The Mayor’s Fund seeks to support innovative programs that make the lives of Angelenos measurably better
Over $126 Million
Raised from a diverse group of donors
60+ Programs
That make lives better for Angelenos
300,000
Angelenos impacted across all corners of the city
30+
Partnerships with City Departments
Program Spotlight
MFLA partnered with the City to provide $800 virtual cash assistance cards to more than 9,000 eligible food service workers who experienced a decline in income in the early days of the pandemic.
Direct cash assistance to Angelenos most in need and suffering from the impacts of COVID-19
Project Safe Haven secured safe housing for 1,500 survivors of domestic abuse during the pandemic along with meals, counseling and legal support for individuals and their children.
Providing direct cash assistance to low-income families during the holiday season.
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2020 Census Goodwill Ambassador
The 2020 Census Goodwill Ambassador program became even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure Angelenos were aware of, and able, to complete their 2020 census forms.Read More
Angeleno Card
Direct cash assistance to Angelenos most in need and suffering from the impacts of COVID-19Read More
Angeleno Connectivity Trust
The Angeleno Connectivity Trust provides free internet service to students in Los Angeles who are struggling to stay connected online to classes and essential support services.Read More
Angelenos Save Christmas for Seniors
The MFLA & First Lady Amy Elaine Wakeland led an effort to replace care packages for homebound senior citizens.Read More
BIG:LEAP (Basic Income Guaranteed: Los Angeles Economic Assistance Pilot)
Basic Income Guaranteed: Los Angeles Economic Assistance Pilot (BIG:LEAP) provides financial relief to over 3,200 Los Angeles based families via a monthly payment of $1,000.Read More
Bloomberg i-team
L.A.’s Bloomberg Innovation Team (i-team) is a nexus for next-generation civic initiatives at City Hall. Using data-driven techniques, the i-Team generates new solutions to challenges facing L.A.Read More
Brand LA + LA Original
Los Angeles is a creative capital for the entire world. Brand LA and LA Original showcase this city’s diverse makers and boundless creative energy.Read More
Citizenship & Immigration Outreach
Millions of immigrants live in Los Angeles. MFLA backs programs that help them access services and integrate further into the life of L.A.Read More
City Hub And Network for Gender Equity (CHANGE)
Harnessing the collective power of cities to achieve gender equality.Read More
Civil & Human Rights Program
Addressing long-standing discrimination impacting underserved communities.Read More
Community Engagement on Homelessness
This door-to-door campaign pilot focused on encouraging Angelenos to say “yes” to housing for the homeless in or near their communities.Read More
Disaster Relief - Mayor's Disaster Advisory Council (MDAC)
The Mayor’s Disaster Advisory Council (MDAC) aims to advance the City’s effort in becoming the most prepared and resilient city in America.Read More
Domestic Abuse Response Teams (DART)
Through L.A.’s Domestic Abuse Response Teams program, trained victim advocates partner with the LAPD to provide services and support to Angelenos affected by domestic violence. MFLA’s expansion of this proven pilot model ensured that any survivor of Domestic Violence had access to the same resources.Read More
Earn Learn Play
Providing access to job, educational and recreational opportunities for youths aged 14-24.Read More
Earthquake Early Warning App
The City of Los Angeles now has the nation’s first publicly available earthquake early warning mobile application: ShakeAlertLA.Read More
Economic Development for COVID Relief
The Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles continues its COVID-19 relief efforts with a focus on economic development.Read More
El Pueblo Historical Monument
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument is the birthplace of Los Angeles and the Mayor’s Fund is proud to help shine light on this cultural asset.Read More
Emergency Childcare for Healthcare Workers
Immediate child care support for essential healthcare workers at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.Read More
Evolve Entertainment Fund
Los Angeles is the world’s entertainment hub, and it’s also one of the world’s most diverse cities. Evolve Entertainment Fund supports a cross-sector initiative to help the entertainment industry embrace that diversity and its creative potential.Read More
EY-Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR)
Boosting small business and entrepreneurship with private sector expertise and public sector reach by supporting Entrepreneurs-in-Residence annually with the support of EY.Read More
Great Streets
