women and Trans Youth Economically Thrive with Transform Your Hustle

Young Women's Freedom Center
🎉 2022 Winner

Tenant Power Toolkit

Inner City Law Center
🎉 2022 Winner

The Thai Town Marketplace: Making an Impact Through Food, People and Place

Thai Community Development Center
🎉 2022 Winner

Urban Peace Institute's South Park Regional School Safety Collaborative Program

Urban Peace Institute
🎉 2022 Winner

Youth Leaders for Environmental Justice

Legacy LA Youth Development Corporation
🎉 2022 Winner

.connectLA: Internet Assistance for LA Households

human-I-T
🎉 2021 Winner

100 Youth Democracy Leaders. 10,000 New Youth Voters.

The Civics Center
🎉 2021 Winner

Beyond the Bus: Connecting children with parents in prison - because strong families make strong communities.

Center for Restorative Justice Works
🎉 2021 Winner

Building Accessibility For Persons With Disabilities

Angel City Alliance
🎉 2021 Winner

Building better pathways for aspiring teachers across L.A.

Rivet School
🎉 2021 Winner

Commonwealth Nursery: From Little Seeds Grow Mighty Trees

City Plants
🎉 2021 Winner

Cycle Community Change

East Side Riders Bike Club
🎉 2021 Winner

Digital Dove Lab: Animation Training and Studio

Covenant House California
🎉 2021 Winner

Guaranteed Income- A Policy Path to Equity

Fund for Guaranteed Income (F4GI)
🎉 2021 Winner

Healing Los Angeles: Free Dental & Vision Care

Healing California
🎉 2021 Winner

Hope Housing for Students

End Homelessness California DBA the Shower of Hope
🎉 2021 Winner

Improving the Well-Being of LA’s Children and Youth in Foster Care

Children Now
🎉 2021 Winner

Joyful Antiracist Surf Lessons for BIPOC

Color the Water
🎉 2021 Winner

Justice and safety for survivors

Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice
🎉 2021 Winner

Learning Gap Recovery for LA’s Most Vulnerable Youth!

New Earth
🎉 2021 Winner

Love, Love, Compton - Sloane Stephens Foundation

Sloane Stephens Foundation
🎉 2021 Winner

Lowering the barrier to entry for local food entrepreneurs

On The Go LA
🎉 2021 Winner

People’s Pottery Project

People's Pottery Project
🎉 2021 Winner

Ramp-up Planning Year to the Opening of SEED LA!

The SEED School of Los Angeles County
🎉 2021 Winner

Sparking Girls’ Interest in STEM

DIY Girls
🎉 2021 Winner

The Foto Forum: A Creative Advocacy Space for Teen Girls

Las Fotos Project
🎉 2021 Winner

Together We Succeed

Alliance in Mentorship / MiMentor
🎉 2021 Winner

WakLAvia - Powered by CicLAvia, LA Forward, and Los Angeles Walks

CicLAvia
🎉 2021 Winner

Westside Pacific Villages COVID-19 Action Response for Elderly Support (WPV CARES)

Westside Pacific Villages
🎉 2021 Winner

Working to Provide Dignity, Basic Needs, and Care for All Through the Law

Western Center on Law & Poverty
🎉 2021 Winner

A Girl-Powered Foto Studio by Las Fotos Project

Las Fotos Project
🎉 2020 Winner

Apprenticeship Preparation Program

Flintridge Center
🎉 2020 Winner

Art Attacks

Creative Acts
🎉 2020 Winner

Best We Can Be Early Education Program

Pediatric Therapy Network
🎉 2020 Winner

Bigger than Baseball

Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation
🎉 2020 Winner

CARECEN's Parent and Youth Center

Central American Resource Center
🎉 2020 Winner

Create a Residential Garden District in Los Angeles

Crop Swap LA
🎉 2020 Winner

Creating Connection & Community for Youth in Foster Care

Ready to Succeed
🎉 2020 Winner

Domestic Violence Intervention and Prevention Program

Jenesse Center, Inc.
🎉 2020 Winner

Eviction Prevention Tool, During Coronavirus and Beyond

Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE)
🎉 2020 Winner

Good Life Manufacturing

Lost Angels Children's Project
🎉 2020 Winner

Grid110 South LA

Grid110
🎉 2020 Winner

LA Industry: Circular Textiles

LA Sanitation and Environment
🎉 2020 Winner

Los Angeles Audubon - Urban Nature Network

Los Angeles Audubon Society
🎉 2020 Winner

Mobile Recreation Program

City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks
🎉 2020 Winner

Neighbors for Home

Safe Parking LA
🎉 2020 Winner

Ocean Adventure Together!

