Build Hope Inc
Ensuring that residents living in the city’s public housing developments receive the full social, health, educational and work opportunities to which they are entitled, and to enhance quality of life, through long-term academic and economic success.
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2 Submitted Ideas
CREATE ·2025 Grants ChallengeGame Changers LA: Tech Skills on Wheels
Game Changers LA empowers opportunity youth (ages 16–24) living in HACLA public housing by delivering cutting-edge tech education directly to their neighborhoods through the Level Up Truck—a mobile gaming studio and digital lab. Youth gain hands-on experience in coding, game design, and software development, while accessing pathways to paid internships, entry-level roles, and a youth-run social enterprise that rents the truck for events, building skills and generating real income.
LIVE ·2022 Grants ChallengeWatts Rising Youth Ambassador Pilot Program
The Watts Rising Youth Ambassador Pilot Program would comprise up to 12 Watts youth focused on supporting climate and environmental issues. These students will be connected to the larger Watts Rising initiative, a collaborative of over 40 different partners and the residents of Watts with the goal of improving public health, environmental and economic outcomes in the community of Watts supported by the State of California. In total, the collaborative is working on 26 environmental sustainability projects impacting 33,000 Watts residents.