My LA2050
-
Lost Angels Children's Project
Lost Angels Children's Project (LACP) has a mission to provide low-income and at-risk youth with a safe, educational after-school program that promotes critical thinking and team building through vocational skills training in Classic Car Restorati...
2020 Winner, 2016 Winner, 2019 Finalist
-
The Urban Warehouse
Educating inner-city youth to value education through our after-school program; treating skateboarding as an academic incentive, & incorporating art activities. We exchange skateboarding gear when they meet specific education goals; using an activ...
2020 Winner
-
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
-
Reading Partners
Reading Partners’ mission is to help children become lifelong readers by empowering communities to provide individualized instruction with measurable results, and we envision a future where all children will have the literacy skills they need to r...
2020 Winner
-
Southern California College Access Network
SoCal CAN is a network of 85 organizations working together to increase the rate at which low-income students access and complete college. We provide direct support to 150,000 students and families in Los Angeles County.
2020 Winner
-
Ready to Succeed
At Ready to Succeed (RTS), our mission is to support and empower youth impacted by foster care with the resources, relationships, and opportunities they need to launch successful careers and lead meaningful lives.
2020 Winner
-
Creative Acts
We seek to transform the most pressing social justice issues through the revolutionary power of the Arts; to heal trauma, build community, raise power and amplify the voices of the most marginalized to change commonly held narratives and improve o...
2020 Winner
-
Boyle Heights Beat/Radio Pulso
Boyle Heights Beat is a bilingual community news project produced by youth, offering news “por y para la comunidad." The bi-lingual paper, its companion website, podcast and social media presence serve as important news sources in a low-income, la...
2020 Winner
-
9 Dots
9 Dots' mission is to provide transformative computer science education for every student, especially those from underserved communities. We believe in creating learning environments that engage and empower every student, foster joy, and promote f...
2019 Winner
-
CASA of Los Angeles
CASA of Los Angeles recruits and trains community volunteers (Court Appointed Special Advocates) to serve and advocate for children and youth in the dependency and foster care systems.
2019 Winner, 2015 Winner
-
Harlem Lacrosse
HL-LA empowers students who are most at risk for academic decline and dropout to rise above their challenges, reach their full potential, and dream about tomorrow while training on and off the field.
2019 Winner
-
Rock the Vote
The mission of Rock the Vote is to build long-term youth political power. We do this by using pop culture, music, art, politics, and technology to promote civic and community engagement.
2019 Winner
-
Center for Innovation in STEM Education (CISE)
CISE brings STEM to the forefront of K-16 education by partnering with schools, community colleges, philanthropic and industry leaders to enable transformative and inspiring learning experiences.
2018 Winner, 2019 Finalist
-
Tierra del Sol Foundation
Tierra empowers people with disabilities to fulfill their potential and desire to become productive citizens who are accepted, included, and valued for their contributions to the community.
2016 Winner
-
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Los Angeles Review of Books promotes and disseminates rigorous and engaging writing on literature and the arts. A vibrant, multimedia platform, LARB covers, represents, and shapes today’s cultural landscape in a manner that reflects Los Angele...
2015 Winner
-
Girls Academic Leadership Academy (GALA)
Through a rigorous college preparatory curriculum, Girls Academic Leadership Academy (GALA) provides girls with a clear pathway to college in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
2015 Winner
-
Citizens of the World Charter Schools, Los Angeles
Citizens of the World Los Angeles (CWC LA) operates three highly diverse, academically challenging, and community-based public charter schools currently serving 1,600 students in grades TK-7.
2015 Winner
-
City Year Los Angeles
Our mission is to build democracy through citizen service, civic leadership and social entrepreneurship. We fulfill our mission by leveraging the service of our AmeriCorps members to address the inequitable distribution of educational resources fo...
2014 Winner
-
826LA
826LA is a non-profit dedicated to supporting students 6 to 18 with creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire students to write. Our free programs transport students to a world where writing is a form of magic, their ...
2013 Winner
-
Harlem Lacrosse - Los Angeles
Harlem Lacrosse - Los Angeles uses an innovative, school-based model to challenge student-athletes to Aim High. HL-LA is a sports-based youth development organization that provides opportunities, relationships and experiences that put youth on a ...
2018 Honorable Mention
-
Larchmont Charter School
Larchmont Charter School & City Charter Schools provide socio-economically, culturally, and racially diverse communities of students with an exceptional public education. We foster creativity and academic excellence; our students learn with and fr...
2019 Finalist
-
Turnaround Arts: California
The mission of Turnaround Arts: California (TACA) is to harness the power of the arts to engage, empower and transform high-need schools and communities.
2019 Finalist
-
PLUS ME Project
PLUS ME Project believes everyone has a story that matters. We are a community partner dedicated to empowering middle and high school youth to increase their confidence for college, career, and community advancement by teaching the art of storytel...
2019 Finalist
-
The Fit Kids Foundation
Fit Kids provides structured physical activity programs for underserved children to build the foundation for a healthy, active life.
2019 Finalist
-
Stoked Mentoring Inc
STOKED's mission is to create a community of fearless leaders through mentoring, opportunity and action. We empower youth to reach their potential by instilling passion, resilience, and determination.
2019 Finalist
-
Justice for My Sister Collective
The Justice for My Sister Collective is committed to diversifying the film industry by equipping the next generation of socially conscious filmmakers with skills training, mentorship, and job access.
2019 Finalist
-
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles provides professionally supported, one-to-one mentoring for underserved children and youth throughout Los Angeles County.
2018 Finalist
-
America SCORES Los Angeles
The mission of America SCORES LA (ASLA) is to inspire Los Angeles (LA) youth to lead healthy lives, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world. America SCORES LA empowers youth to create positive c...