Great Streets envisions L.A. thoroughfares that are accessible and useful to all. MFLA is backing a key partnership initiative to support small businesses along the city’s first 15 Great Streets.Read More
HIRE LA's Youth
The City’s youth employment initiative coordinates public and private resources to expand job opportunities for L.A.’s next generation of talent.Read More
Homelessness: #HomesForHeroes
Supporting homeless veterans with funds for move-in costs and security deposit assistance.Read More
Homelessness: Midnight Stroll
This initiative seeks to create a piloted after-hours drop in center to meet the health and safety needs of unsheltered members of the transgender community.Read More
Homelessness: Shelter Activation & Innovation Fund
Supporting opportunities with private funds to unlock and expand access for unhoused Angelenos to access temporary and permanent housing alternatives.Read More
Housing Accelerator & SDG Pilot
Piloted effort to utilize the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework to tackle housing insecurity.Read More
Imagine Racial Equity
A City-wide project to create a space for sustained community engagement, truth-telling, and restorative justice.Read More
LA ADU Accelerator Program
Increasing the supply of affordable housing for older Angelenos.Read More
LA College Promise Works
Empowering young Angelenos to pursue higher education while helping them to start the careers of their dreams with the skills and experience to succeed.Read More
LA CYBERLAB
An innovative and prosperous city needs protection from the latest threats. With support from MFLA’s SPARK grants, this partnership builds the foundation for the nation’s first-ever city-based cybersecurity lab.Read More
LA's College Promise
Launched the City’s first College Promise program, offering two years of free community college to Los Angeles Unified School District graduates, which became a model for all of California.Read More
Language Access Program
For the first time, the City of Los Angeles will have a comprehensive language access strategy.Read More
Low Rise: Housing R&D Initiative
This program explores the opportunity of new, low-rise housing (2-5 units) to improve affordable housing options for low-and-middle income Angelenos.Read More
Madrid Cultural Hub
Sparking the arts in a great but underutilized space, a planning process set the groundwork for L.A.’s next cultural hub.Read More
Mayor’s Crisis Response Team
Working in collaboration with city, county and community-based organizations to provide crisis care and support.Read More
Mayor’s Young Ambassadors (MaYA)
The Mayor’s Young Ambassador Initiative was created to provide young, diverse Angelenos with the transformative experience of traveling abroad and connect them to global opportunities in L.A. and beyond.Read More
MFLA COVID-19 Crisis Response
Responding in real-time to the immediate needs of Angelenos.Read More
Mobility & Transportation
With support from the Toyota Mobility Foundation, a set of innovative machine learning technologies help traffic planners study the movement of pedestrians and bicycles, maximizing safety for everyone on the road.Read More
Move ‘Mobile Outreach for Vaccine Equity’ Program
An effort to scale up mobile vaccinations in some of the most vulnerable parts of Los Angeles by administering vaccine doses through mobile units in some of the hardest hit communities.Read More
National League of Cities 2018 City Summit
The National League of Cities 2018 City Summit brought 3,800 local government representatives and elected officials from across the country to Los Angeles to discuss local-level challenges and learn from L.A.’s example.Read More
Operations Innovation Team
Through a deep dive into LA’s bureaucratic processes and outreach to other cities, the Operations Innovation Team (O-Team) successfully delivered on its mission of aspirational government reform in the areas of wellness and safety, procurement and real estate.Read More
Project Safe Haven
Project Safe Haven secured safe housing for 1,500 survivors of domestic abuse during the pandemic along with meals, counseling and legal support for individuals and their children.Read More
Promise Zone
The Young Ethnographers summer jobs program gave 50 youth from L.A.’s Promise Zone a chance to survey their communities and build skills.Read More
Protective Gear & Healthcare Supplies
Masks and health supplies for vulnerable communities.Read More
Public Art: Neighborhood Youth Arts
The Neighborhood Youth Arts Profile is a key component of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Arts Profile, a citywide effort that tracks cultural and socioeconomic indicators across all Los Angeles neighborhoods.Read More
Public Art: PST LA/LA
MFLA served as fiscal agent for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a vast, collaborative exhibition of Latin American and Latino art. We partnered with the Getty Foundation and the City’s Department of Cultural Affairs to pull off a one-of-a-kind exposition.Read More
