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Better Youth, Inc. builds creative confidence, bridges resource gaps, and prepares foster and system-impacted youth for sustained success in the creative economy. They provide omnidirectional mentoring, media arts training, professional skills development, and social services supporting a holistic approach.
Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute is a welcoming space to engage, share, and embrace the Nikkei experience and culture. Through their programming, they envision forming a vibrant network for all persons interested in Japanese heritage and culture while honoring history and tradition, inspiring action and change, and promoting cultural pride and respect for all humanity.
Gente Organizada is a Latinx-led grassroots organization dedicated to building intergenerational power and promoting the wellness of immigrant working-class families and youth in Pomona. The organization equips youth and parents with tools and resources to identify critical community issues and leads campaigns to change the policies, practices, regulations, and laws that sustain those challenges.
Feminist Center for Creative Work supports emerging feminist work by gender-marginalized, queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled, and low-income artists and creative practitioners. Through an ever-evolving, intersectional, intergenerational, and joyful collaborative feminist praxis, the organization models alternative ways of working and living through art, programming, media, publishing, and the redistribution of resources—both in Los Angeles and around [...]
Immigration Resource Center of San Gabriel Valley provides immigration legal counsel, connections to community resources, and warm care and welcome to immigrant neighbors in the San Gabriel Valley and beyond. These services offer an affordable way for local foreign-born, non-US citizens to comply with immigration law and strengthen their ability to provide for themselves and [...]
Las Fotos Project aims to elevate the voices of teenage girls and gender-expansive youth from communities of color through photography and mentorship, empowering them to channel their creativity to benefit themselves, their communities, and their future careers. Their program model reinforces photography’s inherent ability to spark introspection, evoke deeper meaning, and serve as a catalyst [...]
Mujeres de la Tierra inspires the healing of La Madre Tierra by working to build grassroots community leadership and capacity among historically unrecognized communities, especially those that are low-income, immigrant, and/or communities of color. They provide culturally relevant tools and platforms for community action and connect with their community through local residents’ input, pláticas, listening [...]
Positive Results Center is committed to preventing and ending trauma resulting from domestic violence, intimate partner violence, and sexual assault by helping people develop healthy relationships. Their programs include art-based prevention education and healing strategies that address interpersonal and partner violence, as well as youth and adult leadership development, the cultivation of healthy relationships, and [...]
DIY Girls motivates girls and gender-expansive youth to pursue long-term success in technology, engineering, and making through innovative educational experiences and mentor relationships. Partnering with local schools in the Northeast San Fernando Valley region, DIY Girls offers programs that inspire and support students in grades 5 through 12 so that they are better able to [...]
L.A. Co-op Lab explores, invents, and deploys strategies to build LA’s capacity for worker ownership as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy. The organization offers technical assistance, non-extractive financing, online courses, and network-building opportunities throughout the worker ownership process. L.A. Co-op Lab focuses resources on people and communities that have historically been [...]
