LA2050 Ideas Hub

A searchable database of great organizations and bright ideas from all of the LA2050 Grants Challenges.

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There are 5164 ideas in the Ideas Hub

Wildfire Relief: Uplifting the Experiences of LA Youth

PLUS ME Project

Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Foster Care

Children's Law Center of California
🎉 2025 Winner

Building Up STEAM: Empowering LA’s Chronically Ill Youth

CoachArt
🎉 2025 Winner

Community Wealth is Healthy People

The Shaw Community Transformation Corporation dba Creating Justice LA
🎉 2025 Winner

Connecting San Pedro’s Future by Trolley

San Pedro Property Owner's Alliance / Downtown San Pedro Community Foundation
🎉 2025 Winner

Increasing Access to Wildland Firefighter Careers

The Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program (FFRP)
🎉 2025 Winner

Neococo Empowerment and Funding Program

Neococo Collective
🎉 2025 Winner

Promoting Justice and Healing

Refugee Children Center
🎉 2025 Winner

Strengthening LA's Green Spaces through Community Composting

LA Compost
🎉 2025 Winner

Union Station Eaton Fire Housing Assistance Program

Union Station Homeless Services
🎉 2025 Winner

Upskilling In-Home Supportive Services Workers through Emergency and Disaster Readiness Training

Center for Caregiver Advancement
🎉 2025 Winner

Community Business Accelerator

Grid110
🎉 2024 Winner

Doula Access for All

Birthworkers of Color Collective
🎉 2024 Winner

Empowering LA Students for STEM Success

Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
🎉 2024 Winner

Healing Harms Restorative Youth Diversion

California Conference for Equality and Justice
🎉 2024 Winner

I AM Park

Destination Crenshaw
🎉 2024 Winner

LAFD Advanced Provider Response Unit (APRU)

Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation
🎉 2024 Winner

Los Angeles People's Transportation Plan

ACT-LA
🎉 2024 Winner

Neighbor-led Community Housing Project

LA Más
🎉 2024 Winner

Pathways to Economic Advancement for Diverse Educators in Diverse Classrooms

Pueblo Nuevo Education & Development Group
🎉 2024 Winner

TransformArte: Reentry through Art and Healing Practices

Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore
🎉 2024 Winner

A greener Los Angeles together

North East Trees
🎉 2023 Winner

Co-Creating Health Solutions with Young People

Peer Health Exchange
🎉 2023 Winner

Co-Empowering Youth Through Healing Art

Arts for Healing and Justice Network
🎉 2023 Winner

DignityNOW: Ending Unsheltered Homelessness

DignityMoves
🎉 2023 Winner

Safe Street Slow Jams

Los Angeles Walks
🎉 2023 Winner

Source-to-Sea: The LA River And Me

Friends of the Los Angeles River
🎉 2023 Winner

Strengthening Local Ecosystems Through Food

Prosperity Market
🎉 2023 Winner

Top Rated LA Restaurant Expands Culinary Program in Support of Refugees & Immigrants

Flavors From Afar
🎉 2023 Winner

Transforming Lives: From Incarceration to CEOs

Defy Ventures
🎉 2023 Winner

Venice Boulevard For All

Streets For All
🎉 2023 Winner

Bold, Empowered, and Thriving Immigrants in South Bay

Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition
🎉 2022 Winner

Climate-Ready Native Plant Landscaper Training

Theodore Payne Foundation
🎉 2022 Winner

Free healthcare for the homeless

Healing California
🎉 2022 Winner

Hottest in LA: the Bus Stop Heat Bracket

Climate Resolve
🎉 2022 Winner

In-School Music Education Program for Under-Resourced Schools

Education Through Music-Los Angeles
🎉 2022 Winner

Increasing Food Access and Security for Black Women

Black Women for Wellness
🎉 2022 Winner

LA Cleantech Incubator Equity Innovation Program

Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
🎉 2022 Winner

LA Top 101 Restaurant Spearheaded by Refugee Global Chefs

Flavors From Afar
🎉 2022 Winner

Los Angeles Parks for People

The Trust for Public Land
🎉 2022 Winner

Nature For All Leadership Academy

Nature for All
🎉 2022 Winner

Support System-Impacted Young Women and Trans Youth Economically Thrive with Transform Your Hustle

Young Women's Freedom Center
🎉 2022 Winner

Tenant Power Toolkit

Inner City Law Center
🎉 2022 Winner

The Thai Town Marketplace: Making an Impact Through Food, People and Place

Thai Community Development Center
🎉 2022 Winner

Urban Peace Institute's South Park Regional School Safety Collaborative Program

Urban Peace Institute
🎉 2022 Winner

Youth Leaders for Environmental Justice

Legacy LA Youth Development Corporation
🎉 2022 Winner

.connectLA: Internet Assistance for LA Households

human-I-T
🎉 2021 Winner

100 Youth Democracy Leaders. 10,000 New Youth Voters.

The Civics Center
🎉 2021 Winner

Beyond the Bus: Connecting children with parents in prison - because strong families make strong communities.