Purposeful Aging LA
The Purposeful Aging Los Angeles (PALA) initiative is a multi-sector partnership created to help the L.A. region prepare for a dramatic demographic shift in the older adult population in the coming years.Read More
Re-entry Legal Clinic
Involvement in the criminal justice system shouldn’t mean an end to all future opportunities. We helped support a free legal clinic for former offenders to get back on their feet and build better lives.Read More
Save The Drop
A citywide water conservation awareness campaign launched in 2015 to combat drought and promote good practices featuring Save the Drop.Read More
Senior Meal Delivery
Immediately doubling the City’s meal delivery program to serve 12,000 home-bound seniors following the COVID-19 Safer-At-Home order in Spring 2020.Read More
SERVE (Secure Emergency Relief for Vulnerable Employees)
MFLA partnered with the City to provide $800 virtual cash assistance cards to more than 9,000 eligible food service workers who experienced a decline in income in the early days of the pandemic.Read More
Small Business Portal
To make doing business in L.A. easier for entrepreneurs and small operations, an L.A. Business Portal was created, and then translated into Spanish, for individual entrepreneurs and business owners to plan, start, manage, and grow local businesses.Read More
Small Chambers of Commerce Emergency Relief Grants
Supporting small Chambers of Commerce serving local businesses.Read More
SPARK Funds
Innovative funding to ‘spark’ change in government by supporting pilot programs and high risk expansion that help government work better for residents.Read More
Street Vendor Technical Assistance Pilot
Helping street vendors navigate permitting processes and ensure public health compliance.Read More
Summer Night Lights
Summer Night Lights is a nationally recognized model of effective civic partnerships. By keeping L.A. parks open during summer nights, SNL curtains crime and provides space and programming for families and young people.Read More
Summer of Learning
The 2014 LA Summer of Learning (SOL) program transformed the City into a campus of learning for our most underserved youth.Read More
Summit of the Americas
The Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles is proud to partner with the City of Los Angeles as the host city for the Ninth Summit of the Americas.Read More
Sustainable City pLAn
Introduced in 2015 with MFLA support, the Mayor’s Sustainable City pLAn and Green New Deal/pLAn 2.0 lay out bold goals and the strategies to get there.Read More
Sustainable Development Goals
In partnership with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, we’re working to apply the United Nations’ powerful framework right here in L.A. through a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Executive Fellowship.Read More
Tech & Data/Water Fellow
To deliver on the Mayor’s bold Sustainable City pLAn, MFLA is partnering with the S.D. Bechtel, Jr Foundation to support an innovative data fellowship.Read More
The Leonard Hill Arts Plaza
Creation of an arts plaza in the 6-acre park adjacent to the new Sixth Street Viaduct and bridge.Read More
Transportation Tech Fellow
Embedded with LADOT, the one-year fellowship developed an action plan for Los Angeles to take advantage of technology as it looks to develop transportation solutions.Read More
U.S. China Climate Summit
A 2015 summit brought together local and regional leaders from the U.S. and China to set goals and confirm emissions targets. MFLA acted as sole fiscal sponsor for the event.Read More
VolunteerLA
The Mayor’s Office of Volunteerism and Engagement launched in 2016 to support Angelenos who want to make a positive change in this city. VolunteerLA is the platform used to connect Angelenos to volunteer opportunities to promote civic engagement.Read More
Women in STEM (WiSTEM)
L.A.’s Women in STEM initiative promotes gender diversity and pay equity for women in STEM positions from entry-level to leadership through mentorship, networking, and community building programs for girls and women pursuing STEM careers.Read More
Women's Conference: State of Women & Girls and Young Women's Assembly (2017 - 2020)
To highlight progress toward gender equity in L.A., the event brought more than 1,000 Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) students over three years together with inspiring women leaders from across sectors.Read More
Youth Council Policing
Members of the Mayor’s Youth Council get a chance to interact with law enforcement and explore careers in public service.Read More
Youth Employment Pilot
This innovative, tech-driven pilot provides young people with new ways to access employers and build long-term career paths, breaking the cycle of poverty.Read More