My LA2050
Income & employment
There are 179 matching organizations. Select an organization to learn more about plans, goals, and opportunities to be involved.
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Grid110
Our mission is to foster the most thriving, inviting & inclusive community for entrepreneurs in Los Angeles. Our work impacts individuals who are often overlooked by traditional entrepreneurial ecosystems. That’s what drives us to make the entrepr...
2020 Winner
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LA Sanitation and Environment: LA Industry
LA Sanitation and Environment (LASAN) protects public health and the environment through three program areas: Clean Water, Solid Resources, and Watershed Protection. LA Industry is a pollution prevention team in LASAN that aids economic developmen...
2020 Winner
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Flintridge Center
Flintridge Center’s mission is to break the cycle of poverty and violence through community planning, innovation, and action. Our vision is of a healthy, safe community where families thrive, youth reach their full potential, and equality and oppo...
2020 Winner
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Crop Swap LA
Crop Swap LA is a social enterprise seeking to close the nutritional gap in Los Angeles by creating an infrastructure for all communities to have access to nutrient-rich food and the knowledge to grow it.
2020 Winner
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Defy Ventures, Inc.
Defy Ventures’ mission is to give people with criminal histories their best shot at a second chance by providing them with personal development, career readiness, and entrepreneurship training.
2019 Winner
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East LA Community Corporation (ELACC)
ELACC advocates for economic and social justice by developing grassroots leadership, building affordable housing, and providing economic development opportunities to low- and moderate-income families.
2018 Winner, 2013 Winner
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Opportunity Fund
Opportunity Fund facilitates access to capital by providing loans to low- and moderate-income immigrants, women, and other deserving, but underserved small business owners.
2016 Winner
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Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles
The Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles brings together the best of private, philanthropic, non-profit and government resources to take on the city’s most pressing challenges.
2015 Winner
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Downtown Women's Center
Over our 35-year history, the Downtown Women’s Center has created innovative programming focused on meeting the unique needs of homeless, formerly homeless, and extremely low-income women. When the Center first opened in 1978, it was the first and...
2014 Winner
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The Incubator School
The Incubator School is a small, college and 21st century world-ready 6-12 span learning community whose mission is to foster, network, and launch the entrepreneurial teams of tomorrow. We start up students!
2014 Winner
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Homeboy Industries
Homeboy provides hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated individuals allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of society.
2013 Winner, 2018 Honorable Mention, 2019 Finalist
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Mission Asset Fund
MAF’s Lending Circles program has received widespread national attention for its success in helping low income families gain access to capital, build financial capability, and increase access to low-cost loans for education, homes, and small busin...
2013 Winner
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One Degree
One Degree’s mission is to empower people to create a path out of poverty for themselves and for their communities.
2018 Honorable Mention
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Two Bit Circus Foundation
Play with Music's mission is to connect underserved youth in LA with our creative industries to foster collaboration, creation & career paths.
2019 Finalist
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Gladeo
Gladeo’s inclusive, next-gen career exploration platform prepares learners for the future of work by providing free, online access to high-quality career guidance for upwardly-mobile middle- & high-skill careers. We’re building a more inclusive, e...
2019 Finalist
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Freedom and Fashion
Humanity was created for freedom. Using the arts of fashion and beauty, we create empowering mentorship programs for youth overcoming sex trafficking, domestic violence, and other injustices.
2019 Finalist
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Women In Film
Women In Film advocates for and advances the careers of women working in the screen industries — to achieve parity and transform culture.
2019 Finalist
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EVERYBODY.WORLD
EVERYBODY.WORLD makes thoughtful goods in LA and is committed to championing fair wages, pushing boundaries in apparel sustainability, and collaborating with creative minds to make enjoyable clothing.
2019 Finalist
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L.A. Kitchen
L.A. Kitchen works to combat hunger, food waste and recidivism, by reclaiming food that would otherwise go to waste to supply fresh meals to Angelenos and providing culinary job training.
2018 Finalist
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Brioxy
We close the opportunity gap for innovators of color by training them to build and run strong organizations in the communities they grew up in.
