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 2038 organizations in the Ideas Hub
The Trust for Public Land
The Trust for Public Land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring h🎉 Multiyear winner
Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation
Founded in 1995 as the official charity of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Ange🎉 Multiyear winner
Lost Angels Children's Project
Founded in 2014 and incorporated in 2015, Lost Angels Children’s Project (LACP)🎉 Multiyear winner
Homeboy Industries
Homeboy Industries provides hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involve🎉 Multiyear winner
CASA of Los Angeles
CASA of Los Angeles (CASA/LA) mobilizes community volunteers to advocate for chi🎉 Multiyear winner
Flavors From Afar
Good food for a good cause. Flavors From Afar provides traditional recipes and g🎉 Multiyear winner
Healing California
Healing California provides free, quality dental, medical, and vision care to th🎉 Multiyear winner
People's Pottery Project
People’s Pottery Project’s mission is to empower formerly incarcerated women, tr🎉 Multiyear winner
City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks
The Department’s mission is to enrich the lives of Los Angeles residents by prov🎉 Multiyear winner
Las Fotos Project
Las Fotos Project’s mission is to elevate the voices of teenage girls from commu🎉 Multiyear winner
Public Matters
Public Matters believes the arts and creativity are levers for social change. We🎉 Multiyear winner
Defy Ventures
Defy Ventures is a national nonprofit with a vision to cut recidivism in half by🎉 Multiyear winner
Harlem Lacrosse - Los Angeles
Harlem Lacrosse - Los Angeles uses an innovative, school-based model to challeng🎉 Multiyear winner
Center for Innovation in STEM Education (CISE)
CISE brings STEM to the forefront of K-16 education by partnering with schools,🎉 Multiyear winner
Covenant House California
Covenant House California is dedicated to serving all of God’s children with abs🎉 Multiyear winner
People for Parks
PFP creates access to safe, vibrant play spaces in underserved LA by 1) unlockin🎉 Multiyear winner
Move LA
Move LA has developed a successful civic engagement model to build coalitions to🎉 Multiyear winner
CicLAvia
The mission of CicLAvia is to catalyze vibrant public spaces, active transportat🎉 Multiyear winner
East LA Community Corporation (ELACC)
ELACC advocates for economic and social justice by developing grassroots leaders🎉 Multiyear winner
Los Angeles Audubon Society
Connecting people with nature in the city. The mission of Los Angeles Audubon So🎉 Multiyear winner
Theodore Payne Foundation
Theodore Payne Foundation inspires and educates Southern Californians about the🎉 Multiyear winner
UCLA Grand Challenges
The UCLA Grand Challenges initiative brings together faculty, students and partn🎉 Multiyear winner
The Youth Movement Against Alzheimer's
The Youth Movement Against Alzheimer’s (YMAA) mission is to promote understandin🎉 Multiyear winner
Arts for Healing and Justice Network
The Arts for Healing and Justice Network (AHJN) is an interdisciplinary collabor🎉 2023 Winner
DignityMoves
DignityMoves works to end unsheltered street homelessness in our communities by🎉 2023 Winner
Friends of the Los Angeles River
FoLAR strives for a swimmable, fishable, boatable, bikeable LA River through adv🎉 2023 Winner
Los Angeles Walks
Deborah Murphy, a native Angeleno, founded Los Angeles Walks in 1998 after a key🎉 2023 Winner
North East Trees
We are a community-based, non-profit organization that helps heal environmental🎉 2023 Winner
Peer Health Exchange
Our mission is to build healthier communities with young people. Together, we cr🎉 2023 Winner
Prosperity Market
Our mission is to transform our local ecosystem and economy through agriculture,🎉 2023 Winner
Streets For All
Streets For All is dedicated to expanding public transportation, bike infrastruc🎉 2023 Winner
Black Women for Wellness
Black Women for Wellness is a non-profit committed to the empowerment, health, a🎉 2022 Winner
Climate Resolve
Climate Resolve is a Los Angeles nonprofit dedicated to combating climate change🎉 2022 Winner
Education Through Music-Los Angeles
ETM-LA provides high-quality music instruction in disadvantaged schools to promo🎉 2022 Winner
Inner City Law Center
Inner City Law Center’s (ICLC) mission is to ensure decent, safe and fully habit🎉 2022 Winner
Legacy LA Youth Development Corporation
Legacy LA's mission is to make positive interventions in the lives of young peop🎉 2022 Winner
Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition
LBIRC’s mission is to build and sustain a thriving immigrant-led movement to end🎉 2022 Winner
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
LACI incubates early stage cleantech companies and helps bring their products an🎉 2022 Winner
Nature for All
Nature For All’s mission is to work to build a diverse base of support for ensur🎉 2022 Winner
Thai Community Development Center
To advance the social and economic well-being of low- and moderate- income Thais🎉 2022 Winner
Urban Peace Institute
With a mission to reduce violence, the Urban Peace Institute (UPI) works on the🎉 2022 Winner
Young Women's Freedom Center
For 28 years, YWFC has provided support, mentorship, training, employment, and a🎉 2022 Winner
Alliance in Mentorship / MiMentor
MiMentor’s mission is to develop and support innovative and inclusive mentoring🎉 2021 Winner
Angel City Alliance
Angel City Sports is a nonprofit organization founded in 2013 to create a broad🎉 2021 Winner
Center for Restorative Justice Works
CRJW is a non-profit that provides free family reunification and support service🎉 2021 Winner
Children Now
Children Now's mission is to find common ground among influential opinion leader🎉 2021 Winner
City Plants
City Plants envisions a Los Angeles in which people in every neighborhood have e🎉 2021 Winner
Color the Water
Through free surf instruction, historical and cultural education, and media repr🎉 2021 Winner
DIY Girls
DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Girls mission is to increase girls’ interest and success🎉 2021 Winner
