My LA2050
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City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks
The Department’s mission is to enrich the lives of Los Angeles residents by providing safe, welcoming parks and recreation facilities with affordable recreational and social activities for people of all ages.
2020 Winner, 2019 Finalist
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Los Angeles Audubon Society
Los Angeles Audubon works to promote the enjoyment and protection of birds and other wildlife through outdoor education programs, bird-friendly activities, and hands-on conservation initiatives.
2020 Winner, 2019 Finalist
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People for Parks
PFP creates access to safe, vibrant play spaces in underserved LA by 1) unlocking schoolyards on weekends to create Community School Parks, 2) mobilizing communities and 3) advancing joint-use policy.
2015 Winner, 2018 Honorable Mention
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The Trust for Public Land
The Trust for Public Land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities. Our overarching goal is for every American to live within a 10-minute walk of a park.
2014 Winner, 2018 Finalist
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Pershing Square Park Advisory Board
The Pershing Square Park Advisory Board (PAB) is a volunteer organization chartered by the City of LA to help support Pershing Square Park.
2014 Winner
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EnrichLA
EnrichLA builds edible gardens and green spaces in local schools, and provides garden based education in these schools!
2014 Winner
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TreePeople
To inspire, engage and support people to take personal responsibility for the urban environment, making it safe, healthy, fun and resilient and to share the process as a model for the world.
2019 Finalist
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Green Girl Farms
Green Girl Farms grows produce in empty spaces and distributes it to the community through donations and produce stands. We build viable, environmentally sound, socially just community food systems.
2019 Finalist
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Kounkuey Design Initiative
KDI is a design + community development nonprofit that partners with residents in underserved neighborhoods to create public spaces that meet priority needs, build equity + help communities thrive.
2018 Finalist
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Woodcraft Rangers
The mission of Woodcraft Rangers is to guide young people as they explore pathways to purposeful lives. We provide children and youth from some of LA’s lowest-income neighborhoods with after-school enrichment programs, summer camps, and workforce ...
2020
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Skyhook Foundation
The Skyhook Foundation's mission is to "Give kids a shot that can't be blocked by bringing educational STEM opportunities to underserved communities." Currently, the foundation fulfills its mission through its flagship program, Camp Skyhook.
2020
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Saving the West Foundation
The Saving the West Foundation (STWF) is an education-based nonprofit that highlights the importance of academic excellence, workforce development and environmental sustainability. Our work is dedicated to improving the lives of young people in bo...
2020
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Providence Saint John’s Child and Family Development Center
Identify mental health issues early and intervene in a culturally responsive, child and family focused way. We strive to build resiliency, foster empowerment and self sufficiency, growth and positive coping in order to enable children to succeed ...
2020
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Nature for All
Nature for All’s mission is to work to build a diverse base of support for ensuring that everyone in the Los Angeles area —no matter where they live—has equitable access to the wide range of benefits that nature can provide.
2020
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Inclusion Matters By Shane's Inspiration
The mission of Inclusion Matters by Shane’s Inspiration is to create social inclusion for children with disabilities through the creation of inclusive playgrounds and programs that unite children of all abilities. Our vision is to foster a bias-fr...
2020
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Cedars Sinai Medical Center
RCHE conducts research rooted in community outreach and engagement (COE) to address health disparities in underserved populations. Efforts focus on cancer screening and behavioral factors, such as physical activity. Initiatives are culturally incl...
2020
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SCV Adventure Play Foundation
We believe access to self-directed play, nature and community is key to healthy, happy lives. We uphold this through playwork, making play spaces with open-ended play parts, outreach, and workshops
2019
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USC Annenberg Innovation Lab
We're creating and leveraging media + popular culture to increase census awareness + participation in LA’s hard-to-count (HTC) and historically marginalized communities leading up to the 2020 Census.
2019
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Perceptoscope
Perceptoscope connects people to places through interactive public art and immersive storytelling. We use augmented reality landscape viewers to give people a new perspective of what's around them.
2019
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Los Angeles County Grand Park Foundation
To enhance the experience of Grand Park ("The Park for Everyone") for the people of Los Angeles County and all visitors for generations to come.
2019
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Ahdom_Sayre
AHDOM_SAYRE is a design and advocacy group for spaces that allow for true health and higher performance through a symbiotic relationship between humans, natural systems, and good design.
2019
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LA Compost
LA Compost works alongside a growing network of community members and stakeholders to develop social and physical infrastructure for cohesive composting communities.
2018
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LA River Public Art Project (c/o ERW Design)
The LA River Public Art Project advocates for an arts and culture infrastructure, preserves the legacy of art on the River, and develops public art projects to engage communities throughout LA.
2018
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Proyecto Jardin: A Project of Hunger Action LA
Proyecto Jardin is a community-led movement for food sovereignty that promotes regenerative urban agriculture and an equitable regional food system rooted in ancestral foodways & farming practices.