Center for Restorative Justice Works
🎉 2021 Winner

Building Accessibility For Persons With Disabilities

Angel City Alliance
🎉 2021 Winner

Building better pathways for aspiring teachers across L.A.

Rivet School
🎉 2021 Winner

Commonwealth Nursery: From Little Seeds Grow Mighty Trees

City Plants
🎉 2021 Winner

Cycle Community Change

East Side Riders Bike Club
🎉 2021 Winner

Digital Dove Lab: Animation Training and Studio

Covenant House California
🎉 2021 Winner

Guaranteed Income- A Policy Path to Equity

Fund for Guaranteed Income (F4GI)
🎉 2021 Winner

Healing Los Angeles: Free Dental & Vision Care

Healing California
🎉 2021 Winner

Hope Housing for Students

End Homelessness California DBA the Shower of Hope
🎉 2021 Winner

Improving the Well-Being of LA’s Children and Youth in Foster Care

Children Now
🎉 2021 Winner

Joyful Antiracist Surf Lessons for BIPOC

Color the Water
🎉 2021 Winner

Justice and safety for survivors

Survivor Justice Center
🎉 2021 Winner

Learning Gap Recovery for LA’s Most Vulnerable Youth!

New Earth
🎉 2021 Winner

Love, Love, Compton - Sloane Stephens Foundation

Sloane Stephens Foundation
🎉 2021 Winner

Lowering the barrier to entry for local food entrepreneurs

On The Go LA
🎉 2021 Winner

People’s Pottery Project

People's Pottery Project
🎉 2021 Winner

Ramp-up Planning Year to the Opening of SEED LA!

The SEED School of Los Angeles County
🎉 2021 Winner

Sparking Girls’ Interest in STEM

DIY Girls
🎉 2021 Winner

The Foto Forum: A Creative Advocacy Space for Teen Girls

Las Fotos Project
🎉 2021 Winner

Together We Succeed

Alliance in Mentorship / MiMentor
🎉 2021 Winner

WakLAvia - Powered by CicLAvia, LA Forward, and Los Angeles Walks

CicLAvia
🎉 2021 Winner

Westside Pacific Villages COVID-19 Action Response for Elderly Support (WPV CARES)

Westside Pacific Villages
🎉 2021 Winner

Working to Provide Dignity, Basic Needs, and Care for All Through the Law

Western Center on Law & Poverty
🎉 2021 Winner

A Girl-Powered Foto Studio by Las Fotos Project

Las Fotos Project
🎉 2020 Winner

Apprenticeship Preparation Program

Flintridge Center
🎉 2020 Winner

Art Attacks

Creative Acts
🎉 2020 Winner

Best We Can Be Early Education Program

Pediatric Therapy Network
🎉 2020 Winner

Bigger than Baseball

Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation
🎉 2020 Winner

CARECEN's Parent and Youth Center

Central American Resource Center
🎉 2020 Winner

Create a Residential Garden District in Los Angeles

Crop Swap LA
🎉 2020 Winner

Creating Connection & Community for Youth in Foster Care

Ready to Succeed
🎉 2020 Winner

Domestic Violence Intervention and Prevention Program

Jenesse Center, Inc.
🎉 2020 Winner

Eviction Prevention Tool, During Coronavirus and Beyond

Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE)
🎉 2020 Winner

Good Life Manufacturing

Lost Angels Children's Project
🎉 2020 Winner

Grid110 South LA

Grid110
🎉 2020 Winner

LA Industry: Circular Textiles

LA Sanitation and Environment
🎉 2020 Winner

Los Angeles Audubon - Urban Nature Network

Los Angeles Audubon Society
🎉 2020 Winner

Mobile Recreation Program

City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks
🎉 2020 Winner

Neighbors for Home

Safe Parking LA
🎉 2020 Winner

Ocean Adventure Together!

Los Angeles Maritime Institute
🎉 2020 Winner

Project SOAR: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Through Education

Southern California College Access Network
🎉 2020 Winner

Reading Partners LA: The Path to Fourth Grade Reading Proficiency for 1,000 Children

Reading Partners Los Angeles
🎉 2020 Winner

Skate-4-Education

The Urban Warehouse
🎉 2020 Winner

Telehealth for Medically Underserved LA Neighborhoods

Clinica Msr. Oscar A. Romero
🎉 2020 Winner

The LA 101 Guide to Local Government and Civic Engagement

LA Forward Institute
🎉 2020 Winner

Union Station Homeless Services Community Allies Program

Union Station Homeless Services
🎉 2020 Winner

University Park Slow Jams

Public Matters
🎉 2020 Winner

Voices/Voces

Boyle Heights Beat
🎉 2020 Winner

Bring Art Back to Venice

Venice Community Housing
🎉 2019 Winner

Community Science Connects Angelenos to the Nature In Their Neighborhoods

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
🎉 2019 Winner

Defy Ventures

Defy Ventures
🎉 2019 Winner