2020
-
Red Hen Press
Red Hen Press's mission is to publish diverse works of literary excellence, expand the horizons of the literary canon, and advance literacy in our local schools. As the region’s largest non-profit publishing house, we engage our community in conte...
2020
-
After-School All-Stars Los Angeles
The mission of After-School All-Stars Los Angeles is to educate, enlighten, and inspire young people by providing exciting and dynamic opportunities for their success, while cultivating students' self-esteem, leadership and respect for one another...
2020
-
New Earth
New Earth provides mentor-based arts, educational, and vocational programs that empower juvenile justice and system involved youth ages 13-25 to transform their lives, move toward positive, healthier life choices, and realize their full potential ...
2020
-
United Friends of the Children
United Friends of the Children empowers current and former foster youth on their journey to self-sufficiency through service-enriched education and housing programs, advocacy, and consistent relationships with a community of people who care.
2020
-
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
-
Inner-City Arts
The mission of Inner-City Arts is to engage young people in the creative process in order to shape a society of creative, confident, and collaborative individuals. We envisions a society that honors the human capacity for creativity, and values it...
2020
-
Arts Bridging the Gap
Arts Bridging the Gap highlights the voices, experiences, and self-expression of LA’s youth through immersive arts programs. We cultivate skills, mindsets, and connections that allow youth to be their best and fullest selves, as individuals and as...
2020
-
A Place Called Home
A Place Called Home provides a safe, nurturing environment with proven programs in arts, education and wellness for young people in South Central Los Angeles to help them improve their economic conditions and develop healthy, fulfilling and purpos...
2020
-
WriteGirl, a project of Community Partners
WriteGirl promotes creativity and self-expression to empower underserved Los Angeles teen girls within a community of women writers. Since 2001, WriteGirl’s creative writing and mentoring programs have provided a platform to uplift the voices of u...
2020
-
reDiscover Center
reDiscover develops children's creativity through hands-on making with sustainable materials. reDiscover utilizes donated, sustainable materials in all of its projects, furthering our mission of educating our youth to become powerful, creative an...
2020
-
Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA)
Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) provides underserved youth with free, exceptional after-school programs in academics, arts and athletics within a nurturing environment, empowering them to develop their potential, pursue their education and strengthen ...
2020
-
Harmony Project
Harmony Project harnesses the transformative power of music to increase access to higher education for underserved students by removing the systemic barriers to achievement through academic and social support.
2020
-
West Valley Boys & Girls Club
The mission of the West Valley Boys & Girls Club is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible adults.
2020
-
The Young Shakespeareans (a project of Community Partners, a 501c3 Non-Profit Charity)
TYS’ mission is to use the richness of Shakespeare’s works to create early, challenging, and formative learning experiences in LA’s Title 1 elementary and middle schools, and to promote exposure and high expectations regardless of students’ ethnic...
2020
-
The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company
The mission of The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company (US) is to mentor, educate, and enrich underserved youth through the creation of collaborative, original theatre. Our mission powers our vision of a world in which all youth are given the opportu...
2020
-
The SeaChange Agency
The SeaChange Agency works to improve oceanic ecosystems for endangered marine species, as they indicate the health of the ocean. Through education & cleanup activities, we work to reduce water pollution & save our ocean. We believe that if we sav...
2020
-
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
-
The Literacy Club
Founded in 2015, The Literacy Club's mission is to provide children access to free books by way of our Seeding Book Deserts™ One Book, One Child & One Community Book Box initiative. by way of our Be A Book Hero Program one book, one child and one ...
2020
-
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica’s (BGCSM) mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
2020
-
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
-
The Actors' Gang
The continuing mission of The Actors' Gang is to restore the ancient sense of the stage as a shared sacred space; introduce theater to children, helping them find their creative voices; and bring the freedom of self-expression to the incarcerated.
2020
-
Social & Emotional Wellness Initiative
Social and Emotional Wellness Initiative’s (SEWI) mission is to enhance the quality of life for youth and families by educating, motivating, and providing prevention programs through social and emotional wellness services.
2020
-
Refresh Youth Center
Through youth development & city arts for LA, our mission is to foster relationships with students who face challenges that hinder progression, by offering structure, dedication, discipline, and motivation, leading into a sustainable future, promo...
2020
-
Pueblo Nuevo Education & Development Group
Pueblo Nuevo Education & Development Group supports Camino Nuevo Charter Academy in providing a preschool – 12th grade college preparatory education, diverse enrichment activities, and whole child care to underserved students from Central Los Ange...
2020
-
ProjectArt
ProjectArt empowers youth, artists and communities through partnerships with public libraries. Resident artists teach free after school art classes to youth in divested areas while developing artwork in libraries. With a scalable model, we effecti...
2020
-
POPS the Club
The mission of POPS the Club is to create a safe, empowering space within high schools for the children and other loved ones of the incarcerated. POPS transforms stigma and shame into hope and dignity.
2020
-
Noun Project
Noun Project is redefining the world’s visual language by setting a new standard for more equal, inclusive, and accurate representation in photography and iconography. With over 6 million users, our platform is used and loved by people around the ...
2020
-
New Village Girls Academy
Our mission is to provide a high quality, engaging educational opportunity with integrated support services for young women, especially those for whom the challenging circumstances of their lives have led to previous school failure and alienation.
2020
-
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
-
New Directions for Youth
Vision: A peaceful community where youth and families thrive and grow. Mission: New Directions for Youth, Inc. is dedicated to providing comprehensive programs and services to at-risk youth and their families.
