Organizations working in Los Angeles County with experience in engaging in power-building strategies with young people of color are encouraged to apply for Bold Vision Power Building Grants.
Donor Name: Liberty Hill Foundation
State: California
County: Los Angeles County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/26/2023
Size of the Grant: $20,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
Vision
Bold Vision aims to transform L.A. County into a place where youth of color thrive.
This is a grant making program that centers the needs of BIPOC youth in Los Angeles County, and funding for organizations that work with BIPOC youth intentionally and with a racial equity lens will be prioritized.
To accomplish this Bold Vision will:
- Strengthen Youth Voices: Ensuring that L.A.’s young people are well represented and have power in public decision-making across their full spectrum of identities and geographies
- Advance Systems Change: Drive policies and efforts that more efficiently and effectively move government towards supporting youth of color
- Establish an Infrastructure: Leverage the extraordinary existing capacities within L.A. County, centers youth of color voice, and supports coordination across the range of issues and needs youth face.
Funding Priorities
- Racial Equity and Solidarity
- Organizations with BIPOC leaders, staff, and members that work directly with BIPOC youth
- Power Building
- Organizations with power-building components such as:
- Efforts driven by a broad and growing base of people directly impacted by injustice
- Community organizing, with membership and leadership representative of communities impacted by injustice
- Political education
- Activities centered on policy and systems change work
- Coalition building
- Participatory research
- Organizations with power-building components such as:
- Under-resourced populations
- Organizations that engage:
- Youth who identify as BIPOC and LGBTQIA+
- Youth who identify as Native American/American Indian or Alaskan Native
- Youth who identify as Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
- Youth who identify as BIPOC with disabilities
- BIPOC immigrant youth and their families
- Organizations that engage:
- Under-resourced geographic regions
- Organizations that support BIPOC youth organizing and youth development in areas of L.A. County with nascent or limited community organizing capacity: South LA, Southeast LA, Southeast/Gateway Cities, Long Beach, Antelope Valley, Central San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley
- Emerging Organizations
- Organizations with small budgets and/or new to or developing their power building work
- Healthy Built Environment
- Organizations that work to build community infrastructure (“built environment”), creating resource-rich neighborhoods that enable BIPOC youth to thrive. Examples include work to ensure:
- Access to healthy foods
- Affordable housing
- Transportation affordability and access
- Access to green spaces/open spaces
- Safe environments
- Organizations that work to build community infrastructure (“built environment”), creating resource-rich neighborhoods that enable BIPOC youth to thrive. Examples include work to ensure:
- System-Impacted Youth
- Organizations that work with youth impacted by:
- Child welfare systems
- Juvenile justice systems
- Immigration enforcement systems
- Organizations that work with youth impacted by:
Funding Information
- Projected individual grant amounts: $20,000 to $100,000 per year.
- Grant Period: 3 years
Eligibility Criteria
- Youth development and youth-serving organizations in Los Angeles County (youth defined as ages 0-24)
- 501c3 or fiscally sponsored organization
- Organizations working in Los Angeles County with experience in engaging in power-building strategies with young people of color are encouraged to apply.
For more information, visit Liberty Hill Foundation.