2018 Finalist
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LIFT-Los Angeles
LIFT-LA empowers families to break the cycle of poverty through one-on-one financial, educational and career coaching. We believe all families should have an equal chance to thrive. That is why we put cash into the hands of our members and trust t...
2020
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Hacker Fund
Our mission is to empower technologists to create social change.
2020
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Community Vitalization Council
The Community Vitalization Council (CiViC180) promotes community level economic vitality and jobs by supporting the growth of small businesses. CiViC180’s signature program, the International Business Accelerator (IBA), helps businesses launch in...
2020
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Cal State L.A. University Auxiliary Services, Inc.
Our mission is to create innovative, category-defining life science startups within the vibrant and supportive environment of Cal State LA. LA BioSpace provides diverse biomedical entrepreneurs the programming and capacity to turn scientific advan...
2020
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Youth Business Alliance
Youth Business Alliance (YBA) empowers high school students attending Title 1 schools to build essential business skills for 21st century careers.
2020
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Chrysalis
Chrysalis’ mission is to create a pathway to self-sufficiency for homeless and low-income individuals by providing the resources and support needed to find and retain employment.
2020
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Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Los Angeles (NFTE LA)
The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) activates the entrepreneurial mindset and builds start-up skills in youth from under-resourced communities to ensure their success and to create a more vibrant Los Angeles.
2020
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Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs
The Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance (NCSA) advances sustainability and resilience across Los Angeles through advocacy, sharing of best practices, and community action.
2020
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Cheshire Moon
This program will fund a minimum of five theatre productions annually, as well as an ongoing writer's lab to help students develop their voices as writers. We want to create a program that will be the origin story for many great artists of the nex...
2020
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Warehouse TV
To provide a platform for disabled people to jump-start a career in the film industry where they otherwise wouldn't be able to. And to use that platform to educate the film industry, and other industries, about the power of accessibility and diver...
2020
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urban possibilities
Empower homeless job seekers with tools to move from survival to self-actualization - improving families, workplaces and our communities as a result.
2020
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Truthseekers Inc
To utilize radio and television broadcasting operations to encourage and provide outlets for the creative skills and energies of the community.
2020
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The RightWay Foundation
The RightWay Foundation helps transition-age foster youth get and keep good jobs despite the overwhelming trauma they have endured throughout their lives. We partner with foster youth to build a healthy, self-sufficient life, grounded in mental he...
2020
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The Los Angeles Coalition
The Los Angeles Coalition for the Economy & Jobs is an independent, bipartisan membership organization that brings together leaders from the region’s business, labor, academic and nonprofit communities to advance policy initiatives that responsibl...
2020
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The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture
The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture facilitates collaboration, innovation and cultural impact for the media arts field. The Alliance is a network of networks; we embolden creative media organizations + artists and connect them with the world.
2020
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teamtaub llc
To educate the LA population on how to pay household worker/nanny tax and thereby making a real step toward bridging cultural divide through fair pay and increasing the number of people who are following this law.
2020
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Startups in the Sky
InTECHrity is an exploration of ethics and the internet and provides a critical platform for social justice advocates, software engineers, internet philosophers, and the startup community to reimagine and create a digital future that is safe, equi...
2020
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Startup Coil LLC
Version One App Accelerator empowers entrepreneurs and small businesses to launch their mobile app technology without requiring them to have any software engineering skills.
2020
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SRMZ Technologies
Create a world where technology unites us, rather than isolating us. Stronger professional and personal networks through convenient connections anywhere in the world.
2020
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Smith & Co. LLC dba Kolor Society
To provide a rebirth of the community experience that fosters lifelong relationships and learning.
2020
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RespectAbility
Led by diverse people with disabilities and allies, RespectAbility fights stigmas and advances opportunities so people with disabilities can fully participate in all aspects of community. We create tools, trainings and systems change to enable peo...
2020
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Renovation Planners
Renovation Planners’ mission with Urban $marts LA is to help homeowners take charge of their finances by building a backyard home to rent out, while making their dreams of entrepreneurship and wealth building a reality, reducing their housing cost...