2020
-
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
-
Neighborhood Music School
The Neighborhood Music School inspires minds and enriches our community through music education. We have served as a bellwether for arts equity and community engagement in eastern Los Angeles for 106 years.
2020
-
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
-
Little Kids Rock
With its mission “to transform lives by restoring, expanding, and innovating music education in our schools,” Little Kids Rock (LKR) has become the national thought leader in the field of inclusive, culturally relevant, and student-centered music ...
2020
-
LASA - The Los Angeles Service Academy
LASA equips high school juniors to become problemsolvers and visionaries of both the LA of today and of tomorrow. By fostering deeper understandings of and connections with LA's infrastructure and leaders, LASA students use their experiences and o...
2020
-
Kids Coalition
Translating "kids first" from a soundbite into a civil right for the children of Los Angeles and California by empowering public school parents and students with a seat at the table to challenge laws or policies that systemically don't put kids fi...
2020
-
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
-
Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles
Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles’ (JBBBSLA) mission is to help youth living in Los Angeles achieve their full potential by participating in innovative, effective programs that facilitate and support positive youth development.
2020
-
Jail Guitar Doors
Jail Guitar Doors USA (JGD-USA) seeks a more fair and just America. A nonprofit organization, JGD-USA provides rehabilitative songwriting workshops to help incarcerated individuals develop essential life skills that will support them both while i...
2020
-
Global Arts Corporation
Global Arts is an after-school program in LA that provides music classes for underserved youth and continual professional development for educators. By providing exceptional courses, we encourage students and educators to promote educational equi...
2020
-
Fulcrum Arts
Big City Lab is a social practice and design education initiative that invests in the potential of urban youth to understand and define their sense of place and community. Through a design-based learning model, students become active participants ...
2020
-
Friendship Foundation
Friendship Foundation's mission is to transform the lives of people with special needs, their families, volunteers, and eventually society. We support families who have children with special needs with the belief that every person is precious and ...
2020
-
Friends of Girls Academic Leadership Academy (GALA)
GALA’s mission is to provide a rigorous, college-preparatory STEM-focused education in an all-girls environment - fostering academic excellence, leadership, and intellectual curiosity. This kind of education is crucial given that women and minori...
2020
-
Free Arts
Free Arts uses art to restore hope, resiliency and self-esteem in children in Los Angeles ages 5-18 who have experienced abuse, neglect, poverty, and homelessness. Free Arts serves more than 22,000 children in Los Angeles each year.
2020
-
Fostering Dreams Project
Fostering Dreams Project is a dance and performing arts program to empower, educate and inspire foster and homeless youth. We use dance and a vehicle to build confidence, community and brighter futures.
2020
-
Faithworks Compton
FaithWorks Compton is a nonprofit organization that provides services and support to the City of Compton. We strengthen economic development, restore neighborhoods and foster opportunities that will enhance the overall quality of life for the comm...
2020
-
Facing History and Ourselves
Facing History and Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate. Our vision is to create the next generation of caring and informed citizens who have the civic agency to transform their...
2020
-
FA-MLI, Inc.
To provide dynamic educational and artistic projects for inner-city youth (ages 11 to 24) through mentoring during school accredited courses, and after-school programs. We encourage positive self-identity, independence skills, gang prevention, eco...
2020
-
EnCorps STEM Teachers
We are STEM professionals transforming classrooms by teaching in high needs classrooms.
2020
-
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
-
Education Through Music-Los Angeles
ETM-LA provides high-quality music instruction in disadvantaged schools to promote academic growth and character-building. We provide equitable access by offering weekly music class as part of the school day to every student regardless of income, ...
2020
-
Ednovate
Ednovate prepares and empowers high school students to use their college degrees and careers to make a Positive Multigenerational Change. Our students have a 100% college acceptance rate and are graduating as self-aware, engaged young adults who a...
2020
-
Creative Healing for Youth in Pain
Creative Healing for Youth in Pain (chyp) is a nonprofit for youth with chronic pain and their parents/caregivers, providing resources online to reduce barriers like cost and location. chyp encourages creative healing and social support to strengt...
2020
-
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
-
Cooperative Resources and Services Project (CRSP)
Vision: Reinventing the way we live in the city by inspiring higher quality living patterns at lower environmental impacts. Mission Statement: To be an education, outreach, development, and demonstration center for people who want to be part of re...
2020
-
COOP Careers
Overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections for underrepresented, first generation college graduates.
2020
-
Connecting Cultures Mobile Museum
Connecting Cultures Mobile Museum’s mission is to inspire understanding and respect for cultural diversity by exploring global arts and artifacts. CCMM’s pop-up cultural museum brings “the world” to middle school students and their families, highl...
2020
-
College Access Plan
CAP believes a postsecondary education is achievable for all students, and our mission is to prepare students who attend Pasadena Unified schools for college success.
2020
-
Changeist
Changeist's mission is to build a community of diverse young people that utilize their personal agency to create a more just society. We're fostering young people's sociopolitical empowerment and growing their social capital, so that they may have...
2020
-
Center for Powerful Public Schools
The mission of the Center for Powerful Public Schools is to build the capacity of educators in order to create and sustain powerful public schools that prepare every student for college, career and life.
2020
-
Careers in Entertainment
Founded by the Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation in 2016, Careers in Entertainment (CIE) creates access, introduces opportunity and promotes inclusion for under represented young people and their families who want to work in entertainment.
2020
-
Build A Better World Foundation
We Support the Empowerment of Youth and other existing Charitable Organizations through Music and The Arts by Sponsoring Charity Concerts, Musicals and Events!
