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Incubation Academy

Program Overview

The JCOD Incubation Academy supports grassroot 501(c)(3) and faith-based organizations located in and registered within LA County, with a focus on organizations that often face barriers securing government funding and capacity building. 

This program Provides 12 weeks of training, 6 months of executive coaching and unlimited access to other resources that focuses on organizational growth, management contracting, capacity mapping and mentorship for community based organizations (CBOs) that serve communities and people across all of LA County.

Target Organizations:

  • 501(c)(3) status, and/ or faith-based organization
  • Grassroots and small CBOs (less than 50 full-time employees)
  • Community-rooted leadership (Organizations led by individuals with lived experience or deep ties to the communities they serve)
  • Priority given to organizations serving the highest need areas and offering a wide range of services
Graduates from Cohorts 1- 9  Have received more than $120 million in Combined Capacity-Building, County, and CFCI Grants.

 

Incubation Academy Fact Sheet

Learn more about how Incubation Academy works by viewing our Fact Sheet.

Ready to join the Academy?

Click the button below to get on our waiting list or please email the Incubation Academy Team at IncubationAcademy@jcod.lacounty.gov.

See The Academy in Action

Meet Cohort 8

Incubation Academy Cohorts

Meet the organizations that have participated in prior Incubation Academy Cohorts.

  • A Fighting Chance
  • AFARY
  • Aim High Living
  • Altadena Rising
  • Chalayah’s Sanctuary
  • Christ’s Church OF The Valley- Palmdale D.B.A Foundation Christian Ministries (FCM)
  • Coalition for Advanced Restorative Equity (CARE4LA)
  • EMBR88C Change Now
  • Healing And Justice Center
  • Helping Hands Resource Center
  • It’s Bigger Than Us
  • LESSONZ LEARNED
  • Live Out L!ve Foundation
  • Love Beyond Limits
  • LQ’s Performing Arts Center
  • MoFundamentals
  • Omejay Community Services
  • Operation Flame
  • P2P Community Development INC.
  • People’s Pottery Project
  • Peregrinos de Emaus
  • Priceless Investors Non Profit Organization
  • Shep-Ty Inc. DBA Game Changer
  • Silva’s Motivation
  • Tena Foundation DBA TENA (formally Tena Health)
  • The Apex Affect Incorporated
  • To Restore Unite Support and Transform
  • Trans Can Work
  • Two Hearts One Mission
  • U^^ER PROJECT Corp.

  • A Child’s Dream Altadena, Inc

  • AQMNI LLC

  • Audacity Global

  • Cease for Peace

  • Chasen Dreams Foundation

  • Community Reciprocity Development

  • Crenshaw District College Fund

  • Dreamers Youth

  • Driving Hope Foundation

  • High Point Community Development Corporation

  • It Starts Inside Wellness Center

  • Living Word Community Church of LA

  • Lovie’s Dogz Foundation

  • Ohana Center

  • Press Start

  • Project Protocol

  • Project Resilience

  • Restorative Academic Mentorship Program (RAMP LA)

  • Rich With Attitude

  • Shepherd Community Services

  • Shift Our Ways Collective

  • Soul Saving Productions

  • Sunnyside 5

  • The Alignment Foundation

  • The Next Hits

  • The Prism Way

  • Total Restoration Ministries

  • Watts Chosen Angels Inc

  • Westcoast Customs

  • Prison Education Project (CFCI)
  • Latino Equity Alliance
  • Miguel Contreras Foundation (CFCI)
  • Eastmont Community Center (CFCI)
  • Heavenly Los Angeles Organization
  • Ms. Keda Foundation (CFCI)
  • My Footprints LA
  • Angel City Aerospace Foundation
  • LA Legal Assistant (CFCI)
  • White Hall Arts Academy Foundation
  • Avenues of Life
  • Rich With Attitude
  • Next2Get
  • Coalition for Engaged Education (CFCI)
  • Reentry Wheels
  • Pukúu Cultural Community Services (CFCI)
  • We Are R.I.S.E (CFCI)
  • Jail Guitar Doors (CFCI)
  • Willing 2 Move Forward (CFCI)
  • April Parker Foundation (CFCI)
  • 5-Eleven Hoops (CFCI)
  • Street Cred Educational Consultants
  • Antelope Valley Community Traning Center (CFCI)
  • Finally Family Homes (CFCI)
  • House of REE Outreach Services
  • AQMNI LLC
  • Westcoast Customs

  • Christ Living Gospel Ministry/ American Renascent Center
  • Jus 2 Succeed
  • The Laundry Truck LA
  • PCS Family Services
  • Testimony Ministries
  • Chozen Few International 116
  • Pause 4 Peace Foundation
  • Greater Good News Church
  • Against All Odds Resource Network
  • EntreNous Youth Empowerment Services
  • COR Rescue Outreach
  • Financial Liberation Training Academy
  • Ben Free Project
  • Partners Building Community Groups
  • Twinspire: Together We Inspire
  • 10P Program
  • New Road Foundation
  • Opportunities for Success (OFS)
  • The H.E.through the ARTS Inc.
  • Chloe and Maud Foundation
  • The Laundry Truck LA
  • Generations Coffee
  • Gowns and Gardens House of Charities
  • It Takes a Village Transitional Housing & Homeless Shelter, Inc.
  • Forestry & Fire Recruitment Program
  • Paco Leadership Collective
  • Unique-Trans-ition
  • Ronnies House
  • Urban Health