2020
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Refoundry
Refoundry's mission is to provide formerly incarcerated people with skills and opportunities to achieve financial independence and become leaders and job creators in our communities.
2020
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Project Equity, a program of Multiplier
Project Equity fosters economic resiliency with low- and middle-income communities by expanding employee ownership, a proven but little-known business structure that shares the wealth a company generates with its workers—increasing worker agency, ...
2020
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People's Yoga
People’s Yoga is a woman-owned, community yoga studio dedicated to making health and wellness an accessible, inclusive, sustainable reality for all - regardless of income, language, gender, place of birth, body type, age, skin color, religious bel...
2020
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New Horizons: Serving Individuals with Special Needs
New Horizons' mission is to empower individuals with disabilities to reach their full potential. Together we’re building an inclusive world that celebrates strengths, respects abilities, and embraces diversity.
2020
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Music Forward Foundation
Music Forward's mission is to transform young lives, inspire careers, and champion a more inclusive music industry. Our vision is for all youth to learn how to leverage their creative passions to secure future employment, avert poverty, and achiev...
2020
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MOSTe MOTIVATING OUR STUDENTS THROUGH EXPERIENCE
The mission of MOSTe is to mentor and empower girls from underserved areas of Los Angeles County to become the next generation of college-educated women. Our vision is to encourage girls to graduate from college and develop into confident, career-...
2020
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Mockingbird Incubator
Mockingbird Incubator is a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles that supports and trains early-stage and grassroots nonprofit organizations to increase the impact of their work.
2020
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Mi Terro
We are a new material technology company that turns food waste into sustainable fibers that can apply to apparel, bed linen, and packaging.
2020
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Kingdom Causes Bellflower
Our mission is to be a catalyst that inspires, connects, and mobilizes people towards personal and community transformation.
2020
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Junior High, Incorporated
Junior High is dedicated to showcasing the artistic pursuits of marginalized voices. Our space, publication, podcast, and other ventures exist via principles of collective organizing, diverse empathy and anti-oppression. We hope to create a softer...
2020
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Hustle & Hustle
Reach Los Angeles's mission is to strengthen LA's only local advertising network to help stabilize a our fragile publishing ecosystem by diversifying funding sources.
2020
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Golden State Opportunity
Golden State Opportunity (GSO) is a nonprofit dedicated to ending poverty by providing all Californians with the tools to build financial security and thrive. GSO develops and leads comprehensive outreach campaigns to increase awareness of and par...
2020
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ethosDNA
Halt is a company dedicated to empowering the city through long-term sustainable and dynamic infrastructural technologies. Out first project dubbed "halt smart meter" is the most advanced parking meter that packs a multitude of different features ...
2020
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Entrepreneurship Advantage
To create economic opportunity for entrepreneurs and small businesses in Los Angeles County by connecting human, technical, and capital resources through regional collaboration.
2020
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Emile Cohl Art Academy
We provide a tuition-free, career-driven education in digital arts to talented youth. During the 3-year program, we work with studios and the creative industry to provide onramps to careers in the entertainment industry.
2020
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Creative Futures Collective
Our mission is to break cycles of systemic inequality by providing opportunity, education and support to those that haven't traditionally had access to them.
2020
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CostsBeyondTuition.org
CostsBeyondTuition.org’s mission is to connect college students to micro philanthropists aspiring to make a direct impact on college student's needs. Our goal is to close the inequality gap and encourage college students that are struggling financ...
2020
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COOP Careers
Overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections for underrepresented, first generation college graduates.
2020
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Codemarket
The mission of Codemarket is to build thriving local communities by empowering people and businesses with the technology, knowledge and innovation to reach their career and business goals.
2020
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Civy, Inc.
Civy is a cloud-based mobile platform for civic engagement, including cyber security and cloud hosting. Our mission is to enable direct and productive conversation between city officials and residents. We do so by creating tools that bridge the co...
2020
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Bread Head
Bread Head’s mission is to empower young adults experiencing housing insecurity with food literacy, life skills, and positive relationships. With our intentional community, we hope to inspire personal growth, independence, and balanced living.
