LOS ANGELES NEIGHBORHOOD LAND TRUST
Cause Area
- Advocacy & Human Rights
- Children & Youth
- Community
- Environment
- Health & Medicine
Location
315 W 9TH STLOS ANGELES, CA 90015 United StatesOrganization Information
Mission Statement
The mission of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust is to build healthier, stronger and safer neighborhoods through the creation of urban parks and community gardens. The Land Trust is dedicated to bringing open, accessible, recreational and green spaces to LA's most park-poor areas to remedy the severe lack of open space in Los Angeles' underserved neighborhoods, thereby addressing an environmental justice issue.
Description
Through grassroots organizing, community leadership development and programming, the Land Trust not only works to create shared parks and gardens, but empowers residents in low-income areas to transform their neighborhoods and quality of life through direct community action, involvement and ownership, eliminating bureaucracy and assuring long term sustainability.