2020
-
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
-
Book Club for Kids podcast, a project of Community Partners
Book Club for Kids is a free, 20-minute podcast for elementary and middle school kids, designed to turn reluctant readers into lifelong book lovers. Each show features a group of young readers who discuss a novel, interview the author, and hear a ...
2020
-
Believe In Music
Our mission is to provide every student in Los Angeles County with access to innovative music education through mobile music technology, education and storytelling.
2020
-
Altadena Library District
The Altadena Library District is dedicated to bringing people and ideas together for an Altadena where all are learning, growing, and thriving together.
2020
-
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools Foundation
The Alliance College-Ready Public Schools Foundation (Alliance Foundation) is a 501(c)(3) organization that exists for the sole purpose of strengthening the community support and investment that has lifted Alliance schools and scholars since the c...
2020
-
Access Books
The mission of Access Books is to provide high interest reading material to underserved children in Los Angeles by providing low income neighborhoods with a warm and welcoming school or community library. In this process, different communities wor...
2020
-
Los Angeles Service Academy
How do LA’s youth experience LA and how do they imagine LA’s future? LASA students become problem-solvers and visionaries of both the LA of today and of tomorrow.
2019
-
Spark Program Inc
Spark Program, Inc (Spark) engages communities to provide career exploration and self-discovery opportunities that help middle school students understand, experience and pursue what’s possible.
2019
-
The Engineer Factory, a Project of Community Partners
The mission of the Engineer Factory is to increase the number of students from underrepresented populations (girls and students of color) pursuing higher education and careers in STEM.
2019
-
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
-
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools’ mission seeks nothing less than to transform schools and revolutionize school systems to empower all students with a high-quality education.
2019
-
Boys & Girls Clubs of Carson
Our mission is to offer our young people a safe environment where they can be themselves, dedicated adults who respect them, and outcome-based programs that empower youth to become lifelong learners.
2019
-
Yes We Can World Foundation
Every child has the right to education regardless of their location. We create positive bilingual learning environments for underprivileged youth through innovative educational programs.
2019
-
Tunson Leadership Foundation
To support youth and young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder, in an effort to produce successful, employable, and self sufficient individuals, who are productive contributors to society.
2019
-
The Civics Center
The mission of The Civics Center is to build the foundations of civic engagement in high school through education, research, advocacy, and volunteer organizing.
2019
-
The ABC Club
Our mission is to provide high quality literacy resources to enliven children's hearts, minds and spirits through fun, interactive adventures that provide a strong reading and writing foundation.
2019
-
Pop Culture Hero Coalition
The Coalition is the first 501c3 organization working for real-life heroism over bullying, racism, misogyny, LGBTQ+bullying and cyberbullying, using TV, comics and film, which students find relatable.
2019
-
Deedly Inc
Deedly is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to leverage technology, educational institutions, & the altruism of young people to authentically inspire & activate positive, lasting impact.
2019
-
Circle of Friends- The Path to Inclusion, a project of Community Partners
Providing inclusive opportunities for people of all abilities to work and learn together builds leadership and compassion, creating stronger communities where everyone is valued and has a voice.
2019
-
LA's BEST
The mission of LA's BEST After School Enrichment Program is to provide a safe and supervised after school education, enrichment and recreation program for children ages five to 12 in Los Angeles.
2018
-
Raise A Child, Inc.
RaiseAChild leads the nation in building loving families for foster children by recruiting, retaining & supporting foster/adoptive parents to address the needs of 437,000 children in foster care.
2018
-
Boys & Girls Clubs of Venice
BGCV enables all people to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens Bridging Generations Connecting Values
2018
-
Science Academy For All
Science Academy For All provides opportunity for science through contextualized learning for all backgrounds and all ages.
2018
-
Roadtrip Nation
Roadtrip Nation empowers individuals to identify their interests and explore career pathways aligned with their unique aspirations and skills.
2018
-
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
-
Lola Techsystems, Inc.
Lola Techsystems provides software and professional development for guides to support learners who struggle to succeed in and out of the classroom.
2018
-
Future America
The LJYE.com provides ensemble and performance training FREE for musicians 10-17 and records original music is expanding to Los Angeles.
2018
-
All-In Urban Summer Academy
Summer teachers implement intervention and project based curriculum to boost conceptual and social skills of 3rd-8th graders; engaging youth, empowering leaders, and supporting school year success.
2018
-
Action Civics CA, an initiative of Mikva Challenge
Action Civics CA works with schools to empower young people with the skills, knowledge, & dispositions to be superstar citizens & leaders. ProCon provides the non-partisan research for the activities.
2018
-
Teach For America-Los Angeles
Teach For America partners with communities to expand educational opportunities for children facing the challenges of poverty and other systemic issues.
2016
-
The Children's Lifesaving Foundation
We help transform the lives of at-risk & homeless LA youth & families through three program platforms-Living, Learning & Enriching
2016
-
PowerMyLearning, Inc.
PowerMyLearning helps students in low-income communities, together with their teachers and families, harness the power of digital learning to improve educational outcomes.
2016
-
DSTL Arts & The Partnership for Los Angeles' Creative Education (The PLACE)
DSTL Arts & The PLACE support & nurture emerging artists & arts administrators through mentorship opportunities, arts-education programs & events, & arts-related work-readiness development.
2016
-
People For the American Way Foundation
PFAW Foundation protects constitutional values under attack from the Right and defends the values that honor free speech, religious liberty, equal opportunity and equal justice for all.
2016
-
The Academy Project
The Academy Project prepares LA foster youth to succeed in high school and beyond, through an innovative summer camp & after school program, with a guaranteed spot in a stable & supportive community
2016
-
Girls Inc. of Greater Los Angeles
Girls Inc. takes a holistic approach to working with girls to address the challenges they have and empower them through opportunities, programs and mentors.