  • The Sidewalk Project
  • Pauly’s Project
  • ELABGC/East LA Rising
  • Visionary Youth Los Angeles
  • KLBRI
  • Gracie’s Giving Hands
  • RIS Foundation
  • Blacks in Motion Community Development
  • Sisters of Watts
  • Breaking Stigmas Treatment Options
  • Integrative Communities
  • Clear Skies Ranch
  • Butterfly’s Haven
  • The WIN Project
  • Veteran Social Services Inc.
  • A Helping Hand in Recovery, Inc.
  • Welcome Home
  • The Mustard Seed Enterprises
  • High Tide Global
  • Seeds of Morning Glory
  • Two-Lifestyles, Inc.
  • A Meaningful Goal Housing Shelter
  • Street Company
  • GIFT (Growing Independence from Family Trauma) Enterprises, Inc.

 

  • A New Day Youth & Community Service Center
  • After Life Initiative
  • Assured Lifestyle Housing
  • Better Youth
  • Bithiah’s Family Services
  • California Mental Health Connection
  • Cherished LA
  • Community Veteran Justice Project (CVJP)
  • DEUCE Community
  • Do Good Daniels Family Foundation
  • Gems Uncovered Inc.
  • Green Thumb AV GRIP ( Gang-Reduction- Intervention-Prevention)
  • Growing Outreach Growing Opportunities
  • Healing Los Angeles Together Org
  • Health Matters Clinic
  • Jobs for Humanity
  • New Leaf on Life
  • On My Grind, Re-entry Services Inc
  • Plenitude Independence
  • Rescue-A-Life Foundation
  • Safety Alliance Group
  • Sisters of Action Recovering
  • Somos Familia Valle
  • SRD Straightening Reins
  • The Antelope Valley Community Uplift Foundation (AVCUF)
  • The City Lights Gateway Foundation

  • 2nd Call
  • Ascencia
  • Alliance for Community  Empowerment (ACE)
  • Community Bridge Housing Corp.
  • Fear for Breakfast
  • Flintridge Center
  • Changes the Faces of Homelessness
  • Mikayla’s House of Hope
  • Fresh Start Sober Living
  • The Golden Path
  • New Opportunities Organization
  • Partnership for Reentry Program (PREP)
  • Reclaim-Possibility
  • Brothers Again Banging Youth (BABY)
  • Defy Ventures
  • Housing Advocates USA
  • Impact Counseling Group
  • Just Us 4 Youth
  • Psyches of Color, Inc.
  • Youth Incentive Programs Inc.
  • Sunrise Community Outreach Center, Inc
  • Timelist Group
  • NoHo Home Alliance
  • Joy  Youth Services
  • Pathways to Kinship

  • Dream Catchers
  • Sistah Friends
  • Community Reflections
  • Vermont Village CDC
  • Renaissance South LA Inc
  • Haven Neighborhood
  • Lyfe
  • Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches
  • Made New Foundation
  • Advancing the Seed
  • Doing More than Yesterday
  • Free From Hardship
  • Asian Americans for Housing and Environmental Justice
  • Families Uniting Families
  • Resilient Agency
  • Ten Toes In
  • Therapeutic Play Foundation
  • Community Action League
  • Open Paths Counseling
  • New Reflections
  • Brown’s Bridge Housing (FBG Group)

  1. 1st Home For U
  2. Fathers and Mothers Who Care
  3. Homies Unidos
  4. Kennedy Austin Foundation
  5. Leimert Food Distribution and Re-entry Collaborative / Huma House
  6. Paving The Way Foundation
  7. Pride In Truth
  8. The house of Inez
  9. Transformational Living Homes
  10. Women In Transition Re-Entry Project Inc.
  11. Mass Liberation
  12. Centro CHA Inc. (Long Beach Community Hispanic Association)
  13. Measure of Hearts Foundation
  14. South Central United
  15. The Reverence Project
  16. Uncle Dave’s housing
  17. Unite a Nation
  18. Mildrie’s Road Foundation Inc.
  19. Anchor of Hope International Ministries, Inc.
  20. Nehemiah Project LA
  21. Nanas & Pappas Nest LLC
  22. Olive Support Services
  23. Project Hope Ca Inc.
  24. Abundant Blessings
  25. Whole Systems Learning
  26. Life Builders Incorporated

  1.  The AMAAD Institute
  2. Anti-Recidivism Coalition
  3. Inglewood Wrapping Arms Around The Community
  4. T.D.D. Supportive Living, Inc.
  5. Tomorrows Options Todays Shelter Inc.
  6. Unseen Faces Foundation
  7. Reclaiming Americas Communities Through Empowerment (RACE)
  8. Fair Opportunity for Change, Inc.
  9. Raise A Village La
  10. Men Taking Over Reforming Society, Inc.
  11. Turning Point Alcohol And Drug Education Program, Inc
  12. MMBI / Moving Mountains by Illumination
  13. The Francisco Homes
  14. Dream Live Hope Foundation
  15. Sustainable Futures Project
  16. Color Us Purple, LLC (Transitional / Interim Housing)
  17. A Step to Freedom
  18. A Better You
  19. Positive Outlook Housing Corp.
  20. Grace Mercy and Hope

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