Youth Speak Collective is a youth-driven organization founded on the idea that all young people can succeed if provided with the right opportunities. Youth Speak’s mission is to empower low-income, at-risk youth and their families with the skills necessary to pursue higher education and create strong communities. The Foundation provides funding for the Creative Expression program, supporting youth producing original works of art, film, and writing.
The Skirball Cultural Center is a place of meeting guided by the Jewish tradition of welcoming the stranger and inspired by the American democratic ideals of freedom and equality. Funding from the Foundation supports ongoing educational programs for children and professional development for teachers throughout Los Angeles County through the Skirball’s various permanent and temporary exhibitions.
SOL-LA’s mission is to provide high quality performing arts education to students from all backgrounds and economic circumstances, in an engaging and encouraging environment fostering achievement and community. The comprehensive program reflects the belief that vibrant cultural education nurtures all areas of learning, connects diverse societies and enhances enjoyment of life.
The mission of LA Commons is to engage communities in artistic and cultural expressoin that tells their unique stories and serves as a basis for dialogue, interaction and a better understanding of Los Angeles.
The LA Phil is reinventing the concept of a 21st-century orchestra under the vibrant leadership of Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel. Among its wide-ranging education initiatives is the Composer Fellowship Program (CFP), that, with support from the Foundation, provides a one-of-a-kind opportunity for high school-age composers to become a part of the LA Phil’s thriving new music community.
Libros Schmibros champions the pleasures of literature and its power to change lives.
P.S. ARTS is dedicated to improving the lives of children by providing arts education to underserved public schools and communities. Support from the Foundation launched The Lawndale Initiative and Take PART which bring comprehensive arts education programs to communities throughout the Centinela Valley region, and now includes the following districts: Lawndale, Lennox, Centinela Valley Unified, Hawthorne, and Wiseburn Unified.
PEN Center USA’s mission is to stimulate and maintain interest in the written word and to foster a vital literary culture. Through its Freedom to Write programs PEN Center pursues the goals at the core of their mission — to support writers’ freedom of expression and to promote access to their writing globally.
Plaza de la Raza provides year-round programs in arts education and serves as an art center and school — fostering the enrichment of all cultures. Through the arts, Plaza provides a vital human resource service bridging the geographic, social, artistic, and cultural boundaries of Los Angeles and beyond.
reDiscover Center’s mission is to provide art, tinkering, and sustainability education through creative reuse to all Angelenos.