SoLa Foundation
The SoLa Foundation is based on a simple premise: If you CAN see it, you CAN be it. SoLa works to end intergenerational poverty in South Los Angeles through community development and access to education and economic opportunity in and through technology.
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LEARN 路2023 Grants Challenge路馃帀 2023 Snap Foundation WinnerSoLa Technology and Entrepreneurship Center
The SoLa Foundation works to end intergenerational poverty in South Los Angeles by closing the racial digital divide through the state-of-the-art SoLa Technology and Entrepreneurship Center. The Tech Center is on a mission to train and inspire the next generation of Black and brown tech and entertainment leaders and entrepreneurs. Through certifications, apprenticeships and job pipeline programs, thousands of students are equipped with needed job skills to enter lucrative careers right out of high school.
- LEARN 路2023 Grants Challenge路馃帀 2023 Snap Foundation Winner
SoLa Technology and Entrepreneurship Center
The SoLa Foundation works to end intergenerational poverty in South Los Angeles by closing the racial digital divide through the state-of-the-art SoLa Technology and Entrepreneurship Center. The Tech Center is on a mission to train and inspire the next generation of Black and brown tech and entertainment leaders and entrepreneurs. Through certifications, apprenticeships and job pipeline programs, thousands of students are equipped with needed job skills to enter lucrative careers right out of high school.
- LEARN 路2022 Grants Challenge
SoLa Technology and Entrepreneurship Center
The SoLa Technology and Entrepreneurship Center, the marquee project of SoLa I CAN Foundation, aims to train and inspire a new generation of Black and brown technology professionals, leaders and entrepreneurs from South LA. South LA is a technology access desert, placing its Black and brown youth at a systemic disadvantage to accessing lucrative technology industry jobs and careers. The state-of-the-art center aims to close this gap by offering free technical and entrepreneurship training in foundational and emerging tech fields.
- LEARN 路2021 Grants Challenge
SoLa Technology & Entrepreneurship Center: Bridging the digital divide in South LA by opening new access points to cutting edge digital skills training and entrepreneurship education with the goal of inspiring the next generation of Black / Latinx tech and business leaders.
South LA鈥檚 Black and Latinx youth live in a technology desert and lack equal access to tech education and opportunity. The SoLa Technology and Entrepreneurship Center (the first in South LA) will close this digital divide, provide access to high quality, cutting edge technology and entrepreneurship education and open new pathways for Black and Latinx youth to become the next generation of tech leaders and entrepreneurs. We aspire to systemically address these game-changing outcomes with support and input from the LA2050 community.