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2015 Grants Challenge

Sustainable Future LA

We propose to develop and implement a sustainability curriculum targeted to elementary school students. The fun and engaging educational content and related activities will provide a broad overview of sustainability, and emphasize how everyone is connected and how personal actions can have global effects. Our objective is to personalize climate change, and help develop an aware generation with the skill set to make and advocate for environmentally friendly choices.

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In what areas of Los Angeles will you be directly working?

Central LA

East LA

San Gabriel Valley

San Fernando Valley

South LA

Westside

South Bay

Antelope Valley

County of Los Angeles

City of Los Angeles

LAUSD

Initial pilot program at 3 elementary schools

How do you plan to use these resources to make change?

Conduct research

Implement a pilot or new project

Advocate with policymakers and leaders

Implement and track policy

How will your proposal improve the following LIVE metrics?​

Access to healthy food

Exposure to air toxins

Percent of imported water

Walk/bike/transit score

Acres and miles of polluted waterways

Percentage of LA communities that are resilient (Dream Metric)

Percentage of tree canopy cover (Dream Metric)

Please explain how you will evaluate your work.

We will:

- Survey pilot schools to determine their bike/walk/transit scores before and after delivery of the curriculum.

- Track the number of trees planted through the program, and project tree canopy coverage at maturity.

- Assess students’ knowledge about sustainability issues at the beginning and end of the curriculum.

- Engage and track numbers of family and community members involved in curriculum supported activities.

- Track the number of schools willing to participate in the initial and subsequent phases of the pilot.

How can the LA2050 community and other stakeholders help your proposal succeed

Money (financial capital)

Volunteers/staff (human capital)

Publicity/awareness (social capital)

Education/training

Technical infrastructure (computers, etc.)

Community outreach

Network/relationship support

Quality improvement research