2020
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BlueReef Capital
BlueReef Capital, a for-profit Hispanic owned organization, strives to offer quality financial advice and access to financial products primarily in Hispanic communities in the LA area. We want to help our communities through financial guidance and...
2020
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Back on My Feet Los Angeles
Back on My Feet combats homelessness through the power of running, community support and essential employment and housing resources. We provide practical training, an environment that promotes accountability, and a community that offers compassion...
2020
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Alliance for Southern California Innovation
The Alliance’s mission is to engage and unify SoCal’s compelling diversity of talent, ideas and perspectives in order to optimize the conditions for the region’s innovators to bring breakthroughs to the world.
2020
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70 Million Jobs
70 Million Jobs is the first national, for-profit employment platform for people with criminal backgrounds. Our marketplace enables employers to access the 1-in-3 Americans in the job market who have some kind of criminal record. We operate a high...
2020
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Natch
We want to bring back shopping locally by bringing anything local shops make or do to your door each day.
2019
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National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP)
Addressing the underrepresented Latinx community, NALIP’s mission is to discover, promote and inspire content creators and diverse voices across all media platforms. NALIP serves the needs of creatives including, producers, performers, writers, d...
2019
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The People of Change
The People of Change offers programs to promote advancement opportunities for community members through community-based initiatives in areas of Education Economic Empowerment and Cultural Awareness.
2019
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Civic Innovation Lab
Our mission is to provide meaningful and impactful opportunities for residents to solve problems in their communities by leveraging data, design, and tech and amplifying the skills of local talent.
2019
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ICON CDC
ICON CDC empowers residents and small businesses in the San Fernando Valley through programs that support social, civic, economic development, and education.
2019
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UNITE LA
UNITE-LA works to transcend silos/barriers between government, business & education systems to ensure all youth have access to high quality education and the next generation is prepared to succeed.
2019
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Advancement Project California
Advancement Project California is a next generation, multiracial civil rights organization working on systems change in education, equitable community investments, and inclusive democracy.
2019
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W Tenth Co
We are building a digital marketplace that encourages women who have left the workforce to market (and monetize) their everyday talents to their neighbors, friends, and communities.
2019
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MRS HR
To educate, encourage and empower applicants and employers so that they can promote policies and practices that are essential to a positive workplace, namely: sustainability, inclusion, and diversity
2019
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ManifestWorks
ManifestWorks connects those impacted by foster care, homelessness and incarceration with transformative job opportunities and provides the life and professional skills for long-term success.
2019
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M2M Bell
Our mission is to build a wireless Public Utility that would be paid for by the companies that make the devices we buy. The network will be autonomous, and so the antennas can be owned by anyone.
2019
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Los Angeles Conservation Corps
We provide at-risk young adults with opportunities for success through job skills training, education, and work experience emphasizing conservation and service projects that benefit the community.
2019
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In the Making
In the Making is a community resource center located in East Los Angeles collaborating with open-minded, forward thinking organizations for the enhancement of all.
2019
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GetGlobal, Inc
GetGlobal produces summits on international expansion, strategy, and key foreign markets. It brings together visionary companies and provides the intelligence and relationships to succeed worldwide.
2019
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FuturePorts
We are an advocacy organization representing goods movement industry businesses and supporting sustainable growth of the Southern California Ports.
2019
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Equal Pay Company
Equal Pay Company's mission is to give people the power to grow their practice of kindness, inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (Kind IDEA).
2019
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Creator Force at Civic Nation
Creator Force is expanding and diversifying the Creative Class by providing young people with awareness, inspiration and access to realize that the culture they love can be pathways to creative jobs.
2019
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B~STEM Project Foundation
B~STEM Project’s primary goal is to provide young people with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary experience with business and STEM disciplines.
2019
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Building Skills Partnership
BSP works to improve the quality of life for low-wage property service workers and their families by increasing their skills, access to education, and opportunities for career & community advancement.
2019
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American Digital Diversity Initiative
The American Digital Diversity Initiative is dedicated to educating community leaders, policymakers and other important influencers about the critical importance of universal digital access.