2016
-
Common Threads
Common Threads delivers in- and out-of-school, hands-on cooking and nutrition education programs to preK-8th graders, their families, and their teachers primarily in underserved communities.
2016
-
PEN Center USA, 'PEN USA'
PEN Center USA advocates for imprisoned, censored, and persecuted writers throughout the world, while cultivating and expanding a diverse and engaged literary community in the western United States.
2016
-
Educators 4 Excellence-Los Angeles
An individual teacher can change what’s possible in her classroom, but a movement of teachers can change what’s possible in our education system.
2016
-
Wyota Workshop, Inc.
Wyota Workshop is a design and research firm working in the fields of art, architecture, urban design and planning
2016
-
WOW Imagined, Inc.
Educational organization that promotes collaborative community models of education through play.
2016
-
WISH Academy High School
Before WISH, we found ourselves without an inclusive community school option for our children, with and without disabilities, in our neighborhoods there aren't any inclusive high school options
2016
-
Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI)
Our mission is to help societies impacted by destructive conflicts transform into safer and more prosperous communities.
2016
-
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
-
University of Southern California (Viterbi STEM Educational Outreach Programs Office)
STEM Educational Outreach Programs (STEM-EOP) serves educationally disadvantaged students with the goal to increase the number of students who have authentic experiences in STEM and major in STEM
2016
-
United Nations Association-USA Pasadena Chapter Inc.
The Action Ambassadors Program empowers youth to make global change through action in their local communities.
2016
-
The Pedagogical Institute of Los Angeles
The Pedagogical Institute promotes the exchange of ideas, research and inspiration amongst early childhood educators throughout the world with the goal of providing quality education to ALL children.
2016
-
The Harmony Project
The Harmony Project offers an after-school music program that empowers and fosters positive youth development in children from under-resourced communities, throughout their entire childhood (k-12).
2016
-
The Garage Board Shop
The Garage Board Shop is an urban outlet created for the community to have a space to express themselves through different channels.
2016
-
STEM Advantage
STEM Advantage mentors, prepares and inspires young women and underserved communities to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math through paid internships, mentors and scholarships.
2016
-
Sound Body Sound Mind Foundation
The mission of Sound Body Sound Mind is to promote self-confidence and healthy lifestyle choices among today's youth.
2016
-
Proyecto Pastoral
Proyecto is the backbone org. for Promesa Boyle Heights (PBH), a collaboration of families, educators & orgs working to ensure all children in BH have access to strong schools & support systems.
2016
-
Port of Los Angeles High School
POLAHS is a public, independent charter school educating 950 students in grades 9-12.
2016
-
Pedagogics Coaching Group
An instructional coaching service for educators in the Greater LA area providing support to those striving to create a successful school culture and desiring to grow in instructional effectiveness.
2016
-
Pasadena Educational Foundation
Pasadena Educational Foundation supports, enhances and supplements the programs, initiatives, and priorities of the Pasadena Unified School District.
2016
-
New Roads School
New Roads School is a college prep program with a unique focus on social justice and the arts, from which a richly diverse student population develops independent thinking and expanding curiosity.
2016
-
METRO Charter Elementary School
The first parent-initiated charter in downtown L.A., METRO meaningfully connects students with the diverse cultures, customs, beliefs and creativity of those who work and live downtown.
2016
-
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
-
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
-
International Trade Education Programs (ITEP)
In partnership with industry, educators, and community organizations, ITEP connects disadvantaged and diverse high school students to college and career opportunities.
2016
-
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA)
ICA LA creates exhibitions, education programs, and community partnerships that spark the pleasure of discovery and challenge the way we see and experience the world, ourselves, and each other.
2016
-
I'm A Movement Not A Monument
I'm A Movement Not A Monument designs programs and events to foster and engage each student academically and socially, which provides them with the necessary skills to succeed in future endeavors.
2016
-
I Have a Dream Foundation
Provides at risk youth the education and enrichment to make it to and through college and find jobs
2016
-
Girls in Tech
Girls in Tech (GIT) is a global non-profit focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of girls and women who are passionate about technology.
2016
-
Friends of King
Friends of King is a 501 c3 non-profit dedicated to promoting and supporting the diverse group of students from all over Los Angeles who attend T.S. King Middle School.
2016
-
Friends of Glenfeliz
We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit parent booster club committed to helping Glenfeliz students thrive and grow, both in Elementary school, and beyond.
2016
-
First Place for Youth
First Place provides foster youth with intensive support to complete their high school diploma or GED certificate, enroll in college, and obtain employment—while accessing safe, affordable housing.
2016
-
Come Alive Long Beach
Come Alive Long Beach (CALB) partners with volunteers, artisans and organizations to empower under-resourced youth and children through low-cost creative summer arts camps in the city of Long Beach.
2016
-
Camino Nuevo Charter Academy
Camino Nuevo Charter Academy (CNCA) is a community of high-performing public schools that utilizes a comprehensive approach to prepare students from PreK through high school for success in college.
2016
-
CALO YouthBuild
CALÓ YouthBuild is a project based, culturally relevant, high school diploma granting program themed in social justice, community organizing and environmentalism for out of school East LA youth.
2016
-
California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
Serving nearly 40,000 students, CSUN offers programs to help develop the academic competencies, professional skills, critical/creative abilities, and ethical values to reach their educational goals.
2016
-
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
-
America Scores LA
ASLA partners with urban schools to provide a unique team-based program that integrates soccer, poetry, and service-learning, improving students’ health, academic achievement and civic engagement.
2016
-
Hollywood HEART
Hollywood HEART nurtures resiliency, creativity, and community through collaborative arts programming with a focus on low-income and at-risk youth between the ages of 13 and 21.
