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LA Conservation Corps

Our mission is to provide at-risk young adults and school-aged youth with opportunities for success through job skills training, education, and work experience with an emphasis on conservation and service projects that benefit the community.

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  • LIVE ·2024 Grants Challenge

    Food waste prevention and rescue

    Food waste goes into landfills and produces methane gas that exacerbates climate change. LA Conservation Corps diverts food waste from landfills by collecting from restaurants and markets. Edible food waste is distributed to the food insecure, and inedible waste is composted. The co-benefit is low-income youth get paid work experience and on-the-job training.

  • PLAY ·2023 Grants Challenge

    Restoring healthy soils and youth job training

    The Soils Conservation Corps supports sustainable land management, promotes biodiversity, and builds climate resilience by preventing the production of greenhouse gases. The goals are to divert organic waste from landfill and increase community composting, improve the soil health of the City of LA, and create pipelines to Green Jobs. This project turns food waste into compost and uses that compost to regenerate healthy soils while providing paid work experience and training for diverse, low-income youth.

  • PLAY ·2022 Grants Challenge

    Compton Creek Natural Park

    This creekside park in a highly urbanized area provides school kids and the surrounding neighborhood a multi-sensory natural park experience that layers history, natural science and art. The new community gardens invites elementary school students and community gardeners to plant their own fruits and vegetables, and nutrition and cooking workshops will help them get the most out of their own produce. Privately operated by the LA Conservation Corps, the Park hopes to expand hours of operation and community programs to serve more people.

  • LEARN ·2021 Grants Challenge

    Staying Connected to the Corps: Building an Alumni Network

    For 35 years, the LA Conservation Corps has been providing opportunity youth with unique educational and job training experiences. We want to build an active, creative, connected and empowered Alumni Network to harness the power of those generations of former Corpsmembers to strengthen the Corps experience and also provide ongoing to services to newly graduated Corpsmembers who are beginning the next phase of their journey.

  • LIVE ·2019 Grants Challenge

    Food waste prevention program

    Los Angeles Conservation Corps has operated a recycling program for more than 30 years to reduce consumer waste that goes to landfill. This past year, the Corps launched a program to divert edible food surplus from landfill and put healthy food on the tables of people in need, as well as sending inedible food waste to composting or renewable energy generation. The Corps seeks support for the training and employment of at-risk young adults from disadvantaged communities to help with collection.