2019
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Data Roads Foundation
We provide open source software, education, and legal paperwork for nonprofit Local Sharing Network co-ops -- otherwise known as 501(c)(12) Utility Co-ops and 501(c)(4) community network providers.
2018
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Think Tank Productions, Inc. dba Think Tank Gallery
Think Tank Gallery is an alternative arts space and immersive production company est. in DTLA in 2010. We build themed Post-Street Art experiences around the country, and hide content in every corner
2018
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SeedLA
SeedLA brings together highly skilled young Angelenos and provides pro-bono strategy consulting to local environmental nonprofits.
2018
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Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy-Fair Workweek
Retail Workers R LA will enable LA’s 150,000 retail workers to connect with each other across LA’s vast size, learn their rights, register to vote, and become effective, civically engaged advocates
2018
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World Famous VIP Records LLC
Fosters entrepreneurship and careers in creative arts, music, technology and broadcasting by providing work space and support system to help launch and maintain such careers.
2018
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We Are Enough c/o Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs
All we do is educate women globally at every socioeconomic level and age on WHY and HOW to invest in women-owned businesses and/or with a “gender lens”.
2018
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UCLA Mobile Eye Clinic (UMEC)
We provide free eye care to underserved communities and vulnerable populations in L.A. who lack access to vision care as a result of financial, transportation, and/or cultural and language barriers.
2018
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TWIGG How-To
TWIGG How-To [aka The Winging It Girls’ Guide] is an award-winning platform seeking to create a damsel-free world through how-to articles, workshops, and video guides in ten practical categories.
2018
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Small Business Majority
Small Business Majority empowers America's entrepreneurs to build an inclusive, equitable, diverse economy by providing education and resources that promote small business growth and sustainability.
2018
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Roadtrip Nation
Roadtrip Nation empowers individuals to identify their interests and explore career pathways aligned with their unique aspirations and skills.
2018
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Revolutionize Hollywood
We help LA artists approach their career with an entrepreneur mindset, we host events and have created an online market place so that LA artist gain visibility, make money and sustain longevity.
2018
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Not Impossible Foundation
NIF recognizes global, human-centered absurdities deemed insolvable, then commits to solving them with a variety of experts to discover and create innovative, unique solutions, for one, for many.
2018
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National Veterans Transition Services, Inc. AKA REBOOT
REBOOT helps active military, veterans, and spouses in transitioning from the military, workforce training, job placement/retention and needed services while collaborating community resources.
2018
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Mentoring Adolescents for Personal & Professional Success
As part of the HSRA curriculum, MAPPS is personalized human development exploration and planning, giving participants the support they need to create an effective, realistic and flexible career plan.
2018
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CalEITC4Me
CalEITC4Me is a statewide program, run by Golden State Opportunity, to create economic security for California’s working families by connecting them with the EITC on the state and federal levels.
2018
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GRID Logistics
GRID Logistics are proposers of a design build maintain and operate transportation infrastructure for containerized goods movement. GRID markets are the world's leading container trading gateways.
2016
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Impact Hub Los Angeles
Impact Hub Los Angeles is a community hub and co-working space for socially conscious entrepreneurs, civic leaders, professionals and creatives.
2016
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Impact Hub Los Angeles
Impact Hub Los Angeles is a community hub and co-working space for socially conscious entrepreneurs, civic leaders, professionals and creatives.
2016
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Concerned Capital
Concerned Capital is a social impact investment firm that leverages economic development tools to save/create family wage jobs in distressed communities by re-energizing existing, operating companies.
2016
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California Partnership
An economic justice organization that builds leadership among low-income folks and communities of color through grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, convening of partners, and community education
2016
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WeThrive
WeThrive is a youth mentoring program that uses business creation to teach life skills, habit adoption and foster bonds with mentors and peers to ultimately produce social mobility.
2016
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The integrated Learning Annex
We run personal, professional, and organizational development programs that emphasize human-centric solutions, paying special attention to brain, behaviors, and systems.
