Meet the 2026 Fund for Change Cohort
Seventeen community-rooted organizations building power and building the good across Los Angeles County.
Meet the Cohort
For 50 years, Liberty Hill has invested in the people and organizations building grassroots power across Los Angeles. Today, we carry that commitment forward by welcoming the 2026 Fund for Change cohort: 17 organizations confronting injustice, strengthening their communities, and expanding what is possible across LA County.
The Next Generation of Grassroots Power
Many members of this year's cohort are emerging or smaller organizations that bring trusted relationships, lived experience, cultural insight, and solutions shaped by the people they serve. Their leadership is essential to a broad, resilient movement ecosystem that can respond to today's challenges and build what comes next.
A Countywide and Interconnected Movement
Several cohort members advance issues at the heart of Liberty Hill's Agenda for a Just Future: youth and transformative justice, housing justice, and environmental and climate justice. Taken together, the cohort reflects the broader reach of Liberty Hill's work across Youth & Transformative Justice; LGBTQ & Gender Justice; Environmental & Climate Justice; Economic & Housing Justice; Electoral Power Building; and Healing Justice. From the Antelope Valley to Long Beach and from unincorporated South Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley, this cohort reflects the breadth, diversity, and local leadership of Los Angeles' movement for justice.
Youth & Transformative Justice
Organizations advancing youth leadership, community-rooted safety, healing, and alternatives to incarceration.
LGBTQ & Gender Justice
Organizations building power with LGBTQ+ communities and advancing gender justice.
Environmental & Climate Justice
Organizations confronting environmental racism and advancing healthier, more sustainable communities.
Economic & Housing Justice
Organizations organizing for affordable housing, worker protections, and economic dignity.
Electoral Power Building
Organizations expanding civic participation and community influence in public decision-making.
Healing Justice
Organizations strengthening the individual, organizational, and community well-being needed to sustain long-term movement work.
Building the Good Now
As Liberty Hill marks 50 years and looks toward Los Angeles in 2076, we are asking what it will take to build a more just region for generations to come. Seeds of the Future gives that question a name. Fund for Change puts it into practice by investing in organizations building the good now.
The future is not waiting to be imagined.
It is already being built by the people and organizations in this cohort. By investing in their work and leadership today, we are helping plant the seeds of a Los Angeles where every community has the power to shape its own future.
More stories from the cohort are coming
In the months ahead, meet the people, ideas, and communities shaping what comes next.