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#HashtagLunchbag - powered by Living Through Giving Foundation, 501(c)3 nonprofit
#HashtagLunchbag Feeds LA
#HashtagLunchbag - through the power of social media and dedicated volunteers - will bring hope and meals to over 50,000 Angelenos, affirming that we can be the change we want to see in the world.
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Environment California Research & Policy Center
#NextStopCleanAir: Electric School Buses for LA’s Kids
Worried about the smog affecting our kids’ health? Join students, parents, teachers, and the community to put 100 percent clean, electric buses on school bus routes across LA by 2030!
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Lumos Transforms
#ResilientLA: Building Healthy Individuals, Organizations, and Communities
Lumos Transforms will teach workers, community organizers and activists resilience-building tools to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, organizations and the communities that they serve.
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Mutuo
A house for Tommy in my backyard! If only LA knew the opportunity that lies in our backyards…
There is no room for Tommy, the spaceman, and many more people in LA. But in our backyards may lie a great opportunity to make an extra rental income while increasing housing in LA. If only LA knew…
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A Healthier Community Starts with YOUth
A youth-led public health program involving health professionals, students, & our communities.
Promoting a culture of healthy practices in even the most under-resourced communities via physician referred nutrition and fitness community health programming, led by local students.
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Peer Health Exchange
Access to Health Resources for Young People
We seek to empower young people with the knowledge, skills, and resources to make healthy decisions through providing in-person clinic tours of a local community health center for 9th-grade students.
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City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Street Lighting
AirCareLA, an Air Quality Education Pilot
Deploy 150 air quality sensors on streetlights Citywide to provide environmental data at a local level in order to evaluate the disparity of air quality among communities & impacting factors.
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UCLA Center for Health Services and Society
B-RESILIENT: An Engaging Text Messaging and Mobile App Created by the Community for the Community
B-RESILIENT is a interactive text-messaging/mobile app to support resiliency and reduce the risk/impact of depressive symptoms in response to multiple stressors in under-resourced communities in LA.
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SÜPRSEED, Inc.
Bring Fresh Food Where it's Needed with Education + Access via SÜPRMARKT
We'll deliver 1 million pounds of organic produce, 2,000 hours of workshops, and 1000 free deliveries to LA's food deserts to make fresh food affordable for all and create a healthy future for us all.
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National Veterans Transition Services, Inc. AKA REBOOT
Carry Forward
Carrying forward is helping those who are in need of housing, workforce training, and other services; we collaborate to mobilize help for veterans and other Angelenos.
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Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County
Center for Sustainable Communities - Compton
Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County works to strengthen communities through economic empowerment, sustainable community development, and by helping underserved communities thrive.
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Not Impossible Foundation
Connecting the food secure to nearby, ready-to-eat meals using SMS
Hunger: Not Impossible is an innovative platform connecting the food Insecure to ready-to-eat meals through SMS, leveraging tech already in the hands of millions in order to tackle this injustice.
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The Glue
Crowd-Sourcing Sidewalk App
Let's build an open-source app that collects crowd-sourced data on sidewalk condition to create accessible walking routes and identify which sidewalks need TLC.
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One Degree
Empowering Angelenos to build a path out of poverty and thrive with One Degree
Low-income and at-risk Angelenos will be able to find, access, and manage nonprofit and social services efficiently and with dignity on One Degree so they can prosper and reach their full potential.
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Shoes That Fit
Equal Footing LA: Providing New Shoes For Kids In Need
Too many kids in LA are missing school because they don’t have shoes—or being bullied because they are wearing inappropriate shoes. We will provide brand new athletic shoes to LAUSD school children.
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United Way of Greater Los Angeles
EVERYONE IN: Preventing 30,000 Angelenos from Becoming Homeless
“EVERYONE IN: Preventing Homelessness” will help 30,000 people avoid homelessness by creating affordable housing & helping Angelenos keep their homes
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CalEITC4Me
Financial Security for Low-Income Angelenos
Improving the lives of working Californians by creating financial security through a program of research, analysis, public information and education.
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Global Green
Global Green’s Creative Reuse Coalition
Through community upcycling workshops and digital tutorials, Angelenos will learn how to creatively reuse, repair, and repurpose their damaged or worn out items, making LA the best place to live!
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My Friends House, Inc.
Healthy Food and Healthy Lives in South Los Angeles
Increase the amount of fresh healthy food that is distributed to families in South Los Angeles by involving more Angelenos in the donation, collection, and growth of the food.
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City Fabrick
IN House - Collaborative Affordable Housing Design
IN House is a collaboration between City Fabrick, community partners, affordable housing providers and residents to design innovative housing strategies in Long Beach and South Los Angeles County.
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LIFT-Los Angeles
Invest in Parents & Connect Families Across Socioeconomic Barriers to Break the Cycle of Poverty
LIFT-LA will transform the lives of 4,000 community members and influence 100,000 Angelenos to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty for parents and children.