2016
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Southern California Center for Nonprofit Management
Center for Nonprofit Management is the Southern California resource for education, consulting and engagement across the nonprofit community enabling nonprofits to achieve their goals
2016
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SilverMotion, Inc.
eQuiz is a fun and free trivia app that brings the world together through their passion for knowledge.
2016
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Safe Refuge
Safe Refuge is a place where people who are struggling can come to discover a supportive and caring recovery community through a continuum of care approach to services.
2016
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New Directions for Youth, Inc
New Directions for Youth (NDY) provides counseling, academic, gang prevention, health, fitness and job training programs to over 3,000 youth and families annually.
2016
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Los Angeles World Airports
Los Angeles World Airports Internship Program provides students opportunities to develop the skills to work in the aviation industry.
2016
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Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
LACI incubates early stage cleantech companies and helps bring their products and services to market by convening investors, corporations, and customers to drive innovation throughout our economy.
2016
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Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
LACI incubates early stage cleantech companies and helps bring their products and services to market by convening investors, corporations, and customers to drive innovation throughout our economy.
2016
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LaunchCode
LaunchCode is a nonprofit opening doors to paid apprenticeships and jobs for aspiring developers and technologists.
2016
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LA Promise Fund
The LA Promise Fund is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preparing Los Angeles students for success in college, career, and life.
2016
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Knit Marketing
Knit Marketing creates and curates social media content for businesses looking to reach young people by training and employing teens and young adults from untapped communities in Los Angeles.
2016
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Just As You Are Legacy
We provide resources to artists and the community in the areas of professional development, empowerment, self awareness, and entrepreneurship.
2016
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Jobs to Move America
Jobs to Move America (JMA) is a national organization- headquartered in LA-dedicated to re-invigorating our manufacturing economy through good jobs & opportunities for all
2016
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Equallet
Equallet’s mission is to achieve gender equality by harnessing the collective financial power of the consumer and investor to support women-owned businesses in LA.
2016
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Core Innovate, Inc. & Century Academy for Excellence
Core Innovate is an education technology and support services business that supports educators in strategic instructional planning aimed at removing barriers to powerful communication for students.
2016
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Continuous Good
Continuous Good supports, shares, and builds social impact brands. Our flagship brand is a platform designed to equip, inspire and educate entrepreneurs called Branding While Broke.
2016
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BUILD
BUILD uses entrepreneurship-based, experiential learning to engage students, provide equitable educational opportunities and develop skills for high school, college and career success.
2016
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Braid Theory, Inc.
Braid Theory weaves together entrepreneurs, investors and industry influencers to accelerate adoption of transformative technologies, drive market growth and create profitable collaborations.
2016
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Annenberg Innovation Lab
The AIL is a high-energy research lab that combines theory and practice to understand the ongoing evolution of media and its impact on governments, businesses, education, creators and consumers.
2016
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ANDesign Lab
ANDesign Lab is a full-fledged industrial design firm.
2016
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50/50 Leadership
Promotes women's equal leadership
2016
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Los Angeles Trade-Technical College
LATTC’s SLATE-Z is a partnership among community organizations, education institutions & government that centers on transit, education, enterprise, & redevelopment. The vision is to connect SLA through transportation, education & economic mobility.
2015
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Social Action Partners (SoACT)
Social Action Partners (SoACT) strengthens non-profit and community based organizations in low-income communities by partnering with them to provide technical assistance and capacity building that is culturally responsive, relevant, and respectful.
2015
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SeePolitical
SeePolitical demystifies the issues on your ballot as well as the process of how they get there.
2015
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PortTech Los Angeles, International Trade Education Programs (ITEP), Port of Los Angeles High School (POLAHS)
PortTech connects entrepreneurs, industry and community to advance innovation, solve port/global environmental challenges, and create jobs.
2015
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Lab Launch
Lab Launch’s mission is to enable the scientists and entrepreneurs of Los Angeles to develop their ideas in affordable, high-quality lab facilities, with access to services and a supportive innovation community to accelerate their success.
2015
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Fallen Fruit from Rising Women, Crossroads, Inc, Scripps College
We are collaborative social enterprise between Scripps College (the women's college of Claremont) and Crossroads (a transitional home for formerly incarcerated women); we make jams and jellies from locally donated back yard fruit.
