The LA2050 Grants Challenge is an open call for ideas to make Los Angeles the best place to learn, create, play, connect, and live.
Donor Name: LA2050
State: California
County: Los Angeles County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/21/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
A total of $1 million will be awarded to 15 organizations to implement their ideas to address the issues that Angelenos care most about.
LA2050 will also commit to a one-year partnership with the winners – leveraging its resources, assets, and networks to help the projects succeed. Together, the winning organizations, LA2050, and Angelenos will make progress for the region that will change the course of future.
Issue Areas
- Access to creative industry employment
- Affordable housing and homelessness
- Community safety
- Green space, park access, and trees
- Health care access
- Immigrant and refugee support
- Income inequality
- K-12 STEAM education
- Opportunities for people who have been incarcerated
- Play equity to advance mental health
- Public transit
- Support for foster and systems-impacted youth
- Youth economic advancement
Benefits
Beyond the potential to receive a grant for your work, they believe that applying to the challenge will provide additional benefits including:
- The opportunity to participate in a first-of-its-kind regional effort
- Increased awareness and exposure via public platform
- Increased understanding of LA’s social impact landscape
- The opportunity to cultivate and build new relationships with peers
- The chance to build a coalition of committed Angelenos and organizations to support important work in LA
- The opportunity to learn how to tell a compelling story about your organization’s impact
- Inspiring the creation of videos, photos, tweets, and pithy messaging to promote your proposal
- Visibility in front of other foundations and potential alternative funding sources—past challenges have resulted in more than $6.5 million in grants from outside funders using the LA2050 platform for their grantmaking
- ‘Volunteer’ and ‘Donate’ buttons on each submission page to drive resources to your organization
- A page on our Ideas Hub, a database of all organizations that have applied to the LA2050 Grants Challenge and their proposals
Kinds of ideas LA2050 looking to support
- Bold ideas that will produce measurable wins for the LA region
- A spirit of collaboration and desire to unify and amplify collective efforts
- A clear focus on inclusion, diversity of voices, and equity
- Efforts that not only produce positive results, but are also focused on increasing local engagement and civic participation
- A desire to test new strategies
Funding Information
- Funding Information The Goldhirsh Foundation will award a total of $1,000,000 to eligible organizations applying for grant amounts ranging from $50,000 (five (5) total Awards) to $75,000 (ten (10) total Awards) over a one-year period.
Eligibility Criteria
Grants accept applications from registered non-profit, for-profit, fiscally-sponsored, or governmental organizations serving Los Angeles County and its residents. Both new or existing projects, programs, or initiatives are eligible for funding, as long as your work impacts one or more of this year’s issue areas (to be announced).
For more information, visit LA2050.