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Big Citizen HUB
Invest in Youth Coalition: Advocating for a Los Angeles that prioritizes young people
We demand an equitable strategy and coordinated approach to comprehensive youth development, led by a city department focused on creating prosperity for all of LA’s young people.
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Team Rubicon
Los Angelenos Resilient in the Face of Natural Disasters
At Team Rubicon, disasters are our business and veterans are our passion. We unite the skills and experience of our nation's military veterans to provide efficient, local, and rapid disaster relief.
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FreeFrom
Make LA the first city where everyone can live free from abuse
FreeFrom is working to revolutionize LA’s response to the epidemic of gender-based violence by making sure every survivor has the financial resources to heal, rebuild and live free from abuse.
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NoTow
Mobile application to make parking easier
A mobile application to make sure you never get a parking ticket ever again!
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Science Academy For All
New Obesity War (NOW) led by mentor trained kids to change the lifestyle of their families.
Kids (Elementary to high school) would be mentored for project based research on different foods to lead their families for healthy lifestyle change and reduce obesity.
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#HappyPeriod
Normalize Periods by Giving Back!
An art installation of the words PERIODS and #HAPPYPERIOD in numerous locations within L.A county made for the public to donate menstrual products for a homeless passer-by to freely take.
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Black Women for Wellness
ONILATERAL INDUSTRIES - Preserving The Last of Humanity through Science
A multimedia “Zombie Apocalypse” campaign to raise awareness and advance meaningful systemic change about the impact of climate justice on communities of color.
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Cardborigami Inc
Pop-Up Sites for Overnight Temporary Shelter: Serving our homeless neighbors with dignity first
We will deploy architecturally designed, low-impact shelters made of treated cardboard at managed sites around LA nightly to transform conceptions of what emergency homeless shelter can be.
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Podshare
Safe Place for Youth by Podshare
PodShare has built over 190 affordable housing units across Los Angeles and SPY serves 1,100 homeless youth each year, connecting them to jobs, schools, housing, healthcare, and basic necessities.
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L.A. Kitchen
Seed to Sky: building an economic bridge from LA’s community gardens to LAX
We are building a coalition to enhance the role of gardens in communities - not only as a training ground for access and education, but as an economic bridge to bring dollars back into neighborhoods.
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SeedLA
SeedLA: Empowering Environmental Leadership
SeedLA is a group of professionals from different industries that provide pro-bono consulting to boost the impact of local environmental non-profits within the LA community.
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SmartAirLA
SmartAirLA
SmartAirLA deploys “Smart” Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to empower communities to reduce the effects and prevalence of asthma in Los Angeles County
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Health Core Possibilities
STOP WREX! DRIVE WITHOUT TEXT/ALTO WREX! MANEJA SIN EL TEXT /
STOP WREX!/ALTO WREX! will establish our Bilingual digital app program to eliminate distracted driving as a project Angelenos — especially Latinos - want to support. LIVE and increase LA's bike score!
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Roots & Wings
The Whole School Approach to a Safer & Happier Community
We address the roots of violence and stress to ensure our children will have the wings to set them free to achieve a joyful life.
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Mar Vista Family Center
The Youth New A.G.E Initiative
The New A.G.E Initiative coaches low-income youth on how to Abate waste, Generate revenue, and Educate communities about recycling to engender environmental sustainability and social responsibility.
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Family Promise of the South Bay
TINY CITIES FOR L.A.’S HOMELESS
Individualized cargo containers, stacked on empty lots, will provide chronic and temporarily homeless people with a place to live, as well as space for the resources they need to survive and succeed.
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UCLA Mobile Eye Clinic (UMEC)
To see well is to live well.
It is challenging to fill out applications or navigate the streets without being able to see, which the UCLA Mobile Eye Clinic proposes to remedy for people experiencing homelessness in L.A.
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Topanga Women's Circle
Topanga Women's Circle: Expanding our Circle to Ease Homelessness in Los Angeles
Topanga Women's Circle will create a new city-wide program called The Community Circle Project which will guide existing service groups in helping homeless families as they transition into housing.
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Move LA, a project of Community Partners
#Vision2020: An Achievable Plan to Save Us All from Air Toxins, Diesel Pollution & Climate Change!
Move LA is building a broad coalition and championing a grand bargain to achieve the audacious goals of cleaning our air of diesel toxins and greatly advance the fight against climate change.
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World Harvest Charities & Family Services
World Harvest Dream Village: Affordable Housing with Food, Jobs, Healthcare, and Community.
It’s the dream we all dream of: A village in the city where you can live, work, eat, learn, play, heal, connect, and create.
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The Youth Movement Against Alzheimer’s
YouthCare: Low-cost inter-generational care for those with dementia
YouthCare is the most affordable intergenerational respite and memory care program that partners trained college student volunteers and persons with early-stage dementia in a community-based setting.