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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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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With staff across six continents and hubs in Amsterdam, Washington, D.C., and Sarajevo, OCCRP is one of the largest investigative journalism organizations in the world. We are a mission-driven nonprofit newsroom that partners with other media outlets to publish stories that spur action. OCCRP is also a media development platform that advances investigative reporting worldwide. […]
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Military Veterans in Journalism is a nonprofit professional association dedicated to creatinga community for veterans who work in or aspire to work in the news media. We provide training resources to this community to improve their work and advocate for newsrooms to improve their staff diversity through hiring and promoting veterans. MVJ’s mentorship program recruits […]
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The Los Angeles Press Club exists to support, promote, and defend quality journalism in Southern California. Our task is to encourage journalists by involving the public in recognizing such journalism, in belief that a free press is crucial to a free society. In addition, the Los Angeles Press Club provides a place for journalists, photographers […]
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International Documentary Association (IDA) supports the vital work of documentary storytellers and champions a thriving and inclusive documentary culture. We are dedicated to the vision of a world where documentary creators flourish. Through our work, we connect audiences with the best of the form, provide resources, cultivate community, and defend the rights and freedoms of […]
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InquireFirst is a nonprofit journalism organization founded in January 2016 that provides reporting grants to Latin American journalists and organizes Spanish-language workshops, in the belief that working together across international borders, we can strengthen journalism and give people the information they need to make informed decisions about their countries. As part of our mission, InquireFirst […]
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