City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA)

 

As a leading, progressive arts and cultural agency, DCA empowers Los Angeles’s vibrant communities by supporting and providing access to quality visual, design, literary, musical, performing, and educational arts programming; managing vital cultural centers; preserving historic sites; creating public art; and funding services provided by arts organizations and individual artists.

 

Formed in 1925, DCA promotes arts and culture as a way to ignite a powerful dialogue, engage LA’s residents and visitors, and ensure LA’s varied cultures are recognized, acknowledged, and experienced. DCA’s mission is to strengthen the quality of life in Los Angeles by stimulating and supporting arts and cultural activities, ensuring public access to the arts for residents and visitors alike.

 

DCA advances the social and economic impact of arts and culture through grantmaking, public art, community arts, performing arts, and strategic marketing, development, design, and digital research. DCA creates and supports arts programming, maximizing relationships with other city agencies, artists, and arts and cultural nonprofit organizations to provide excellent service in neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles.

 

For more information, please visit culturela.org or follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/culturela, Instagram @culture_la, and Twitter @culture_la.

 

LA Commons 

 

LA Commons engages communities in artistic and cultural expressions that tell their unique stories and serves as a basis for dialogue, interaction and a shared understanding of Los Angeles. Through community-based arts programs, centered on youth leadership development, we help diverse, generally low-income neighborhoods create dynamic works of public art that build community connection and empowerment.

The South Los Angeles Transit Empowerment Zone (SLATE-Z)

 

SLATE-Z’s mission is to revitalize South Los Angeles by moving residents to economic opportunity.  After decades of disinvestment, redlining practices, and deindustrialization in South LA, the entire community has suffered stifled economic mobility. SLATE-Z provides convening power for a historic and unprecedented partnership of over 100 public, private, and deeply-rooted community-based organizations, plus residents, workers, and students. Together we are dedicated to addressing complex issues around poverty and environmental sustainability.

 

Our collective impact is revitalizing and transforming the heart of South LA into a community that is healthy, safe, inclusive, environmentally sustainable, and vibrant. Looking forward, SLATE-Z will continue to bolster our local economy, improve access to education, reduce crime, improve transit, work with our partners to build green spaces, and connect residents to livable wages and green jobs in the new climate-resilient economy. SLATE-Z’s innovative solutions are both responsively designed for our geographic project area as well as a replicable and scalable model for the region, the state, and the nation.

 

Community Coalition

 

Community Coalition works to help transform the social and economic conditions in South LA that foster addiction, crime, violence, and poverty by building a community institution that involves thousands in creating, influencing, and changing public policy.

 

USC’s Neighborhood Data for Social Change

 

Neighborhood Data for Social Change (NDSC) is a project within the USC Price Center for Social Innovation focused on using data to help local civic actors track measurable change, improve local policies and programs, and ultimately advocate for a better quality of life within their communities. The project includes a free, publicly available online resource that helps tell the stories of L.A. neighborhoods through maps, charts and storytelling, as well a suite of customizable data services for local changemakers.