The Angeleno Card program has provided more than 37,000 direct cash assistance cards to Angelenos during the early days of the COVID-19 to cover the cost of basic needs such as medical aid and assistance, food, clothing, and rent payments. Angeleno cards more recently have been distributed to newly housed Angelenos and low-income families during the holiday season.

Our Senior Meals program doubled the City’s meal delivery program to serve 12,000 home-bound seniors to provide 120,000 meals per week during the pandemic’s Safer-At-Home order in Spring 2020.

The Mayor’s Fund played a critical role in standing up the Mobile Outreach for Vaccine Equity (MOVE) program, which worked to administer more than 150 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to some of the hardest hit communities during the pandemic, prioritizing communities of color.

The Fund’s small business relief programs during COVID awarded more than $3.6 million to more than 700 LA based small businesses to help them survive during the pandemic. The Fund also has supported small chambers across the region, as well as LA Optimized helping business owners build an online presence.

Mayor Garcetti’s Crisis and Incident Response through Community-Led Engagement (CIRCLE) program is a nation-leading pilot that deploys trained mental health professionals, rather than armed police officers, to respond to non-violent mental health related incidents on the street. MFLA supports this effort in the Hollywood and Venice communities with private sector resources to connect these unhoused Angelenos to the housing and resources they desperately need.

We fund and support the Mayor’s Crisis Response Team, which works in partnership with the city, county and community based organizations to provide crisis care and support.

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. The Fund has helped raise $5.5 million for the program over the last three years.

The Drop was created as a City-wide effort to remind Angelenos of water conservation strategies, ultimately helping the City reduce water usage by 20% in 2017, and continues today in partnership with the City’s Department of Water and Power.

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. In 2019, the City launched the Los Angeles Green New Deal as an updated roadmap toward a safe, prosperous and livable Los Angeles, focusing on short-term results while advancing long-term, transformational goals.

With private sector partners, the Operations Innovation Team (O-team) focused on developing government efficiency by creating a comprehensive listing of City-owned real estate, reducing safety risks for City employees, and creating the City’s first centralized procurement office.

The ADU accelerator has played a central role in increasing the supply of affordable housing for older Angelenos. This program partners with homeowners to rent their accessory dwelling units (ADUs) to older adults facing housing insecurity. To date, 25 ADU’s have been rented out to Los Angeles elders.

The Mayor’s Fund, alongside the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, launched a community analysis of the accessibility of city services across the 90 languages spoken across the City. The work resulted in Executive Directive 32 which seeks to improve access to City information and services for English language learners in Los Angeles.

Over ten summers, our Summer Night Lights program has become a national model for civic partnerships done right. By creating a bridge for private funding, MFLA has broadened the reach of Summer Night Lights to hundreds of thousands of families across L.A.

The Mayor’s Fund helped to launch StepForwardLA in 2015 to coordinate relief efforts for Angelenos eligible for immigration relief, including a step-by-step guide to the immigration process and a map with resources like City libraries with Citizenship Corners.

The Mayor’s Fund helped create this online searchable database representing an unprecedented effort to ensure every youth aged 14 to 24 could access job, educational and recreational opportunities during the summer.

The Mayor’s Fund helped launch the City’s first College Promise program which offered two years of free community college to Los Angeles Unified School District graduates and served as a model for all of California.

Basic Income Guaranteed: Los Angeles Economic Assistance Pilot (BIG:LEAP) is a nation-leading program that is helping to advance the discussion about guaranteed basic income policy nationwide. It provides ongoing financial relief to over 3,200 Los Angeles based families impacted by poverty via a monthly payment of $1,000.

Hire L.A.’s youth is a youth employment initiative that coordinates public and private resources to expand job opportunities for L.A.’s next generation of talent. HIRE LA’s Youth has placed more than 43,000 young people in summer jobs to date.

Brand LA is an MFLA initiative to showcase L.A. as an epicenter of creativity and innovation, a global city to work, live and play in. In 2017, Brand LA also partnered with the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development to launch LA Original, which showcases our diverse makers and promotes locally designed, assembled, or manufactured goods through a line of LA-branded products.

The Fund helped to launch the Mayor’s Office of Volunteerism and Engagement in 2016 to support Angelenos who want to make a positive change in this city. This effort resulted in VolunteerLA, a robust platform used to connect Angelenos to volunteer opportunities across the city and to promote civic engagement.

The Mayor’s Fund worked with funders to support a community needs assessment and the creation of an Aging Data Dashboard centralizing all resources and information for older adults in the LA region.

The EY Entrepreneurs in Residence program deploys expertise into the entrepreneurial community with the goal of designing practical interventions that stimulate entrepreneurialism and business development in the City. Annually, EIRs partner with the City, academic institutions, and the private sector to identify best practices and policies that would support and grow the entrepreneurial community in Los Angeles.

The Mayor’s Fund partnered with the City to convene a Host Committee in preparation of the Ninth Summit of the Americas. The Summit focused on promoting regional cooperation and addressing the most pressing issues in the Americas. 

City Hub and Network for Gender Equity (CHANGE) harnesses the collective cities internationally to achieve gender equity in local governments and policies. Launched in November 2020, participating cities measure their progress on 22 gender equity indicators aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.