2015
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Clothes The Deal
Clothes The Deal provides pre-employment services to low-income individuals.
2015
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Wheels of Hope LA, Fred Jordan Mission
Train and certify in welding hard to employ people, such as former gang members, homeless, ex-convicts and low income minorities.
2015
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WestCal Academy
WestCal Academy connects industry mentors with high school and undergraduate college students to increase graduation rates and help students discover their career pathway.
2015
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The Ripple Effect
The Ripple Effect is a nonprofit that assists youth in their educational and career endeavors despite their cultural, social and/or economic background.
2015
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Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) & US Green Building Council Los Angeles Chapter (USGBC-LA)
SCOPE builds community power in South LA to ensure equitable investment in disadvantaged communities. USGBC-LA promotes sustainability and resilience in LA’s built environment by delivering education, resources and recognition.
2015
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Polar Tech Ed and Consulting LLC/Patrick Leon
We design and develop mobile health solutions to provide underserved populations better health outcomes.
2015
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Plug In South LA
Plug In South LA will be opening a co-working space in South Los Angeles early 2016 and curates various programming series (Digital and Beyond in LA) that highlights emerging local STEM and digital media trends, inspiring young leaders in historica
2015
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Microenterprise.org
We help homeless (and extremely low-income) individuals start small businesses.
2015
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Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation
As LA County’s designated economic development leadership organization for over 34 years, the LAEDC’s purpose is to improve standards of living for LA County’s residents by growing overall economic prosperity.
2015
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Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation
As LA County’s designated economic development leadership organization for over 34 years, the LAEDC’s purpose is to improve standards of living for LA County’s residents by growing overall economic prosperity.
2015
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Los Angeles Community Action Network
The Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) engages, educates and organizes low-income and homeless residents to advance a vision for healthy communities in Downtown and South LA, with a special focus on improving health and equity in Skid Row.
2015
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Localism Inc.
Localism Inc. fosters independent entrepreneurship to promote a more sustainable, self-reliant local economy.
2015
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Koreatown Immigrant Worker Alliance
KIWA organizes low-wage immigrant workers, tenants, and their families to promote workplace justice, housing rights, immigrants’ rights, democratic and sustainable community development and civic participation.
2015
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JVS Los Angeles
JVS Los Angeles offers hope and opportunity to our diverse community through job training, mentoring and education, combined with expert career guidance and employer partnerships, transforming lives and lifting families out of poverty.
2015
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JobCouch
JobCouch is a mobile enhanced platform to match hourly jobseekers with employers in the services industry.
2015
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GrowGood, Inc.
GrowGood leverages the power of urban farming to unite people, to create hope for underserved groups, and to lay foundations for healthy communities, beginning with the city of Bell — a “food desert” according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
2015
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EARN
EARN breaks the cycle of poverty for low-income families by providing them with the financial tools to save and invest in their futures.
2015
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Change Better
Change Better trains nonprofits in data, business, and collaboration strategies to turn big ideas into big impact.
2015
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Career & College clubs
Career & College Clubs prepares middle students for success in high school, college, and life.
2015
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Anti-Recidivism Coalition
To accomplish its mission of changing lives and creating safe, healthy communities, ARC provides services, support, and opportunities to currently and formerly incarcerated individuals, and advocates for fair justice system policies.
2015
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Sabio Enterprises, Inc.
We train Angelenos to become superior entry-level, full-stack web developers so that they may create amazing web products for all of LA.
2014
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Droplabs
Droplabs is an open source focused, community led, Innovation Laboratory and teaching space.
2014
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Would-Works
Would-Works CREATES opportunities for men and women living in poverty in Los Angeles to work for specific goals by CREATING quality products
2014
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Los Angeles County Community Development Foundation
The CDF ends generational poverty in low-income housing throughout Los Angeles County.
2014
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Leadership through Empowerment, Actin, and Dialogue Inc. (LEAD)
LEAD is a grassroots organization that builds youth leadership, equitable communities, and agents for social change.
2014
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Community Services Unlimited inc.