Los Angeles Maritime Institute
🎉 2020 Winner

Project SOAR: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Through Education

Southern California College Access Network
🎉 2020 Winner

Reading Partners LA: The Path to Fourth Grade Reading Proficiency for 1,000 Children

Reading Partners Los Angeles
🎉 2020 Winner

Skate-4-Education

The Urban Warehouse
🎉 2020 Winner

Telehealth for Medically Underserved LA Neighborhoods

Clinica Msr. Oscar A. Romero
🎉 2020 Winner

The LA 101 Guide to Local Government and Civic Engagement

LA Forward
🎉 2020 Winner

Union Station Homeless Services Community Allies Program

Union Station Homeless Services
🎉 2020 Winner

University Park Slow Jams

Public Matters
🎉 2020 Winner

Voices/Voces

Boyle Heights Beat
🎉 2020 Winner

Bring Art Back to Venice

Venice Community Housing
🎉 2019 Winner

Community Science Connects Angelenos to the Nature In Their Neighborhoods

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
🎉 2019 Winner

Defy Ventures

Defy Ventures
🎉 2019 Winner

Empowering LA Youth to Engage in the Civic Process

Rock the Vote
🎉 2019 Winner

Get Coding: Building a CS Educational Pipeline for Underserved Students

9 Dots
🎉 2019 Winner

Harlem Lacrosse - Los Angeles

Harlem Lacrosse - Los Angeles
🎉 2019 Winner

Help Keep Youth in Foster Care Out of Juvenile Delinquency

CASA of Los Angeles
🎉 2019 Winner

Inspiring Student Action to End Student Homelessness and Hunger in L.A. Through Awareness and Coordinated Services Integration

Rise, Inc.
🎉 2019 Winner

La Troka — Mobile Garden and Culinary Arts Program

LA Plaza De Cultura y Artes
🎉 2019 Winner

YouthCare (in-home)

The Youth Movement Against Alzheimer's
🎉 2019 Winner

EVERYONE IN: Preventing 30,000 Angelenos from Becoming Homeless

United Way of Greater Los Angeles
🎉 2018 Winner

Inspiring Community Action to End Gun Violence in L.A. by Stopping “Bad Apple” Gun Dealers

Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
🎉 2018 Winner

LA Street Vendors: Building an Inclusive Economy for the Future City

East LA Community Corporation (ELACC)
🎉 2018 Winner

Next Generation Science Standards: Empowering Teachers to Empower Students for the Future of STEM

Center for Innovation in STEM Education (CISE)
🎉 2018 Winner

Welcome, Neighbor: Making LA the most welcoming place in America

Miry's List
🎉 2018 Winner

AltaSea: Where STEM Meets the Ocean

AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles
🎉 2016 Winner

Big Citizen HUB: Building a pipeline of social change makers via leadership and community service

Changeist
🎉 2016 Winner

Catalyzing Community Partnerships to create economic mobility for LA’s underserved entrepreneurs

Opportunity Fund
🎉 2016 Winner

Cleantech 2 Edtech: LA schools save energy as students and startups implement cleantech innovations

California Institute of Technology
🎉 2016 Winner

If She Can See It, She Can Be It: Empowering Girls & Creating a Gender-Balanced Media Landscape

Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media at Mount Saint Mary’s University
🎉 2016 Winner

Pathways to Employment through Professional Volunteerism

Tierra del Sol Foundation
🎉 2016 Winner

Restoring and reimagining the World's First 'Polyphonoptic' sculpture in downtown Los Angeles

The Triforium Project
🎉 2016 Winner

Skills development, creative expression and team building through classic car restoration.

Lost Angels Children's Project
🎉 2016 Winner

The Future is Bright! A Clean Energy Future for LA

The Sierra Club Foundation
🎉 2016 Winner