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ProjectQ was founded to help LGBTQIA+ and homeless youth combat bullying, develop self esteem, and explore their identities for themselves through hair styling. By providing free gender-affirming haircuts and self-empowering workshops to LGBTQIA+ youth experiencing homelessness, ProjectQ uses hair as a form of social justice and creates a safe space for self-expression.
Global Eye Entrepreneurs was a diverse collective of visionaries, business-owners, artists, mentors, and mavericks. Global Eye sought to close the gap in diversity within entrepreneurship by exploring intersectional identity, offering powerful business training workshops, creating a vibrant network of mentors and collaborators, and providing invaluable resources to help the next generation of male leaders of [...]
Urban Voices Project (UVP) creates supportive community spaces with music to bring vulnerable individuals together with a sense of purpose and improved health. UVP engages men, women, and families across the greater Los Angeles area with music workshops in partnership with social, civic, and healthcare organizations. Their outreach ensemble performances shift the narrative and perception [...]
Creative Acts seeks to address mass incarceration through the transformative power of the arts, effectively helping to change the narrative on how we see and treat our most impacted communities. By partnering with systems-impacted youth, people who are incarcerated,returning citizens, and organizations and employers, Creative Acts is bridging pathways for employment and setting the stage [...]
Vigilant Love sought to create spaces for connection and grassroots movement that ensured the safety and justice of communities impacted by Islamophobia and violence in the greater Los Angeles Area. By utilizing a creative model that integrates grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, political education, the arts, and healing practices, Vigilant Love built solidarity between generations of [...]
Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra changes lives by stretching the boundaries of the ensemble format, using music as an impetus for social change. By collaborating with institutions and relying on a pay-what-you-can model, Kaleidoscope is making music accessible to diverse communities across Los Angeles. In addition to performing in health centers, homeless facilities, and mental health treatment [...]
Ten Toes In seeks to support, educate, and empower couples impacted by incarceration. The organization aids couples navigating back into society by organizing monthly support meetings for women, offering a mentorship program to assist formerly incarcerated men who are married or in relationships, hosting quarterly workshops that teach life and relationship skills, and teaching a [...]
Lost Angels Children’s Project builds futures by building cars. Based in Lancaster, the program engages neighborhood youth in after-school programs in vintage car restoration and art. Lost Angels has a unique way of preparing young people to lead strong, successful futures. By working together on intensive, long-term projects, students gain confidence, critical thinking experience, team [...]
LA Compost connects people with the soil that feeds them. By creating composting hubs at schools, neighborhood organizations, and community gardens, LA Compost creates a loop from farm to table, to compost, and back to farm again. Local residents are encouraged to keep organics in their own neighborhoods rather than sending them to landfills, and [...]
POPS the Club provides a space for high school students struggling with the Pain of the Prison System. Most of the students who attend POPS club meetings have been affected by the incarceration of a loved one—a parent, sibling, other family member, or friend. Through its writing workshops and voluntary sharing of stories, the club [...]
