Resources
This directory is intended to provide useful contacts and resources to help strengthen your efforts in building healthy, vibrant communities. This list is not intended to be definitive, but rather serve as a starting point for acquiring additional information.
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this directory; entities should be contacted directly for current information.
Affordable Housing
California Housing Consortium
The statewide 'big tent' housing advocacy organization representing the development, building, financial, and public sectors united in a non-partisan effort to advance affordable housing and community development across California.
Website: http://www.calhsng.org
California Housing Partnership Corporation
Assists nonprofit and government housing agencies to create, acquire and preserve affordable housing for lower income households, while providing leadership on housing preservation policy and funding.
Website: http://www.chpc.net
Business Assistance
Small Business Development Center Network
The SBDC Network provides small business entrepreneurs with no-cost, confidential, business advising services and low-cost training opportunities.
Website: https://smallbizla.org
LA Business Portal
Information you need to plan, start, manage, and grow your business, including a Start Up Guide to quickly map out how to register your new business and be compliant in the City of LA.
Website: https://business.lacity.gov
Community Health
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
To protect health, prevent disease and promote heath and well-being.
Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
500 W. Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/
Los Angeles Food Policy Council
Collective impact initiative, working to make Southern California a Good Food region for everyone — where food is healthy, affordable, fair and sustainable
200 N. Spring Street, M125
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://goodfoodla.org/
Urban Greening
City Plants
Growing a greener future for Los Angeles by engaging Angelenos to plant and care for trees throughout the City.
Website: https://www.cityplants.org
The Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plants
Focuses on promoting and restoring California landscapes and habitats, propagating and making available California native plants and wildflowers, and educating and acquiring knowledge about California flora and natural history.
Website: http://theodorepayne.org/
Public Safety
Gang Alternatives Program
A nonprofit organization working to eliminate the base of gang membership by having a generation of young people say "No" to gangs and "Yes” to positive lifestyle choices.
Website: http://www.gangfree.org/index.html
Homeboy Industries
Assists at-risk and former gang involved youth to become contributing members of our community through a variety of services in response to their multiple needs.
Website: http://homeboyindustries.org/
Historic Preservation
California State Parks Office of Historic Preservation
Responsible for administering federally and state mandated historic preservation programs to further the identification, evaluation, registration and protection of California's irreplaceable archaeological and historical resources.
Website: http://www.ohp.parks.ca.gov
Los Angeles Conservancy
A nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of Los Angeles County.
Website: https://www.laconservancy.org/
Los Angeles City & County
MyLA311
Connects residents, local businesses, and visitors to popular City services and information through a call center, website, and mobile app.
Website: https://www.lacity.gov/myla311
Phone: 3-1-1
County Unincorporated Area Locator
More than 60% of L.A. County is unincorporated, meaning that those areas do not fall under any city’s jurisdiction. Find out if a specific address or neighborhood is unincorporated and if so, who are its representatives.
Website: https://lacounty.gov/muas/
Transportation Resources
LADOT DASH
DASH provides free, frequent, and convenient bus service in Downtown L.A. and in 27 neighborhoods across the City of Los Angeles.
Website: http://www.ladottransit.com/dash/
Metro
Metro serves as transportation planner and coordinator, designer, builder and operator for one of the country’s largest, most populous counties.
Website: http://www.metro.net/