OUR LA2050 YEAR-IN-REVIEW
As 2024 winds down, we’re celebrating all that the LA2050 community has accomplished over the past 12 months and pinning our favorite moments and milestones.
Check out our special Pinterest-inspired look back, below.
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In April, we launched our 11th LA2050 Grants Challenge, with the theme of "Who Can? YOU CAN!" You responded – casting more than 105,000 votes for the issues that matter most, and contributing 9,450 total volunteer hours at 24 activations.
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Together with our eight funding partners, we granted more than $3 million to 68 organizations making LA better for all. We celebrated with more than 100 impact leaders at our annual LA2050 Grantee Showcase in October.
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We amplified opportunities to make a difference in LA through donating, gifting, and vounteering. We raised more than $30,000 on Giving Tuesday, shopped the Social Impact Gift Guide, and shared hundreds of volunteer opportunities.
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We sought to uplift local nonprofits through engaging events and gatherings. A few examples: in February, we hosted an half-day workshop for grantees on artificial intelligence, and in October, we programmed two panels for LA Tech Week.
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We curated opportunities for those interested in deeper engagement with our region’s impact sector. We posted hundreds of jobs and events, released informative maps to help us get to know LA, and more.
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We continued to build our incredible LA2050 community, together. Our work to make LA the best place to live, learn, play, create, and connect is only possible because of YOU! Thank you.
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We're excited to share final reflections from our 2023 grantee cohort, at the close of their grant period.
These organizations have tackled some of the region’s most pressing challenges – from housing and homelessness to health care access and expanding green space – and have created meaningful progress for Los Angeles County and its people.
Read their end-of-grant updates now →
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MAYA JUNE MANSOUR | Co-Founder,
Black Image Center
PLAY: One of my favorite things to do is go on walks with friends at Rueben Ingold Park. The track has such an amazing view and all the trees are so beautiful.
CREATE: I love when I can catch a screening at Vidiots. They have such an incredible curation of films from all over the world.
CONNECT: Black Image Center's volunteer program allows for people to become studio attendants that manage the space during our community co-working hours. For only $5 a day, creatives come work in our space and make new friends, often who they end up collaborating with.
LEARN: Every time I go to Reparations Club, I learn something new and add at least three new books to my reading list.
LIVE: Recently Black Image Center collaborated with the Nature Nexus Institute on a photo walk. They taught so many things about how to be better stewards of the land we live on.
Follow @LA2050 on Instagram to see new Fave Five posts from impactful Angelenos.
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👋 Have a job opening you want to be featured? Submit it here!
JOB OF THE WEEK! Climate Justice Organizer, SAJE
Multiple Positions, Anti-Recidivism Coalition
Manager of Institutional Giving, Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
Multiple Positions, Legacy LA Youth Development
Development Associate, Safe Parking LA
Multiple Positions, Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
Senior Case Manager, Lost Angels Children's Project
Multiple Positions, Safe Place for Youth
Development Manager, LA Compost
Multiple Positions, Partners In Diversity, Inc.
Grant Specialist, Mayor's Office of Public Safety
Multiple Positions, Center for Caregiver Advancement
Program Officer, LA84 Foundation
Multiple Positions, Allies for Every Child
Case Manager, Homelessness Prevention, Door of Hope
Multiple Positions, Chrysalis
Program Coordinator, Rainbow Labs
Multiple Positions, Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation
Senior Consultant, Envision Consulting
Multiple Positions, Center for Caregiver Advancement
Children's After School Behavior Aide, Vista Center for Behavior Analysis
Multiple Positions, Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law
Chief Financial Officer, Los Angeles Urban League
Multiple Positions, TreePeople
Chief Operating Officer, The Whole Child
Multiple Positions, Green Dot
Executive Director, Movement is Life
Multiple Positions, Braille Institute Los Angeles Center
Leadership Giving Officer, Point Foundation
Multiple Positions, Community Corporation of Santa Monica
Associate Director of Development, Southern California, Facing History and Ourselves
Multiple Positions, Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California
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👋 Have an event you want to be highlighted? Submit it here!
EVENT OF THE WEEK! Dec. 20, 6 pm | Avalon Arts and Cultural Alliance: Family Paint Night
Dec. 18 - 22 | Aquarium Holidays at Aquarium of the Pacific
Dec. 18 - Jan. 5 | LA Zoo Lights: Animals Aglow
Dec. 18, 9 am | LACI: Women in Cleantech Virtual Coffee Meetup
Dec. 18, 11 am | MOLAA Zoom Project – Dora Bartilotti
Dec. 18, 3 pm | LA County Library: Gingerbread House Challenge
Dec. 19, 5 pm | LA Más: Community Celebration
Dec. 19, 7:30 pm | Book Club: Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
Dec. 21, 8 am | Friends of the LA River: Habitat Restoration Day
Dec. 21, 11 am | Academy Museum Film Program: Smallfoot
Dec. 21, 1 pm | Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration
Dec. 21, 6 pm | Naples Boat Parade
Dec. 22, 2 pm | Themed Vendor Markets: Noche Buena
Dec. 24, 3 pm | The Music Center: L.A. County Holiday Celebration
Dec. 25, 10:30 am | NHMLAC: Animals Alive!
Dec. 26, 2 pm | Movie Screening: The Holdovers
Dec. 26, 5 pm | Grand Chanukah Menorah Lighting at The Culver Steps
Dec. 27, 11 am | 36th Annual Kwanzaa Celebration
Dec. 28, 1 pm | Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Tidepool Walk
Dec. 31, 8 pm | Gloria Molina Grand Park’s NYELA Countdown to 2025
Jan. 1, 8 am | The 136th Rose Parade
Jan. 11, 9 am | Grammy Museum: Sensory Friendly Saturday
Jan. 11, 11 am | CAAM Self Care: Yoga January 2025
Jan. 11, 2 pm | 2025 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
Jan. 12, 11 am | 826LA@Hammer: Collaging for Mother Earth
Jan. 16, 6 pm | Mass Deportations: The Past as Prologue
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Find funding resources on our Goldhirsh Foundation website, which is regularly updated with a diverse range of grant opportunities!
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