Venice Arts’ mission is to ignite, expand, and transform the lives of Los Angeles’ low-income youth through photography and film education, and to use our participatory storytelling practices to amplify the voices of underrepresented communities around the world. This mission grew out of our founding dream: to create a vibrant, neighborhood arts center committed to […]
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The mission of USC Magnet’s Media Arts Department is to train the next generation of diverse teenage filmmakers and animators from low socioeconomic neighborhoods in Los Angeles so our students can gain an intensive, hands-on education focusing on video production, animation, and music technology. We have partnerships with Golden Globe Foundation, DreamWorks, Warner Bros, Nickelodeon, […]
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Founded in 2012 by Imhotep (filmmaker) & Alexis (educator) Coleman, the mission of Urban Scholar Academy [USA], a Super Bowl LVI & WWE Community Champion award-winning organization, is to transform the lives of urban youth through academic enrichment and community service opportunities. U.S.A. currently provides four flagship programs throughout the year: 1. INDIVIDUALIZED TUTORING: K-12 […]
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The Telluride Film Festival (TFF) is an international educational event celebrating excellence in the art of film. It exists to provide a stimulating annual gathering, open to everyone, in which the lovers and creators of cinema come together to see and discuss the most interesting work of the past and present. The generous grant from […]
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Founded close to 40 years ago in the creative capital of Los Angeles, LACHSA is the #1 arts high school in the nation and training ground for the next generation of visual storytellers, content creators, media innovators, and digital disruptors. LACHSA students come from every corner of Los Angeles County and represent the county’s wide-ranging […]
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The Youth Cinema Project (YCP) integrates filmmaking with 21st-century learning skills. The program works in the classrooms of public schools that predominantly serve low-income communities. YCP uses a hands-on approach that integrates social emotional learning and English Language Arts to provide an equitable and accessible learning experience for our students. Across one full academic year, […]
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Echo Park Film Center (EPFC, established 2001) and the EPFC Collective (launched 2022) provide all-ages community film/video workshops, screenings, resources, and residencies in Los Angeles and around the world. After 20 glorious years at 1200 N. Alvarado Street, Echo Park Film Center has returnedto our itinerant roots and gone “back on the road” to work […]
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The Compton Education Foundation (CEF) is a nonprofit organization established in 2003 to raise funds for Compton Unified School District public schools. The mission of the CEF is to provide access to high-quality opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) education to students of the Compton Unified School District. Some of the major […]
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The CSSSA Foundation helps provide immersive, pre-professional training to California’s high school artists. The four-week residential CSSSA summer program offers seven tracks of artistic learning: Animation, Film, Theater, Creative Writing, Dance, Music, and Visual Arts. Each summer, 500 students convene to improve their technical skills, work with cutting edge professionals, and prepare for academic and […]
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles (BBBSLA) is one of the largest youth mentoring organizations in Southern California and one of the largest affiliates of the Big Brothers Big Sisters national federation. Our mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.Through six evidence- based […]
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The UCLA Division of Social Sciences is home to a number of projects and initiatives that create tangible impacts for underrepresented communities in Los Angeles and further afield. The Hollywood Diversity Report is one such project; its goal of increasing diversity in the film and television industry seeks to reflect groups that constitute a growing […]
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Type Media Center is a non-profit home for independent journalists and truth-tellers at all stages of their careers. Our mission is to produce high-impact journalism and literary nonfiction that addresses injustice and inequality, catalyzes change, and informs and uplifts social movements while transforming and diversifying the fields of journalism and publishing. Type’s award-winning nonprofit newsroom, […]
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