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-CARECEN-of California🎉 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: LA Industry🎉 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, a Project of Community Partners🎉 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🎉 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 / Radio Pulso🎉 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, Inc.🎉 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
The 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, formerly Big Citizen HUB🎉 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