LAvsHate Minigrants
To support our goal of building healthy and resilient communities this year, LAvsHate is offering mini-grants for community organizations to define the artistic interventions they need to heal from the trauma of hate and to build solidarity with others. Our partner community organizations are spread across various domains from creating trauma informed art workshops, using poem, art for justice and healing, creative writing, and community gardening to developing new frameworks —one that is socially and economically inclusive, and accurately reflects the County of Los Angeles.
These grants are made possible by our funding partners Los Angeles County Quality and Productivity Commission Productivity & Investment Fund and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health - Office of Violence Prevention.
Introducing LAvsHate Mini Grantee Program
We have partnered with these notable organizations that contribute to the well-being of under-resourced communities. Each grantee will develop arts and cultural interventions either online or in-person.
Builds capacity at partnering organizations through training their staff to facilitate trauma-informed art workshops. Through this unique model, they have developed a nationwide network of 450+ active Windows Facilitators, allowing them to reach tens of thousands of survivors each year.
Advocates for the development of a new framework toward diversity in the creative arts, media, and technology fields—one that is socially and economically inclusive, and accurately reflects the City of Los Angeles in terms of ethnicity, gender, and age.
The only arts collaborative for incarcerated youth in the state of California, and provides structure, coordination, and support to arts organizations serving youth in the Los Angeles County juvenile justice system. AHJN utilizes arts as a vehicle to heal the youth we work with and change the systems that serve them.
Los Angeles-based creative writing and mentoring organization with a thriving community of 200 volunteer women writers serving more than 500 girls annually. Every year, they produce dozens of workshops, panel discussions and special events to help girls get creative, get through high school and get to college!
A Hip-Hop arts based organization whose mission is to engage and enrich underserved youth and BIPOC communities by providing quality Hip-Hop cultural dance, art, and music education, enrichment and entertainment for young people through engaging programs, workshops, performances, and cultural events throughout the communities of Los Angeles.
Their mission is to mentor, educate, and enrich youth in under-resourced communities through the creation of collaborative, original theater.
The word pukúu derives from the Fernandeño Tataviam language meaning “ONE”. The mission of Pukúu Cultural Community Services is to invest in sustainable programs that bridge and improve opportunities for American Indians with culturally-based community services now and for future generations living in Los Angeles County. Pukúu helps people who are facing deep poverty and multiple special needs, by providing one-on-one with each family and each individual to help them achieve stable and lasting wellness.
Black and Asian youth complete one mural together that exemplifies shared history, unity, and authentic hope. Reflecting on their experience and learning from their peers, over the course of 3 months, more than 20 youth from across the County were engaged in a cross-cultural collaboration culminating in a mural at The Asian American Drug Abuse Program Center in South LA.
Also known as San Fernando Valley Refugee Children Center, Inc. in North Hills, CA is a healing embrace to the hundreds of children who have made the perilous journey from Central America to seek refuge in the United States. With LAvsHate mini-grant the org has enlisted the input of the children and youth to create a series of art projects with a theme that resonated with them to showcase the goal of LA vs Hate. The art exhibition will highlight inclusivity and share a message that everyone belongs regardless of race, gender, religion, income, or immigration status.
A non-profit organization devoted to activism and re-entry. With their two fold focus: Art Exhibitions + Urban Gardening. They partner with activists, artists and formerly incarcerated individuals by putting on art exhibitions to create the counter narrative and cultivating healing for the planet in the garden. The LAvsHate mini-grant will support Huma House’s collective healing and restoration of garden space for the benefit of the most system impacted families to support, grow and nurture people’s spiritual, mental, physical and social health.
Our grant will support the opportunity to provide positive experiences through art projects that will help our system-impacted youth reflect, heal their trauma and fear, and redirect their paths. The Bigg Dog team will develop art justice opportunities, which will enable our youth to create and engage in project-oriented activities that address inclusion, poverty, and public safety messaging through the arts. By addressing the root causes we will instill the confidence and strength needed to forgive, love, and respect themselves and others.
A multi-media platform for youth and communities of color that highlights the Lowrider Community through podcasting, photography/film, and other art forms such as murals to ensure our communities are authentically represented. LAvsHate mini-grant will support in expanding their podcast series to produce 8 episodes that blend the existing oral history/storytelling project with frameworks of healing and wellness by highlighting community members that bridge art, wellness, and the Lowrider scene to offer this community tools to process the severe loss we have all experienced, healthy forms of grieving and coping, mental health support, forms to address the racism experience on the day-to-day, and introduce Indigenous forms of connecting to healing and ceremony.
This organization uses poetry to increase literacy, empower youth, and inspire Communities. With LAvsHate mini-grant, GetLit will invest in developing a Classic Grand Slam, which is a three-day, dynamic, cultural event and the only teen poetry competition in the nation to combine recitation of classic poems with original student response poems. It takes place annually in April during National Poetry Month, bringing together diverse southern California youth, grade level 4-12, who have participated in their rigorous In-School Program. The 2022 Slam will be a hybrid event taking place April 21-23. Youth will compete in person at Dynasty Typewriter, a 200-seat professional theater in central Los Angeles. The event will be live streamed and recorded.