Through education and participation we envision and create community driven solutions to the problems around us with trainings and jobs.
2014
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Arroyo S.E.C.O. (Sustainable Economies Community Organization)
Our mission is to educate, promote and create greater access to the practices and benefits of Time Banking, co-production and the Sharing Ec
2014
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24Connect
24Connect is a public affairs and social innovation strategy firm that works to scale impact-driven businesses, organizations, and ideas
2014
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verynice
verynice started in my apartment at UCLA when I was 19 years old. To date, I have grown the organization to be home to over 170 people around the globe. We have successfully completed projects for over 200 non-profit organizations. Our work has be...
2013
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UNIQUE LA
UNIQUE LA has created the largest buy local design show in the country - and is the only show to curate and show-off local-made talent. We have brought international attention to LA and its great makers (press mentions have included Details Magazi...
2013
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UCLA Labor Center
In the last several years, the UCLA Labor Center has emerged as a national resource for undocumented immigrant students and immigrant youth leadership development. The Labor Center has conducted research on immigrant youth, actively promoted their...
2013
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U.S. VETS - Los Angeles
10,000+ veterans served since we opened our doors in 1993. Our Supportive Services for Veteran Families program became a national model within its first year of operation in 2012. We consistently maintain an 80% positive transition rate ...
2013
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The Los Angeles Mayor's Council on Innovation and Industry
-LAMCII has been able to attract some of the country’s brightest minds and biggest companies to lead the council and is continuously approached by business leaders and tech pioneers in the city looking for ways to become involved. Members of the c...
2013
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Lybba
OPENHealth Central is being designed by Lybba, a 501(c)3 nonprofit based in Los Angeles that designs networks, tools, and events that help people better care for themselves and one another. We design networks of patients, physicians, and researche...
2013
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Liberty Hill
Liberty Hill invests in community groups on the frontlines of change with critical resources that are needed to advance their work and win. We supplement those financial resources with a highly impactful training program designed to advance grassr...
2013
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Kreative Images Foundation
The founder of C-360, Sherita J. Herring, and the Kreative Images Foundation (K.I.) is equipped with the experience, contacts and professional acumen to produce the stated deliverables of the C-360 project. For more than 25 years Ms. Herring and t...
2013
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Jemmott Rollins Group
As a management consulting firm, Jemmott Rollins Group has built a reputation for developing innovative concepts and providing leadership in working with marginalized communities. Relevant achievements to this effort include: - Facilita...
2013
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Hive Lighting
Hive Lighting is a Los Angeles based specialty lighting design, manufacturing and installation company for high output energy efficient fixtures. Hive is part of the Mayor’s Los Angeles CleanTech Incubator, bringing clean technology companies to t...
2013
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H.E.L.P.E.R. Foundation
V2K HELPER Foundation’s overarching achievement is having won the trust of the community it serves. The organization has been a resource for families for over 13 years, continually refining programs and services to best meet the changing needs of ...
2013
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First Look West
FLoW was created in October of 2011, and the first mentorship program and competition took place in the spring of 2012. As a result of that first operational cycle, we were able to leverage limited government support from the DOE into a vehicle th...
2013
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Education Pioneers
Founded in 2003 in response to the acute shortage of leadership and management talent in the education sector, Education Pioneers attracts, prepares, and advances top leaders, managers, and analysts to accelerate excellence in education. Our partn...
2013
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Coalition of Mental Health Professionals, Inc.
Los Angeles Metro (Metropolitan Transit Authority) Target Hiring Policy: In a coalition of local government agencies, trade unions and community organizations, we were central to a Public Works Projects Campaign to advocate that the Los Angeles Co...
2013
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ADVANCE
ADVANCE is still in its idea stages; however, as mentioned, we have been selected as a semi-finalist for the Echoing Green Fellowship, which would fund our organization for the next two years. In addition, one of the organization's founders has se...
2013
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58-12 Design Lab
58-12 Design Lab is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization formed and registered in the State of California. In 2009, three friends at UCLA who were going into architecture, law, and business sought to use the power of good design in order...
2013
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