2018
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EverWild
EverWild is a community that fosters environmental stewards through family adventures, place-based learning, and conservancy projects.
2018
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The Edible Apartment
We convert apartment building lawns into organic urban farms; creating community, a sustainable food source and beautifying the neighborhood.
2016
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BlacklistLA
BlacklistLA Run Organization (BlacklistLA) provides access to Angelenos of diverse backgrounds to connect with each other through a shared love of running, street art, culture and the City of LA.
2016
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Fallen Fruit
Fallen Fruit invites you to re-imagine the function of public participation and urban space, and to explore the meaning of community through planting, mapping and sharing fruit trees.
2016
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WOW Imagined, Inc.
Educational organization that promotes collaborative community models of education through play.
2016
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The Ron Finley Project
The Ron Finley Project is a nonprofit dedicated to shifting culture and changing urban landscapes by bringing gardens, art and new life to inner-city neighborhoods.
2016
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SCA-LARC
Landscape Architecture
2016
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Plantaware
Plantaware helps people grow food at home.
2016
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Office of Exposition Park Management
The Office of Exposition Park Management coordinates park activities and infrastructure improvements in the Expo Park neighborhood.
2016
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Landscape Integrity Films and Education (LIFE)
LIFE short films give clear, inspiring information about native plant gardening to transform sterile green spaces into places that support biodiversity, conserve water and celebrate California beauty.
2016
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Historic Core BID
The Historic Core BID is a 501(c)(6) non-profit dedicated to improving quality of life in the Historic Core of DTLA through clean, safe, and enterprise programs.
2016
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Helpline Youth Counseling (HYC)
HYC helps at-risk, low-income children, youth, and families develop their strengths and build skills and support networks through education, counseling, advocacy, and the utilization of resources.
2016
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Grown in LA
Grown in LA is a nonprofit project of Community Partners that is converting underutilized land into a network of nurseries that produce plants and provide educational opportunities to Angelenos.
2016
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Co-led by Industrial District Green and Cal Poly Pomona Department of Landscape Architecture.
Cal Poly Pomona and Industrial District Green use creative strategies to engage communities in the process of research, design, implementation and maintenance.
2016
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Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority
The Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (MRCA) is dedicated to the creation of parkland for public access, recreation, habitat preservation and development of trails.
2015
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Netiya
Netiya is a food justice and interfaith network that fosters self-reliance and land stewardship to lead Angelenos of all faiths toward greater access to food worthy of a blessing.
2015
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Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust (LANLT), Leadership for Urban Renewal (LURN), TRUST South LA, Konkuey Design Initiative (KDI), Esperanza Community Housing Corporation, Community Health Councils (CHC)
The LA Neighborhood Land Trust partners with LA’s communities of color to develop, build, and operate safe parks and community gardens while organizing to advocate for local policies that support health and equity. LANLT will serve as lead applicant.
2015
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From Lot to Spot
FLTS is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving blighted, urban neighborhoods by building community-designed greenspaces in the greater Los Angeles area one vacant space at a time.
2015
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Shane's Inspiration
Shane's Inspiration creates inclusive playgrounds and education programs that unite children of all abilities.
2015
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Council for Watershed Health
Culture Shock LA utilizes urban dance, art, and culture to cultivate meaningful education, enrichment and entertainment programs in diverse communities.
2015
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The Venice Place Project, TEDxVeniceBeach, 72andSunny
We are three organizations that partnered together to turn an unused space in Venice into a beautiful, useful and thriving free co-working and community space.
2015
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Tempest Action Parks
TMPST Action Parks helps provide creative movement to communities everywhere through play, fitness, and overcoming obstacles.
2015
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River Wild LLC
River Wild LLC incubates pop-up economic development models along the LA River in underserved communities.
2015
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Project Backboard
Renovate basketball courts and install art in public parks in order to create fun and inviting places for basketball and other activity that inspires creative, inter-generational play, increases park usage and strengthens communities.
2015
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National Park Foundation
NPF directly supports America’s 408 national parks through projects that protect natural and cultural resources; connect all Americans with their national parks; and inspire lifelong engagement with the next generation of national park stewards.
2015
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Friends of the Hollywood Central Park (FHCP)
FHCP will build a 38-acre Hollywood Central Park by decking one mile of US 101 (creating a tunnel for freeway traffic). The Park will promote active lifestyles and improve health with its environmental, recreational and aesthetic benefits.
2015
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Freeway Farm
Freeway Farm is interested in transforming the under-utilised peri-freeway spaces into a visible and visceral way for Angelenos to connect to their food source.
2015
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Connect the Dots LA
To facilitate a multipurpose, stake-holder-driven process to preserve, restore, and enhance the environmental, economic, and social health of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel River watersheds through education, research, and integrated planning.
2015
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Adventure Playhouse Indoor Activity Center
Adventure Playhouse creates a safe and clean environment for families to play together as there are activities for all ages ranging from infants to adults with the options of birthday party celebrations and martial arts classes.