2015
-
UCLA
UCLA Social Welfare Department educates future leaders in social justice, policy and equity through models of empowerment, scholarship, research, and practice to ensure the well-being of all on the local, state-wide, national and global levels.
2015
-
The New History
We are a modern music education program that brings at-risk students, music industry professionals, creativity & technology, into the same classroom.
2015
-
Facing History and Ourselves, Inc.
Facing History and Ourselves supports educators in LA and around the world, improving their effectiveness in the classroom and their students’ academic performance, historical understanding, and civic learning.
2015
-
C5 Youth Foundation of Southern California (“C5LA”)
C5LA inspires high-potential youth from under-resourced environments in LA County to pursue personal success, prepare them for leadership roles in college, work and community, and to motivate them to become role models for others.
2015
-
P.F. Bresee Foundation
Bresee serves youth and families through Academics, Career-readiness, STEM, Arts, Athletics, Service-Learning, Gang Prevention, and Family Support Services that equip them to pursue their education, achieve their full potential and serve others.
2015
-
LA's Promise
Our mission is to graduate every student attending an LA's Promise neighborhood school college and career ready.
2015
-
"I Have a Dream" Foundation - Los Angeles (IHADLA)
Since 1987, IHADLA has worked to break the cycle of poverty in Los Angeles’ most disadvantaged communities, working with the same students for 10+ years & providing them with a free, year round program of educational, emotional, & cultural support.
2015
-
Young Storytellers
Young Storytellers sparks creative self-discovery through storytelling. Our programs highlight young people as the center of their own narratives, emphasize that their stories matter, and celebrate their unique voices as the ones telling them.
2015
-
Urban Word Los Angeles
Urban Word LA provided diverse platforms for youth to cultivate and share their powerful voices.
2015
-
The University Corporation
The University Corporation is a non-profit auxiliary corporation providing commercial and administrative services to California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and is also managing major projects for the campus.
2015
-
The Story Project
The Story Project encourages at-risk youth in underserved communities to improve communication skills and personal identity through storytelling rooted in the media arts.
2015
-
Sequoyah School
Sequoyah School is an independent progressive day school founded in 1958 whose educational mission and program is informed by founding commitments to social justice, research-based innovation, and environmental stewardship.
2015
-
Reframe Labs
Reframe is a nonprofit that trains leaders to launch new and redesigned next generation school models in Los Angeles.
2015
-
Redeemer Baptist Elementary School
Redeemer Elementary would like to introduce technology in all classrooms to enhance student learning.
2015
-
Project MuszEd
Project MuszEd provides resources and opportunities in the arts that encourage creativity, community, personal and academic growth.
2015
-
Para Los Niños
Para Los Niños is transforming lives by closing the achievement gap for children in poverty.
2015
-
MentorMint
Online mentoring connecting students with mentors who are industry professionals, peers, and community leaders; serving all students K-12, community college, and 4-year universities for all disciplines and backgrounds to achieve career success
2015
-
Los Angeles Southwest College Foundation, Innovate Globally and Los Angeles Southwest College Career & Technical Education
LA Southwest College Foundation's mission is to improve community success by supporting indigenous innovation, providing access to quality education and link students to jobs in growth industries and entrepreneurial opportunities in South LA.
2015
-
Living Advantage, Inc.
LA, Inc. brings a more innovative approach by utilizing a technological and media platform in servicing at risk youth targeting the foster care/probation population through collaboration while leveraging services and resources.
2015
-
Keith A. Somers International Foundation
To expand the perspective of young people, globally, and equip them with the life skills necessary to fulfill a pro social role within their respective community.
2015
-
Junior Statesmen Foundation; Alliance College-Ready Public Schools
JSA is a civic education organization that uses student-led on-campus activities, debate, regional conferences, and summer residential programming to help high school students develop academic skills, leadership skills, and social capital.
2015
-
Holy Family School
Holy Family School (HFS) offers cutting-edge academic excellence with an educational mission that brings together the ideals of learning by doing, a positive-self image and looking beyond our immediate surroundings to make our world a better place.
2015
-
Foundation for Second Chances
Foundation for Second Chances provides children and youth with the necessities of a quality education, mentoring, leadership, civic and social engagement, health awareness in a nourishing environment to build a brighter future.
2015
-
Environmental Charter Schools
Environmental Charter Schools is an innovative network of public schools serving South Los Angeles.
2015
-
Eastside Rehearsal
Our fully back lined studios will be available to students as an after school program so they can learn to play on professional equipment, hone their music skills, and experience the camaraderie and confidence that this environment will foster.
2015
-
DIY Girls
We foster community economic development through programs like the 2nd Thursday of every month Art Walk Our daily Mission is to improve the local community and to create economic opportunities for artists, galleries, small businesses, and youth
2015
-
ClassNube (Nube means Cloud in Spanish)
We make software to help students and teachers learn and teach in truly innovative and collaborative ways. We help students develop their academic reputation through their work, feedback ratings, and teachers easily share agendas and assignments.
2015
-
Casa Libre
Casa Libre is a homeless shelter for homeless boys under 18, with one of a kind, specialized services for undocumented, unaccompanied and refugee minors in one of the densest immigrant communities in the nation.
2015
-
Alliance for Children's Rights
Since 1992, the Alliance for Children's Rights has protected the rights of L.A. County’s impoverished, neglected, and abused children and foster youth, ages zero to 24. In 2014 we provided free legal and social services to more than 8,000 children.
2015
-
Academy of Music for the Blind
We teach musically gifted blind children ages 4-18 to play piano, guitar, drums, sax, flute, voice, composition and more!
