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A BETTER LA mobilizes the knowledge and skills of the community to inspire each person to dream, work and play without fear.
Founded by USC football head coach Pete Carroll, A Better LA is a 501(c)(3) comprised of local leaders from the private, non-profit, social service, faith-based, education and law enforcement sectors. Committed to supporting Los Angeles communities in their goal to reduce violence by empowering change, their first target area has been South Los Angeles. Several thousand adults and youth from local law enforcement, schools, corrections and parole, workforce centers, faith-based organizations, gang intervention programs and the community have completed the 32-hour training generously contributed by The Pacific Institute. These trainings teach skills that support individual and collective achievement of visions, goals and objectives. The purpose of the course is to assist participants with their approaches to problem-solving, increase their causative power, and improve their communication and empathic skills.
The curriculum designed specifically for youth enables them to see themselves as integral, essential, contributing members of society. It addresses issues related to gangs, drugs, self-esteem, isolation, depression and suicide, lack of motivation, and perceived inability to prepare for the future. Such classes have been instrumental in relationship building among diverse groups of people, including historic new relationships between law enforcement and gang intervention workers.
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The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association is a nonprofit corporation created to support the Los Angeles Zoo in its mission to nurture wildlife and enrich the human experience. GLAZA’s primary responsibility is to seek and provide financial support for the Zoo’s programs and capital projects, as well as other support functions as requested by the Zoo Director. In 1995, the Los Angeles Zoo initiated one of the most extensive and forward-looking programs in the Zoo world today, a Master Plan designed to create expanded, naturalistic, state-of-the-art exhibits for the animals, to enhance viewing and educational opportunities for visitors, and to strengthen the Zoo’s reputation as an international leader in the zoological community. In conjunction with this renovation, the Wasserman Foundation reaffirmed our commitment to the Zoo and its importance in the Los Angeles community by becoming a partner in the soon-to-be completed Pachyderm Forest.
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Established in 1988, LA’s BEST (Better Educated Students for Tomorrow) is a partnership including the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Unified School District and the private sector. LA’s BEST is a nationally recognized after school education, enrichment and recreation program serving more than 21,000 children with the greatest needs and fewest resources throughout the City of Los Angeles. The After School Enrichment Program provides a safe haven for children, ages 5 to 12, at 130 elementary school sites each day during the critical hours after school — at no cost to parents.
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Dedicated to preventing crime, saving lives and making our community a better and safer place to live and work, the Los Angeles Police Foundation works to establish relationships that can help provide resources and/or fund urgently needed programs and equipment needed by the LAPD, but not available from the city.
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Million Trees LA is a cooperative effort between the City of Los Angeles, community groups, businesses, and individuals working together to plant and provide long-term stewardship of one million trees planted where they’re needed most. Many of the one million new trees will be planted by City departments on public property. Others will be planted throughout the City by individual volunteers, community groups, organizations, and businesses. MTLA will take several years to plant trees (that maximize sustainability – with a preference on native and drought tolerant species) and build on other programs that plant and care for the urban forest. Currently, they are working with the USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Center for Urban Forest Research, Davis, CA to prepare a science-based tree canopy analysis to identify priority areas using satellite imagery and recommend the right kinds of trees that will give the greatest ecological and societal benefits.
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Founded by Dr. Clarence Shields of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic and comprised of dedicated doctors, trainers, student athletes, and donors, the Los Angeles-based Team HEAL program provides world class medical care, injury prevention services, fitness instruction and nutrition education through a program that is financially and physically accessible to young inner-city athletes. Team HEAL is a team effort with caring people who take an active interest in the well-being of student athletes, bringing medical advice and treatment to more than 1,600 kids at inner-city high schools. In the spring of 2005, Carson High School was named the newest member of the family, as the Wasserman Foundation began a partnership with Team HEAL and agreed to fully fund an additional school for the program. Carson officials were able to update their training facilities and hired a full-time certified trainer to oversee their student-athletes on a full-time basis.
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Since its inception, the Tony Hawk Foundation has sought to foster lasting improvements in society, with an emphasis on serving underprivileged children. Through grants and other charitable donations, the foundation supports recreational programs with a focus on the creation of public skateboard parks in low-income communities. The foundation favors projects that have strong community involvement, grassroots fundraising, and a base of support from the skaters, parents, law enforcement, and local leaders.
In recent years, hundreds of municipalities have come to embrace the recreational-and societal-benefits of skateboard parks. With the popularity of skateboarding fueling the rush to build them, the need for help from the Tony Hawk Foundation has become more urgent and critical. Most cities in the process of building a public skatepark are working on their first, and no one in the bureaucracy has any experience in designing or constructing a skatepark. The Tony Hawk Foundation was established to help communities develop a pre- and post-construction checklist to ensure that the hard work of skaters, parents, and civic officials will result in a quality skatepark that will serve that community for years to come.
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