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Our current investees include GrowingGreat, LA Diaper Drive and Synergy Academies.
See details below on our current and former investees.
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Bright Star Schools (Former Investee)
Bright Star's Mission: At Bright Star Schools, we open minds and doors. Our schools provide a rigorous college-preparatory education, offer individual attention and teach skills necessary to make good life choices. Through Bright Star’s culture of personal responsibility, respect and accountability, students learn to be conscientious, compassionate and creative members of our diverse communities.
The first Bright Star charter... Read more |
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GrowingGreat
GrowingGreat's mission is to inspire children and adults to adopt healthy eating habits through innovative classroom nutrition lessons, school gardens and community events.
GrowingGreat creates a collaborative environment that helps children and communities reconnect with healthy food and make lifelong lifestyle changes. Each year over 150 volunteers deliver GrowingGreat's programs, working within schools, homes, and... Read more |
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Healthy Child Healthy World (Former Investee)
Founded in 1992, Healthy Child Healthy World is focused on awareness-building and advocacy to protect the health and well-being of children from harmful environmental exposures. They educate parents, support protective policies, and engage communities to make responsible decisions and well-informed lifestyle improvements to create healthy environments where children and families can flourish.
Nationally recognized web sites... Read more |
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Inner City Education Foundation (Former Investee)
ICEF is a non-profit operator of charter schools in South Los Angeles that provides a rigorous college preparatory education to its students, and is working to significantly increase the number of college graduates in the community. ICEF’s programs are built around a culture of high expectations and innovative educational approaches, including the “Accelerated Schools” model. At the core, the education model... Read more |
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KIPP LA Schools (Former Investee)
The mission of KIPP LA Schools is to teach the academic skills, foster the intellectual habits, and cultivate the character traits needed for our students to thrive in high school, college, and life. Through the success of our students, the KIPP LA team and family will serve as a model of excellence and collaborate with others to raise the quality of education in Los Angeles.
KIPP LA Schools is part of the larger KIPP network of... Read more |
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LA Diaper Drive
Food stamps, WIC, and other government assistance programs do not provide diapers, leaving 1 in 3 American moms struggling to provide them. L.A. Diaper Drive meets this fundamental need by distributing diapers to low-income families through 22 non-profit organizations that use the free diapers as an incentive to draw parents to parenting, life skills, GED prep, and other life-improving classes. This way, L.A. Diaper... Read more |
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Synergy Academies
Synergy’s Mission is to eliminate the achievement gap that has persisted for generations for educationally disadvantaged students.
Currently, Synergy is realizing its mission by operating two high-quality public charter schools, Synergy Charter Academy and Synergy Kinetic Academy, in South Los Angeles. Synergy currently serves underrepresented low-income minority students in South Los Angeles. Synergy purposely targeted... Read more |
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TreePeople (Former Investee)
For more than 30 years, TreePeople’s mission has been to inspire the people of Los Angeles to take personal responsibility for the urban forest. Today, TreePeople has further refined its vision: to transform every neighborhood of Los Angeles into a functioning community forest.
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