2015
-
Youth Speak Collective
We pair up High School students with freelance working professionals to create great videos for nonprofits and businesses.
2014
-
.jpg=c570x385.jpg)
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools
Alliance is the largest charter school network in LA, providing a college prep education to 11,300 low-income students at 26 schools.
2014
-
The Los Angeles Fund For Public Education (The LA Fund)
The LA Fund targets philanthropy to improve the educational, health and wellness outcomes for LAUSD’s 650,000+ students.
2014
-
Los Angeles County Alliance for Boys and Girls Clubs (LACABGC) and the West San Gabriel Valley Boys and Girls Club
LACABGC is a coalition of 26 Boys and Girls Club organizations in the county, facilitating advancement and collaborative opportunities
2014
-
Learning Equipment Supply Service
We collect discarded lab equipment from schools and industrial facilities and re-purpose those items for educational use.
2014
-
Koreatown Youth and Community Center (KYCC)
KYCC serves low-income families in Los Angeles in the areas of education, mental health, environment, housing and finances.
2014
-
IN THE CITY, INC.
We provide guided academic support, facilitate self-empowerment, and fortify support networks for student-athletes attending Lincoln HS.
2014
-
I'll Be The One Organization
Engaging, experiential, student-driven educational leadership programs that impact & create change for years to come.
2014
-
Ignite Teaching
We're technologists and educators passionate about creating better students today that will develop into the leaders of a better tomorrow.
2014
-
Ghetto Film School
The Ghetto Film School educates, develops, and celebrates the next generation of great American storytellers.
2014
-
Foundation for California Community Colleges (Fiscal Sponsor)
CCGI helps 6th-12th grade students develop well-informed plans for their education and careers after high school.
2014
-
Families In Schools
Families in Schools (FIS) works to involve parents and communities in their children’s education to achieve lifelong student success.
2014
-
Dream A World Education, Inc.
We make a difference in the lives of children utilizing the arts to develop critical thinking, social literacy and cultural understanding
2014
-
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Los Angeles Harbor
enable young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens
2014
-
Boys & Girls Club of Hollywood
BGCH provides K-12 students with the tools needed to succeed in life by offering academic, leadership, and youth development programs.
2014
-
B.R.I.D.G.E Theatre Project (fiscal sponsor, The Attic Theatre)
Through original theatre, BRIDGE fosters cultural awareness & engages youth in exploring practical ways to create change in their community.
2014
-
Young Warriors
YW started with a relationship between Jason Hill and one 10-year-old boy named Wonder. Along with other mentors, Jason was able to give Wonder the mentoring relationship that Jason had received from caring mentors who changed Jason's life. Wonder...
2013
-
The Los Angeles Fund for Public Education
Since our inception in 2011, The LA Fund for Public Education worked with LAUSD to achieve several noteworthy accomplishments. In addition to School Fuel, we have made three significant investments in LAUSD to date. ARTS MATTER: is an u...
2013
-
The HeArt Project
Started in 1992 at one site with a budget of $2,000, HP now serves 650 students in 25 school sites throughout three school districts with an operating budget of $1.2M. Our long-term arts programs reach communities and students who otherwise lack a...
2013
-
The Advot Project
Through our Healthy Community Program and performances of “Flowers Aren’t Enough” (see videos to see the show itself and interviews with the creators: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESG8SuW-6Eo & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN75Od3hJf0 ) we hav...
2013
-
Step Up Women's Network
Step Up is proud that since beginning Teen Empowerment Programs in 2006 we have worked with nearly 700 underserved teen girls. For the past three years, 100% of Step Up seniors graduated from high school and were accepted to a college of their cho...
2013
-
St. John the Baptist Social Services
St. John the Baptist Social Service has a long history of involvement in the community, aiding those in need. The program has been meeting the many economic, physical, and societal needs of the community and successfully adjusting to changes in th...
2013
-
smartestk12.com
Smartestk12 started as a thousand question science database, parsed from the internet, and used for the academic growth of 800 students in South Gate, California. It was phenomenally successful, with over 90 students coming to a one-teacher hosted...
2013
-
RFK-LA (Legacy in Action)
During it's first year and a half, RFK-LA conducted three major projects: * The Participatory Learning and You Program (PLAY!) was a joint program between RFK-LA and the USC Annenberg School’s Innovation Lab. Under the supervision of RF...
2013
-
Quality of Life Center, Inc.
We currently have a 100% success rate in graduates from our Bright Futures Scholars Leadership Development program. They have ALL graduated from high school and moved on to college. Many of these students come from group home or foster home enviro...
2013
-
Parent Revolution
LAUSD: Public School Choice In 2009 our first major success was passing LAUSD’s historic Public School Choice resolution. It opened up hundreds of failing and newly constructed campuses for bidding by quality charter school operators, t...
2013
-
Neighborhood Youth Association (NYA)
In June of 2012 for the fifth year in a row, 100% of NYA’s seniors graduated high school on time and went on to college! Most are among the first in their families to attend college! In addition to California State Universities and Universities of...
2013
-
Minds on Fire
Minds on Fire is in the start-up phase. However, the organization’s founder created and piloted a similar model in New York City public schools as part of Mayor Bloomberg’s inaugural NYC Civic Corps in 2009, an initiative launched in partnership w...
2013
-
Los Angeles Youth Orchestra
Concert at Carnegie Hall: February 2013 Partnership with the Los Angeles Film Festival: June 2012 Youth Orchestra Day: In February of 2010 Partnership with the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music: In 2008. Los Angeles Philharmonic...