East Side Riders Bike Club
Our mission is to prevent kids from being in gangs and doing drugs, helping thos🎉 2021 Winner
End Homelessness California DBA the Shower of Hope
End Homelessness California, DBA The Shower of Hope, is a 501c3 non-profit organ🎉 2021 Winner
Fund for Guaranteed Income (F4GI)
The F4GI Compton Pledge is a landmark guaranteed income (GI) initiative that wil🎉 2021 Winner
Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice
LACLJ secures justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and🎉 2021 Winner
New Earth
New Earth provides mentor-based arts, educational, and vocational programs that🎉 2021 Winner
On The Go LA
Enabling local food entrepreneurs to formalize their business without barriers.🎉 2021 Winner
Rivet School
Rivet School is a reimagined college experience that enables students to earn an🎉 2021 Winner
Sloane Stephens Foundation
The Sloane Stephens Foundation empowers children around the world to dream big a🎉 2021 Winner
The Civics Center
We support student-led voter registration efforts in high school communities acr🎉 2021 Winner
The SEED School of Los Angeles County
SEED LA’s mission is to provide an outstanding, intensive educational program an🎉 2021 Winner
Western Center on Law & Poverty
Through the lens of economic and racial justice, the mission of Western Center o🎉 2021 Winner
Westside Pacific Villages
Westside Pacific Villages empowers people to better navigate the changes and opp🎉 2021 Winner
human-I-T
human-I-T believes that through social entrepreneurship opportunities are create🎉 2021 Winner
Boyle Heights Beat
Boyle Heights Beat is a bilingual community news project produced by youth offer🎉 2020 Winner
Central American Resource Center
CARECEN's mission is to promote the human and civil rights of Central Americans🎉 2020 Winner
Clinica Msr. Oscar A. Romero
Our mission is to provide quality, affordable, and culturally-sensitive health c🎉 2020 Winner
Creative Acts
Creative Acts is an organization that seeks to transform urgent social justice i🎉 2020 Winner
Crop Swap LA
Crop Swap LA is a social enterprise seeking to close the nutritional gap in Los🎉 2020 Winner
Flintridge Center
Flintridge Center's mission is to break the cycle of poverty and violence throug🎉 2020 Winner
Grid110
Our mission is to foster the most thriving, inviting & inclusive community for e🎉 2020 Winner
Jenesse Center, Inc.
Jenesse Center’s mission is to restore families impacted by domestic and sexual🎉 2020 Winner
LA Forward
LA Forward breaks down barriers to civic participation and makes local governmen🎉 2020 Winner
LA Sanitation and Environment
LA Sanitation and Environment (LASAN) protects public health and the environment🎉 2020 Winner
Los Angeles Maritime Institute
The Los Angeles Maritime Institute (LAMI) serves to empower youth to discover th🎉 2020 Winner
Pediatric Therapy Network
The mission of Pediatric Therapy Network (PTN) is to lead the way in helping chi🎉 2020 Winner
Reading Partners Los Angeles
Reading Partners’ mission is to help children become lifelong readers by empower🎉 2020 Winner
Ready to Succeed
At Ready to Succeed (RTS), our mission is to support and empower youth impacted🎉 2020 Winner
Safe Parking LA
Safe Parking LA (SPaLA), a project of Community Partners, supports people who ar🎉 2020 Winner
Southern California College Access Network
SoCal CAN is a network of 85 organizations working together to increase the rate🎉 2020 Winner
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE)
SAJE builds community leadership and power for economic justice. We believe that🎉 2020 Winner
The Urban Warehouse
Educating inner-city youth to value education through our after-school program;🎉 2020 Winner
Union Station Homeless Services
Guided by our belief that everyone deserves a life of dignity and a place to cal🎉 2020 Winner
9 Dots
9 Dots' mission is to provide transformative computer science education for ever🎉 2019 Winner
LA Plaza De Cultura y Artes
LA Plaza is the hub of Latino culture and the only museum in L.A. dedicated to h🎉 2019 Winner
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
The mission of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is to inspire wo🎉 2019 Winner
Rise, Inc.
Rise is a student-led nonprofit organization advocating for policies that make p🎉 2019 Winner
Rock the Vote
The mission of Rock the Vote is to build long-term youth political power. We do🎉 2019 Winner
Venice Community Housing
Venice Community Housing works to reduce homelessness, maximize affordable housi🎉 2019 Winner
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
For more than 40 years, Brady has been the leading national voice in the prevent🎉 2018 Winner
Miry's List
Refugees come to the U.S. seeking a safe haven from violence and persecution, le🎉 2018 Winner
United Way of Greater Los Angeles
UWGLA’s mission is to break the cycle of poverty for our most vulnerable neighbo🎉 2018 Winner
AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles
Ocean-related education is a vital component of AltaSea’s mission to accelerate🎉 2016 Winner
California Institute of Technology
The Resnick Sustainability Institute at Caltech supports research in sustainabil🎉 2016 Winner
Changeist
Changeist's mission is to help young people bridge racial, social, and economic🎉 2016 Winner
Friends of the Family
Friends of the Family works to lift children and their families out of poverty,🎉 2016 Winner
Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media at Mount Saint Mary’s University
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media is the only research-based organiza🎉 2016 Winner
Opportunity Fund
Opportunity Fund facilitates access to capital by providing loans to low- and mo🎉 2016 Winner
Surf Bus Foundation
Surf Bus empowers people to foster a healing connection with the sea. Through pl🎉 2016 Winner
The Sierra Club Foundation
We educate and enlist humanity to explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of🎉 2016 Winner
The Triforium Project
We are a coaltion of people dedicated to reimagining The Triforium, transforming🎉 2016 Winner