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.
Meet the 2026 Cohort
All of us or None
All of Us or None is a grassroots civil and human rights organization fighting for the rights of formerly-and currently-incarcerated people and our families.
A New Way of Life Reentry Project
A New Way of Life Reentry Project provides housing, case management, pro bono legal services, advocacy, and leadership development for people rebuilding their lives after incarceration.
API RISE
API RISE envisions true freedom and liberation for API communities living within a compassionate society that harnesses its community power.
A Seat at the Table
A Seat at the Table is an organization designed to meet the emotional, social, and physical needs within their community
AWOKE
AWOKE envisions a world anchored in the principles of collaboration and equity - fusing culture, creativity, and service. It engages artists, athletes, and activists as changemakers by connecting them to service opportunities in their community. AWOKE works to improve access to the arts and athletics, increase civic engagement, and foster positive youth and community development.
Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust
The mission of the Beverly Vermont Community Land Trust is to exercise land stewardship as the basis for creating pedestrian-centered neighborhoods emphasizing affordable housing, work and recreational spaces that are economically and socially sustainable, and that integrate urban living with nature.
Brothers, Sons, Selves
Our mission is to end the criminalization of young bois/boys and men of color by creating and influencing public policy that invests in young people and their future
Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierra Libre
Providing opportunities for low-income residents of Boyle Heights and East LA to secure housing, preserving quality and affordable housing for future long-term residents, and combating community deterioration in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Hoops 4 Justice
Hoops 4 Justice is a nonprofit organization that uses basketball, mentorship, and civic engagement to support youth development, healing, and systems change within the juvenile justice system.
Juntos Florence-Firestone Together
Community-led organization based in unincorporated Florence-Firestone dedicated to educating, empowering, & fighting gentrification in our community.
Long Beach Community Land Trust
Long Beach CLT envisions a Long Beach as a thriving, diverse city that has abundant, community-governed, permanently affordable housing, land, and community spaces for all, especially those at the forefront of historical displacement and racism.
Mirror Memoirs
Mirror Memoirs is a national storytelling and organizing project creating a world where Black + Indigenous gender non-conforming children (+ all children) are free from sexual violence.
Rideshare Drivers United
Rideshare Drivers United uniting Uber & Lyft drivers for a fair, dignified, and sustainable rideshare industry.
Sacred Path Indigenous Wellness Center
Sacred Path honors traditional Indigenous values and teachings by working to improve the quality of life for Indigenous individuals and families by providing innovative health, behavioral health and research with community involvement, technical assistance, training and respect for tribal and cultural diversity.
Sp Educational
SpEducational envisions a public school system in which students with disabilities are provided all they need to fulfill their greatest potential and where parents and students are fully integrated as key partners in improving access to a high quality education.
Worker Empowerment Community Network–LA
WECN-LA (pronounced We Can LA) is a dedicated charitable program based in the city of Los Angeles, standing for Worker Empowerment Community Network in Los Angeles.
Youth Climate Stewards for 4 Local Action
Youth Climate Stewards for 4 Local Action is a BIPOC and youth-led volunteer grassroots group made up of high school and college-aged youth, students and young adults across Los Angeles county. Youth Climate Stewards for 4 Local Action are youth who aren’t waiting on others to make the change they want to see.
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.