LA2050 Grant Award

Urban Peace Institute is thrilled to announce that our organization was selected as a recipient of the 2022 LA2050 Grants Challenge! This funding will help us create safe routes to school for students in South Park and train local residents to lead community safety solutions. In addition to the LA2050 award, Urban Peace Institute is grateful to the Annenberg Foundation for contributing additional funding to ensure safety for South Park youth and families.

Urban Peace Institute's Safe & Healthy Communities team identified a need to expand the Leadership Institute and Regional School Safety Collaborative to South Park. Residents have continually raised safety concerns due to rising gun violence, ongoing drug use and built environment challenges that makes pedestrian and bicycle travel to school extremely difficult. Funding for innovative community safety solutions is vital to our mission of creating safe, healthy and thriving communities.