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We need to know: What's the issue, Los Angeles?
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This LA2050 Grants Challenge season we're taking to the streets to ask one very important question: "What do you consider to be the biggest issue in Los Angeles?"
For our first interview, we met Amae, a USC undergraduate student. Clad in sweats and on the way to Trader Joe’s following an early morning class, she stopped to share with us what issue is most important to her: affordable housing and homelessness.
Check out Amae's full response on Instagram or TikTok, and follow along as we share more perspectives from Angelenos. |
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Even if we haven’t connected in person, we need your input! Help us decide how to distribute $1 million to local organizations across LA by sharing the issues that matter most to you – now through April 18th.
Voting is open to all ages, available in 12+ languages, and takes less than five minutes.
So, tell us: what do you care about?
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First, Angelenos vote for the issues, online from March 12th to April 18th. Then, on April 28th, we'll open grant applications to organizations with ideas to address the top-voted issues. Last, we'll evaluate proposals and award more than $3 million in grants – $1 million as voted by Angelenos, and the additional amount from funding partners.
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LA2050 is granting $1 million to organizations working to solve the top-voted issues.
Right now, these 10 issue areas are in the lead...
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PLAY
1/ Community safety
2/ Green space, park access, and trees
CONNECT
1/ Public transit
2/ Immigrant and refugee support
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LEARN
1/ K-12 STEAM education
2/ Foster and systems-impacted youth
LIVE
1/ Affordable housing and homelessness
2/ Health care access
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CREATE
1/ Income inequality
2/ Access to tech and creative industry employment
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With more than three weeks left to vote, there’s still time to move your priorities to the top! If an issue you care about — like walk-able and bike-able streets, food access, early education, support for entrepreneurs, or civic engagement — isn’t on this list, make your voice heard now.
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🌟 JOB OF THE WEEK! Program Coordinator, Pasadena Village
Multiple Roles, CHIRLA
Manager of Institutional Giving, Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
Multiple Roles, LA Public Press
Development Manager, Sharefest Community Development, Inc.
Multiple Roles, Braille Institute Los Angeles Center
Development Director, Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust
Multiple Roles, Legacy LA Youth Development
Bilingual Administrative Assistant, MALDEF
Multiple Roles, Los Angeles Conservation Corps
Social Media Manager, Museum of Contemporary Art
Multiple Roles, TreePeople
Major Gifts Officer, Friends LA
Multiple Roles, Safe Place for Youth
Managing Director of Policy, AAPI Equity Alliance
Multiple Roles, Crystal Stairs, Inc.
Bookkeeper / Office Manager, Blue Garnet
Multiple Roles, Eggleston Youth Center
Chief Executive Officer, Exceptional Minds
Multiple Roles, School on Wheels
OYC Associate Director, Alliance for Children's Rights
Multiple Roles, The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation
Operations Director, The Leo Buscaglia Foundation
Multiple Roles, Congresswoman Luz Rivas
Director of Development & Communications, Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
Multiple Roles, Connections for Children
Program Analyst, Partners In Diversity
Multiple Roles, C5LA
Direct of Development & Communication, Cancer Support Community South Bay
Multiple Roles, ExpandLA
👋 Have a job opening you want to be featured? Submit it here!
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EVENT OF THE WEEK! Mar. 21, 5 pm | LA Más: Somos NELA Night Market
Mar. 21, 11 am | Strengthening Housing & Workforce Stability After the L.A. Fires
Mar. 22, 8 am | FoLAR: Habitat Restoration Day
Mar. 22, 9 am | LA Civil Rights: Virtual Homebuyer Seminar
Mar. 22, 9:30 am | Architectural Tour: Ocean Boulevard at the Pike
Mar. 22, 10 am | South LA: No Hate No Fear Know Your Rights Literature Drop
Mar. 23, 11 am | Metro Bike Share Women’s History Scavenger Hunt!
Mar. 23, 12 pm | LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes César Chávez Family Day
Mar. 23, 1 pm | World Poetry Day w/ El Martillo Press
Mar. 23, 3 pm | Hammer: Cézanne in Old Age, Unbowed
Mar. 25, 10 am | Philanthropy California: 100 Days Funder Briefing
Mar. 25, 4 pm | LA Hire Youth Job Fair
Mar. 25, 7 pm | LA City's Unarmed Crisis Response Pilot: It's Working! Don't Cut It!
Mar. 26, 6 pm | Resistance and Liberation: Los Angeles Latine Poets Speak Out
Mar. 26, 7:30 pm | Culture in Times of Recovery: Kim Hastreiter & Jeffrey Deitch
Mar. 27, 9 am | Otis College Report on the Creative Economy: 2025 Launch Event
Mar. 27, 10 am | City of Los Angeles' Annual TGI2+ Job Fair
Mar. 27, 5 pm | 2025 Kenneth Owler Smith Symposium
Mar. 27, 5 pm | Voting Rights & Challenges Facing America's Youngest Voters
Mar. 27, 6 pm | 30ñera: Thirty Years of the Macondo Writers Workshop
Mar. 29, 10 am | Native Plant Festival at California Botanic Garden
Mar. 29, 12 pm | 3rd Annual Poetry Lives in Pico Union
Mar. 29, 12 pm | LA Made Presents: Workshop on Repujado With Miriam Quezada
Mar. 29, 1 pm | Defy SoCal HealthRIGHT 360 Community Business Coaching Day
Mar. 30, 2 pm | Guerrilla Gardening DIY Seed Bombs
Apr. 2, 4 pm | Author Talk: By Any Other Name with Jodi Picoult
👋 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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