Connect LA is a collaborative organization linking the corporate and public sectors with community-based organizations around the Los Angeles area.

The Organization

Connect LA serves as a bridge between organizations to facilitate the connecting process.  It brings together leaders from non-profit, corporate and government sectors to develop grassroots solutions to basic problems.

1. Core Committee serves as Convener/Facilitator throughout the connecting process.  Provides long term leadership with a broad understanding of the community and the vision of how to sustain a collaborative effort.
2. Groups and Organizations create a partnership with a range of organizations currently delivering needed services.
3. Neighborhood Focus Projects reduce huge neighborhood projects into manageable pieces, brining together sponsors, volunteers and neighborhood residents in a public/private sector collaborative effort and is a simple straightforward means of addressing basic human and environmental issues with specific, defined areas of Los Angeles County.

Our Four Goals

1. Identify benefits, best practices and models of community involvement for the Los Angeles community.
2. Encourage leadership participation by the business community to strengthen the nonprofit sector.
3. Cultivate collaborative efforts in community-wide activities.
4. Build capacity of the nonprofit sector to handle varying needs of the community when volunteering.