2013
-
Learn To Be Foundation
20,000 one-on-one tutoring requests and over 11,000 hours of free tutoring Over 600 tutors in 49 states Partnerships in Los Angeles: Dorris Place Elementary, School On Wheels, UCLA Community School, Sixth Avenue Element...
2013
-
Lambda Theta Nu Sorority, Incorporated
As a non-profit organization we cater to the female youth through our programming. Through our philanthropy "TIJERAS," cutting through to enhance education opportunities, we fundraise hundreds of dollars every year to donate to another non-profit ...
2013
-
KIPP LA Schools
If it were a district, KIPP LA would be the highest performing in Los Angeles County serving a majority of students from low-income communities. For nearly a decade, KIPP LA’s schools have been proving what is possible in raising student achieveme...
2013
-
Keely Hopkins & Associates
Youth 4C is a new project launched in 2013 by two young Los Angeles entrepreneurs. Having both grown up outside of Los Angeles, both Keely Hopkins and Samuel Alleyne noticed the lack of social connectedness and civic engagement among youth in L.A....
2013
-
Individual Systems
Achievements in Educational landscape: pragmatic, innovative, collaborative. Arguably, the most frustrating situations for educators and parents alike include: not being able to support children by giving each child the tools he/she nee...
2013
-
Grades of Green
EXPANSION & RECOGNITION Since our website launched just three years ago on Earth Day 2010, Grades of Green has grown rapidly and expanded internationally with more than 104,000 students in 27 states and four countries enrolled in our programs...
2013
-
GlobalGirl Media
As of June 2012, GGM has implemented initiatives in seven cities in South Africa, Morocco, Chicago and L.A., training more than 120 young women, who have produced 150 video features using traditional camera and sound; 85 mobile journalism pieces o...
2013
-
Garden School Foundation
The Garden School Foundation was founded in 2005 with the mission to create a model of garden-based education for Los Angeles schools that would advance health outcomes and experiential learning opportunities for elementary students. Eight years l...
2013
-
Foster Care Counts
Interviewing Skills Workshops for Foster Teens Foster Mother’s Day (Gala Celebration for Foster Families) No Foster Child Left Behind: One Laptop Per Foster Youth Guardian Scholars College Program support ...
2013
-
First Star, Inc.
Our series of groundbreaking Report Cards — which measure and compare how each state provides protection to maltreated children within the framework of its state law — have educated untold numbers of Americans about essential legislative, legal an...
2013
-
ESP Empowering Services Through Partnerships
We are a grassroots organization. We are currently in the state of begininning implementation and have been co-teaching in the classrooms educating students on the effects of the sequester as it relates to their community. Having a pre and post as...
2013
-
El Rio Schools: MIND-FIT EDUCATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
El Rio Schools is a new non-profit; our most important achievement, to date, is regularly attended workshops, playgroups and informational gatherings at the Audubon Center at Debs Park of parents in Northeast Los who have an interest in mindfulnes...
2013
-
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
-
Educating Young Minds
EYM alumni are attending and graduating from colleges from around the nation like Stanford, Cal Tech, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Bakersfield, Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal State Long Beach, Cal State Los Angeles, Cal State Northridge, Clark Atlan...
2013
-
EDDEFY
Ten years ago I was a schoolteacher for special education, focused on violent offenders age 12-21. In one program I designed we taught teens to read by using their own music, asking them to rap freestyle into the computer and then send...
2013
-
Create LA
Within the past year, we have been thrilled to work with a dedicated group of volunteers to provide free art workshops to youth in the community in various capacities. We have successfully engaged community members by hosting fundraising events in...
2013
-
Communities In Schools of San Fernando Valley, Inc.
Numerous national and international leaders including Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Dr. Jane Goodall, Al Gore and Barbara Boxer have recognized the work of Blinky and CIS. CIS violence prevention and intervention practices have been replicated in ...
2013
-
CityLife-LA
CityLife brings together young people from diverse backgrounds and offers them exposure to and experiences with the Arts, culture, history and politics of Los Angeles in order to find creative solutions to urban issues. We promote educational and ...
2013
-
Children Mending Hearts
Since its inception in 2009, Children Mending Hearts has helped over 12,000 disadvantaged youth become involved in practicing Global Citizenship and positive social activism. The thing we’re most proud of is helping children of ALL cultural, socio...
2013
-
California Community Foundation (CCF)
Since implementation in May 2012, our five service partners have enrolled 105 BLOOM youth into their respective programs. We are planning to add at least four more service partners in June 2013. We will continue to add partners over the next coupl...
2013
-
Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc.
With 35 years of tradition of thorough environmental research and services to municipalities, NGOs, community organizations and other agencies, California Polytechnic University, Pomona's Master in Landscape Architecture's program has the history ...
2013
-
Bright Star Schools
Since opening, Bright Star's schools have earned some of the highest API scores in Los Angeles, making our organization one of the preeminent schools for any child in Los Angeles. It is the daily attention to our core values that has helped Bright...
2013
-
Boys & Girls Club of Mar Vista Gardens
The Boys & Girls Club of Mar Vista Gardens has only just recently opened on January 28th. To date, 264 young people from the housing community have registered as Club members (out of 600 school age residents). Other highlights from the past two mo...
2013
-
arc
ARC provides comprehensive, afterschool programming for over 23,000 student participants annually: 6 Elementary Schools, 6 Middle Schools, 21 High Schools and more than 80 other schools with LEAD Programming. ARC also collaborates with over 275 yo...
2013
There are 247 matching organizations. Select an organization to learn more about plans, goals, and opportunities to be involved.
Arts & cultural vitality
Education & youth
Environmental quality & sustainability
Health
Housing & homelessness
Income & employment
Mobility
Public safety & public space
Social connectedness