LA2050 Grants Challenge voting opens today!
We’re giving away $1 million to improve Los Angeles, but first, we need to know what issues YOU care about most.
Our 2024 poll is live now at LA2050.org/vote, open to all ages and available in 12 languages. It takes less than five minutes to complete.
Who can decide what issues are funded? YOU can!
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How does the LA2050 Grants Challenge work?
First, Angelenos will vote for the issues that matter most to them, online from April 2nd to May 8th. Then, on May 15th, we'll open grant applications to organizations with ideas to address the top-voted issues. Last, we'll evaluate proposals and award more than $2 million in grants – $1 million as voted by Angelenos, and the additional amount from funding partners. Each winning organization will receive up to $75,000.
Fun fact: This is our 11th Grants Challenge! 🌟
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24 VOLUNTEER ACTIVATIONS FOR 2024
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That's not all! We're also partnering with 24 organizations to host a range of volunteer activations across the LA region during our Grants Challenge voting period.
You can clean up a local beach, help a former foster youth move into their first home, assemble lunches for those in need, beautify an elementary school garden, and much, much more!
If you've been looking for more opportunities to give back, we've got you.
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💜 JOB OF THE WEEK! Assistant to the President, LA2050 / Goldhirsh Foundation
Grants Development Coordinator, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
Manager of National Programs, The Civics Center
Multiple Positions, CHIRLA
Bezos Earth Fund Community Fellow, Community Partners
Multiple Positions, The Archer School for Girls
Chief Development Officer, Momentum
Multiple Positions, A Place Called Home
Finance Manager, Public Advocates
Multiple Positions, TreePeople
Project Manager, Community Corporation of Santa Monica
Deputy Director, California Science Center
Multiple Positions, Partners in Diversity
Grants Administrator, Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
Multiple Positions, Door of Hope
Executive Associate to Transform, Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
Multiple Positions, Chrysalis
Senior Associate, The Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy
Chief Development & Marketing Officer, JVS SoCal
Multiple Positions, Catalyst California
Executive Director, The Children's Collective Inc.
Fund Development Manager, YWCA Greater Los Angeles
👋 Have a job opening you want to be featured? Submit it here!
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LA2050 VOLUNTEER ACTIVATIONS
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Apr. 1-5, 9 am | Amplify Access to Tech Jobs with LA-Tech.org
Apr. 3, 6:15 pm | Support Second Chances w/ Defy Ventures
Apr. 5, 2 pm and Apr. 6, 7 am | Celebrate Invention at the LA Maker Faire w/ LAPL
Apr. 6, 9 am | Join “Salvia Mi Tierra” w/ North East Trees, Inc
Apr. 13, 9 am | Create New Home Kits for the Formerly Unhoused w/ L.A. Works
Apr. 13, 10:30 am | Bring Free Intergenerational Music to Communities w/ HOLA
Apr. 17, 5 pm | Unleash Your Inner Artist for May Day w/ CHIRLA
Apr. 20, 8 am | Restore Native Habitat w/ Friends of the Los Angeles River
Apr. 20, 9 am | Get Your Hands Dirty w/ the Garden School Foundation
Apr. 20, 9 am | Splash into Action this Earth Day w/ Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
Apr. 20, 9:30 am | Support Inclusive Play w/ Inclusion Matters by Shane’s Inspiration
Apr. 20, 10 am | Beautify the Los Angeles Coastline with Heal the Bay
Apr. 20, 10 am | Double the Sustainable Harvest at Lopez Urban Farm
Apr. 21, 6 am | Support Free Community Arts w/ Bob Baker Marionette Theater
Apr. 21, 9 am | Transform Venice Blvd. into a Pop-Up Park for the Day w/ CicLAvia
Apr. 22, 9 am | Craft Animal Enrichment Items w/ the Los Angeles Zoo
Apr. 24, 10 am | Help Our Unhoused Neighbors w/ Inner City Law Center
Apr. 27, 8 am | Help Provide Free Dental and Vision Care w/ Healing California
Apr. 27, 9:30 am | Earth Day Community Habitat Restoration w/ Friends of Ballona Wetlands
Apr. 27, 10 am | Pack Lunches for Neighbors in Need w/ #HashtagLunchbag
Apr. 27, 10 am | Support New and Expecting Mothers with Para Los Niños
Apr. 27, 10 am | Help Older Adults Use Technology with Pasadena Village
Apr. 27, 11 am | Furnish a Former Foster Youth’s First Home w/ A Sense of Home
May 4, 8 am | Build Homes and Dreams w/ Habitat LA (register with code LA2050)
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EVENT OF THE WEEK! Apr. 7, 9 am | Ascot Hills Seedy Sunday w/ North East Trees
Apr. 4, 4 pm | 34th Kenneth Owler Smith Symposium
Apr. 6, 1:30 pm | What is a Western? Film Series: Borderline
Apr. 8, 12 pm | LAPL Mind-Body, Health and Wellness: Workshop and Brainstorming Event
Apr. 9, 7:30 pm | Rebecca Morris: UCLA Department of Art Lecture
Apr. 11, 11 am | SJPLA Wellbeing Series: Mindfulness with Mel Mah
Apr. 11, 4 pm | JANM Educator Workshop - Youth Experience of JA WWII Incarceration
Apr. 13, 9 am | Cheremoya Elem School Campus Beautification Day w/ Gay For Good
Apr. 14, 2pm | Miry’s List Families Welcome
Apr. 16, 1pm | Grants for Business Owners
Apr. 17, 7:30 pm | Intersections: Armenian Classical Composers
Apr. 17, 7:30 am | Transformative Action UCLA Luskin Summit 2024
Apr. 18, 8 am | LANI Community Forum 2024
Apr. 20, 7:30 am | Los Angeles Ronald McDonald House Annual Walk for Kids
Apr. 20, 8 am | LA Zoo: Wild for the Planet
Apr. 20, 10 am | Keep It Green, Keep It Clean Earth Day Celebration
Apr. 21, 9:45 am | Earth Day Celebration with Clean Up the Beach
Apr. 21, 10 am | Earth Day Celebration w/ South Bay Parkland Conservancy
Apr. 24, 3:30 pm | Safety Awareness for Everyone (SAFE)
Apr. 27, 8:30 am | Celebration of Family-Volunteer Opportunity w/ Imagine LA
Apr. 27, 9 am | RuckusRoots The Friendship Garden FIX-IT FRENZY!
👋 Have an event you want to be highlighted? Submit it here!
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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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