Our Partners

PAUSE creates spaces that produce safe, culturally-sensitive, and expert-informed grief and end-of-life support for people of color. They provide resources and programming to serve individuals, companies, and death-care professionals.

Umoja Food Collective is a collaborative of Black food entrepreneurs and Black-owned small businesses in Inglewood, South Los Angeles, and surrounding communities. Through community empowerment, network building, and culturally tailored business development, Umoja Food Collective strives for greater investments in Black wealth, Black employment, and Black business ownership, redressing racial wealth gaps and health inequities among Black Angelenos.

The Watts of Power Foundation provides wrap-around support and training for Black male public school teachers. Their flagship program, the Teacher Village, offers a culturally-affirming community space in South LA for teachers-in-training. Watts of Power Foundation envisions increasing the Black educator pipeline in Los Angeles, and impacting the educational and social-emotional learning outcomes for all children—especially Black children.

South LA Community Foundation, a nonprofit affiliate of South LA Café, aims to create, build, and empower an equitable, healthy, and sustainable South Central community for all. With a focus on food equity, workforce training, and business development, they are expanding access to resources and building a sustainable, self-determined local economy.

People’s Pottery Project employs and empowers formerly incarcerated women, transgender, and non-binary individuals through paid job training, access to healing communities, and meaningful employment in their collective nonprofit ceramic business. They provide flexible programs that allow participants to build business and technical skills through creative ceramic fabrication work and production.

The mission of the Los Angeles Chapter of the International Indigenous Youth Council is to create safe spaces for BIPOC youth and support them in becoming leaders in their communities through education, cultural practices, and civic engagement. The organization sees a future where Indigenous youth have sovereignty to co-create a sustainable and equitable world for the next seven generations.

CultivaLA transforms healthy food access and wellness through people, social enterprise, and environmental justice. By encouraging community urban agriculture through workforce development, intergenerational learning, and agricultural literacy, CultivaLA brings together local growers to transform the urban agriculture movement in Los Angeles.

Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO) is an Indigenous women-led organization that works jointly as a link, resource, and liaison for Indigenous communities in Los Angeles. By creating space for the revitalization of language, cultural practices, and gender justice work, CIELO develops solutions to the social, economic, and cultural challenges faced by the Indigenous community.

NeuroTalent Works is dedicated to transforming the lives of adults on the autism spectrum by cultivating opportunities for meaningful and gainful employment, working in partnership with corporations. The organization aims to be a bridge, developing essential talent for corporations by leveraging the unique gifts of adults on the autism spectrum and fostering neurodiverse workplaces.

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 color become titans of industry.

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 of homelessness in today’s society.

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 for a new generation of leaders. Embracing partnerships with those most impacted and community influencers in systemic change, Creative Acts offers consulting, training, in-prison and reentry program development support, and event development services.

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 multi-ethnic and inter-spiritual communities to create pathways to liberation and healing together.

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 centers, Kaleidoscope is offering composition lessons to public schools in Los Angeles through its Kaleidoscope Connects Program.

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 course called Intimate Relationships 101 at Avenal State Prison and Pleasant Valley State Prison. Ten Toes In advocates on behalf of women who choose to maintain relationships with their incarcerated partners, shedding light on the unique dynamics of prison relationships.