2015
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URBAN AIR
Urban Air is a global artwork that transforms urban billboards into living, intelligently networked, suspended cloud forests.
2014
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Muir Ranch
We give kids the tools to navigate the universe using food, farming and social enterprise with a farm as a classroom.
2014
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UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture Program
The UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture Program works to provide design solutions that make Los Angeles more livable, green and beautiful.
2014
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Play the LA River
Led by Project 51, Play the LA River is a movement to re-imagine the LA River as a grand civic space linking communities along its 51 miles.
2014
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Los Angeles Community Garden Council
We @LAgardens can help 150 low-income families in LA grow healthy food in their neighborhood in the next year!
2014
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Interpretive Media Laboratory (IMLab)
We use emerging technologies and advanced research to create new ways for communities to use public space for discovery and interpretation.
2014
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Friends of the Los Angeles River
FoLAR strives for a swimmable, fishable, boatable, bikeable LA River through advocacy, education and wise stewardship.
2014
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Art Community Land Activism (ACLA)’s La Tierra de la Culebra
We facilitate access to a public park by developing creative and cultural programming to engage the community.
2014
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Alma Backyard Farms
Alma Backyard Farms creates a dynamic opportunity in urban farming for the formerly incarcerated to reintegrate by growing food in & for LA.
2014
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Urban Reclaim
The foundation is a collaboration of two urban visionaries — Xander Tertychny and Eric Solis, who have both graduated from USC with a degree in Architecture. Xander has been involved with organizations such as Global Architecture Brigades and help...
2013
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The Learning Garden
The most important achievement of The Learning Garden is the continual growth of programs and gardens it has inspired over the past ten years. With very little funding, The Learning Garden has demonstrated the true meaning of sustainability throug...
2013
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The City Project
The City Project is a nonprofit organization committed to achieving equal justice, democracy, and livability in Los Angeles. Since our founding in 2000, we have influenced the investment of over $41 billion in underserved communities. W...
2013
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RiverLAnding Collective
- Worked on the Los Angeles Revitalization Master Plan - Developed and implemented extensive community outreach programs - Designed and permitted the Spring Street Parklets - Built and employed hydraulic models to help design the...
2013
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Playworks Southern California
In 2012, Playworks was selected as one of the Social Impact Exchange's 100 Index in the category of education. The S&I 100 Index consists of high-impact nonprofits that have been carefully vetted through a comprehensive selection process. More tha...
2013
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Nativ
Though NativLA does not yet exist, it will coalesce my years of experience with nature and the environment. While earning a BA in Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I created the show Habitat for UNC-CH Cable TV on the ...
2013
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National Park Service
The staff and volunteers of Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area have each year: * Reached over 8000 kids with nature-based education programming. * Planted 5 acres of native habitat. * Grown 15,000 native plants. ...
2013
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Million Trees LA, a project of Community Partners
400,000 Trees by July 2013 Million Trees LA’s public-private collaboration has planted over 380,000 trees and is on track to plant 400,000 trees by July 2013. Rate of Planting-6X the last two administrations According t...
2013
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Materials & Applications
Materials & Applications (M&A), shares and demystifying concepts in art, architecture, and sustainable design in an outdoor courtyard open to the street 24 hours a day. Our projects create collaborative opportunities across disciplines and to expl...
2013
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La Loma Development Company
Besides our latest project at our center.... La Loma is a critical partner in the creation of Arlington Gardens, a three acre, award-winning community garden. We were also awarded the Green Hero Award by Environmental Charter Schools for the green...
2013
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L.A. River Revitalization Corporation
The L.A. River is at the heart of our vision is to make Los Angeles a cleaner, greener, and more connected community. We transform the LA River in order to improve people’s lives by carrying out sustainable land use projects, advocating for river-...
2013
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Industrial District Green
Well before founding Industrial District Green, Katherine McNenny had begun laying the groundwork for future non-profit greening activities. In December of 2011 after 12 months of preparation, she conducted her first planting of 7 trees along San ...
2013
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ImPact Farms, Inc.
While yet to begin operations, we have engaged and raised the passion of many of our stakeholders such as local government offices, community organizations, property owners and individuals through presentations that demonstrate ImPact Farm’s align...
2013
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Evo Farm
* First commercial aquaponics farm in LA County (LA Times http://goo.gl/xmTck) * First aquaponic system at LAUSD ( http://vimeo.com/41029703) * First hyper-local, living produce, better-than-organic sold at SoCal Farmers market (LA Times...
2013
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ERW DESIGN + SALT Landscape Architects
ERW Design + SALT have partnered to develop the Park-in-a-Box concept. ERW Design (www.erwdesign.com) is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary architecture firm whose work is based on the intersection of the built form and the landscape. Founded in...
2013
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California Greenworks
California Greenworks has established itself as one of the premier environmental groups within South Los Angeles. California Greenworks directs its efforts to the at-risk communities in South Los Angeles. Our projects revolve around environmental ...
2013
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